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.