Staff Product Manager, Compute Platform

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

📋 Description

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

• Manage platform economics, focusing on cost to serve, utilization, density, and enhancements in bin-packing.

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

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

• Conduct discovery sessions with developers, startups, and SMB platform teams.

• Convert insights from customers and the community into jobs-to-be-done, user stories, and acceptance criteria.

• Oversee packaging and pricing strategies for platform services.

• Collaborate with engineering on trade-offs related to control-plane and data-plane architecture.

• Propel performance, reliability, efficiency, SLO, and cost-target outcomes.

• Analyze the competitive landscape for managed compute and PaaS offerings.

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

• Manage post-GA adoption, activation, retention, and margin outcomes.

• Report directly to the Director of Product.

• Collaborate with the Hyderabad-based Compute Cloud Services engineering team and cross-functional stakeholders.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 8 years of experience in product management.

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

• Strong understanding of PaaS, serverless, and container registry models.

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

• Familiarity with CPU architectures such as Intel, AMD, and ARM, including their price/performance characteristics.

• Understanding of virtualization, microVMs, container runtimes, and isolation techniques.

• Knowledge of cost drivers related to compute, memory, storage, and networking.

• Ability to create a cost-to-serve model for a multi-tenant service and translate it into pricing and utilization objectives.

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

• Proficiency in data-driven decision-making, with the ability to define and analyze product, utilization, and margin metrics.

• Exceptional communication skills and cross-functional leadership abilities.

• Preferred: Experience with Kubernetes.

• Preferred: Previous experience on an IaaS or compute team.

• Preferred: Familiarity with platforms such as Heroku, Render, Fly.io, Cloud Run, Lambda, Fargate, ECR/GCR/ACR, or similar.

• Preferred: Understanding of datacenter fundamentals.

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

• Preferred: Knowledge of DigitalOcean's existing product offerings.

🏝️ Benefits

• Access to professional development resources.

• Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education, in accordance with company policy.

• Flexible time off policy.

• Opportunities for local team meetups.

• Support for mental health and well-being.

• Equity compensation, which may include a new hire equity grant.

• Employee Stock Purchase Program available in participating countries.

• Annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales positions.

• Remote work options.