Senior Director of Product, Networking
Listed on 2026-02-16
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IT/Tech
Systems Engineer
Core Weave is The Essential Cloud for AI™. Built for pioneers by pioneers, Core Weave delivers a platform of technology, tools, and teams that enables innovators to build and scale AI with confidence. Trusted by leading AI labs, startups, and global enterprises, Core Weave combines superior infrastructure performance with deep technical expertise to accelerate breakthroughs and turn compute into capability. Founded in 2017, Core Weave became a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: CRWV) in March 2025.
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You will build and lead Core Weave’s Networking Product organization—the team responsible for the high-performance interconnects, global networking experiences, network observability, and networking security that power the world’s most demanding AI training and inference workloads. This team operates at the intersection of hardware engineering, software-defined infrastructure, and customer success, delivering the “pipes” that keep GPUs running at peak efficiency and drive the strategy for network observability and diagnostics, ensuring customers have the telemetry needed to debug complex distributed jobs and applications.
AboutThe Role
As Senior Director of Product, Networking, you will define and execute the multi-year product strategy for Core Weave’s networking fabric. On a day-to-day basis, you’ll partner closely with Engineering, the Office of the CTO, and executive leadership to balance rapid innovation with long-term architectural integrity. You will lead a team of Product Managers, engage directly with enterprise and AI lab customers, and ensure Core Weave remains the gold standard for large-scale AI infrastructure.
This is a highly visible leadership role with broad influence across product, technology, and go-to-market strategy.
- 12+ years of experience working in Product Management within infrastructure, cloud, or high-performance computing (HPC) environments with a focus on Networking services
- 5+ years of experience leading and managing teams of Product Managers
- Deep technical expertise in high-performance networking, including RDMA, Infini Band, RoCE, and leaf-spine architectures
- Strong understanding of networking services and platforms that support large-scale applications
- Hands-on experience operating in Kubernetes-native environments, with a strong understanding of API-driven and declarative infrastructure consumption
- Demonstrated ability to manage full product life cycles, from hardware/software selection and proof-of-concept through global GA and deprecation
- Experience building infrastructure products for AI/ML, deep learning, or large-scale distributed systems
- Background working closely with enterprise customers, AI research labs, or hyperscale platforms
- Experience partnering with Sales and Marketing on technical product positioning and competitive differentiation
We believe in investing in our people, and value candidates who can bring their own diversified experiences to our teams – even if you aren’t a 100% skill or experience match. Here are a few qualities we’ve found compatible with our team. If some of this describes you, we’d love to talk.
- You love building category-defining infrastructure products that operate at massive scale
- You’re curious about where AI infrastructure is heading and enjoy designing systems ahead of demand
- You’re an expert at translating deeply technical concepts into clear product strategy and customer value
- You are comfortable moving between a whiteboard session with a CTO and a terminal debugging session with an engineer.
At Core Weave, we work hard, have fun, and move fast. We’re in an exciting stage of hyper-growth, building the next generation public cloud for accelerated workloads—and we’re just getting started. We embrace a bit of chaos, learn constantly, and care deeply about how we build and how we work together. Our core values guide everything we do:
- Be Curious at Your Core
- Act Like an Owner
- Empower Employees
- Deliver Best-in-Class Client Experiences
- Achieve More Together
We support and encourage an entrepreneurial outlook and independent thinking. We foster an environment that encourages…
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