Hardware Platform Product Manager

Company Description:

Nexthop AI is a team of industry-leading professionals with deep hardware and software expertise spanning silicon, systems, network operations and cloud development, dedicated to building innovative, bleeding-edge networking solutions for large-scale AI deployments. The team culture thrives on collaboration, creativity and fun while delivering foundational technologies for next-generation AI infrastructure.

About the Role:

As a Hardware Platform Product Manager, you’ll work on advanced technologies and products to solve interesting customer problems, playing a key role in driving and delivering the platform roadmap. 

This role is a great fit for a team player with a creative and learning mindset, and with solid engineering depth. It’s a great opportunity to work closely with the Nexthop leadership team and help deliver on their vision.

Job Responsibilities:

Be the Subject Matter Expertise for Nexthop hardware platforms

• Deliver exceptional customer experiences through deep expertise in Nexthop’s products and solutions, support key internal and external stakeholders
• Collaborate with cross-functional Nexthop teams - hardware and software engineering, customer engineering, marketing, and account managers, to share knowledge and drive go-to-market for products to market effectively and drive customer adoption
• Proactively develop high quality collateral to support sales and marketing activities
• Build relationships with Nexthop’s customers - executives, engineering and operations teams to communicate product roadmaps and identify specific problems that need to be addressed in the short term or incorporated into product roadmaps

Drive on-time execution of Products 

• Identify feature requirements and prioritize, balancing internal and external stakeholders and managing expectations
• Continuously engage with Nexthop’s technology partners to facilitate long term product planning and mid to short term issues
• Continuously refine product management practices, tools, and processes to drive efficiency, scale and effectiveness 

Drive product Go-to-Market and Strategy

• Proactively identify risks across the portfolio, particularly at the intersection of business and engineering. Develop long and short term mitigation strategies
• Proactively analyze competing systems and solutions, deliver high quality analyses to support sales and marketing activity
• Help with product launches, industry events, conferences and ensure messaging and positioning is aligned towards positive brand creation

Qualifications:

We're seeking individuals who thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative startup and possess exceptional problem-solving skills and a strong aptitude for taking initiative and learning. Additionally we value individuals who practice and instill customer empathy. The following skills are essential for this role,

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related field - Master’s degree or MBA is a plus
• Minimum 10 years of experience as a product manager, technical marketing engineer across networking technologies - switching, routing hardware systems, silicon, optics and interconnects
• Minimum 5-7 years experience as a hardware engineer is a plus
• Significant experience with network architectures for Hyperscaler, Cloud, HPC and AI/ML environments, including technology adjacencies
• Proven ability to work independently in a fast paced, leading-edge environment, bringing domain expertise and enhancing team productivity
• Excellent communication skills - verbal, written and presentation

Why Nexthop AI:

Our company combines all the advantages of working at a startup with the expertise of a seasoned team who have successfully built startups into thriving companies. Here you’ll have the unique opportunity to collaborate and learn from top-tier engineers, while still working on mission critical projects. If you are excited to learn, solve hard problems at the forefront of computer systems, and be a part of shaping a burgeoning company, this is the place for you.