Vercel is the agentic infrastructure company, freeing people and agents to ship what's next. For more than a decade we've helped builders move from idea to production with speed, security, and exceptional developer experience.
Now we're scaling our products for both agents and people to ship and run software, built in the open and trusted by OpenAI, PayPal, Ramp, Supreme, and millions of developers worldwide.
As a Product Manager, Compute, you’ll own the product direction for Fluid compute, Functions, Sandbox, and the rest of the layer that runs every workload our customers deploy. You’ll set how developers configure, scale, and run code on Vercel, from a single function to multi-service architectures to agents. Fluid, our microVM-based compute infrastructure, already made new primitives possible, including Sandbox for running untrusted and agent-generated code. This is a senior role with wide latitude: you’ll decide where the platform goes next. This is a hybrid role based in San Francisco, in the office on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday.
What you'll do- Own the product vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for Vercel’s compute platform, including the primitives other product areas build on
- Define how Vercel serves AI and agent workloads, where long-running, I/O-bound, and code-executing tasks have a different compute profile than 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
- Work directly with Enterprise customers and the field on compute requirements that block adoption or scale, and define pricing for new products and resources
- 8+ years of product management experience
- Built and shipped infrastructure or developer platform products (ideally compute, serverless, containers, or runtime platforms), with working knowledge of concurrency, cold starts, isolation models, and cost and performance tradeoffs
- Owned a platform area that other product teams build on, and set technical direction others adopted
- Worked on AI or agent workloads and how their resource profile differs from conventional web traffic
- Worked directly with Enterprise customers on infrastructure requirements
- Used usage and product analytics data to drive roadmap decisions
- Have worked at a cloud provider or on a serverless, container, or edge compute platform
- Have worked on sandboxing, isolation, or secure execution of untrusted code
- Have worked on multi-runtime platforms and the tradeoffs of supporting several language runtimes
- 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.
The San Francisco, CA base pay range for this role is $208,000 - $312,000. Actual salary will be based on job-related skills, experience, and location. Compensation outside of San Francisco may be adjusted based on employee location. The total compensation package may include benefits, equity-based compensation, and eligibility for a company bonus or variable pay program depending on the role. Your recruiter can share more details during the hiring process.
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Skills Required
- Experience building and shipping infrastructure or developer platform products, ideally compute, serverless, containers, or runtime platforms
- Technical depth in concurrency, cold starts, isolation models, and compute platform cost-performance tradeoffs
- Experience owning a platform area used by other product teams and setting adopted technical direction
- Experience with AI or agent workloads and their resource profiles
- Experience working directly with enterprise customers on infrastructure requirements
- Experience using usage and product analytics data to drive roadmap decisions
- Experience at a cloud provider or on a serverless, container, or edge compute platform
- Engineering background or experience building software
- Experience with multi-runtime platforms and supporting multiple language runtimes
- Experience with sandboxing, isolation, or secure execution of untrusted code
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What We Do
From solo developers building their first app to large enterprise teams if it needs to be fast, reliable, and beautifully built, it runs on Vercel. Our platform powers millions of deployments a day. We started with a simple belief: the web should be fast for everyone, everywhere. That belief became Next.js. Then a platform. Then the infrastructure layer for the AI-native web. We are backed by the amazing team at Accel and CRV, and we're headquartered in San Francisco.
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Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Vercel is a remote-friendly company. Some roles are in-office (SF, NYC and others), and some are fully remote. For the right candidate, flexible arrangements are available, supported by home office and wellness stipends.
