SlipstreamJobs tracks this role from the company's public career site. Apply directly on the employer's site.
Salary: USD 208,000 - 312,000 / annual
Vercel is the agentic infrastructure company helping builders move from idea to production with speed, security, and exceptional developer experience. The company serves millions of developers worldwide and is trusted by OpenAI, PayPal, Ramp, and Supreme.
You will own the Storage product portfolio at Vercel, covering Blob (blob storage), Drives (persistent filesystems), and future database and key-value storage products. This is a senior product leadership role reporting to the Product Lead.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own the product vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for Vercel's storage portfolio (blob storage, persistent filesystems, database, and key/value storage)
- Ensure storage products integrate seamlessly with the rest of Vercel's cloud (Functions, backend services, Sandboxes, Daemons) to enable fully functional applications and agents
- Set and hold the bar for performance, availability, and durability across the portfolio, making tradeoff decisions between those goals and speed or cost
- Shape pricing and packaging for storage to scale from hobbyist to large Enterprise customers
- Partner with Engineering, Design, and Developer Experience teams to ship primitives that other Vercel product teams build on
- Work directly with Enterprise customers and the field to unblock adoption on scale, compliance, and data locality and encryption requirements
- Use usage, performance, and reliability data to decide what to build next and what to stop doing
Workplace: Hybrid role based in San Francisco. If located within commuting distance of Vercel offices (SF, NY, London, or Berlin), anchor days are Monday, Tuesday, and Friday. If beyond commuting distance, fully remote.
Requirements:
- Shipped storage, database, or data infrastructure products such as object storage, relational databases, or key-value stores
- Can go deep on each storage solution and their tradeoffs, and explain them clearly to engineers and customers
- Owned multiple connected product areas and set direction that other product teams built against
- Worked directly with Enterprise customers on data and storage requirements and turned them into roadmap decisions
Bonus qualifications:
- Experience at a cloud provider or data storage provider
- Engineering background or have built software yourself
- Experience with compliance and security requirements in enterprise procurement
