Product Manager, Observability
Core
Own strategy and roadmap for Vercel's observability products, including Runtime Logs, OpenTelemetry tracing, and Drains, enabling teams to stream logs, traces, and metrics into existing systems.
Role type
Senior Product Manager (Observability/Developer Tools)
Builds
Telemetry ingestion pipelines, native debugging surfaces, and integrations with vendors like Datadog, Sentry, Grafana, Honeycomb, and New Relic.
Domain
Developer Infrastructure / Observability / Cloud Platform
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Strategy & roadmap ownership, technical fluency in telemetry (traces, cardinality, sampling), data analysis (SQL/queries), pricing & packaging, enterprise customer engagement, cross-functional partnership (engineering/design/finance)
Preferred skills
Experience at observability/APM/monitoring companies, shipping AI/agent-facing developer tooling, owning consumption-based pricing, active Next.js/Vercel user
Technologies
OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Sentry, Grafana, Honeycomb, New Relic, Runtime Logs, Drains
Responsibilities
Define native-vs-integrate boundaries for observability tools, translate ambiguous signals into sequenced plans, partner with engineering on scoping and design on data legibility, work with Enterprise customers and Sales on adoption blockers, own pricing and packaging decisions with Finance, define success metrics and hold team accountable
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
