Strategic Finance Manager, Product (EPD)

Job title: Strategic Finance Manager, Product (EPD)

About the Role We are hiring a Strategic Finance Manager, Product (EPD) to partner with Engineering and Product to drive unit economics and margin expansion across Vercel’s consumption-based platform. This role spans cloud infrastructure and emerging AI workloads, and you will define how we measure and optimize cost and profitability of every request, workload, and AI interaction on the platform.

What You'll Do

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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: Connect usage (requests, compute, tokens, etc.) to revenue and COGS to inform unit economics.
• Build driver-based COGS/Gross Margin forecasting models linking usage, revenue, and infrastructure costs.
• Forecast COGS across core platform and AI products for both PLG and SLG.
• Model margin impact of scale and efficiency improvements.
• Partner on usage-based and AI pricing models; Evaluate tradeoffs between growth, adoption, and margin; Ensure pricing is reflected in forecasts and unit economics.

What We're Looking For

• 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 into financial insight.
• SQL / data tooling experience strongly preferred.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary range: USD 180,000 - 220,000 per year (San Francisco).
• Competitive compensation package, including equity.
• Inclusive Healthcare Package.
• Learn and Grow – mentorship and events to build your network and skills.
• Flexible Time Off.
• Gear and a WFH budget to outfit your space as needed.