Senior Manager, Software Product Owner -AI/HPC

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What You’ll Do 

The Data Fabric Solutions (weblink) is part of Memory Solution Lab in Samsung Semiconductors, the industry's technology and volume leader in Storage and Memory devices.  The Data Fabric Solutions (DFS) group pioneers and creates comprehensive software solutions that optimize data flow efficiency, transformation, and performance for client’s data-intensive applications, leveraging Samsung’s world-leading SSDs, memory, and accelerators. As an integral part of Samsung’s strong R&D focus & lab innovation engine, they cater to diverse data fabric deployments

Specifically, team has opening for seasoned Software Product Owner who have experience in managing/leading complex SaaS (Software-as-a-service) products to design and productize innovative data fabric technology and solutions for the Cloud or Enterprise markets. He or she will join a team of experts in researching and developing innovative solutions that utilize existing and emerging technologies to add substantial value to Samsung.

The team covers a broad spectrum of topics and is building an ecosystem surrounding SSD and Non-volatile memory Software. You will be working with the-state-of-art technologies in the context of vertical integration and optimization across H/W and S/W.   You will be leading the software products leveraging latest technologies including CXL (Compute Express Link), NVMe-oF, Flash/SSD, high speed networking and others to research/build open-source software framework/eco-systems.  In addition, you will be working closely with internal cross-functional teams, partners and customers to drive the products to maturity.

Location: Hybrid, working onsite at our San Jose, CA location 3 days a week, with the flexibility to work remotely the remainder of your time. 

Job ID: 42392     

• PRDs : Gathering feature requests and orchestrate application and SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) PRDs (Product Requirement Documents) for storage and memory software products
• AI  App Workflow : Clearly establish AI workflow strategy and plan using solution’s SW modules and devices. Own the AI workflow solution with diverse models and workload for Samsung storage and memory innovations in rackscale and server based solution.
• User Experience : Identifying user needs by working tightly with Product Planning and New Business Opportunity teams. Author white papers.
• Collaborate : Coordinating dependencies across sprints of multiple internal teams and partners
• Project Management : Drive agile based bi-weekly Software Product Schedules
• Quality : Ensuring the product meets customer expectations with clear KPIs, Quality and Acceptance criteria
• Delivery : Continuously Developing and optimizing SW product delivery plan 
• Research : Continuous Industry Software research around data acceleration technologies 
• Travel : 20% travel as need for Customer, Partner and Industry collaboration

 What You'll Bring

• Bachelors with 15+ years of relevant industry experience, or Masters with 13+ years or PhD with 10+ years of experience designing, delivering, and supporting distributed software solutions in production environments or related field preferred.
• 10+ years of experience designing, delivering, and supporting distributed software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions in production environments
• Have demonstrated leadership and Excellent interpersonal skills. Strong communication skills, analytical skills, and thorough understanding of product development cycle.
• Strong knowledge of Cloud native applications, Data Pipelines & Data Lake
• Strong knowledge of storage, distributed systems and high-performance computing fundamentals.  While the focus is of the position is in product solution management, the ideal candidate must remain very technical.
• Excellent executive and customer facing communication skills. Ability to clearly articulate, create succinct presentations and communicate with subject matter expertise and passion.
• Good knowledge of AI Workflow (training and inferencing) involving GPUs, AI/ML Software Suites (e.g. Omniverse, Co-pilots), vector databases, KV store and/or ETL pipeline
• Good understanding of Operating System, Linux IO path and memory/CPU performance profiling
• Prior experience in managing a small team is a plus.
• Prior startup experience in relevant domains is a plus.
• You’re inclusive, adapting your style to the situation and diverse global norms of our people.
• An avid learner, you approach challenges with curiosity and resilience, seeking data to help build understanding.
• You’re collaborative, building relationships, humbly offering support and openly welcoming approaches.
• Innovative and creative, you proactively explore new ideas and adapt quickly to change.

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