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