Principal Technical Product Manager, Networking

Vultr provides high-performance cloud infrastructure solutions for enterprises and AI innovators. The company is seeking a Principal Technical Product Manager, Networking to define and drive strategy, roadmap, and execution for its networking portfolio, while partnering with engineering and cross-functional teams to translate complex infrastructure capabilities into customer-facing products.

Responsibilities:

• Own and drive the product strategy and roadmap across Vultr’s networking portfolio, including VPC, routing, NAT/IGW, firewall/security groups, private connectivity, transit, DDoS, peering, and GPU/cluster networking
• Partner with engineering leadership to align customer needs and product priorities with technical architecture, engineering capacity, scalability, and long-term platform goals
• Translate complex infrastructure capabilities and architecture decisions into clear product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and execution plans
• Define requirements for new networking capabilities, including VPC features, routing and gateway functionality, cross-region connectivity, and RDMA/RoCE fabric services
• Lead complex cross-functional initiatives spanning multiple engineering and business teams, driving alignment, prioritization, and decision-making
• Identify opportunities to differentiate Vultr’s networking platform across cloud, enterprise, and AI/GPU infrastructure use cases
• Maintain a strong understanding of the competitive cloud networking landscape and use market insights to influence roadmap and investment priorities
• Drive go-to-market readiness in partnership with marketing, documentation, support, and sales
• Communicate product strategy, roadmap, technical tradeoffs, and priorities to both technical stakeholders and senior leadership

Requirements:

• Significant product management experience with cloud infrastructure, networking, distributed systems, or similarly complex technical products
• Experience operating as a senior or Principal-level individual contributor with influence across multiple engineering teams
• Strong understanding of data center and cloud networking concepts, including EVPN-VXLAN, VRFs, routing, NAT, load balancing, firewalling, private connectivity, and network security
• Experience with cloud networking technologies such as VPCs, transit networking, peering, gateways, DDoS mitigation, multi-region networking, or software-defined networking
• Proven ability to turn complex technical problems into clear product strategies, roadmaps, and requirements
• Strong product judgment and experience prioritizing across customer needs, technical investments, and long-term strategy
• Proven ability to influence senior technical and business stakeholders without direct authority
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and building structure where mature processes do not yet exist
• Experience with high-performance networking, GPU/AI infrastructure, RDMA, RoCE, or cluster networking is strongly preferred