Principal Technical Product Manager, Networking

The role

You will define and drive the product strategy, roadmap, and execution for Vultr's networking portfolio. This includes VPCs, routing, private connectivity, transit, DDoS mitigation, peering, and GPU cluster networking.

What you will do

• Own and drive the product strategy and roadmap across Vultr's networking portfolio.
• Partner with engineering leadership to align customer needs and product priorities with technical architecture.
• Translate complex infrastructure capabilities and architecture decisions into clear product requirements, user stories, and execution plans.
• Define requirements for new networking capabilities.
• Lead complex cross-functional initiatives spanning multiple engineering and business teams.
• Identify opportunities to differentiate Vultr's networking platform.
• Maintain a strong understanding of the competitive cloud networking landscape.
• Drive go-to-market readiness in partnership with marketing, documentation, support, and sales.
• Communicate product strategy, roadmap, technical tradeoffs, and priorities to technical stakeholders and senior leadership.

Required qualifications

• Significant product management experience with cloud infrastructure, networking, distributed systems, or similarly complex technical products.
• Experience operating as a senior or Principal-level individual contributor with influence across multiple engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of data center and cloud networking concepts, including EVPN-VXLAN, VRFs, routing, NAT, load balancing, firewalling, private connectivity, and network security.
• Experience with cloud networking technologies such as VPCs, transit networking, peering, gateways, DDoS mitigation, multi-region networking, or software-defined networking.
• Proven ability to turn complex technical problems into clear product strategies, roadmaps, and requirements.
• Strong product judgment and experience prioritizing across customer needs, technical investments, and long-term strategy.
• Proven ability to influence senior technical and business stakeholders without direct authority.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and building structure where mature processes do not yet exist.

Nice to have

• Experience with high-performance networking, GPU/AI infrastructure, RDMA, RoCE, or cluster networking

Benefits

• 100% company-paid insurance premiums for employee medical, dental and vision plans
• 401(k) plan that matches 100% up to 4%, with immediate vesting
• Professional Development Reimbursement of $2,500 each year
• 11 Holidays + Paid Time Off Accrual + Rollover Plan
• Increased PTO at 3 year and 10 year anniversary
• 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years
• Anniversary Bonus each year
• $500 stipend for remote office setup in first year
• $400 each following year for remote office setup
• Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month
• Gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month
• Company paid Wellable subscription

About the company

Vultr is a cloud infrastructure company with 33 global cloud data center locations. It provides Cloud Compute, Cloud GPU, Bare Metal, and Cloud Storage solutions.