Staff Product Manager, Compute Platform

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $186.4k - $279.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

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✅ Product Manager

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SaaS • Cloud Computing

DigitalOcean is a cloud infrastructure provider that offers a suite of products and services for developers to build, deploy, and scale applications. Their platform provides comprehensive tutorials, reference material, and support documentation to assist users in managing resources effectively using their API and CLI tools. With features like Droplets (virtual machines), managed databases, Kubernetes, and a marketplace for third-party applications, DigitalOcean focuses on simplicity and performance. They cater to both individual developers and larger organizations looking for cloud solutions that are easy to implement and manage.

📋 Description

• Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for App Platform, Serverless Functions, and DigitalOcean Container Registry • Own platform economics, including workload placement, cost to serve, utilization, density, bin-packing, and margin • Track processor, virtualization, microVM, container runtime, and isolation trends and translate them into platform decisions • Define the end-to-end developer journey from source repository or container image through deployed, autoscaled, observable applications and functions • Conduct customer discovery with developers, startups, and SMB platform teams • Convert customer and support insights into jobs-to-be-done, user stories, and acceptance criteria • Own packaging and pricing, including metering for compute, egress, build minutes, storage, invocations, and image pulls • Partner with engineering on control-plane and data-plane architecture tradeoffs • Drive performance, reliability, efficiency, SLO, and cost-target outcomes • Monitor the competitive landscape for managed compute and PaaS offerings • Lead launches with product marketing, documentation, sales, and support • Own post-launch adoption, activation, retention, expansion, and margin results • Report to the Director of Product and collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, finance, and go-to-market teams

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of product management experience • Proven track record defining and launching managed cloud compute, PaaS, serverless, or container products • Strong working knowledge of PaaS, serverless, and container registry models • Knowledge of buildpack-based deploys, function runtimes and triggers, concurrency and cold start tradeoffs, and OCI image build, storage, and distribution • Understanding of CPU architectures including Intel, AMD, and ARM • Knowledge of virtualization, microVMs, container runtimes, and isolation models • Understanding of compute, memory, storage, and network cost drivers • Ability to build cost-to-serve models for multi-tenant services and translate them into pricing and utilization targets • Ability to specify simple APIs, CLIs, and console flows • Data-driven decision-making and ability to define and interpret product, utilization, and margin metrics • Excellent communication and cross-functional leadership • Preferred: hands-on Kubernetes experience • Preferred: prior IaaS or compute team experience • Preferred: experience with Heroku, Render, Fly.io, Cloud Run, Lambda, Fargate, ECR/GCR/ACR, or similar • Preferred: familiarity with datacenter fundamentals • Preferred: early or lead PM experience in a new geography • Preferred: familiarity with DigitalOcean’s product portfolio

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual bonus plan eligibility for non-sales roles • Potential new hire equity grant, subject to plan terms and local eligibility • Employee Stock Purchase Program opportunity in participating countries • Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education, subject to company policy • Flexible time off • Local team meetups • Mental health and well-being support • Professional development resources • Remote work arrangement

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