Staff Product Manager - Vercel Storage Portfolio

Vercel is the agentic infrastructure company, freeing developers and autonomous AI agents to ship what's next. Trusted by OpenAI, PayPal, Ramp, Supreme, and millions of developers worldwide, Vercel empowers builders to move from idea to production with speed, security, and exceptional developer experience.

As Product Manager, Storage on the Vercel cloud product team, you will own the overarching product vision, strategy, and execution roadmap for Vercel’s storage portfolio—where applications and autonomous AI agents persist their data. Your remit spans Vercel Blob (object storage), Drives (persistent filesystems), and next-generation database and key-value storage products. Partnering closely with Engineering, Design, and Developer Experience (DX), you will integrate storage primitives with Vercel's compute ecosystem (Functions, Sandboxes, Daemons) while shaping consumption pricing models and helping Enterprise clients navigate data locality, encryption, and compliance constraints.

Key Responsibilities

• Product Strategy & Storage Portfolio Roadmap: Own the multi-year vision, strategy, and sequencing for Vercel’s storage products (Blob, Drives, Key-Value, and databases)—using usage, latency, and reliability data to guide build vs. sunset decisions.
• Integration with Core Compute primitives: Partner with Engineering, Design, and DX teams to seamlessly connect storage products with Vercel Cloud primitives (Serverless Functions, AI Sandboxes, Daemons, and backend services).
• Service Performance & Durability Standards: Define, hold, and evaluate SLO bars for performance, availability, data durability, and latency across the portfolio—balancing architectural tradeoffs against cost and feature velocity.
• Metered Pricing & Packaging: Architect pricing structures, tiers, and bandwidth/storage packaging models that scale smoothly from hobbyist builders to high-volume Enterprise accounts.
• Enterprise Unblocking & Data Locality: Collaborate directly with field engineering and Enterprise customers to solve storage adoption blockers tied to scale, SOC2/ISO compliance, regional data locality, and encryption protocols.
• Platform Primitive Ownership: Build clean storage APIs and data primitives that internal Vercel product teams can utilize to power adjacent application surfaces.

Requirements

Data Infrastructure & Product Management Depth

• 8+ years of progressive product management experience, with a dedicated track record of shipping cloud storage, database, or data infrastructure products (e.g., object stores, relational databases, key-value stores, distributed filesystems).
• Deep Storage Architecture Literacy: Demonstrated technical understanding of tradeoffs between storage abstractions (block, file, object, relational, key-value) and ability to articulate them clearly to systems engineers and enterprise buyers.
• Connected Domain Leadership: Proven record of owning multiple connected product surfaces, setting foundational strategies adopted by adjacent product engineering teams.
• Enterprise Customer Experience: Direct track record of engaging enterprise stakeholders on data requirements, compliance governance, and translating feedback into core product priorities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior PM experience at a major cloud hyperscaler (AWS, GCP, Azure) or specialized data storage provider (e.g., Cloudflare, Snowflake, Supabase).
• Background in software engineering or hands-on experience building distributed data applications.
• Practical experience navigating enterprise security procurement, HIPAA/GDPR data residency rules, and encryption key management (KMS).

Total Rewards & Benefits

• Compensation & Equity: San Francisco base salary range ($208,000 – $312,000 USD) + board-approved equity packages + company bonus eligibility.
• Healthcare & Wellbeing: Inclusive medical, dental, and vision healthcare coverage.
• Professional Growth & Networking: Mentorship programs and sponsored travel/attendance at technical conferences and industry events.
• Workspace & Equipment: High-end technical hardware setup + dedicated work-from-home budget to outfit your home office setup.