Hiring: Product Manager, Observability Company: Vercel Location: New York, NY Job Posted Time: 2026-09-12 11:22:34 Employment Type: Remote Target Skills & Keywords : Datadog, Grafana, Honeycomb, New Relic, Next.js, OpenTelemetry, Product Management, Sentry, Vercel About the job Experience: •5+ years in product management, with meaningful time on developer, infrastructure, or data-intensive products. Required Skills: •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. •Own strategy and roadmap for Vercel's observability products, from telemetry ingestion through the surfaces developers use to debug and monitor. •Turn ambiguous signal — support escalations, customer interviews, usage data, competitive shifts — into a sequenced plan with clear tradeoffs. •Partner daily with engineering on scoping, and with design on making dense telemetry data genuinely legible. •Define the native-vs-integrate line: what Vercel builds, and where we make Datadog, Sentry, Grafana, Honeycomb, and New Relic work seamlessly. •Interface directly with Enterprise customers and Sales/Solutions on observability needs that block adoption or expansion. •Own pricing and packaging decisions with Finance and GTM — observability is metered, and unit economics are part of the product. •Write the launch narrative: changelogs, blog posts, docs direction, in partnership with PMM Qualifications: •You've shipped something technical enough that engineers treated you as a peer. You can read a trace waterfall and reason about cardinality, sampling, and retention costs. •Comfortable owning a domain end to end without a PM above you translating strategy into work. •You use the products you build on, and you have opinions about the ones you don't. •Fluency with data: you write your own queries and don't wait on someone else to answer a usage question. •Have worked at an observability, APM, or monitoring company, or been the internal power user of one at scale. •Have shipped AI or agent-facing developer tooling. •Have owned consumption-based pricing for a technical product. •Are an active Next.js or Vercel user. Compensation: •$172,000 - $258,000 / 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!