Product Manager, Strategic Verticals
AI summary of the role
Founding product manager for the Strategic Verticals team, embedding with top AI-native and Fortune 500 customers to co-architect production-ready AI solutions leveraging Cerebras' wafer-scale inference speed.
What you’ll do
- Be the product leader on critical lighthouse accounts, pushing the limits of GenAI.
- Co-architect solutions with Solutions Architects, Account Managers, and Engineering to leverage 10x faster speed advantages.
- Directly advise on customers' long-term AI strategies.
- Co-own the end-to-end customer journey across Sales, Solutions Architects, Marketing, Engineering, and Product.
What you’ll bring
- Strong technical background (CS/EE or prior SWE experience) with familiarity in LLMs, inference, and agents.
- 5+ years of experience as a product manager or SWE, currently at or above Senior PM/SWE level, ideally on a developer-facing product.
- Excellent communication and ability to navigate complex, high-stakes customer scenarios.
- Self-starter with entrepreneurial ownership and bias towards getting things done.
Technologies
LLMs · inference · agents · vLLM · TensorRT-LLM · TGI · Wafer-Scale Engine · CS-3 · Cerebras Inference
About Cerebras Systems
Builds wafer-scale AI processors, CS-3 systems, and cloud inference services that deliver ultra-fast training and inference without conventional multi-GPU orchestration overhead.
Growth
Source and classification
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top investors, like Benchmark, Altimeter, Eclipse, and Coatue. Fearless and fun culture. We’re a close-knit, creative team that tackles all challenges with optimism and collaboration. We’ve already productized the world’s largest chip by over 50x. How hard can the next problem be? :) About The Role As a founding member of the Strategic Verticals product team at Cerebras, you are the tip of the spear for our company. You’ll embed with our most strategic customers, from AI-native startups shipping 0-to-1 products to Fortune 500 enterprises transforming their industries, to translate and guide their ambitions into blazing-fast, production-ready AI solutions. Think of yourself as part product leader, part technical expert, and part GTM strategist: Own the outcome – From first whiteboard session to scaled deployment, you are directly accountable for customer success, adoption, and
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