Product Manager, Software Factory

WebHosting; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 208,000 - 312,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Annual bonus

Job summary

Vercel in San Francisco, CA is seeking a Product Manager to own Software Factory, an AI-assisted development loop that triages issues, plans, writes code, and checks results. You will define how agents fix bugs, implement features, and improve code quality while aligning with security and testing goals.

If you’re within commuting distance of SF, NY, London, or Berlin offices, expect in-office anchor days; otherwise, the role is fully remote.

Responsibilities

• Own the product vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for Software Factory.
• Define the workflow model – how work moves through classification, analysis, implementation, and review, and where the handoff back to a person belongs
• Own the trust and quality bar: evals, verification, retry behavior, and what the factory is permitted to touch without human approval
• Define how factories integrate with where engineering work already lives, including GitHub and Linear, and with agent harnesses such as Codex and Claude Code. And define new dedicated surfaces for how to interact with factory agents.
• Shape the memory and context model that lets a factory accumulate real knowledge of a repository over time
• Work directly with design partners and Enterprise customers adopting factories against their own codebases

Job description

Hybrid Full-time Not specified Product

Job Description

About Vercel:

Vercel is the agentic infrastructure company, freeing people and agents to ship what’s next. For more than a decade we’ve helped builders move from idea to production with speed, security, and exceptional developer experience.

Now we’re scaling our products for both agents and people to ship and run software, built in the open and trusted by OpenAI, PayPal, Ramp, Supreme, and millions of developers worldwide.

About the Role:

We are looking for a Product Manager to join our Product team. You will own Software Factory, a new product area that puts AI agents on every stage of the development loop – triaging an issue, planning it, writing the code, and checking the result – while keeping people on the judgment calls. Human time and human attention has become the bottleneck, and the opportunity is to move towards automation of continuous software maintenance and improvement. You will define how agents help fix bugs, implement features, improve performance, mitigate security issues, improve code quality, and increase test coverage. You will report to the Product Lead and will be located in San Francisco, CA (hybrid).

If you’re based within a pre-determined commuting distance of one of our offices (SF, NY, London, or Berlin), the role includes in-office anchor days on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday. If you’re located beyond that distance, the role is fully remote.

What You Will Do:

• Own the product vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for Software Factory.
• Define the workflow model – how work moves through classification, analysis, implementation, and review, and where the handoff back to a person belongs
• Own the trust and quality bar: evals, verification, retry behavior, and what the factory is permitted to touch without human approval
• Define how factories integrate with where engineering work already lives, including GitHub and Linear, and with agent harnesses such as Codex and Claude Code. And define new dedicated surfaces for how to interact with factory agents.
• Shape the memory and context model that lets a factory accumulate real knowledge of a repository over time
• Work directly with design partners and Enterprise customers adopting factories against their own codebases

Bonus If You:

The San Francisco, CA base pay range for this role is $208,000 – $312,000. Actual salary will be based on job-related skills, experience, and location. Compensation outside of San Francisco may be adjusted based on employee location. The total compensation package may include benefits, equity-based compensation, and eligibility for a company bonus or variable pay program depending on the role.

• Equal Opportunity:Vercel is committed to fostering and empowering an inclusive community within our organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Vercel encourages everyone to apply for our available positions, even if they don’t necessarily check every box on the job description.