Fastly

Staff Product Manager, Metacognition

Fastly$211K — $253K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of product management experience in relevant fields
  • Strong understanding of logs, metrics, and event-driven systems
  • Ability to translate complex data into intuitive user experiences
  • Experience in unifying different domains into a cohesive product vision
  • Customer empathy to turn raw signals into actionable insights
  • Cross-functional collaboration experience with engineering and design teams
  • Excellent communication skills, linking technical details to executive value

Responsibilities

  • Drive vision and roadmap for Fastly's intelligence layer
  • Define important signals across performance, reliability, and security
  • Translate system behavior into intuitive visualizations and narratives
  • Partner with engineering to enhance data pipelines and insights
  • Collaborate with design for unified dashboard experiences
  • Work with cross-functional teams to ensure insights deliver customer value
  • Define and track success metrics for customer impact and business performance
  • Communicate Fastly's platform value clearly to customers and teams

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Family planning and mental health support
  • Flexible vacation policy and up to 18 days of paid sick leave
  • 401(k) with company match and Employee Stock Purchase Program
  • 11 paid local holidays and wellness days
Full Job Description
Staff Product Manager, Metacognition

Fastly is looking for a Staff Product Manager to help define and lead our next-generation platform intelligence experience as part of the Metacognition Team. This team is responsible for how customers understand, trust, and act on everything happening across the Fastly platform, from performance and reliability to security and cost.

Our mission is to provide the reporting, analysis, visualizations, intelligence, and underlying data pipelines that help customers navigate constant uncertainty and continuously adapt. You'll play a central role in shaping how signals across the platform become clear, actionable insights, from developer workflows all the way to executive-level narratives.

This role sits at the intersection of observability, security intelligence, reporting, and platform UX, and is critical to Fastly's broader platform and growth strategy.

What You'll Do:
  • Own and drive the vision and roadmap for Fastly's intelligence layer, spanning observability, reporting, security insights, and executive-level summaries
  • Define what signals matter across the platform-performance, reliability, security, and usage-and ensure they are accessible, trustworthy, and actionable
  • Translate complex system behavior (logs, metrics, events, threats) into intuitive visualizations and narratives for both technical users and business stakeholders
  • Partner with engineering to evolve data pipelines, ingestion, and analysis systems that power real-time and historical insights at scale
  • Collaborate with design to create cohesive, unified experiences across dashboards, alerts, and reporting surfaces
  • Work cross-functionally with security, platform, and go-to-market teams to ensure insights reflect real customer value and drive adoption
  • Define and track success metrics that demonstrate both customer value (time-to-insight, actionability) and business impact (adoption, expansion, retention)
  • Help tell the story of Fastly's value-internally and externally-by enabling customers (and our teams) to clearly see the impact of the platform

What We're Looking For:
  • 7+ years of product management experience, ideally in developer tools, observability, security, or platform infrastructure
  • Strong understanding of logs, metrics, and event-driven systems-and how they translate into real-world debugging, optimization, and decision-making
  • Experience turning complex data into intuitive user experiences, dashboards, or reporting tools
  • Demonstrated ability to operate across multiple domains (e.g., observability + security + UX) and bring them into a cohesive product vision
  • Strong customer empathy, with the ability to translate raw signals into meaningful insights and actionable outcomes
  • Experience working cross-functionally with engineering, design, marketing, and sales to deliver impactful products
  • Excellent communication skills, including the ability to connect technical details to executive-level value

We'll be super impressed if you have experience in any of these:
  • Observability tools like Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry
  • Security analytics, threat intelligence, or attack visibility systems
  • Building unified dashboards or reporting systems that serve both technical and business audiences
  • Edge computing, CDN infrastructure, or distributed systems
  • Data analysis and experimentation (SQL, Amplitude, Mixpanel, etc.)
  • Designing insight-driven product experiences in SaaS platforms

Work Hours:
  • This position will require you to be available during core business hours.

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements:

For role with a flexible work location (office/hybrid or remote)

The preferred locations for this position are:
  • San Francisco, CA
  • New York, NY
  • Denver, CO

Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home.

There is a strong preference for Hybrid near a local office. However, we may be willing to consider remote candidates within the US.

This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager.

Salary:

The estimated salary range for this position is $211,370.00 to $253,644.00.

Starting salary may vary based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, and location.

This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly's equity and discretionary bonus programs.

Benefits:

We care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits that start on the first day of your employment with Fastly. Curious about our offerings?

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance. Family planning, mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program, Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident), a Flexible Vacation policy and up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave are there to help support our employees. We also offer 401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program. For 2026, we offer 11 paid local holidays, 11 paid company wellness days.

About Fastly

Fastly is an American cloud computing services provider. Fastly's edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by processing, serving, and securing our customers' applications as close to their end-users as possible — at the edge of the internet. Fastly's customers include many of the world's most prominent companies, including Vimeo, Pinterest, The New York Times, and GitHub. Fastly was founded in 2011 by Artur Bergman, Simon Wistow, and Gil Penchina. The company went public on May 15, 2019, and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol 'FSLY'.
Learn more about Fastly
Size
976 employees
Market Cap
$936.2 million
Industry
Net Income
-$95.9 million
Founded
2011
Revenue
$290.8 million
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