Technical Product Marketing Manager

Inferact's mission is to grow vLLM as the world's AI inference engine and accelerate AI progress by making inference cheaper and faster. Founded by the creators and core maintainers of vLLM, Inferact sits at the intersection of models and hardware. The role requires translating complex AI infrastructure into credible developer-facing messaging, working directly with engineers and ecosystem partners, and building repeatable launch systems that scale. Location: San Francisco, CA (On-site). Compensation is determined based on background, skills, and experience.

Responsibilities

Own product marketing for vLLM and Inferact across launches, positioning, technical narratives, partner announcements, and sales enablement; Own day-0 launch communications, product positioning, the benchmark narrative, customer proof, and the forward product marketing roadmap; Become the single owner for launch communications across vLLM and Inferact, including blog, social copy, partner coordination, and the internal readiness checklist; Ship at least two launches as primary author and publish a launch playbook; Build a competitive teardown of recent launches; Own positioning and messaging, including personas, competitive talk tracks, and website product pages; Own partnership announcements with ecosystem partners such as Google, AMD, and NVIDIA; Own the sales collateral kit and standard vLLM plus Inferact talk template, and run enablement for engineers presenting externally; Own product messaging, technical product breakdowns, benefits, customer case studies, and GTM materials; Present a 2027 product marketing plan; Bring market and customer input into the product roadmap and pricing and packaging discussions; Create a structured feedback loop between Marketing and Sales with Product and Engineering; Build and operationalize a repeatable marketing process for launching vLLM and Inferact content

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience as an engineer or developer; Experience owning product marketing or developer relations for open-source software, LLM infrastructure, AI infrastructure, or developer tools; Strong product marketing fundamentals across positioning, messaging, audience definition, narrative development, launches, and practical GTM execution; Ability to write and edit technical launch content that is credible with developers, ML engineers, and infrastructure engineers; Experience working cross-functionally with engineering, product, leadership, design, sales, and external partners; Hands-on execution mindset with the ability to build launch systems, templates, and playbooks in a fast-moving startup environment

Nice to have

Deep familiarity with AI infrastructure, model serving, vLLM, open-source infrastructure, cloud platforms, or GPU ecosystems; Experience owning benchmark narratives, technical product pages, customer case studies, or developer-facing sales enablement; Experience leading joint GTM with cloud providers, hardware vendors, model companies, or open-source ecosystem partners; Track record building product marketing programs from 0 to 1 and turning reactive launch work into a proactive roadmap; Direct experience marketing inference, model serving, or other performance-sensitive AI infrastructure; Experience launching open-source projects or commercial products built around an open-source ecosystem; Ability to create lightweight technical assets, landing pages, demos, or workflows using modern AI and no-code tools

Benefits

Generous health, dental, and vision benefits; 401(k) company match; Competitive base salary; Meaningful equity; Visa sponsorship on a case-by-case basis