FriendliAI
Director of Product
San Francisco · Hybrid · Director · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of product management experience.
About the job
Own product strategy and lead the evolution of FriendliAI’s AI inference platform, translating complex infrastructure capabilities into customer-focused products.
What you'll do
- Set the platform vision and roadmap across model serving, deployment, orchestration, APIs, and developer capabilities.
- Partner with engineering, research, and customers to shape inference capabilities and prioritize performance, reliability, usability, and cost.
- Lead product initiatives and teams, establish planning and measurement practices, and use customer and performance data to guide priorities.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of product management experience, including significant ownership of technically complex platforms or infrastructure products.
- Proven product strategy experience in AI/ML infrastructure, cloud platforms, distributed systems, developer platforms, or related technical products.
- Deep understanding of AI inference and LLM serving architectures, including prefill vs. decode, KV cache, token streaming, batching, routing, and GPU utilization.
- Experience leading product execution and adoption, developing Product Managers or coordinating workstreams, and working directly with enterprise customers and technical users.
Nice to have
- Experience with AI inference platforms, LLM serving, GPU infrastructure, or model deployment; familiarity with vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, SGLang, or similar technologies.
- Experience building developer platforms, APIs, SDKs, cloud-native infrastructure, multi-tenant SaaS, or enterprise AI platforms.
Tools
vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, SGLang
AI focus
Lead product strategy for AI inference, LLM serving, and production workloads including multimodal models and agentic applications.
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