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Salary: USD 235,000 - 275,000 / annual
Verkada is a $5.8B-valued physical AI platform protecting organizations through integrated video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management. The company serves 30,000+ customers including 100+ Fortune 500 companies, with over $1 billion in annualized bookings and 2 million devices deployed across 170+ countries.
As Group Product Manager for the Video Platform, you will own a comprehensive suite of video capabilities: live streaming, historical playback, cloud backup, clip export, transcoding, third-party video ingest (RTSP), and encryption of stored and exported video. Your work directly impacts every user interaction with video across Command (web), mobile apps, APIs, and wall displays.
Key responsibilities include:
- Owning live view and historical playback experiences (player, timeline, scrubbing, time-to-first-picture, stalls, audio sync) across web, mobile, and API
- Managing cloud backup and clip export products, including retention policies, reliability, and feature scope
- Ensuring reliable, high-quality streaming under challenging conditions (multiple concurrent viewers, LTE/thin uplinks, offline recording scenarios)
- Handling third-party video ingestion via RTSP for multi-format playback across clients
- Owning transcoding strategy (HEVC to H.264 conversion, cost optimization, failure rate reduction)
- Implementing customer-controlled encryption for stored and exported video
- Setting engineering quality standards using core QoS metrics; proactively identifying and resolving customer issues
- Collaborating with sales, support, go-to-market, and design teams to deliver revenue-driving video products
You will work cross-functionally with backend, frontend, and mobile engineers across all software services, and directly engage customers to understand needs and resolve video-related issues.
The role requires full-time onsite presence at Verkada's San Mateo headquarters.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 8+ years as a product manager at Lead or Group-level scope, with ownership of a video area (not single features)
- Minimum 3 years at a company whose primary product is video (streaming, playback, recording, VMS, real-time video, or video infrastructure)
- Multiple shipped products involving live viewing, playback, recording, or export by external users
- Ability to work with engineers on HLS, WebRTC, RTSP protocols; H.264 and HEVC codecs; transcoding; cloud recording; and encryption
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with engineers and customers
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or similar quantitative field
- Willingness and ability to work onsite five days per week
