Principal Technical Product Manager, Networking

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## Who We Are Vultr is on a mission to make high-performance cloud infrastructure easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible for enterprises and AI innovators around the world. With 33 global cloud data center locations, Vultr is trusted by hundreds of thousands of active customers across 185 countries for its flexible, scalable, global Cloud Compute, Cloud GPU, Bare Metal, and Cloud Storage solutions. In December 2024 Vultr announced an equity financing at a $3.5 billion valuation. Founded by David Aninowsky and self-funded for over a decade, Vultr has grown to become the world’s largest privately-held cloud infrastructure company. **Vultr Cares** 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 Commitment matters to Vultr! 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 Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month Gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month Company paid Wellable subscription **Join Vultr** Vultr is seeking a Principal Technical Product Manager, Networking to define and drive the product strategy, roadmap, and execution for Vultr’s networking portfolio, including VPCs, routing, private connectivity, transit, DDoS mitigation, peering, and GPU cluster networking. As a Principal-level individual contributor and the first dedicated TPM on the Networking team, you will partner closely with engineering leadership to shape long-term product direction, translate complex infrastructure capabilities into differentiated customer-facing products, and drive alignment across engineering, product, and go-to-market teams. The ideal candidate is a technically grounded product leader who can engage deeply with networking architecture, make strong strategic and prioritization decisions, and bring clarity to complex initiatives spanning multiple teams. This is a highly visible role with the opportunity to help define both Vultr’s networking roadmap and the product management playbook for the organization. **Key Responsibilities** - Own and drive the product strategy and roadmap across Vultr’s networking portfolio, including VPC, routing, NAT/IGW, firewall/security groups, private connectivity, transit, DDoS, peering, and GPU/cluster networking. - Partner with engineering leadership to align customer needs and product priorities with technical architecture, engineering capacity, scalability, and long-term platform goals. - Translate complex infrastructure capabilities and architecture decisions into clear product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and execution plans. - Define requirements for new networking capabilities, including VPC features, routing and gateway functionality, cross-region connectivity, and RDMA/RoCE fabric services. - Lead complex cross-functional initiatives spanning multiple engineering and business teams, driving alignment, prioritization, and decision-making. - Identify opportunities to differentiate Vultr’s networking platform across cloud, enterprise, and AI/GPU infrastructure use cases. - Maintain a strong understanding of the competitive cloud networking landscape and use market insights to influence roadmap and investment priorities. - Drive go-to-market readiness in partnership with marketing, documentation, support, and sales. - Communicate product strategy, roadmap, technical tradeoffs, and priorities to both technical stakeholders and senior leadership. **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. - Experience with high-performance networking, GPU/AI infrastructure, RDMA, RoCE, or cluster networking is strongly preferred. - 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. **Compensation** $145,000 - $195,000 *Final compensation will vary depending on years of experience, background/skill set, location, and applicable laws.* ## **Inclusion & Privacy** We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and experiences, and we prohibit discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status under applicable laws. Vultr will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with applicable laws and will not conduct a background check until after an offer of employment has been extended and accepted. We also take your privacy seriously. We handle personal information responsibly and follow applicable laws, including U.S. privacy rules and India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023. Your data is used only for legitimate business purposes and is protected with proper security measures. Where allowed by law, applicants may request details about the data we collect, access or delete their information, withdraw consent for its use, and opt out of nonessential communications. 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