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Salary: USD 208,000 - 312,000 / annual
Vercel is seeking a Product Manager to own the company's Networking and CDN product areas. You will set direction for how applications and services connect securely, how traffic enters Vercel's platform, and how content is delivered quickly and reliably globally.
In this role, you will own the product vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap across Networking and CDN, which includes the service mesh, Perimeter, VPC connectivity, Microfrontends, caching layer, traffic security (WAF and DDoS mitigation), domains, and general ingress. You will evolve existing products by defining new features and designing new product surfaces, define pricing for new offerings, partner with Engineering on performance and reliability, and work directly with Enterprise customers and the field on connectivity, networking, performance, and security requirements that block adoption or scale.
The role is hybrid based in San Francisco with in-office anchor days on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday if you're within commuting distance of SF, NY, London, or Berlin offices. If located beyond that distance, the role is fully remote. You will report to the Product Lead.
Vercel is the agentic infrastructure company, helping builders move from idea to production with speed, security, and exceptional developer experience. The platform is trusted by OpenAI, PayPal, Ramp, Supreme, and millions of developers worldwide.
REQUIREMENTS:
- You have built and shipped networking, CDN infrastructure, service mesh, or private connectivity products
- You have technical depth to reason about service-to-service networking, VPC connectivity, HTTP caching semantics, cache invalidation, TLS, DNS, and global request routing
- You have experience with Layer 7 security products such as WAF, DDoS mitigation, or bot management
- You understand the networking and routing challenges of composing independently deployed services into applications
- You have owned multiple connected products and set direction that other product teams built against
- You have experience working directly with Enterprise customers on networking, connectivity, and security requirements
- You have experience using usage, reliability, and performance data to drive roadmap decisions
BONUS:
- Experience at a cloud provider or on a serverless, container, or edge compute platform
- Engineering background or experience operating production network infrastructure
- Experience with incident response and postmortems as a regular part of the job
- Experience with compliance and security requirements in enterprise procurement
