Director of Product, Ecosystem
Posted 9 Sep 2026
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- Expected experience
- 10+ yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
No salary listed for this role.
Field of studyComputer Science, Electrical Engineering (or related)
Study levelBachelor's
SambaNova is a leader in next-generation AI infrastructure, delivering a full-stack inference platform for customers worldwide. At the core of SambaNova's technology is the RDU (Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit) — a chip built on a dataflow architecture rather than the traditional GPU model. Its decode performance is especially strong for agentic workloads like multi-turn agents, code generation, and long-running applications. RDUs are packaged into SambaRack, rack-scale hardware that lets customers deploy state-of-the-art models with better performance, greater energy efficiency, and faster time to value.
SambaNova is a leader in next-generation AI infrastructure, delivering a full-stack inference platform for enterprises, AI labs, service providers, neo-clouds, and sovereign AI initiatives worldwide. SambaStack combines rack-scale hardware, optimized open-source models, and a serving platform to enable customers to deploy state-of-the-art models with superior performance, lower total cost of ownership, and rapid time to value. Built on SambaNova’s Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit (RDU), its dataflow architecture delivers low-latency, high-throughput inference on large models, with industry-leading decode performance that is especially impactful for agentic workloads such as multi-turn agents, code generation, and long-running applications.
Responsibilities
SambaNova is hiring a Director of Product, Ecosystem to shape ecosystem strategy for our core products across scale-out networking, inference serving, storage and caching, prefill compute, agentic CPU offload, and compiler and RDU research: defining which integrations to pursue, how we position them, and how partners deploy them. Customers deploy RDU in token factories alongside other vendors' hardware and software. This role will define how RDU fits across the stack, drive the reference architectures and certifications that partners build on, and turn those integrations into customer demand. It’s an opportunity to shape how SambaNova fits into the broader AI infrastructure ecosystem and set the partner strategy that domain product managers and engineering teams execute against. This individual will be responsible for:
Ecosystem strategy
- Define where RDU integrates into each customer segment's token factory: prefill compute, caching storage, scale-out networking, and agentic CPU offload alongside RDU decode.
- Make explicit build, partner, or ignore decisions for each integration area, write down the reasoning, and revisit it quarterly.
- Anchor positioning on decode economics: tokens per second per user, cost per million tokens, and latency tiers.
- Maintain a versioned ecosystem map with a changelog.