Vercel

Product Manager, Compute

Vercel • $208K — $312K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in product management, focused on infrastructure or developer platform products.
  • Technical expertise in compute concepts like concurrency, cold starts, and isolation models.
  • Experience in defining platform strategies for products utilized by multiple teams.
  • Proven track record working with Enterprise clients on technical requirements for infrastructure.
  • Familiarity with AI and agent workloads, specifically their unique resource demands.

Responsibilities

  • Own the vision and long-term roadmap for Vercel's compute platform.
  • Define resource models and configuration for AI and agent workloads.
  • Enhance the developer experience for configuring and running workloads.
  • Collaborate with Engineering to ensure performance and reliability of the compute platform.
  • Establish pricing for new resources and products within the platform.
  • Set foundational compute primitives for other product teams to utilize.
  • Engage with Enterprise customers to address compute needs for adoption and scaling.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation including equity options.
  • Inclusive healthcare package.
  • Opportunities for professional development through mentorship and events.
  • Flexible time off policy.
  • Provision of necessary work equipment and WFH budget.
Full Job Description
About the Role:

We are looking for a Product Manager to join our Product team. You will own Vercel's compute platform - Fluid compute, Vercel, Functions, Sandbox, and more - the layer that runs every workload our customers deploy. You will set the direction for how developers configure, scale, and run code on Vercel, from a single function, to multi-service architectures, to agents. You will report to the Product Lead and will be located in San Francisco, CA (hybrid).

Vercel invested in its own microVM-based compute infrastructure externally called "Fluid compute". Fluid changed what's now possible to run on Vercel. For example, we've delivered Sandboxes, a new primitive to run untrusted and agent-generated code. We are just scratching the surface of what Fluid is can deliver. This is a senior role with wide latitude: you'll decide where that platform goes next.

If you're based within a pre-determined commuting distance of one of our offices (SF, NY, London, or Berlin), the role includes in-office anchor days on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday. If you're located beyond that distance, the role is fully remote. For location-specific details, please connect with our recruiting team.
What You Will Do:
  • Own the product vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for Vercel's compute platform.
  • Define how Vercel serves AI and agent workloads, where long-running, I/O-bound, and code-executing tasks have a fundamentally different compute profile than traditional request/response traffic.
  • Shape the developer experience of running workloads on Vercel: resource model, attributes, API and config files.
  • Partner with Engineering on the performance and reliability bar for compute, including cold starts and creation time latency
  • Define pricing for new products and resources.
  • Set the compute primitives that adjacent product areas build on, and work with those teams on what they need from the platform
  • Work directly with Enterprise customers and the field on compute requirements that block adoption or scale
About You:
  • You've built and shipped infrastructure or developer platform products, ideally compute, serverless, containers, or runtime platforms
  • You have the technical depth to reason about concurrency, cold starts, isolation models, and the cost and performance tradeoffs of a compute platform
  • You have owned a platform area that other product teams build on, and set technical direction others adopted
  • You have experience with AI or agent workloads and how their resource profile differs from conventional web traffic
  • You have experience working directly with Enterprise customers on infrastructure requirements
  • You have experience using usage and product analytics data to drive roadmap decisions
Bonus If You:
  • Have worked at a cloud provider or on a serverless, container, or edge compute platform
  • Have an engineering background or have built software yourself
  • Have worked on multi-runtime platforms and the tradeoffs of supporting several language runtimes
  • Have worked on sandboxing, isolation, or secure execution of untrusted code
Compensation & Benefits:
  • Competitive compensation package, including equity.
  • Inclusive Healthcare Package.
  • Learn and Grow - we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and skills.
  • Flexible Time Off.
  • We will provide you the gear you need to do your role, and a WFH budget for you to outfit your space as needed.

The San Francisco, CA base pay range for this role is $208,000 - $312,000. Actual salary will be based on job-related skills, experience, and location. Compensation outside of San Francisco may be adjusted based on employee location. The total compensation package may include benefits, equity-based compensation, and eligibility for a company bonus or variable pay program depending on the role. Your recruiter can share more details during the hiring process.

About Vercel

Vercel Inc., formerly Zeit, is an American cloud platform as a service company. The company maintains the Next.js web development framework. Vercel's architecture is built around Jamstack, and deployments are handled through Git repositories.
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