VP, Platform Product

Posting Open Date:September 17 2025

Anticipated Posting Close Date*: October 17 2025

*Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.

Vice President Platform Product

Fastly seeks a Vice President of Platform Product to join our team.

The Fastly Platform is at the heart of our strategy to enable customers to deliver experiences that are safe fast and engaging. Customers are looking for solutions and our platform is what ties together our offerings and drives a customer experience that differentiates Fastly in the marketplace. While the most significant impact of our platform is with our customers and their ability to easily and quickly consume more Fastly services the platform is also key to our own feature velocity and ability to easily and rapidly scale our offers as well as the breadth of our portfolio. Its the foundation of our company.

This role supervises a team of product professionals but more importantly plays a critical cross-functional leadership role across the company in establishing the vision strategy and driving execution of product development initiatives supporting the growth of the business and the execution of our strategy.

Leadership at Fastly is a combination of servant and transformative. Reporting to the Chief Product Officer (CPO) youll ensure everyone in your organization has the skills direction and information needed to successfully lead cross-functional teams delivering business outcomes through product development activities.

What Youll Do:

• Team Development: The platform product management team is critical for defining and guiding the execution of Fastlys core platform and platform strategy powering all of Fastlys businesses. This requires a strong team that not only understands and adapts to the quickly evolving edge cloud landscape but also excels at cross-functional leadership to orchestrate all of Fastlys capabilities to drive outcomes for our customers and Fastly. As the leader of this team one of your most important responsibilities will be building and developing this team.
• Platform Vision: you will work with the CPO CEO CTO and other senior leaders to define and articulate a compelling yet achievable vision for the Fastly Platform to capture the attention of the market and align stakeholders toward a common direction.
• Platform Strategy: You will work with the CPO CEO CTO and other senior leaders to define and articulate a clear strategy for using the Fastly Platform to differentiate Fastly from competitors and build sustainable competitive advantages. You and your team will develop and maintain clear roadmaps that make our strategy actionable.
• Lead Cross-Functional Execution: you and your team will lead execution cross-functionally to implement the strategy and deliver the roadmap. This will include setting priorities partnering with key stakeholders including Engineering Revenue (Sales and Customer Service) Marketing and others so everything comes together into an impactful product line in the marketplace.
• GTM Engagement: developing and launching products is just the beginning of the race. You and your team will work with Fastlys go-to-market teams to ensure market success supporting strategic customer deals.
• Strategic Customer Engagement: Building and maintaining relationships with strategic customers to ensure account success and incorporation of customer insights into platform strategies and plans.
• Learning/Continuous Improvement: a successful product can always be more. You and your team will work with Fastlys go-to-market teams partners and customers to understand deeply what is working and what is not and strive to continuously improve our strategy and execution. You will foster a balanced culture where mistakes are seen as opportunities to learn but there are appropriate levels of accountability to drive improvement and results.

What Were Looking For:

• Significant executive-level experience leading product management teams in the cloud (IaaS / PaaS) space.
• Experience working cross-functionally in a matrix environment; strong influence skills and ability to get things done with teams that report to you as well as teams across the company; Experience partnering and leading cross-functionally.
• Strong communication and executive presentation skills; experience working with senior management both at your own company and customers/partners.
• Exceptional business strategy skills ability to formulate robust specific strategies and communicate them in a clear and concise manner.
• Strong business operational and financial skills; ability to contribute significantly to senior-level GTM operational reviews as well as R&D portfolio management.
• Strong technical depth in cloud and platforms
• High emotional intelligence. Fastly teams care about one another collaborate regularly and are part of a people first organization.
• Bachelors degree preferred

Work Hours:

• This position will require you to be available during core business hours.

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements:

This position is open to the following preferred office locations:

• San Francisco California

Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home.

SF / LA Fair Chance Ordinance Statement

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Salary:

The estimated salary range for this position is $287570.00 to $359465.00

Starting salary may vary based on permissible non-discriminatory factors such as experience skills qualifications and location.

This role may be eligible to participate in Fastlys equity and discretionary bonus programs.

Benefits:

We care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits that start on the first day of your employment with Fastly. Curious about our offerings

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical dental and vision insurance. Family planning mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program Insurance (Life Disability and Accident) a Flexible Vacation policy and up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave are there to help support our employees. We also offer 401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program. For 2025 we offer 11 paid local holidays 11 paid company wellness days.