Strategic Finance Manager, EPD
About The Position
Vercel is seeking a Strategic Finance Manager, Product (EPD) to collaborate with Engineering and Product teams. The primary focus will be on driving unit economics, enhancing infrastructure efficiency, and expanding margins across Vercel's consumption-based platform. This role involves managing cloud infrastructure and token spend, as well as emerging AI workloads such as inference, gateways, and compute-intensive services. The successful candidate will be responsible for defining how Vercel measures and optimizes the cost and profitability of every request, workload, and AI interaction on the platform.
Requirements
- 5-8+ years in Strategic Finance, FP&A, IB, or Consulting
- Experience with consumption-based or cloud infrastructure businesses
- Strong modeling skills; experience with driver-based forecasting
- Ability to partner with technical teams and translate usage → financial insight
- SQL / data tooling experience strongly preferred
Responsibilities
- Own financial visibility into compute, bandwidth, storage, and AI-related costs (e.g., inference, GPU/accelerated workloads).
- Translate product and infrastructure usage (requests, execution time, tokens, etc.) into clear cost drivers.
- Partner with EPD to drive cost-efficient architecture and scaling decisions.
- Build self-service cost tooling for Product and Engineering (cost per request, per workload, per AI query).
- Enable teams to own and optimize their infrastructure footprint.
- Standardize cost attribution across products and multi-tenant systems.
- Lead infrastructure and AI efficiency initiatives (compute optimization, caching, vendor strategy).
- Define north star metrics (e.g., cost per request, cost per AI call, cost per GB).
- Embed cost efficiency into roadmaps and product decisions.
- Develop scalable cost allocation frameworks across products, customers, and workloads.
- Improve gross margin visibility, including AI product margins.
- Support auditability and IPO readiness.
- Define product-level unit economics across Vercel’s product suite.
- Connect usage (requests, compute, tokens, etc) to revenue and COGS.
- Build driver-based models linking usage, revenue, and infrastructure costs.
- Forecast COGS across core platform and AI products for both PLG & SLG segments.
- Model margin impact of scale and efficiency improvements.
- Partner on usage-based and AI pricing models.
- Evaluate tradeoffs between growth, adoption, and margin.
- Ensure pricing is reflected in forecasts and unit economics.
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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
