Group Product Manager, Video Platform

Verkada Inc.; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 235,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare premium coverage for you (P

401(k) match

HSA & FSA options

Mental health support

Parental leave

Paid holidays & flexible PTO

Daily lunches

Job summary

Verkada is hiring a Group Product Manager for the Video Platform to own live streaming, historical playback, cloud backup and clip export, transcoding, and encrypted storage. You’ll shape features across camera UI, mobile, and API, collaborating with backend, frontend, and ML teams.

Evidence-based prioritization will drive revenue and user satisfaction. You’ll lead product direction with customers and engineers, ensuring reliable video experiences and scalable performance.

Qualifications

• 8+ years as a product manager at Lead/Group level; owned a video area
• 3+ years at a video-focused company (streaming, playback, recording, or video infra)
• At least one shipped product watched live, playback, recorded or exported by external users
• Experience with HLS, WebRTC, RTSP, H.264/HEVC, transcoding, cloud recording, encryption
• Clear communication with engineers and customers
• Undergraduate degree in CS/EE or similar quantitative field
• Willing and able to work onsite five days per week

Responsibilities

• Own live view and historical playback across web, mobile, and API
• Own cloud backup and clip export; define retention and export reliability
• Ensure reliable streaming experiences under challenging conditions
• Manage third-party video ingestion via RTSP for playback
• Oversee transcoding decisions and costs
• Implement customer-controlled encryption for stored/exported video
• Set QoS standards and use metrics to resolve customer issues
• Collaborate with sales, support, GTM, and design for revenue-driving products

Skills

Video product ownership

Streaming tech

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Onsite work

Education

B.S. in CS/EE or similar

Tools

HLS/WebRTC/RTSP

HEVC/H.264 transcoding

Job description

Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, privacy-sensitive AI-powered platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management.

We’ve got serious momentum in the market: more than 30,000 customers (including 100+ of the Fortune 500), a $5.8B valuation , more than $1 billion in annualized bookings, and backing from CapitalG, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Felicis Ventures, Next47 and more. Physical AI is one of the most consequential technology shifts of our time, and Verkada is at the center of it.

You can look at all kinds of communities to see our platform’s impact in the world. It's the retailer that uses our agentic AI to deter theft before it happens. The warehouse that uses AI-powered alerts to make sure its team is protected on the floor with proper PPE. The school that’s alerted to a threat in real-time and triggers a lockdown in seconds, not minutes. We’re rapidly scaling this impact: today, more than 2 million Verkada devices are deployed across 170+ countries.

About the Role

We are hiring a Group Product Manager for the Video Platform. You will own live streaming, historical playback, cloud backup and clip export, transcoding, third‑party video ingest, and encryption of stored and exported video. Your work shows up every time someone opens a camera in Command, on a phone, through an API, or on a wall display.

You will work with backend, frontend, and mobile engineers, across every service our software touches. You will talk to customers to deliver revenue driving features and resolve video issues when playback, backup, or video quality breaks. You have shipped video products before, and know how to work with your customers and users to build a delightful playback experience.

We are committed to a thriving in-office culture. This role requires you to work onsite at our HQ in San Mateo, CA.

What You’ll Do

• Own live view and historical playback. That includes the player, the timeline, scrubbing, time to first picture, stalls, and audio that stays with the video. Web, mobile, and API all count
• Own cloud backup and clip export. Video is recorded on the camera and copied to the cloud. You decide retention, what the backup product includes, and how reliably a clip gets out when someone asks for it
• Own reliable, quality streaming experiences, even under difficult environmental conditions. Many viewers on one camera, sites on LTE or a thin uplink, and cameras that keep recording when the cloud path is down
• Own third‑party video ingested via RTSP for playback in various formats and clients
• Own transcoding. A lot of recorded video is HEVC. Some clients can only play H.264. You will work with engineering on when to transcode, what it costs, and how often it fails
• Own customer‑controlled encryption for stored and exported video, where the customer holds the keys
• Set engineering quality standards for playback, framing, and cloud backups. Proactively identify and resolve customer issues using core performance metrics for Quality of Service
• Work with sales, support, go‑to‑market, and design to deliver revenue‑driving video products

What You Bring

• 8+ years as a product manager, currently at Lead or Group‑level scope. You have owned a video area, not a single feature
• At least 3 years at a company whose product is video. Streaming, playback, recording, a VMS, real‑time video, or video infrastructure all count
• More than one shipped product that an outside user watched live, played back, recorded, or exported
• Able to work with engineers on HLS, WebRTC, and RTSP, on H.264 and HEVC, on transcoding, on cloud recording, and on encryption
• Clear in writing and in the room, with engineers and with customers
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or similar quantitative field
• Must be willing and able to work onsite five days per week

US Employee Benefits

Verkada is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritizes the holistic health and wellbeing of our employees and their families by offering comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:

• Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well‑being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans
• Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
• Starting January 2027, Verkada will match a portion of an employee’s 401(k) contributions based on eligible earnings. Match vests on 2 year anniversary
• Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
• Expanded mental health support
• Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
• Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firm‑wide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
• Wellness/fitness benefits
• Healthy lunches provided daily

Additional Information

• We do sponsor and take over sponsorship of employment visas for this role. If we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa.

Annual Pay Range

At Verkada, we want to attract and retain the best employees, and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contribution to the company. With that in mind, we carefully consider a number of factors to determine the appropriate starting pay for an employee, including their primary work location and an assessment of a candidate's skills and experience, as well as market demands and internal parity. A Verkada employee may be eligible for additional forms of compensation, depending on their role, including sales incentives, discretionary bonuses, and/or equity in the company in the form of restricted stock units (RSUs)

Below is the annual on‑target earnings (OTE) range for full‑time employees for this position, comprised of base compensation and commissions (if applicable).

$235,000 - $275,000 USD

As an equal opportunity employer, Verkada is committed to providing employment opportunities to all individuals. All applicants for positions at Verkada will be treated without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

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