finance
Posted 2 hours agoStrategic Finance Manager, EPD
at Vercel
Hybrid
Responsibilities
- Own financial visibility into compute, bandwidth, storage, and AI-related costs (e.g., inference, GPU/accelerated workloads)
- 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
- 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)
- Develop scalable cost allocation frameworks across products, customers, and workloads
- Support auditability and IPO readiness Cross-Cutting Workstreams Unit Economics
- Define product-level unit economics across Vercel’s product suite
- Build driver-based models linking usage, revenue, and infrastructure costs
- Model margin impact of scale and efficiency improvements Pricing & Packaging
- Evaluate tradeoffs between growth, adoption, and margin
- Ensure pricing is reflected in forecasts and unit economics About You:
Requirements
- As the team behind Next.js, v0, and AI SDK, we create products that help builders move from idea to production with speed, security, and exceptional developer experience.
- This role spans cloud infrastucture & 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.
- What You Will Do: Infrastructure & AI COGS Ownership
- Improve gross margin visibility, including AI product margins
- Forecast COGS across core platform and AI products for both PLG & SLG segments
- Partner on usage-based and AI pricing models
- Experience with consumption-based or cloud infrastructure businesses
- experience with driver-based forecasting
- SQL / data tooling experience strongly preferred Benefits: