Posted on: 
November 7, 2024

Product Manager

Job Description

About Us

Axelera AI is not your regular deep-tech startup. We are creating the next-generation AI platform to support anyone who wants to help advancing humanity and improve the world around us.

In just three years, we have raised a total of $120 million and have built a world-class team of 180+ employees (including 55+ PhDs with more than 40,000 citations), both remotely from 11 different countries and with offices in Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, the UK, headquartered at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, Netherlands.

We have also launched our Metis™ AI Platform, which achieves a 3-5x increase in efficiency and performance, and have visibility into a strong business pipeline exceeding $100 million.

Our unwavering commitment to innovation has firmly established us as a global industry pioneer.

Are you up for the challenge?

Position Overview

As a Product Manager for one of Axelera’s product lines, you will own the product definition, ensuring consistency and alignment across silicon, software, and hardware. You will deeply understand the target market, driving a winning roadmap while ensuring flawless product delivery.

Key responsibilities

  • Market & Product Strategy:
    • Study, absorb, and understand customer needs, market trends, technical trade-offs, and competitive landscapes.
    • Distill this knowledge into key insights that drive the product strategy and roadmap.
  • Product Definition & Requirements:
    • Articulate clear product requirements and manage the various aspects of your product scope (silicon, hardware, software, marketing) into a coherent whole.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration:
    • Coordinate with marketing, sales, customer support, and engineering teams to ensure seamless delivery of the product.
    • Lead the market vision for your product, gather feedback, and create a shared vision for success within Axelera.
  • Execution & Delivery:
    • Work closely with engineering and architecture teams to unblock challenging situations, analyze complex trade-offs, and ensure execution.
  • Go-To-Market Strategy:
    • Collaborate with marketing and sales teams to articulate the product's advantages, key selling points, and go-to-market strategy.

Qualifications:

  • Master’s degree in engineering, accompanied by a minimum of 5 years in product management roles. Additional experience in engineering, product marketing, or technical support is beneficial, but direct product management experience is essential.
  • The role involves a broad technical scope. The candidate must have demonstrable experience contributing as a PM or in another capacity in at least two of the following areas (the more the better): machine learning (CNN, transformer-based networks), compilers (TVM, MLIR), software and hardware challenges integrating PCIe accelerators, edge systems (embedded and industrial PCs, servers, workstations), computer vision ecosystem.
  • A track record of thriving in high-growth startups or environments with first-rate engineering teams.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead product vision, synthesize customer feedback and market insights, and drive a product to market success.
  • Effective at working closely with cross-functional teams.
  • Excellent communication skills, capable of explaining complex technical details in a clear and compelling manner.
  • Additional desirable qualifications:
    • Experience in automotive SoC development
    • Experience working in European projects

Location

We offer a flexible working arrangement, with options to:

  • Work from one of our Axelera AI offices (Leuven in Belgium, Amsterdam and Eindhoven in the Netherlands, Zurich in Switzerland, Florence and Milan in Italy or Bristol in the United Kingdom) if you're already based in the vicinity.
  • Work fully remotely from any European country (incl. the UK) you are already in.
  • Relocate with us and work from Amsterdam or Eindhoven (Netherlands) or Florence (Italy).

What we offer 

This is your chance to shape and be part of a dynamic, fast-growing, international organization. We offer an attractive compensation package, including a pension plan, extensive employee insurances and the option to get company shares.   

An open culture that supports creativity and continual innovation is awaiting you. Collaborative ownership and freedom with responsibility is characteristic for the way we act and work as a team. 

At Axelera AI, we wholeheartedly embrace equal opportunity and hold diversity in the highest regard. Our steadfast commitment is to cultivate a warm and inclusive environment that empowers and celebrates every member of our team. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds to join us in shaping the future of AI.

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