Staff Product Manager, Compute Platform

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Massachusetts.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the App Platform, Serverless Functions, and DOCR.

• Manage platform economics, encompassing workload mapping, cost to serve, utilization, density, and improvements in bin-packing.

• Monitor trends in processors, virtualization, microVMs, and container runtimes, translating these into platform decisions.

• Define the complete developer journey from source repository or container image to deployed, autoscaled, and observable applications or functions.

• Engage in customer discovery with developers, startups, and SMB platform teams.

• Collect feedback from support and the community, converting it into jobs-to-be-done, user stories, and acceptance criteria.

• Handle packaging and pricing for platform services.

• Collaborate with engineering on tradeoffs between control-plane and data-plane architecture.

• Drive outcomes related to performance, reliability, efficiency, SLO, and cost targets.

• Keep an eye on the competitive landscape for managed compute and PaaS offerings.

• Lead product launches in partnership with marketing, documentation, sales, and support teams.

• Oversee post-GA adoption, activation, retention, expansion, and margin results.

• Report directly to the Director of Product while collaborating with engineering, infrastructure, finance, and go-to-market teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in product management.

• Demonstrated success in defining and launching managed cloud compute, PaaS, serverless, or container products.

• Strong familiarity with PaaS, serverless, and container registry models.

• Understanding of buildpack-based deployments, function runtimes and triggers, concurrency and cold start trade-offs, and OCI image build, storage, and distribution.

• Knowledge of CPU architectures such as Intel, AMD, and ARM, along with their price/performance characteristics.

• Familiarity with virtualization, microVMs, container runtimes, and isolation protocols.

• Insight into the cost drivers of compute, memory, storage, and networking.

• Ability to develop cost-to-serve models for multi-tenant services and translate them into pricing and utilization objectives.

• Capability to specify straightforward APIs, CLIs, and console workflows.

• Proficient in data-driven decision-making and defining product and utilization metrics.

• Excellent communication skills and ability to lead cross-functional teams.

• Preferred: hands-on experience with Kubernetes.

• Preferred: previous experience in IaaS or on a compute team.

• Preferred: experience with products competing against Heroku, Render, Fly.io, Cloud Run, Lambda, Fargate, ECR/GCR/ACR, or similar.

• Preferred: understanding of datacenter fundamentals.

• Preferred: experience as an early or lead PM for a product area in a new geography.

• Preferred: familiarity with DigitalOcean's existing product lineup.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligibility for an annual bonus plan.

• Potential for a new hire equity grant.

• Opportunity to participate in the Employee Stock Purchase Program in applicable countries.

• Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and educational pursuits.

• Flexible time-off policy.

• Opportunities for local team meetups.

• Support for mental health and well-being.

• Access to professional development resources.

• Commitment to equal opportunity employment.