Director of Product Management

Cornelis Networks delivers high-performance scale-out networking solutions for AI and HPC datacenters. They are seeking a results-driven Director of Product Management to define and champion market-leading networking solutions, collaborating with customers and internal teams to translate requirements into successful product strategies.

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