Technical Product Manager, Sovereign Compute

Technical Product Manager, Sovereign Compute

Reports to: Chief Executive Officer

Visa sponsorship: Not available

Why this role exists:

Omega AI HPC delivers high-performance compute for customers in regulated and sovereignty sensitive environments. Every piece of work we deliver must stand up to customer audit, end to end. This is a system product manager role. You are expected to know the platform inside and out: how work moves through it, where it strains, and what it can and cannot promise a customer. You are the person engineering, customers and leadership all turn to for that answer. You lead delivery day to day and you feed what you learn from the market back into strategy. Engineering throughput is not our constraint. Specification quality is. A large share of our implementation is written by AI coding agents against written requirements, which means a vague requirement does not slow us down, it ships the wrong thing very fast. This role owns the written layer between a customer's problem and what we build, test and bill.

What you own:

1. System expertise. You are the authority on how the whole system behaves end to end. You maintain the single written source of truth on system behaviour, capability and limits, and you can answer, from first-hand knowledge, what the platform will do in any customer scenario before anyone commits to it.

2. The customer path, end to end. Intake, workload specification, the scheduled run, the evidence pack, the invoice. This path is deliberately manual today and stays manual until we have invoiced. You make it repeatable before we automate it.

3. PRDs that are executable. Every PRD carries a named owner, a date, an explicit in-scope / out-of-scope list, a schema section (tables, columns, types, enum values, migration notes) and numbered functional requirements, each one testable. Acceptance criteria that cannot be turned into a test are not acceptance criteria.

4. Delivery. You lead the sprint cycle: planning, prioritisation, standups, review and retro. You set the cadence, hold the scope line and make sure every sprint closes with something shipped, demonstrated and written up.

5. The board. Every item sits in exactly one of three buckets: unblocks the revenue objective, keeps the lights on, or neither. The third bucket gets closed, not parked. Two open items per person, maximum. You enforce that, including upwards.

6. Verification of claims, not just of tests. A green test suite proves the code did what it was written to do, not that the claim is true. You open the live environment, put the system into the failure state, and check that what a surface tells a customer is something it can actually demonstrate.

7. Strategy and future trends. You track where compute demand, AI workloads and sovereignty requirements are heading, and turn that into written recommendations that shape the roadmap. You work directly with the CEO on where the product goes next, not just how it ships this sprint.

Who you are

• You have real product management experience shipping technical products. This is not a first role, but it does not need to be your tenth: we would rather have someone earlier in their career with sharp judgement and the hunger to grow the company than a veteran looking to coast.

• You are comfortable deep in technical detail: reading a schema, questioning a test, holding your own in an architecture discussion.

• You write with precision. Your specifications remove ambiguity rather than create it.

• You want ownership and scope now, and you want to build the company around you as it scales.

First 90 days

• Day 30: you own intake to specification for a live customer workload, and the run happens without you writing any code.

• Day 60: three of your PRDs have shipped without a clarification round that a better spec would have avoided.

• Day 90: an invoice raised against a delivered workload with its evidence pack attached, and every active board item carries an owner, a date and a written acceptance criterion.

What’s on offer

• $130,000 per year.

• Participation in the employee share option plan (ESOP).

• A genuine ground-floor opportunity: this role is built to grow into a product leadership position as the company scales.

• Direct work with the CEO on product direction and strategy.

Role notes

• This is an onsite, full-time position based in Sydney.

• Visa sponsorship is not available; candidates must hold existing Australian work rights.

• The role reports directly to the Chief Executive Officer to start.

• The selection process includes a paid work trial.