Product Manager, Compute

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

We are looking for a Product Manager to join our Product team. You will own Vercel's compute platform — Fluid compute, Vercel, Functions, Sandbox, and more — the layer that runs every workload our customers deploy. You will set the direction for how developers configure, scale, and run code on Vercel, from a single function, to multi-service architectures, to agents. You will report to the Product Lead and will be located in San Francisco, CA (hybrid).

What it asks for · 6

• You've built and shipped infrastructure or developer platform products, ideally compute, serverless, containers, or runtime platforms
• You have the technical depth to reason about concurrency, cold starts, isolation models, and the cost and performance tradeoffs of a compute platform
• You have owned a platform area that other product teams build on, and set technical direction others adopted
• You have experience with AI or agent workloads and how their resource profile differs from conventional web traffic
• You have experience working directly with Enterprise customers on infrastructure requirements
• You have experience using usage and product analytics data to drive roadmap decisions

Also a plus

• Have worked at a cloud provider or on a serverless, container, or edge compute platform
• Have an engineering background or have built software yourself
• Have worked on multi-runtime platforms and the tradeoffs of supporting several language runtimes
• Have worked on sandboxing, isolation, or secure execution of untrusted code

What the job covers

• Own the product vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for Vercel's compute platform.
• Define how Vercel serves AI and agent workloads, where long-running, I/O-bound, and code-executing tasks have a fundamentally different compute profile than traditional request/response traffic.
• Shape the developer experience of running workloads on Vercel: resource model, attributes, API and config files.
• Partner with Engineering on the performance and reliability bar for compute, including cold starts and creation time latency
• Define pricing for new products and resources.
• Set the compute primitives that adjacent product areas build on, and work with those teams on what they need from the platform
• Work directly with Enterprise customers and the field on compute requirements that block adoption or scale

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• compute12×
• platform10×
• product9×
• compute platform4×
• experience4×
• fluid4×
• run4×
• workloads4×
• code3×
• developer3×
• infrastructure3×
• resource3×
• set3×
• status3×
• worked3×
• agent workloads2×

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