Director of Product Management

Cornelis Networks is a company that delivers high performance scale-out networking solutions for AI and HPC datacenters. They are seeking a results driven Director of Product Management to define, champion, and proliferate market leading networking solutions for the AI and HPC market, collaborating with various stakeholders to deliver leadership networking products.

Responsibilities:

• Drive a clear understanding of customer technical and business requirements to establish targets and priorities that define a successful product roadmap
• Develop strong product value propositions that address customer pain points and position us relative to competing solutions to ensure clear market differentiation
• Serve as the domain knowledge expert in HPC, AI, and networking to drive business-centric product decisions that maximize the efficiency of GPU, CPU, and accelerator-based clusters
• Own the product strategy, positioning, roadmap, design win plans for OEMs and System Integrators, as well as customer roadmap communications to ensure a successful end-to-end lifecycle
• Build and improve product business cases in collaboration with key stakeholders to optimize the portfolio and support financial performance goals
• Develop product phase-gate review materials that capture strategic and tactical decision points, including roadmap date changes—and drive them to closure
• Effectively communicate product value propositions and strategy to internal and external stakeholders via compelling product collateral and executive-level presentations
• Maintain the 'source of truth' for roadmap commitments to manage market expectations and internal investment priorities
• Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, and Business Development teams on collateral to drive OEM design wins, end customer product adoption, and revenue success

Requirements:

• Bachelor's (min) Master's (preferred) in Electrical/Computer Engineering or CS
• 5+ years of direct product management ownership for high performance networking hardware, specifically NICs and/or Ethernet/InfiniBand switches, delivering products into production data center environments
• 5+ years' experience supporting networking hardware with a deep understanding of networking interconnects including: InfiniBand, RoCE, Omni-Path, Ethernet
• 5+ years experience working with OEMs/ODMs, large enterprises, cloud providers, and hyperscaler customers to drive design wins and data center deployments
• Experience using AI-assisted tools or workflows to support product management activities such as requirements capture, competitive analysis, content creation, roadmap tracking, and executive communication
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, along with strong organizational, interpersonal, collaboration, and stakeholder management abilities
• Demonstrated ownership of hardware PRDs and hands-on experience driving phase-gates from concept, to plan, development, launch, sustaining production, and EOL
• Experience creating and maintaining hardware-focused business cases (price-performance, TCO, BOM/cost models) to influence pricing and product decisions
• Demonstrated ability to align architecture, silicon design, validation, manufacturing, supply chain, and program teams toward timely decisions
• Experience producing technical checklists, sales training, and customer-ready integration guides to accelerate product adoption
• Familiarity with how datacenter workload characteristics (large-scale model training, inference at scale, HPC) translate to hardware value propositions