Product Manager, Networking + CDN
About The Position
Vercel is seeking a Product Manager to join their Product team, focusing on Vercel's networking and CDN product areas. This role involves owning the strategy and roadmap for services like service mesh, Perimeter, VPC connectivity, Microfrontends, caching layer, traffic security (WAF, DDoS mitigation), domains, and general ingress. The Product Manager will define how applications and services connect securely, how traffic enters Vercel, and how content is delivered globally. The position reports to the Product Lead and is based in San Francisco, CA, with a hybrid work model. For those within commuting distance of SF, NY, London, or Berlin offices, in-office days are required on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday. Those located further away will work fully remotely. Specific location details can be discussed with the recruiting team.
Requirements
- Built and shipped networking, CDN infrastructure, service mesh, or private connectivity products.
- Technical depth to reason about service-to-service networking, VPC connectivity, HTTP caching semantics, cache invalidation, TLS, DNS, and global request routing.
- Experience with Layer 7 security products such as WAF, DDoS mitigation, or bot management.
- Understanding of the networking and routing challenges of composing independently deployed services into applications.
- Owned multiple connected products and set direction that other product teams built against.
- Experience working directly with Enterprise customers on networking, connectivity, and security requirements.
- Experience using usage, reliability, and performance 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 operated production network infrastructure.
- Worked on products where incident response and postmortems are a regular part of the job.
- Experience with compliance and security requirements in enterprise procurement.
Responsibilities
- Own the product vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap across Vercel's Networking and CDN product areas.
- Evolve existing Networking and CDN products (Service mesh, Perimeters, Ingress, caching layer, Traffic security, WAF, DDoS mitigation, Domains) by defining new features and designing new product surfaces.
- Define pricing for new products or features.
- Partner with Engineering on performance and reliability.
- Work directly with Enterprise customers and the field on connectivity, networking, performance, and security requirements that block adoption or scale.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package, including equity.
- Inclusive Healthcare Package.
- Learn and Grow - mentorship and event attendance for networking and skill-building.
- Flexible Time Off.
- Gear for the role.
- WFH budget for home office setup.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
