Join Vercel as a Product Manager to lead Networking and CDN product areas, ensuring secure and efficient application connectivity.
Posted by employer 1 month ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 month ago
Last verified on the company career page 2 hours 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 about a month ago — first seen on Joblaze September 29, 2026. Last confirmed on Vercel's careers page November 15, 2026.
- Salary band is above the typical range for Product roles (median ~$185,000).
- Starts above 80% of 244 comparable senior product roles in United States we track (median $180,000 across 87 companies).
Quick facts
- Is the Product Manager, Networking + CDN role remote?
- It's hybrid — Vercel expects some on-site time in Hybrid - San Francisco.
- 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 Hybrid - San Francisco.
- 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
As a Product Manager, Networking + CDN, you’ll own two product areas: Networking (service mesh, Perimeter, VPC connectivity, and Microfrontends) and CDN (the caching layer, WAF and DDoS mitigation, domains, and general ingress). You’ll set direction for how applications and services connect securely, how traffic enters Vercel, and how content is delivered quickly and reliably around the world. 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 across Vercel’s Networking and CDN product areas
- Evolve existing Networking and CDN products by defining new features and designing new product surfaces
- Define pricing for new products and features
- Partner with Engineering on performance and reliability across Networking and CDN
- Work directly with Enterprise customers and the field on connectivity, networking, performance, and security requirements that block adoption or scale
What you need
- 8+ years of product management experience, including building and shipping networking, CDN infrastructure, service mesh, or private connectivity products
- Technical depth in service-to-service networking, VPC connectivity, HTTP caching semantics, cache invalidation, TLS, DNS, global request routing, and the routing challenges of composing independently deployed services into applications
- Worked on Layer 7 security products such as WAF, DDoS mitigation, or bot management
- Owned multiple connected products and set direction that other product teams built against
- Worked directly with Enterprise customers on networking, connectivity, and security requirements
- Used 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 operated production network infrastructure, or worked on products where incident response and postmortems are a regular part of the job
- Have worked 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:
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