The Staff Product Manager will lead strategy, vision, and execution for DigitalOcean's storage products, collaborate with stakeholders, and develop impactful features based on customer needs.
Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey alongside a strong community of top talent who are relentless in their drive to build the simplest scalable cloud. If you have a growth mindset, naturally like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast-paced environment of a true industry disruptor, you’ll find your place here. We value winning together—while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and builders in the world.
As a Staff Product Manager at DigitalOcean, you will join a dynamic team dedicated to revolutionizing cloud computing and AI. We are looking for an industry experienced Product Manager who is passionate, technical, results-oriented, and a motivated self-starter to develop and innovate on the Storage stack for DigitalOcean’s Storage portfolio. Reporting to the Senior Director of Product Management, this Staff Product Manager will define and lead the vision, strategy and execution for the next stage of evolution of DigitalOcean’s storage products
What You’ll Do:- Develop the product vision, strategy, roadmap for storage areas and translate those into prioritized, impactful, high-quality, yet simple features.
- Develop a deep understanding of customer needs as they build their and scale their businesses on DigitalOcean’s cloud platform.
- Work with customers, as well as internal and external stakeholders to gather requirements, define “jobs to be done” and build out user stories.
- Develop business cases and model unit economics for relevant features and capabilities.
- Define, monitor and measure well defined KPIs for the product domain, measure success and course correcting when and where necessary.
- Develop and Lead quarterly planning for owned areas.
- As a Product leader in your area, you will influence and guide the development process and prioritizing and grooming the product backlog.
- This role will see the “big picture” and drive alignment with products such as Compute, AI/ML, GPUs and storage.
- Drive a high-performance culture within our team that iterates frequently and learns continuously without sacrificing product quality.
- Collaborate and contribute to pricing, product positioning, and to go-to-market plans for storage products working with key stakeholders such as business strategy team, pricing team and go to market teams.
- Enable the DO Sales team with product training and collateral.
- Leadership and ownership: ability to lead and collaborate with a cross-functional team and take ownership.
- Urgency and iteration: Have a bias for action, and a mindset to move fast, learn and iterate.
- Customer Obsessed: a deep understanding of the challenges that face businesses while adopting, building and scaling on a Cloud Infrastructure platform, and a vision for how great products can help.
- Technical Knowledge: the ability to collaborate with engineering teams on a highly technical product, and advocate for a customer base made up of professional developers.
- Data Driven Approach: Innate curiosity and the ability to articulate user hypotheses in terms of objective measures, and project KPI impact of new features
- Verbal and Written Communication: the ability to lead productive meetings, create effective and useful product documents, on a technically sophisticated product
- $176,000 - $220,000
*This is a remote role
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Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean
- We innovate with purpose. You’ll be a part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. As a member of the team, you will be a Shark who thinks big, bold, and scrappy, like an owner with a bias for action and a powerful sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, and decisions.
- We prioritize career development. At DO, you’ll do the best work of your career. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that will always challenge you to think big. Our organizational development team will provide you with resources to ensure you keep growing. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education. All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses to support their continued growth and development.
- We care about your well-being. Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.
- We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
- DigitalOcean is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.
Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.
Top Skills
AI
Cloud Computing
Product Management
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