Strategic Finance Manager, Product

<div class="content-intro"><h2>About Vercel:</h2> <p><span data-sheets-root="1">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.</span></p> <p><span data-sheets-root="1">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.</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> <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 metrics (e.g., cost per request, cost per AI call, cost per GB)</li> <li>Embed cost efficiency into roadmaps and product decisions</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Cost Allocation &amp; Financial Rigor</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Develop scalable cost allocation frameworks across products, customers, and workloads</li> <li>Improve gross margin visibility, including AI product margins</li> <li>Support auditability and IPO readiness</li> </ul> <h2>Cross-Cutting Workstreams</h2