Product Manager, Networking, CDN

Vercel

. Own the product vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap across Vercel's Networking and CDN product areas .

Posted 9/28/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $208,000 - $312,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

Role fit

Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in product vision and strategy for Networking and CDN products, with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and security. Proven ability to collaborate with engineering teams and enterprise customers to drive product development and roadmap decisions based on data-driven insights.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Networking Product DevelopmentCDN Infrastructure ManagementService Mesh ExpertiseLayer 7 Security ProductsEnterprise Customer Engagement

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Hard Skills

Service-To-Service NetworkingVPC ConnectivityHTTP Caching SemanticsCache InvalidationTLSDNSGlobal Request RoutingDDoS MitigationBot ManagementIncident Response

Tools & Technologies

Cloud Provider ExperienceServerless PlatformsContainer TechnologiesEdge Compute Platforms

Industry Keywords

Networking ChallengesSecurity RequirementsEnterprise Procurement ComplianceProduct Roadmap Decisions

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDNS

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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 or features
Partner with Engineering on performance and reliability
Work directly with Enterprise customers and the field on connectivity, networking, performance, and security requirements that block adoption or scale
Set direction for how applications and services connect securely, how traffic enters Vercel, and how content is delivered quickly and reliably around the world
Report to the Product Lead

Requirements

What you’ll need

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: Have worked at a cloud provider or on a serverless, container, or edge compute platform
Bonus: Have an engineering background or have operated production network infrastructure
Bonus: Have worked on products where incident response and postmortems are a regular part of the job
Bonus: Have experience with compliance and security requirements in enterprise procurement

Benefits

Comp & perks

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.