Join Vercel as a Product Manager to lead Networking and CDN product areas, ensuring secure and efficient application connectivity.
Posted by employer 2 days ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 day ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Own the product vision and strategy for Networking and CDN
- Evolve existing Networking and CDN products
- Define pricing for new products or features
- Partner with Engineering on performance and reliability
- Work directly with Enterprise customers on requirements
Must have
- Built and shipped networking or CDN infrastructure products
- Technical depth in service-to-service networking and VPC connectivity
- Experience with Layer 7 security products
Nice to have
- Worked at a cloud provider
- Engineering background or operated production network infrastructure
- Experience with compliance and security requirements
Practical constraints
- In-office anchor days on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday for hybrid roles
Not disclosed in this posting: years of experience, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Product Manager will oversee Vercel's networking and CDN product areas, focusing on enhancing features related to service mesh, traffic security, and content delivery. Key skills include a strong technical background in networking infrastructure, experience with Layer 7 security products, and the ability to collaborate with engineering teams and enterprise customers. This position is ideal for someone with a proven track record in managing interconnected products and a deep understanding of networking challenges. Vercel emphasizes a collaborative environment, working closely with various teams to drive product strategy.
Joblaze insights
- Listed yesterday — first seen on Joblaze September 29, 2026. Last confirmed on Vercel's careers page September 29, 2026.
- Salary band is above the typical range for Product roles (median ~$184,000).
- Starts above 82% of 226 comparable senior product roles in United States we track (median $180,000 across 83 companies).
Quick facts
- Is the Product Manager, Networking + CDN role remote?
- It's hybrid — Vercel expects some on-site time in San Francisco, CA, United States.
- What's the salary range?
- Vercel lists $208,000–$312,000 for this role.
- Where is the role based?
- Vercel is hiring for this position in San Francisco, CA, United States.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: CDN, DDoS mitigation, Microfrontends, Networking, VPC connectivity, WAF.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Vercel targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Product Manager, Networking + CDN role at Vercel.
From the original posting
About Vercel:
About the Role:
We are looking for a Product Manager to join our Product team. You will own Vercel's networking and CDN product areas. Networking includes the service mesh, Perimeter, VPC connectivity, and Microfrontends. CDN includes the caching layer, traffic security through WAF and DDoS mitigation, domains, and general ingress. You will set direction for how applications and services connect securely, how traffic enters Vercel, and how content is delivered quickly and reliably around the world. You will report to the Product Lead and will be located in San Francisco, CA (hybrid).
If you’re based within a pre-determined commuting distance of one of our offices (SF, NY, London, or Berlin), the role includes in-office anchor days on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday. If you're located beyond that distance, the role is fully remote. For location-specific details, please connect with our recruiting team.
What You Will Do:
- 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
About You:
- 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
Bonus If You:
- 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
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.
Disclosures:
Standard company text repeated across Vercel's postings is omitted here.