Senior Technical Engagement Manager

As a Technical Engagement Manager at Vercel you will play a pivotal role in driving customer outcomes by providing technical and operational leadership on post-sales delivery of Professional Services within customer engagements. You will collaborate closely with the account team to ensure the delivery of outcomes that align with customer business and technical goals while assisting in identification and scoping of potential future work within accounts. This role also contributes to the growth and maturity of Vercel’s Professional Services helping build new education migration and development offerings and enhance delivery capabilities. This role is fully remote and will report to the Global Head of Professional Services. Occasional travel may be required.

If you’re based within a pre-determined commuting distance of one of our offices (SF NY London or Berlin) the role includes in-office anchor days on Monday Tuesday and Friday. If you're located beyond that distance the role is fully remote. For location-specific details please connect with our recruiting team.

• Post-Sales Technical Delivery Leadership (75%)
  • Act as the technical delivery leader for Professional Services engagements ensuring customer outcomes are achieved within scope schedule budget and resource constraints.
  • Work backwards from customer business and technical outcomes to define success criteria and delivery plans.
  • Manage cross-functional delivery teams including internal and external stakeholders to ensure seamless execution.
  • Monitor project health identify risks and implement mitigation strategies to ensure successful delivery.
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for customers fostering strong relationships and ensuring satisfaction.
• In-Account Expansion Leadership (10%)
  • Partner with the account team to identify and coordinate technical pursuits including scoping solutioning and estimating effort for migration programs as part of account expansion.
  • Develop customer-tailored project proposals and statements of work (SOWs) that align with customer needs and Vercel’s capabilities.
  • Support Vercel engineers when presenting technical solutions to customers addressing their business and technical challenges.
  • Collaborate with sales and solutions engineering teams to ensure alignment on customer requirements and proposed solutions.
• Professional Services Maturity Contributions (15%)
  • Contribute to the development of new service offerings leveraging customer insights and industry trends as directed by the Global Head of Professional Services.
  • Help mature Vercel’s Professional Services delivery capabilities by defining best practices templates and frameworks.
  • Help drive partner attachment and engagement on shared customers
  • Mentor and guide team members to enhance their delivery expertise.
  • Collaborate with internal teams to refine processes and develop tools for improved efficiency and scalability.

• You have 7+ years of experience in consulting technical delivery or customer-facing roles with a focus on platform migrations front-end web implementations AI business process transformation or similar complex technical projects.
• You possess an understanding of modern web architectures including agentic systems composable architectures and frontend frameworks.
• You have a proven track record of leading both post-sales delivery engagements as well as account expansion efforts ensuring customer success and satisfaction.
• You excel at managing cross-functional teams and stakeholders balancing competing priorities to deliver results.
• You are a strong communicator capable of translating technical concepts into business value for customers and internal teams.
• You have experience working with cloud platforms and DevOps practices.

• Experience with Vercel’s platform or similar edge computing and frontend cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with agile methodologies and project management tools like Jira or Asana.
• A background in software development or engineering enabling you to deeply understand technical challenges and solutions.
• Experience working in a fast-paced high-growth SaaS or technology company.
• Direct experience with regulated industry customers and/or Enterprise customers.

• 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 pay range for this role is $178000.00 - $260000.00 OTE. 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. 

Vercel is committed to fostering and empowering an inclusive community within our organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color gender expression or identity sexual orientation national origin citizenship age marital status veteran status disability status or any other characteristic protected by law. Vercel encourages everyone to apply for our available positions even if they don't necessarily check every box on the job description.

What We Do

From solo developers building their first app to large enterprise teams if it needs to be fast reliable and beautifully built it runs on Vercel. Our platform powers millions of deployments a day. We started with a simple belief: the web should be fast for everyone everywhere. That belief became Next.js. Then a platform. Then the infrastructure layer for the AI-native web.We are backed by the amazing team at Accel and CRV and we're headquartered in San Francisco.