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VercelVercelSan Francisco, CA

Strategic Finance Manager, EPD

Partner with Engineering and Product to own infrastructure and AI COGS, build cost visibility tooling, drive efficiency initiatives, and develop unit economics and margin forecasts for a consumption-based platform.

180k – 220k/yr
Hybrid5+ YOEFinance & Accounting

About the role

Infrastructure & AI COGS Ownership

  • 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

Cost Visibility & Accountability

  • 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

Efficiency & Margin Expansion

  • 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

Cost Allocation & Financial Rigor

  • Develop scalable cost allocation frameworks across products, customers, and workloads
  • Improve gross margin visibility, including AI product margins
  • Support auditability and IPO readiness

Unit Economics

  • Define product-level unit economics across Vercel’s product suite
  • Connect usage (requests, compute, tokens, etc) to revenue and COGS

COGS / Gross Margin Forecasting

  • Build driver-based models linking usage, revenue, and infrastructure costs
  • Forecast COGS across core platform and AI products for both PLG & SLG segments
  • Model margin impact of scale and efficiency improvements

Pricing & Packaging

  • Partner on usage-based and AI pricing models
  • Evaluate tradeoffs between growth, adoption, and margin
  • Ensure pricing is reflected in forecasts and unit economics

Requirements

  • 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 → financial insight
  • SQL / data tooling experience strongly preferred

Skills

Financial ModelingDriver-Based ForecastingSQLCost AllocationUnit EconomicsGross Margin AnalysisCloud InfrastructureAi Cost OptimizationConsumption-Based PricingData Tooling
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