Product Manager, Compute

Vercel • San Francisco, CA

4d • $208,000 - $312,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Vercel is seeking a Product Manager to join their Product team. This role will own Vercel's compute platform, including Fluid compute, Vercel, Functions, and Sandbox. The Product Manager will be responsible for setting the direction for how developers configure, scale, and run code on Vercel, from single functions to multi-service architectures and agents. This is a senior role with significant autonomy, focusing on the future direction of the platform. The position is based in San Francisco, CA (hybrid) and reports to the Product Lead. The role involves defining Vercel's compute strategy for AI and agent workloads, shaping the developer experience for running workloads, partnering with Engineering on performance and reliability, defining pricing, setting compute primitives for adjacent product areas, and working with Enterprise customers on compute requirements. Vercel's compute infrastructure, Fluid compute, enables new capabilities like Sandboxes for running untrusted and agent-generated code.

Requirements

• Built and shipped infrastructure or developer platform products, ideally compute, serverless, containers, or runtime platforms.
• Technical depth to reason about concurrency, cold starts, isolation models, and the cost and performance tradeoffs of a compute platform.
• Owned a platform area that other product teams build on, and set technical direction others adopted.
• Experience with AI or agent workloads and how their resource profile differs from conventional web traffic.
• Experience working directly with Enterprise customers on infrastructure requirements.
• Experience using usage and product analytics data to drive roadmap decisions.

Nice To Haves

• Worked at a cloud provider or on a serverless, container, or edge compute platform.
• Have an engineering background or have built software yourself.
• Worked on multi-runtime platforms and the tradeoffs of supporting several language runtimes.
• Worked on sandboxing, isolation, or secure execution of untrusted code.

Responsibilities

• 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.

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.
• Gear to do your role, and a WFH budget.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed