Senior Product Manager, DigitalOcean

• We are looking for an experienced Product Manager who is passionate, technical, results-oriented, and a motivated self-starter to develop and innovate and expand the Droplet offering for DigitalOcean’s compute portfolio
• Leadership: ability to lead and collaborate with a cross-functional team (and examples)
• Customer Focus: a deep understanding of the challenges that face businesses while adopting, building and scaling on a Cloud Infrastructure platform, and a vision for how great products can help
• Technical Knowledge: the ability to collaborate with engineering teams on a highly technical product, and advocate for a customer base made up of professional developers
• Data Driven Approach: ability to articulate user hypotheses in terms of ptive measures, and project KPI impact of new features
• Verbal and Written Communication: the ability to lead productive meetings, create effective and useful product documents, on a technically sophisticated product
• Proven experience operating in a Product Management capacity for technical products, having managed at least one entire product development cycle from concept to launch
• Strong understanding of multiple aspects of Cloud Compute technologies and products such CPU architectures, data-center server and rack design, networking and storage fundamentals, GPU compute, virtualization, etc
• Demonstrated ability to grasp and learn new concepts and technologies

Desirable

• Reporting to the Senior Director of Product Management, this Senior Product Manager will define and lead the vision and strategy for the evolution of DigitalOcean’s droplet compute offerings
• Develop the product vision, strategy, roadmap for the core Compute area of Droplets translate those into prioritized, impactful, high-quality, yet simple features
• Develop a deep understanding of customer needs as they build their and scale their businesses on DigitalOcean’s cloud platform
• Work with customers, as well as internal and external stakeholders to gather requirements, define “jobs to be done” and build out user stories
• Develop business cases and model unit economics for relevant features and capabilities
• Define, monitor and measure well defined KPIs for the Droplets product domain, measure success and course correcting when and where necessary
• Develop and Lead quarterly planning for owned areas
• As a Product leader in your area, you will influence and guide the development process and prioritizing and grooming the product backlog
• Drive a high-performance culture within your team that iterates frequently and learns continuously without sacrificing product quality
• Collaborate and contribute to pricing, product positioning, and to go-to-market plans for the DO Droplets working with key stakeholders such as business strategy team, pricing team and go to market teams
• Enable the DO Sales team with product training and collateral