Senior Product Strategy & Operations Leader

Company: Vercel
Location: Remote (or Hybrid in SF, NY, London, Berlin with anchor days)
Base Pay (San Francisco): $232,000 - $348,000 per year

About Vercel

Vercel is the agentic infrastructure company, empowering people and agents to ship what's next. As the team behind Next.js, v0, and AI SDK, we enable developers to move from idea to production with speed, security, and exceptional developer experience. We are building the platform for the future, trusted by leading companies and millions of developers worldwide.

About the Role

Vercel is seeking a leader to build and manage the Product Strategy & Operations function from the ground up. This senior, cross-functional role sits within the EPD organization and partners closely with the CPO, EPD Leads, GTM leadership, and Finance. You will be responsible for ensuring the sustainability of our high-velocity shipping process, establishing measurement infrastructure for product success, and managing planning systems to keep the roadmap and revenue plan sharp, funded, and aligned across the company.

This is a strategic leadership position for individuals who excel at understanding product markets and business models, building world-class operating systems, and leveraging data to drive critical decisions.

What You Will Do

• Own the EPD rhythm of business: weekly operating reviews, monthly business reviews, planning cycles, and roadmap processes, establishing minimum viable processes for each.
• Run the ShipOps function to enable Launch Calendar reviews and Vercel’s high-velocity "You Can Just Ship Things" approach.
• Establish a "product landing" framework – a structured post-launch process to ensure new features and products are adopted, drive intended business outcomes, and generate learnings for future iterations.
• Partner closely with Sales and Marketing teams to set targets, create plans, and execute tactics that drive pipeline creation, user launches, and ramps.
• Develop and maintain competitive intelligence systems for continuous market landscape awareness.
• Partner with Data Engineering and Data Science to ensure analytical infrastructure supports business analysis speed requirements.
• Partner with EPD leads to maintain team health, capacity visibility, and resource allocation, ensuring proper staffing for critical bets and early surfacing of execution risks.

About You

• 8+ years in product operations, business operations, strategy, or a closely related function within a high-growth technology company.
• Ability to understand complex technical products and articulate their value to non-technical audiences.
• Deep familiarity with the full software development lifecycle, including improving EPD planning, building, and shipping processes.
• Passion for structuring and solving highly ambiguous strategic problems and owning end-to-end execution.
• Experience leading complex, cross-functional projects with multiple stakeholders.
• Proven experience working at the intersection of product and go-to-market teams in a software company.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with diverse cross-functional stakeholders.

Bonus If You:

• Have a background in developer tooling, cloud infrastructure, or platform products.
• Frequently build your own agents to support workflows and data analyses.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package, including equity.
• Inclusive Healthcare Package.
• Learn and Grow opportunities (mentorship, event attendance).
• Flexible Time Off.
• Company-provided gear and WFH budget.

Note: The San Francisco, CA base pay range is $232,000 - $348,000. Actual salary depends on job-related factors and location. Compensation outside San Francisco may be adjusted. Total compensation may include benefits, equity, and potential bonuses. Vercel is committed to fostering an inclusive community and encourages all qualified individuals to apply.