Staff Product Manager, Metacognition

Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. Fastly's edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by processing, serving, and securing our customers' applications as close to their end-users as possible - at the edge of the Internet. The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet, to be programmable, and to support agile software development. Fastly's customers include many of the world's most prominent companies, including GitHub, Yelp, Paramount, and JetBlue.

We're building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us.

Posting Open Date: 4/6/2026

Anticipated Posting Close Date*: 6/15/2026

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

Staff Product Manager, Metacognition

Fastly is looking for a Staff Product Manager to help define and lead our next-generation platform intelligence experience as part of the Metacognition Team. This team is responsible for how customers understand, trust, and act on everything happening across the Fastly platform, from performance and reliability to security and cost.

Our mission is to provide the reporting, analysis, visualizations, intelligence, and underlying data pipelines that help customers navigate constant uncertainty and continuously adapt. You'll play a central role in shaping how signals across the platform become clear, actionable insights, from developer workflows all the way to executive-level narratives.

This role sits at the intersection of observability, security intelligence, reporting, and platform UX, and is critical to Fastly's broader platform and growth strategy.

What You'll Do:

• Own and drive the vision and roadmap for Fastly's intelligence layer, spanning observability, reporting, security insights, and executive-level summaries
• Define what signals matter across the platform-performance, reliability, security, and usage-and ensure they are accessible, trustworthy, and actionable
• Translate complex system behavior (logs, metrics, events, threats) into intuitive visualizations and narratives for both technical users and business stakeholders
• Partner with engineering to evolve data pipelines, ingestion, and analysis systems that power real-time and historical insights at scale
• Collaborate with design to create cohesive, unified experiences across dashboards, alerts, and reporting surfaces
• Work cross-functionally with security, platform, and go-to-market teams to ensure insights reflect real customer value and drive adoption
• Define and track success metrics that demonstrate both customer value (time-to-insight, actionability) and business impact (adoption, expansion, retention)
• Help tell the story of Fastly's value-internally and externally-by enabling customers (and our teams) to clearly see the impact of the platform

What We're Looking For:

• 7+ years of product management experience, ideally in developer tools, observability, security, or platform infrastructure
• Strong understanding of logs, metrics, and event-driven systems-and how they translate into real-world debugging, optimization, and decision-making
• Experience turning complex data into intuitive user experiences, dashboards, or reporting tools
• Demonstrated ability to operate across multiple domains (e.g., observability + security + UX) and bring them into a cohesive product vision
• Strong customer empathy, with the ability to translate raw signals into meaningful insights and actionable outcomes
• Experience working cross-functionally with engineering, design, marketing, and sales to deliver impactful products
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to connect technical details to executive-level value

We'll be super impressed if you have experience in any of these:

• Observability tools like Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry
• Security analytics, threat intelligence, or attack visibility systems
• Building unified dashboards or reporting systems that serve both technical and business audiences
• Edge computing, CDN infrastructure, or distributed systems
• Data analysis and experimentation (SQL, Amplitude, Mixpanel, etc.)
• Designing insight-driven product experiences in SaaS platforms

Work Hours:

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

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements:

For role with a flexible work location (office/hybrid or remote)

The preferred locations for this position are:

• San Francisco, CA
• New York, NY
• Denver, CO

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


There is a strong preference for Hybrid near a local office. However, we may be willing to consider remote candidates within the US.

This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager.

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 $211,370.00 to $253,644.00.

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 Fastly's 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 2026, we offer 11 paid local holidays, 11 paid company wellness days.


Why Fastly?

• We have a huge impact. Fastly is a small company with a big reach. Not only do our customers have a tremendous user base, but we also support a growing number of open source projects and initiatives. Outside of code, employees are encouraged to share causes close to their heart with others so we can help lend a supportive hand.
• We value diversity. Growing and maintaining our inclusive and diverse team matters to us. We are committed to being a company where our employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work and have the ability to be successful -- every day.
• We are passionate. Fastly is chock full of passionate people and we're not 'one size fits all'. Fastly employs authors, pilots, skiers, parents (of humans and animals), makeup geeks, coffee connoisseurs, and more. We love employees for who they are and what they are passionate about.

We're always looking for humble, sharp, and creative folks to join the Fastly team. If you think you might be a fit please apply! A fully completed application and resume or CV are required when applying.

All job applications must be submitted through our official careers site at We will never request sensitive information, such as your Social Security number, bank account or credit card information during the application process. All official communication will come from an @fastly.com or @recruiting.fastly.com email address.


Fastly is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity and to providing employees with a safe and welcoming work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Our employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, family or parental status, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

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