Staff Product Manager, Compute Platform

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $186.4k - $279.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

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DigitalOcean

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2011

☁️ SaaS

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 DOCR • Own platform economics, including workload placement, cost to serve, utilization, density, and bin-packing improvements • Track processor, virtualization, microVM, and container-runtime trends and translate them into platform decisions • Define the end-to-end developer journey from source repository or container image to deployed, autoscaled, observable applications and functions • Conduct discovery with developers, startups, and SMB platform teams • Translate customer and support insights into jobs-to-be-done, user stories, and acceptance criteria • Own packaging and pricing, including metering compute, egress, build minutes, storage, invocations, and image pulls • Partner with engineering on control-plane and data-plane architecture tradeoffs • Drive performance, reliability, and efficiency outcomes through SLOs and cost targets • Monitor competitors in managed compute and PaaS • Lead launches with product marketing, documentation, sales, and support • Own post-GA results including adoption, activation, retention, and margin • 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, virtualization and microVMs, container runtimes and isolation, density, latency, and cost • 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 experience on an IaaS or compute team • Preferred: Experience with Heroku, Render, Fly.io, Cloud Run, Lambda, Fargate, ECR/GCR/ACR, or similar • Preferred: Familiarity with datacenter fundamentals • Preferred: Experience as an early or lead PM for a product area in a new geography • Preferred: Familiarity with DigitalOcean’s product portfolio

🏖️ Benefits

• Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education, subject to company policy • Flexible time off • Local team meetups • Mental health and well-being support • Eligible employees may receive equity compensation, including a new hire equity grant • Eligible employees in participating countries may participate in the Employee Stock Purchase Program • Eligibility for DigitalOcean’s annual bonus plan • Equal-opportunity employment

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