Product Manager, Serverless & Containers

Verda; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 94,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Lunch

Wellbeing

Job summary

Verda in Helsinki is seeking a Product Manager to own the containers and serverless offering, including FaaS and Managed Kubernetes, aimed at developer teams. You will balance customer needs with internal requirements and business goals while shaping product strategy and success metrics.

The role emphasizes a strong developer experience, cloud-native architecture, and cross-functional collaboration with Engineering and Leadership to drive adoption and margins in a fast-moving European cloud

Qualifications

• 3–5 years in product management for a technical or developer-facing product.
• Solid grasp of containers and serverless domain.
• Familiarity with AI/ML workloads and GPU-backed compute.
• Strong developer experience sensibility for APIs/platforms.
• Experience building and running cloud products.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.
• Comfortable in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
• Self-sufficient, proactive and ownership-driven.
• Experience collaborating across Product, Engineering and Leadership.

Responsibilities

• Formulate, own and evolve product strategy and roadmap for containers and serverless.
• Champion a developer-first experience: deploy in minutes, scale to zero, fast cold starts, on-demand GPUs, and pay-per-use pricing.
• Identify and act on product opportunities and influence industry direction.
• Define and own success metrics — adoption, usage, retention and margin.

Skills

PM experience 3-5y

Containers & serverless

AI/ML workloads

Developer experience focus

Cloud product experience

Communication & stakeholder mgmt

Adaptability in ambiguity

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

SQL

Analytics tools

Dashboarding

Job description

Imagine a future where everyone has instant, low-cost access to intelligence. We're building a fully featured European AI cloud — with everything one needs to train, experiment with, and deploy AI models. In addition, our GPUs run on 100% renewable energy.

We’re ambitious, curious, and pragmatic builders. We operate with low hierarchy, high ownership, and a strong bias for action. We’ve already achieved a lot, but we’re just getting started.

Now it’s your chance to join the ride. Join Verda while it’s still being built — not once it’s finished!

What you'll do:

You’ll own Verda's containers and serverless offering — from managed container workloads through to our new Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) products, as well as our Managed Kubernetes offering. Our goal is to make development and deploying seamless for developers and teams without incurring them the overhead of service management.

• Formulate, own and evolve product strategy and roadmap for containers and serverless, balancing out customer needs, internal requirements and business goals.
• Champion a developer-first experience: deploy in minutes, scale to zero, fast cold starts, on-demand GPUs, and pay-per-use pricing.
• Identify and act on product opportunities, be aware of where the industry is going and be part in forming that, not just reacting.
• Define and own success metrics — adoption, usage, retention, and margin

What we're looking for:

• 3–5 years in product management / product ownership for a technical or developer-facing product, ideally in cloud, infrastructure, or platform.
• Solid grasp of containers and serverless as a domain — containerization, orchestration (CaaS, PaaS, Kubernetes as a Service), and the FaaS / event-driven model. You don't have to write code, but you should speak the language fluently.
• Familiarity with AI/ML workloads and GPU-backed compute — what teams need to train, fine-tune, and serve models.
• A strong sense of developer experience — you understand what makes an API or platform a pleasure (or a pain) to build on.
• Experience with building, launching and running cloud products and shaping them through experiences gathered.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Comfortable operating in fast-moving and sometimes ambiguous environments
• Self-sufficient, proactive, and ownership-driven mindset
• Experience collaborating across Product, Engineering, and Leadership teams

Nice to have:

• A hands-on/technical background (former engineer or solutions architect), familiarity with usage-based pricing models, and an understanding of the European cloud and sovereignty landscape.
• Experience defining product metrics, and prioritization frameworks
• Ability to work with data independently, including SQL and analytics/dashboarding tools

Why Verda:

• Cash + equity compensation along with various fringe benefits (e.g., healthcare, lunch, wellbeing, etc.).
• Profitable operations with rapid, sustained growth.
• 31 nationalities, with 6 different ones on the management team.
• An opportunity to make a clear impact and work alongside world‑class engineers, researchers, and partners across the global AI ecosystem.

Position Details:

• Department: Product
• Location: Helsinki
• Work arrangement: Hybrid (3 days/week on-site)
• Employment type: Full-time, permanent

What’s next

We’re building fast and this role needs the right person behind it. There’s no artificial deadline, but when we find who we’re looking for, we move.