Staff Product Manager, Compute Platform

DigitalOcean • San Francisco, CA

23h • $186,400 - $279,600 • Remote

About The Position

DigitalOcean is hiring a Staff Product Manager to own product strategy and the roadmap for App Platform, Serverless Functions, and Container Registry (DOCR). These managed compute services help developers deploy applications without managing servers. The role spans the developer-facing experience and the underlying platform economics, including workload placement, cost to serve, and how processor, virtualization, and container-runtime developments shape product decisions.

Reporting to the Director of Product, this person will partner closely with the Hyderabad-based Compute Cloud Services engineering team and collaborate with teams working on Droplets/VPC, Kubernetes, and infrastructure, as well as Finance and go-to-market stakeholders. The role requires balancing customer needs with capacity, utilization, reliability, and margin considerations, and contributing to the development of DigitalOcean’s compute platform product group.

The position is remote. Compensation is $186,400–$279,600 in base salary. The role is eligible for DigitalOcean’s annual bonus plan and may be eligible for a new-hire equity grant, subject to plan terms and local eligibility.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of product management experience.
• Proven track record defining and launching managed cloud compute, PaaS, serverless, or container products, ideally with ownership of both customer experience and unit economics.
• Strong working knowledge of PaaS, serverless, and container registry models, including buildpack-based deployments, function runtimes and triggers, concurrency and cold-start tradeoffs, and OCI image build, storage, and distribution.
• Understanding of cloud compute, including Intel, AMD, and ARM CPU architectures and their price/performance characteristics; virtualization and microVMs; container runtimes and isolation; and effects on density, latency, and cost.
• Cost and capacity acumen, including knowledge of compute, memory, storage, and network cost drivers; ability to model cost to serve for a multi-tenant service; and experience translating models into pricing and utilization targets.
• Strong developer-experience instincts and ability to specify APIs, CLIs, and console flows that are simple to use, with effective defaults and usable escape hatches.
• Data-driven decision-making skills, including defining metrics and interpreting utilization, margin, and product dashboards.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional leadership, including experience aligning engineering, infrastructure, finance, and go-to-market stakeholders across time zones.

Nice To Haves

• Hands-on Kubernetes experience, such as cluster operations, workload scheduling, the operator and Helm ecosystem, or building a platform on Kubernetes.
• Prior experience on an IaaS or compute team, such as VM or bare-metal products, capacity planning, or fleet efficiency.
• Experience shipping on or competing with Heroku, Render, Fly.io, Cloud Run, Lambda, Fargate, ECR, GCR, ACR, or similar services.
• Familiarity with datacenter fundamentals, including rack layouts, power and cooling, and network design.
• Prior experience as an early or lead product manager for a product area in a new geography.
• Familiarity with DigitalOcean’s existing product portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for App Platform, Serverless Functions, and DOCR, and translate them into prioritized, well-scoped features.
• Manage the platform economics of the services, including workload placement on Droplets and shared compute, cost-to-serve measurement, utilization, density, and bin-packing improvements.
• Track processor, virtualization, microVM, container-runtime, and isolation-model developments and translate them into platform decisions.
• Define and improve the end-to-end developer journey from source repository or container image to a deployed, autoscaled, observable application or function.
• Conduct customer discovery with developers, startups, and SMB platform teams; analyze support and community feedback; and produce 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, and how services attach to other DigitalOcean products.
• Partner with engineering on control-plane and data-plane architecture tradeoffs, including build pipelines, autoscaling, scheduling, function cold starts and concurrency, registry performance and garbage collection, and multi-region placement.
• Set and drive performance, reliability, and efficiency outcomes through SLOs and cost targets.
• Monitor competitors in managed compute and PaaS and identify opportunities to differentiate on simplicity and price/performance.
• Lead product launches with product marketing, documentation, sales, and support, and own post-launch adoption, activation, retention, and margin results.

Benefits

• Annual bonus plan eligibility for non-sales roles, subject to plan terms and local eligibility.
• 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.
• Benefits may include flexible time off, local team meetups, and mental health and well-being support; specific benefits and eligibility vary by location.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed