Product Manager, Networking + CDN

Vercel is an agentic infrastructure company that helps people and agents ship and run software. The Product Manager will own the vision, strategy, roadmap, pricing, performance, and reliability of Vercel's Networking and CDN products, while partnering with Engineering and Enterprise customers on connectivity, networking, performance, and security requirements.

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 the performance and reliability
• Work directly with Enterprise customers and the field on connectivity, networking, performance, and security requirements that block adoption or scale

Requirements:

• You've built and shipped networking, CDN infrastructure, service mesh, or private connectivity products
• You have the technical depth to reason about service-to-service networking, VPC connectivity, HTTP caching semantics, cache invalidation, TLS, DNS, and global request routing
• You have experience with Layer 7 security products such as WAF, DDoS mitigation, or bot management
• You understand the networking and routing challenges of composing independently deployed services into applications
• You have owned multiple connected products and set direction that other product teams built against
• You have experience working directly with Enterprise customers on networking, connectivity, and security requirements
• You have experience using usage, reliability, and performance data to drive roadmap decisions
• Have worked at a cloud provider or on a serverless, container, or edge compute platform
• Have an engineering background or have operated production network infrastructure
• Have worked on products where incident response and postmortems are a regular part of the job
• Have experience with compliance and security requirements in enterprise procurement