Senior SambaCloud Experience & Ecosystem - San Jose, California, United States
$196,000 - $240,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 23 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves owning the SambaCloud brand experience, user journey, community and partner integrations, and cross-functional operating rhythm, partnering with Product and Engineering on the infrastructure that powers the service.
What you'll do
- Own the end-to-end SambaCloud experience across brand identity, information architecture, onboarding, playground workflows, APIs, model access, documentation, and key user journeys.
- Develop and maintain a prioritized experience roadmap that connects developer, community, partner, managed-customer, brand, and demo requirements.
- Partner with Product and Engineering to translate experience goals into infrastructure, platform, security, reliability, and release requirements.
- Define and drive integrations that connect SambaCloud to strategic partners, developer tools, community programs, campaigns, events, and managed-customer workflows.
- Drive delivery planning across scope, milestones, quality, risks, dependencies, reviews, and escalation paths.
- Build a repeatable demo-readiness program covering environments, API access, model availability, sample prompts, applications, data, scripts, observability, and fallback plans.
What you'll need
- 7+ years of experience in developer experience, technical product management, technical program management, cloud platforms, ecosystem programs, or solutions engineering.
- Strong understanding of APIs, cloud services, developer onboarding, model serving, and the workflows developers use to build AI applications.
- Demonstrated experience owning a digital product or platform experience across user journeys, brand expression, integrations, releases, and operational readiness.
- Experience coordinating complex technical delivery against clear milestones, acceptance criteria, and measurable outcomes.
- Track record of coordinating complex releases, integrations, or demos across engineering, product, operations, marketing, and customer-facing teams.
- Ability to test developer workflows hands-on, identify root causes, write clear requirements, and make practical prioritization decisions.
Nice to have
- Experience with AI inference platforms, OpenAI-compatible APIs, large language models, agentic applications, or model playgrounds.
- Experience owning developer portals, API consoles, SDKs, sample applications, credentials, usage visibility, or sandbox environments.
- Experience designing or governing brand and user experience across a developer-facing product.
- Familiarity with service reliability, incident workflows, observability, security reviews, and operational readiness for cloud products.
- Experience supporting managed enterprise customers, high-visibility product launches, executive demonstrations, developer events, or customer proof-of-concepts.
- Familiarity with delivery governance, acceptance criteria, change control, and performance reporting.
Skills: developer experience, cloud platforms, APIs, AI inference platforms, ecosystem programs, program management
This role has been open 17 days — well below the 53-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
923
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Median days open
53 d
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Median salary
$229k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | SambaNova | All employers we track in this specialty (923 roles · 86 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 11 | 923 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 23 | 6035 · 146 employers |
| Median days open | 51 d | 53 d (−2 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $229k |
Skills observed across this category: developer experience, cloud platforms, APIs, AI inference platforms, ecosystem programs, program management
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 255 open roles · median 48 d
- Qualcomm · 60 open roles · median 60 d
- AMD · 51 open roles · median 30 d
- Graphcore · 44 open roles · median 86 d
- Cerebras · 39 open roles · median 76 d
- Intel Corporation · 36 open roles · median 15 d
How we counted: 923 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 86 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 11 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.