Product Manager, Storage
About The Position
Vercel is seeking a Product Manager to own its cloud Storage product portfolio, including Blob for blob storage, Drives for persistent filesystems, and future database and key-value storage products. The role is part of the cloud product team and reports to the Product Lead. It is described as hybrid in San Francisco, with in-office anchor days on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday for employees within a predetermined commuting distance of an office in San Francisco, New York, London, or Berlin. Employees beyond that distance work fully remotely. The Product Manager will set the portfolio vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap; ensure storage products integrate with Vercel’s cloud; set performance, availability, and durability standards; shape pricing and packaging; and work with engineering, design, developer experience, enterprise customers, and field teams to guide product development and adoption.
Requirements
- Experience shipping storage, database, or data infrastructure products, such as object storage, relational databases, or key-value stores.
- Ability to understand storage solutions and their tradeoffs in depth and explain them clearly to engineers and customers.
- Experience owning multiple connected product areas and setting direction that other product teams build against.
- Experience working directly with Enterprise customers on data and storage requirements and translating them into roadmap decisions.
Nice To Haves
- Experience at a cloud provider or data storage provider.
- An engineering background or experience building software.
- Experience with compliance and security requirements in enterprise procurement.
Responsibilities
- Own the product vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for Vercel’s storage portfolio, including blob storage, persistent filesystems, databases, and key-value storage.
- Ensure storage products integrate seamlessly with Vercel’s cloud products, including Functions, backend services, Sandboxes, and Daemons.
- Set standards for performance, availability, and durability across the portfolio, and make tradeoff decisions involving speed and cost.
- Shape storage pricing and packaging to support customers ranging from hobbyists to large enterprises.
- Partner with Engineering, Design, and DX to ship primitives that other Vercel product teams build on.
- Work directly with Enterprise customers and field teams to address adoption requirements related to scale, compliance, data locality, and encryption.
- Use usage, performance, and reliability data to prioritize work and determine what to stop doing.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package, including equity.
- Inclusive healthcare package.
- Mentorship and attendance at events to build networks and skills.
- Flexible Time Off.
- Gear needed to perform the role.
- Work-from-home budget to outfit the employee’s space.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
