# Product Lead, Data Center at Meter

- Company: Meter
- What the company does: Meter is building the vertically integrated network company: hardware, software, services, ISP, data, and autonomous networks from the local network to the data center. Backed by General Catalyst and Sequoia.
- Company website: https://www.meter.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco or Sunnyvale
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $205K to $270K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-08
- Apply by: 2026-10-23
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/meter/c5af9e9b-04f9-402f-ab59-14f6f83a5322
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/meter-product-lead-data-center/

## About the role

You'll define how Meter builds and sells its first data center switching line. You'll partner directly with our hardware team, who are already building our first top-of-rack and spine switches, and with engineering leadership across firmware and software. This is not a narrow feature-team PM role — you'll set technical and market direction for a business line that doesn't exist yet at Meter.

## What they're looking for

- You know enough hardware to have an informed opinion — ASIC capabilities, port speed, power and thermal limits — but you're not trying to out-argue the hardware team on their own turf. You'll lean on them and learn the rest on the job
- You'd rather be in the firmware repo or an incident channel with an engineer than in endless planning meetings. Low ego and you’ll roll up your sleeves to win
- You bring engineering teams into alignment without needing formal authority. Hardware, firmware, and software leads treat you as a peer, not a checkpoint — and they trust what you tell them
- You think in systems and sequence work in the right order, so the team isn't relearning the same lesson twice
- You're known in the data center networking community — people you'd want to hire will recognize your name, and you're ambitious enough to want to scale something with them

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