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Salary: USD 205,000 - 240,000 / annual
Verkada is a $5.8B AI-powered physical security platform serving 30,000+ customers (including 100+ Fortune 500 companies) with integrated solutions for video security, access control, air quality, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management. The company has over $1 billion in annualized bookings and 2 million devices deployed across 170+ countries.
You will own the video platform's core streaming and storage capabilities, including live streaming, historical playback, cloud backup, clip export, transcoding, third-party video ingest, and encryption. Your work directly impacts every user interaction with video across Command (web), mobile apps, APIs, and wall displays.
Key responsibilities:
- Own live view and historical playback experiences (player, timeline, scrubbing, time-to-first-picture, stalls, audio sync) across web, mobile, and API
- Own cloud backup and clip export products, including retention policies, reliability standards, and export workflows
- Deliver reliable, quality streaming under challenging conditions (multiple concurrent viewers, LTE/thin uplinks, offline recording scenarios)
- Own third-party RTSP video ingest and playback across formats and clients
- Own transcoding strategy (HEVC to H.264 conversion), including cost optimization and failure rate reduction
- Own customer-controlled encryption for stored and exported video where customers hold keys
- Set engineering quality standards for playback, framing, and cloud backups using core QoS metrics
- Proactively identify and resolve customer issues
- Collaborate with sales, support, go-to-market, and design teams on revenue-driving video products
You will work with backend, frontend, and mobile engineers across every service the software touches, and engage directly with customers on feature delivery and issue resolution.
The role requires onsite work five days per week at Verkada's San Mateo, CA headquarters.
Requirements:
- 6+ years as a product manager at Lead or Group-level scope, with ownership of a video area (not single features)
- At least 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 with engineers and customers
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or similar quantitative field
- Must be willing and able to work onsite five days per week
