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title: 'Product Marketing Manager at SkyPilot'
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# Product Marketing Manager at SkyPilot

- **Company:** SkyPilot
- **Location:** San Mateo, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/skypilot/am9icG9zdDpW44efqbYsxaMfWVJ8RflB

## Job description

## About SkyPilot

SkyPilot accelerates the world's most ambitious AI teams. Every hour they spend fighting infrastructure is an hour the frontier doesn't move — so SkyPilot turns fragmented compute across clusters into one optimized, highly available and easy-to-use pool: a single AI supercomputer.

SkyPilot ([10k+ GitHub stars](https://github.com/skypilot-org/skypilot), 14M+ downloads) is deployed at 100s of companies — from Fortune 500s to top AI-natives like Abridge, Applied Compute, Mistral, Unconventional AI, H Company, and Nubank — with usage growing exponentially. Born in the UC Berkeley lab behind Spark and Databricks, our growing team includes top-tier talent from Databricks, Google, Berkeley, MIT, CMU, and Cornell.

## The role

SkyPilot sits in a fast-moving category, sold to a technical audience of ML and platform engineers, and we're hiring our first Product Marketing Manager to shape how the market understands us. This is a senior, full-stack role: you'll partner with the founders to sharpen SkyPilot's positioning, define who we sell to and why, and build the materials and demand engine that turn our story into pipeline. As our first marketer, you'll set the tone for how SkyPilot talks about itself at scale and turn the narrative into revenue.

## What you'll do

- Build product marketing from the ground up: partner with the founders to sharpen how SkyPilot is understood — the category, the narrative, and why we win — and turn it into a messaging system that lands consistently with ML and platform engineers.
- Define the ICP: sharpen who we sell to and why, and hand the growth team a target definition they can operationalize into pipeline.
- Build the enablement layer: create the pitch decks, one-pagers, case studies, competitive material, and launch content the Account Executive and GTM Specialist actually use.
- Drive demand strategy: shape campaigns and launches, partner with the growth Specialist on execution, and measure what moves pipeline.

## What we're looking for

- You're a full-stack product marketer who can own positioning end to end, from the narrative to the sales deck to the launch.
- A storyteller with an operational backbone: you write the message and build the system that ships it.
- Genuine fluency in AI and infrastructure — you can go deep with technical buyers and earn their trust.
- You've owned product marketing for a technical product, with the launches and materials to show for it.
- Comfortable being the first and only marketer, setting the standard for everyone who follows.

## What we offer

- Competitive compensation and equity
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision coverage for you and your dependents
- The chance to work with some of the best minds in cloud, distributed, and AI systems — with significant autonomy and ownership.
- A front-row seat at the latest open-source infra startup from Berkeley (lineage: Databricks, Anyscale).
- Gourmet lunch & dinner for the team to do their best work

Location: San Mateo, CA. Remote will be considered for exceptional candidates.

## About SkyPilot

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: SkyPilot provides a unified AI compute platform that turns fragmented GPU clusters across hyperscalers, neoclouds, and on-premises resources into a single, manageable “AI supercomputer.”
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage – raised $20M)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: Not publicly available (company launched from stealth in July 2026; technology originated from UC Berkeley’s Sky Computing Lab)
- **Founders**: Zongheng Yang (CEO), Zhanghao Wu, Romil Bhardwaj, alongside Databricks co-founder Ion Stoica and networking pioneer Scott Shenker (both Berkeley professors)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI infrastructure / cloud computing orchestration
- **Target customers**: Frontier AI teams – including research labs, foundation model builders, healthcare, financial services, and large enterprises – that need to manage large-scale GPU fleets across multiple providers.
- **Mission / Purpose**: “Turn fragmented compute into one AI supercomputer” so that AI teams can spend less time managing infrastructure and more time building intelligence.

## Products & Services
- **[SkyPilot Platform (Managed)](https://skypilot.ai)**: A managed control plane that abstracts heterogeneous compute (Kubernetes, Slurm, VMs, hyperscalers, neoclouds) into a single pool. Supports interactive development, pre‑training at scale, sandboxes for RL/agents, multi‑cluster serving, and production workloads. Includes GPU health monitoring, auto‑remediation, HA, quota management, SSO, RBAC, and SOC 2 compliance. Customers have seen up to 20x performance improvements over the open‑source version.
- **[SkyPilot Open Source](https://skypilot.ai)**: Free, community‑driven project with 14M+ downloads and 280+ contributors. Used by hundreds of organizations to unify compute across 20+ clouds. Provides CLI, intelligent scheduler, GPU monitoring, and multi‑cluster support.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (seed round)
- **Key Metric (Private)**: **Total Funding** – $20M seed (July 2026)
- **Notable Investors & Partners**:
  - Lead: Lux Capital
  - Participants: Amplify Partners, Coatue Management, Foundation Capital, Race Capital, The House Fund
  - Angel operators: Ali Ghodsi (Databricks), Jeff Dean (Google), Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Amjad Masad (Replit), Clem Delangue (Hugging Face), Tristan Handy (dbt Labs)
  - Cloud partners: Nebius, CoreWeave, Lambda, AWS (EKS, EC2, S3, SageMaker Hyperpod)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 14M+ open‑source downloads (6M in last 3 months)
  - GPU hours consumed grew 35% MoM (6x in last 6 months)
  - Top deployments: 1,000+ nodes and 10,000+ GPUs
  - 280+ open‑source contributors
  - Adopted by Nubank, Abridge, Applied Compute, H Company, Archer, Hippocratic AI

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unified abstraction** across 20+ clouds and any accelerator – customers are not locked into a single provider.
- **AI‑native scheduling** (topology‑aware, priority queueing, GPU sharing, preemption) that maximizes fleet utilization.
- **Proactive GPU health checks** with auto‑remediation – reduces downtime in large training runs.
- **Enterprise‑grade security** (BYOC, BYOK, private VPCs, air‑gapped, SOC 2) combined with the agility of an open‑source ecosystem.
- **World‑class founding team** – includes a Databricks co‑founder and UC Berkeley systems researchers.

## Strategic Focus
- **Product development** – continue building out the managed platform (already 20x faster than OSS).
- **Engineering expansion** – actively hiring in engineering and go‑to‑market roles.
- **Go‑to‑market growth** – opening platform access to select new customers; scaling sales.
- **Open‑source ecosystem** – deepen contributions and community engagement.

## Why Work Here
- **Cutting‑edge mission**: Building the foundational infrastructure for the AI industry alongside top hyperscalers and neoclouds.
- **Strong team**: Founded by renowned systems researchers and backed by elite investors and AI leaders.
- **Traction & growth**: Explosive adoption (6x growth in GPU hours) and a clear product‑market fit with frontier AI teams.
- **Autonomy & impact**: Small, fast‑moving startup where engineers can directly shape a control plane used by thousands of GPUs.
- **Work policy** – not publicly specified, but typical for a stealth‑stage startup; likely offers flexibility. The team is headquartered in San Francisco.
- **Careers**: Open roles in Engineering and GTM (see [SkyPilot on Gem](https://jobs.gem.com/skypilot)).

## Sources
1. [skypilot.ai (homepage)](https://skypilot.ai)
2. [skypilot.ai (about)](https://skypilot.ai/about)
3. [skypilot.ai (funding announcement blog)](https://skypilot.ai/blog/skypilot-the-company)
4. [fortune.com](https://fortune.com/2026/07/21/skypilot-from-databricks-cofounder-raises-20m-to-be-the-switzerland-of-ai-compute/)
5. [prnewswire.com](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/skypilot-launches-with-20m-to-accelerate-custom-intelligence-for-frontier-ai-teams-302830808.html)

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