Hiring: Product Communications Manager Company: Vercel Location: San Francisco, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-03 11:22:34 Target Skills & Keywords : CDN, CI/CD, JavaScript, Next.js, Python, Shadcn, Svelte, Turbopack, Vercel About the job Experience: •6-8 years of experience in communications, PR, or product marketing, with direct exposure to developer tools, infrastructure, or technical products. •8 years of experience in communications, PR, or product marketing, with direct exposure to developer tools, infrastructure, or technical products. Required Skills: •You'll work closely with communications leadership, Product, DX Engineering, and Content Engineering to make sure product work is introduced and explained with the right context, to the right audience, at the right moment. •Report to the Head of Communications and will be located in our SF office with in-office anchor days on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday. •OSS Portfolio Oversight: Oversee communications for Vercel's open source frameworks, with a concentration on Next.js, tailoring your approach to the maturity and audience of each project and keeping a voice that feels native to developer communities rather than corporate marketing. •Narrative & Positioning: Build thought leadership narratives around how Vercel's products fit together — and where they sit in the broader infrastructure and framework landscape. •Owned & Social Content: Develop owned content, social content, and campaigns in partnership with Content Engineering that engages both commercial and developer audiences. •Community Support: Stay close to the pulse of the open source community and proactively look for opportunities to support it, whether that's amplifying a contributor, responding to a moment, or spotting a story before it breaks. •Community Programming: Partner with DX Engineering's community team on programming, conference participation, and activations that put Vercel's product and OSS work in front of the right audiences. •Executive & Maintainer Thought Leadership: Build the public thought leadership profiles of Vercel's product and engineering leadership, and elevate the stories of the open source maintainers behind key projects. Qualifications: •Strong writer and storyteller who can translate technical work — product or open source — into narratives that resonate with developers and the market, without oversimplifying or overselling. •Comfortable working directly with engineers, PMs, and technical leadership, and skilled at pulling a story out of people who don't think of themselves as storytellers. •Operational familiarity with the frontend/JavaScript ecosystem (Next.js, frameworks, runtimes, and adjacent tooling) is a strong plus. •Self-directed and comfortable owning a program end-to-end in a fast-moving environment with a lot of surface area. •Have genuine fluency in open source culture — you understand what motivates maintainers and contributors, and know the difference between a community that feels engaged and one that feels marketed to. •Have contributed to or been active in an open source community yourself, as a maintainer, contributor, or engaged participant. •Have interest in and proficiency with using agents in your workflow. Compensation: •$152,000 - $209,000 / year •Competitive compensation package, including equity Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!