Principal Technical Product Manager Networking
Vultr is an active independent cloud-infrastructure company providing global compute, GPU, bare-metal, storage, Kubernetes, and serverless AI inference services.
About Vultr
Vultr provides globally available cloud infrastructure for developers, enterprises, and AI innovators, including Cloud Compute, Cloud GPU, Bare Metal, Cloud Storage, managed Kubernetes, and serverless inference.
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About the Role
You will own networking product strategy and roadmaps, turn infrastructure capabilities into requirements and execution plans, and define new networking features. You will lead cross-functional initiatives, evaluate market opportunities, drive go-to-market readiness, and communicate product priorities and technical tradeoffs to stakeholders.
Requirements
- Product management experience with cloud infrastructure, networking, distributed systems, or complex technical products
- Senior or principal-level individual-contributor experience across multiple engineering teams
- Data center and cloud networking knowledge
- EVPN-VXLAN, VRF, routing, NAT, load balancing, firewalling, private connectivity, and network security knowledge
- VPC, transit networking, peering, gateway, DDoS mitigation, multi-region networking, or software-defined networking experience
- Product strategy, roadmap, requirements, and prioritization experience
- Senior technical and business stakeholder influence experience
Responsibilities
- Own product strategy and roadmap for the networking portfolio
- Align customer needs and product priorities with technical architecture and platform goals
- Translate infrastructure capabilities and architecture decisions into product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and execution plans
- Define requirements for networking capabilities and services
- Lead cross-functional initiatives and drive alignment, prioritization, and decision-making
- Identify platform differentiation opportunities
- Use competitive market insights to influence roadmap and investment priorities
- Drive go-to-market readiness with marketing, documentation, support, and sales
- Communicate product strategy, roadmap, tradeoffs, and priorities to stakeholders
Benefits
- Company-paid employee medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums
- 401(k) plan with 100% match up to 4% and immediate vesting
- Professional development reimbursement of $2,500 each year
- 11 holidays
- Paid time off accrual and rollover plan
- Increased PTO at 3-year and 10-year anniversaries
- One month paid sabbatical every 5 years
- Anniversary bonus each year
- $500 remote office setup stipend in the first year
- $400 annual remote office setup stipend in following years
- Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month
- Gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month
- Company-paid Wellable subscription