# Strategic Finance Manager, Product

**Company**: Vercel
**Location**: San Francisco
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $180,000-$220,000
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## About the role

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.

This role spans cloud infrastructure & 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.

## Responsibilities

### Infrastructure & AI COGS Ownership

- Own financial visibility into compute, bandwidth, storage, and AI-related costs (e.g., inference, GPU/accelerated workloads)

- Translate product and infrastructure usage (requests, execution time, tokens, etc.) into clear cost drivers

- Partner with EPD to drive cost-efficient architecture and scaling decisions

### Cost Visibility & Accountability

- Build self-service cost tooling for Product and Engineering (cost per request, per workload, per AI query)

- Enable teams to own and optimize their infrastructure footprint

- Standardize cost attribution across products and multi-tenant systems

### Efficiency & Margin Expansion

- Lead infrastructure and AI efficiency initiatives (compute optimization, caching, vendor strategy)

- Define north star metrics (e.g., cost per request, cost per AI call, cost per GB)

- Embed cost efficiency into roadmaps and product decisions

### Cost Allocation & Financial Rigor

- Develop scalable cost allocation frameworks across products, customers, and workloads

- Improve gross margin visibility, including AI product margins

- Support auditability and IPO readiness

### Cross-Cutting Workstreams

### Unit Economics

- Define product-level unit economics across Vercel’s product suite

- Connect usage (requests, compute, tokens, etc.) to revenue and COGS

### COGS / Gross Margin Forecasting

- Build driver-based models linking usage, revenue, and infrastructure costs

- Forecast COGS across core platform and AI products for both PLG & SLG segments

- Model margin impact of scale and efficiency improvements

### Pricing & Packaging

- Partner on usage-based and AI pricing models

- Evaluate tradeoffs between growth, adoption, and margin

- Ensure pricing is reflected in forecasts and unit economics

## Requirements

- 5-8+ years in Strategic Finance, FP&A, IB, or Consulting

- Experience with consumption-based or cloud infrastructure businesses

- Strong modeling skills; experience with driver-based forecasting

- Ability to partner with technical teams and translate usage → financial insight

- SQL / data tooling experience strongly preferred

## Compensation & Benefits:

- 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 $180,000-$220,000. 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.

## Skills

### Required
- Strategic Finance
- FP&A
- IB
- Consulting
- driver-based forecasting
- SQL
- data tooling

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