Vercel

Product Manager, Observability

Vercel πŸ“ New York, USA πŸ”€ Hybrid Posted Aug 20, 2026 via Vercel careers
full-time πŸ“‚ Technology & IT πŸ”€ Hybrid 🏭 Technology

✨ Job Highlights

  • β˜…Pay: $172,000 to $258,000 a year
  • β˜…Hybrid: New York
  • β˜…Full-time role in technology & it
  • β˜…Apply directly on Vercel's careers site
  • β˜…Posted August 20, 2026

Full Job Description

Product Manager, Observability job at Vercel in New York

This Product Manager, Observability job is with Vercel in New York. It is a hybrid full-time role, so plan on splitting your week between home and the office. Vercel lists pay of $172,000 to $258,000 a year.

Here is the role as Vercel describes it.

About Vercel:

Vercel is the agentic infrastructure company, freeing people and agents to ship what's next. For more than a decade we've helped builders move from idea to production with speed, security, and exceptional developer experience.

Now we're scaling our products for both agents and people to ship and run software, built in the open and trusted by OpenAI, PayPal, Ramp, Supreme, and millions of developers worldwide.

About the Role:

We are looking for a Product Manager, Observability to join our Product team. You will own the strategy and roadmap for Vercel's observability products, including Runtime Logs, OpenTelemetry tracing, and Drains, which let teams stream logs, traces, Web Analytics events, and Speed Insights metrics into the systems they already use. You will partner closely with engineering and design to help customers understand and debug what they run on Vercel, both through Vercel's native surfaces and through integrations with vendors that support OpenTelemetry. You will report to the product lead and will be located in New York, NY (hybrid).

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.

What You Will Do:

  • 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.
  • Work 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
  • Define the metrics that tell you it's working, and hold the team to them.
  • About You:

  • 5+ years in product management, with meaningful time on developer, infrastructure, or data-intensive products.
  • 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.
  • Bonus If You:

  • 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.
  • Benefits & Compensation:

  • 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.
  • The San Francisco, CA base pay range for this role is $172,000 - $258,000. Actual salary will be based on job-related skills, experience, and location. Compensation outside of San Francisco may be adjusted based on employee location. The total compensation package may include benefits, equity-based compensation, and eligibility for a company bonus or variable pay program depending on the role. Your recruiter can share more details during the hiring process.

    Disclosures:

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  • Equal Opportunity: Vercel is committed to fostering and empowering an inclusive community within our organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Vercel encourages everyone to apply for our available positions, even if they don't necessarily check every box on the job description.
  • Questions about this job

    What is the salary for the Product Manager, Observability role at Vercel?

    Vercel advertises $172,000 to $258,000 a year for this role.

    Can I work remotely in this job?

    It is hybrid. You would work partly from home and partly from the office in New York.

    What experience do I need for this Product Manager, Observability job?

    The posting mentions skills such as Next.js and Recruiting. Read the full description above for the complete list.

    Where do I send my application to Vercel?

    Use the apply button on this page. It takes you to Vercel's own application form, so your CV goes directly to their hiring team.

    When was this job posted?

    Vercel published the role on August 20, 2026. We check the employer's job board every day and take this page down when the role closes, so if you can read it, the job was still listed at our last check.

    Source: Vercel careers page (job-boards.greenhouse.io). Applications go straight to the employer. We check the listing daily and remove it once it closes.

    Required Skills

    Next.js Recruiting

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    🏒 Company Vercel
    πŸ“ Location New York, USA
    πŸ’Ό Job Type full-time
    🌐 Work Mode πŸ”€ Hybrid
    🏭 Industry Technology
    πŸ—“ Posted Date Aug 20, 2026
    πŸ”— Via Vercel careers
    πŸ“… Deadline Dec 17, 2034

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