Strategic Finance Manager, Product

<div class="content-intro"><h2>About Vercel:</h2> <p><span data-sheets-root="1">Vercel is the agentic infrastructure company. We free people and agents to ship what’s next.</span></p> <p><span data-sheets-root="1">For more than a decade, Vercel has shaped how the web is built. As the team behind Next.js, v0, and AI SDK, we create products that help builders move from idea to production with speed, security, and exceptional developer experience.</span></p> <p><span data-sheets-root="1">Now, software is entering a new era, and the next generation of products will not just be used by people. They will be built, extended, and operated by agents.</span></p> <p><span data-sheets-root="1">We are building the platform for that future, trusted by companies like&nbsp;<strong>OpenAI, PayPal, Ramp, Supreme, and millions of developers worldwide</strong>. Whether you’re building our products, supporting our customers, growing our community, or shaping our story, you’ll help define what comes next.</span></p></div><h2>About the Role:</h2> <p>We are hiring a Strategic Finance Manager, Product (EPD) to partner with Engineering and Product to drive unit economics, infrastructure efficiency, and margin expansion across Vercel’s consumption-based platform.</p> <p>This role spans cloud infrastucture &amp; token spend, as well as emerging AI workloads (inference, gateways, and compute-intensive services). You will define how we measure and optimize the cost and profitability of every request, workload, and AI interaction on the platform.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h2>What You Will Do:</h2> <h3><strong>Infrastructure &amp; AI COGS Ownership</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Own financial visibility into compute, bandwidth, storage, and AI-related costs (e.g., inference, GPU/accelerated workloads)</li> <li>Translate product and infrastructure usage (requests, execution time, tokens, etc.) into clear cost drivers</li> <li>Partner with EPD to drive cost-efficient architecture and scaling decisions</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Cost Visibility &amp; Accountability</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Build self-service cost tooling for Product and Engineering (cost per request, per workload, per AI query)</li> <li>Enable teams to own and optimize their infrastructure footprint</li> <li>Standardize cost attribution across products and multi-tenant systems</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Efficiency &amp; Margin Expansion</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Lead infrastructure and AI efficiency initiatives (compute optimization, caching, vendor strategy)</li> <li>Define north star metric