Principal Product Manager - NVIDIA Data Services

NVIDIA is hiring a Principal Product Manager - NVIDIA Data Services in Santa Clara, United States. It pays $240k-$380k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on NVIDIA.

Level's read on this job

On Level's scale, this AI product manager role is Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
Pay on this posting starts 34% higher than the typical AI product manager posting on Level.
Level classes it as a lead role.
NVIDIA has 2,600+ other open roles on Level.
Posted in the last few days.

AI in this role

The NVIDIA Data Services team builds platforms that help researchers and engineers discover, manage, prepare, and access data for AI. We are looking for a Principal Product Manager to own the strategy, roadmap, and adoption of our shared data platform, anchored in Dataset Storage Service (DSS). You will be working closely with researchers, data owners, and infrastructure teams to turn recurring problems into clear requirements, priorities, and acceptance criteria.

What you will be doing:

Own product strategy and roadmap for DSS and supporting data services, balancing customer needs, engineering capacity, reliability, and cost.
Define workflows for dataset discovery, versioning, sharing, curation, and delivery to training, with governance and traceability from source data to model releases.
Partner with engineering to improve data processing, movement, and access across storage systems and compute clusters.
Drive adoption across NVIDIA teams through coordinated onboarding, consistent APIs and developer tools, documentation, and customer feedback, and measure the impact
Take capabilities from early access to production with engineering, SRE, and partner teams, aligning release scope, service expectations, and support ownership.

What we need to see:

15+ years of significant work experience in product management
A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
A record of owning technical products in data platforms, storage, cloud infrastructure, developer tools, or AI/ML, from customer discovery through production adoption.
Strong understanding of cloud storage, distributed systems, APIs, and data processing, with the ability to evaluate performance, reliability, security, and cost trade-offs.
Familiarity with AI training data workflows, including dataset versioning, selection, and staging, and physical AI data such as robotics, video, sensor, or 3D datasets.
Ability to turn ambiguous customer needs into focused product plans, make prioritization decisions, and define measurable outcomes.
Experience aligning engineering, research, operations, and business teams without direct authority, and communicating priorities and tradeoffs clearly to executives.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

Experience with search, embeddings, data curation, provenance, or reproducible training and evaluation.
Experience building adoption of shared data services at scale, including governance, compliance, and reliable production operations.
Experience bringing internal platforms to open source, including public APIs, documentation, licensing, and developer or partner adoption.

With highly competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package, NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world's most desirable employers. We have some of the most hard-working and dedicated people in the world working for us and, due to outstanding growth, our special engineering teams are growing fast. If you're a creative and autonomous engineer with a genuine passion for technology, we want to hear from you.

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Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and other objective job-related factors. The expected base salary range for this position is 240,000 USD – 379,500 USD.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until November 16, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.

How we rate this

Principal Product Manager - NVIDIA Data Services at NVIDIA rates 67 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.