VP, Product Management

You MUST CURRENTLY reside within a commutable distance to San Francisco to be considered for this position. This is ABSOLUTELY a hybrid role.

Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. Fastly’s edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by processing, serving, and securing our customers’ applications as close to their end-users as possible — at the edge of the Internet. The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet, to be programmable, and to support agile software development. Fastly’s customers include many of the world’s most prominent companies, including Vimeo, Pinterest, The New York Times, and GitHub.

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Fastly has been on a 12 year mission to bring edge computing to the forefront. We believe the time is now. Edge computing will democratize the ability to build scalable websites. We believe that moving computation to the edge will create a faster, safer and more secure internet. This is an excellent opportunity to bring your deep understanding of platform engineering and your product management expertise to good use to drive the future of the web.

At Fastly, we’re passionate about user experience and we believe that “users” includes engineers so performance is just one piece of the puzzle. Edge computing is the future of web apps. If you’re excited to help build the future of the internet, this may be your dream job. 

Responsibilities

• Lead world-class product managers and work closely with other partner stakeholders (marketing, merchandising, legal, finance) - providing guidance and direction to achieve the product vision for product launches
• Led development of the product roadmap for the portfolio 
• Work with customers, sales teams, and services teams to identify product use cases and drive key features, enhancements, and requirements
• Make feature, schedule, and cost trade-offs during product planning, feature implementation, and live operation and communicate in real-time to key stakeholders.
• Define metrics to ensure product success and drive corresponding requirements to deliver on monitoring and actionability of these metrics
• Partner tightly with the engineering teams to ensure alignment between customer requirements and technology decisions.
• This role will work closely with the cross-functional business leads and Product team members to ensure that our web, mobile, and OTT products are exceeding overall performance plans
• Maintain the data strategy roadmap as it pertains to audience modeling, measurement, and insights
• You will own the Data Platform and Audience roadmap and drive this together with the data engineering team that establishes and executes the data identity across advertising products, including new features, product commercialization, competitive analysis, and strategic planning
• You will have an impact on the overall company strategy through regular communication and Product leadership
• Responsible for aligning Roadmap and Data products with evolving advertising ecosystem changes in data usage & privacy compliance (cookie/ID deprecation, CCPA, GDPR, etc.)
• Evaluate existing data and analytic platform capabilities and how to manage future data, identity, and analytics platform solutions

Keys to Success

• 10+ years experience managing teams of product managers.
• 10+ years of relevant product management and leadership experience. 
• Experience as a Product Manager for a cloud-based/SaaS product
• Advanced knowledge of business processes and data analysis, as well as the ability to construct complex data queries and collaborate with colleagues;
• Understanding of business needs, including how data is used and managed, and functional design;
• Analyze existing capabilities and identify priority gaps and opportunities;
• Experience in project management, including scheduling, budgeting and resource planning;
• Degree in Computer Science a plus, strong technical acumen required
• Self-starter with high levels of initiative, commitment and energy who can galvanize the team to follow.
• Strong communication skills, verbal and written

Why Fastly?

• We have a huge impact. Fastly is a small company with a big reach. Our customers have a tremendous user base, and we support a growing number of open source projects and initiatives. Outside of code, employees are encouraged to share causes close to their hearts with others so we can help lend a supportive hand.
• We love distributed teams. Fastly’s home base is in San Francisco, but we have multiple offices and employees sprinkled around the globe. In fact, 50% of our employees work outside of SF! An international remote culture is part of our DNA.
• We care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits, like generous parental leave, options for free medical/dental/vision plans, and an open vacation program that enables our folks to take the time they need to recharge (some benefits may vary by location).
• We value diversity. Growing and maintaining our inclusive and diverse team matters to us. We are committed to being a company where our employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work and have the ability to be successful — every day.
• We are passionate. Fastly is chock full of passionate people and we’re not “one size fits all”. Fastly employs authors, pilots, skiers, parents (of humans and animals), makeup geeks, coffee connoisseurs, and more. We love employees for who they are and what they’re passionate about.
  

Work Hours: This position will require you to be available during core business hours. 

This position is open to the following preferred office locations:

• San Francisco

Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home. 

Salary: 

The estimated salary range for this position is $287,570 to $375,000.

Starting salary may vary based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, and location.

This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity and discretionary bonus programs.

Benefits:

We care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits that start on the first day of your employment with Fastly. Curious about our offerings? 

• We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance. Family planning, mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program, Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident), an open vacation policy and up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave are there to help support our employees. We also offer 401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program. For 2023, we offer 10 paid local holidays, 11 paid company wellness days.