Staff Product Manager, Compute Platform

The role

You will own the product strategy and roadmap for App Platform, Serverless Functions, and Container Registry. You will manage both the developer-facing product and the platform economics including cost to serve and utilization.

What you will do

• Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for App Platform, Serverless Functions, and DOCR.
• Own the platform economics of these services.
• Stay ahead of the compute landscape including processor roadmaps and virtualization technologies.
• Define the end-to-end developer journey across these services.
• Work backwards from customers through discovery with developers and SMB platform teams.
• Own packaging and pricing for platform services.
• Partner with engineering on architecture tradeoffs in the control plane and data plane.
• Drive performance, reliability, and efficiency outcomes with clear SLOs and cost targets.
• Monitor the competitive landscape for managed compute and PaaS offerings.
• Lead launches end to end with product marketing, docs, sales, and support.

Required qualifications

• 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
• Compute fluency including CPU architectures, virtualization, and container runtimes
• Cost and capacity acumen including building cost-to-serve models
• Strong developer-experience instinct
• Data-driven decision making
• Excellent communication and cross-functional leadership

Nice to have

• Hands-on Kubernetes experience
• Prior experience on an IaaS or compute team
• Experience shipping on or competing with Heroku, Render, Fly.io, Cloud Run, Lambda, Fargate, ECR/GCR/ACR, or similar
• Familiarity with datacenter fundamentals
• Prior experience as an early or lead PM for a product area in a new geography
• Familiarity with DigitalOcean's existing product portfolio

Benefits

• Annual bonus plan
• New hire equity grant
• Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education
• Flexible time off
• Local team meetups
• Mental health and well being support
• Employee Stock Purchase Program

Before you apply

• You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period.

About the company

DigitalOcean is a technology company that builds scalable cloud services. They aim to simplify cloud and AI for builders.