Lead the evolution of DigitalOcean's PaaS offerings by defining strategy and roadmap, enhancing developer experience, and driving product vision and execution.
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.
We’re looking for a Staff Product Manager to lead the evolution of DigitalOcean’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) )offerings. In this role, you’ll shape the future of developer experience on DO by building products like App Platform, Functions, CI/CD, and serverless tooling—helping startups and SMBs go from code to scale with minimal friction.
As a Staff PM, you’ll drive product vision, strategy, and execution for PaaS, collaborating with engineering, design, marketing, and support teams. You’ll bring a deep understanding of cloud-native development, strong customer empathy, and a track record of delivering successful infrastructure products that developers love.
You will report to the Senior Director of Product, Developer Experience, and play a key role in shaping how developers build and deploy modern apps on DigitalOcean.
What You’ll Do:- Define the strategy and roadmap for DigitalOcean’s PaaS offerings, including App Platform, Functions, and CI/CD experiences.
- Drive new capabilities that make it seamless for developers to build, deploy, and scale apps without managing infrastructure.
- Work closely with engineering and design to deliver performant, reliable, and delightful experiences.
- Partner with developer relations, marketing, and sales to drive awareness, adoption, and retention.
- Conduct deep customer research and usability testing to inform prioritization and validate solutions.
- Track competitive trends in the PaaS and serverless space to identify opportunities for differentiation.
- Collaborate with internal platform and infrastructure teams to ensure services are scalable and cost-efficient.
- Customer adoption and retention
- Developer satisfaction and NPS
- Application performance and deployment reliability
- Revenue and usage growth for PaaS services
- 7+ years of product management experience, with 3+ years focused on cloud infrastructure or developer platforms.
- Deep empathy for developers and familiarity with modern frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and containerized applications.
- Strong technical understanding and ability to collaborate closely with engineering teams.
- Experience owning full product lifecycles—from strategy and ideation to launch and iteration.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with a track record of cross-functional influence.
- Bonus points for experience in developer-first SaaS companies or contributing to open-source platforms.
- $211,200 - $264,000
*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.
Top Skills
Ci/Cd
Cloud Infrastructure
Containerized Applications
Paas
Serverless Tooling
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