Product Marketing Manager

Overview 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, we sit at the intersection of models and hardware, a position that took years to build. About the Role We’re looking for a Product Marketing Manager to accelerate vLLM’s position as the leading open-source inference engine and publicize Inferact’s role in driving its development. This role sits at the intersection of product marketing, events, partner marketing, community, and growth. You’ll help turn a high volume of conference and ecosystem demand into a proactive GTM motion that builds brand awareness, community engagement, and qualified momentum around vLLM and Inferact You’ll own end-to-end execution for conferences, partner events, hosted events, landing pages, speaker coordination, booth needs, collateral, follow-up workflows, and the many details that make technical events successful. You’ll develop and strengthen relationships between Inferact and major corporate and ecosystem partners, while shaping the messaging and presence of both vLLM and Inferact, while developing . You’ll work closely with product, engineering, leadership, partners, and design collaborators. This is a hands-on 0-to-1 role for someone with strong taste, high urgency, and an AI-native way of working. Skills and Qualifications Minimum qualifications: - Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in marketing, product, computer science, business, communications, or a related field. - Strong product marketing or GTM fundamentals, including positioning, messaging, audience definition, narrative development, and practical execution. - AI-native operating style, with regular use of modern AI tools to accelerate writing, research, planning, landing pages, workflows, asset drafts, and execution. - Experience owning events, conferences, partner activations, launches, or community programs end-to-end, including logistics, timelines, vendors, speakers, assets, landing pages, and follow-up. - Strong taste and judgment around brand, tone of voice, event experience, marketing quality, and developer-facing credibility. - Ability to operate autonomously in a startup environment, proactively recommend what should happen next, and execute without needing every step prescribed. - Ability to work credibly with product, engineering, founders, partners, design agencies, and technical communities. Preferred qualifications: - Experience marketing to developers, infrastructure engineers, ML engineers, technical founders, open-source communities, or AI / developer tools audiences. - Experience with AI infrastructure, developer tools, model serving, cloud platforms, open-source infrastructure, or other technical products. - Experience running partner marketing or co-marketing programs with ecosystem partners such as cloud providers, hardware companies, infrastructure platforms, or developer communities. - Ability to personally create or coordinate landing pages, event pages, simple websites, forms, briefs, and campaign assets using AI, no-code tools, or lightweight technical workflows. - Experience building 0-to-1 marketing programs, event playbooks, launch motions, or community programs in a startup or high-ambiguity environment. Bonus points if you have: - Built an event or community strategy that materially improved brand awareness, partner momentum, developer mindshare, or qualified pipeline. - Worked in or around AI infrastructure, open-source infrastructure, developer tools, data infrastructure, cloud, GPU, or technical SaaS ecosystems. - Created high-quality technical marketing assets, launch narratives, event experiences, partner campaigns, or developer-facing content that you can walk through in detail. - Partnered with design agencies or external creative teams while maintaining speed, quality, and brand consistency. - Helped a startup move from reactive marketing execution to a proactive 6-12 month GTM, events, or community plan. Logistics - Location: This role is based in San Francisco, California. Will consider remote in the US for exceptional candidates. - Visa sponsorship: We sponsor visas on a case-by-case basis. - Benefits: Inferact offers generous health, dental, and vision benefits as well as 401(k) company match.