About the role

Role Overview

Staff Product Manager for DigitalOcean's Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Storage portfolio. This leadership role reports to the Senior Director of Product Management and involves defining and leading the vision, strategy, and execution for the evolution of DigitalOcean's storage products.

Key Responsibilities

Product Strategy & Vision: Develop product vision, strategy, and roadmap for storage areas; translate into prioritized, impactful features
Customer Understanding: Build deep understanding of customer needs as they build and scale on DigitalOcean's platform; work with customers and stakeholders to gather requirements and define "jobs to be done"
Business Planning: Develop business cases and model unit economics for features and capabilities
Metrics & Measurement: Define, monitor, and measure KPIs for product domain; measure success and course-correct as needed
Quarterly Planning & Leadership: Lead quarterly planning for owned areas; influence development process and groom product backlog
Cross-Product Alignment: Drive alignment with related products (Compute, AI/ML, GPUs) and see the "big picture"
Team Culture: Drive high-performance culture with frequent iteration and continuous learning
Go-to-Market: Collaborate on pricing, positioning, and go-to-market strategies; enable sales team with training and collateral

Required Qualifications

Leadership & Ownership: Ability to lead and collaborate with cross-functional teams
Urgency & Iteration: Bias for action with mindset to move fast, learn, and iterate
Customer Obsession: Deep understanding of challenges businesses face adopting and scaling on cloud infrastructure platforms
Technical Knowledge: Ability to collaborate with engineering teams on highly technical products; advocate for professional developer customer base
Data-Driven: Innate curiosity and ability to articulate hypotheses in terms of objective measures; project KPI impact
Communication: Strong verbal and written communication for leading meetings and creating effective product documentation

Nice-to-Haves

Industry experience with cloud storage or infrastructure products
Experience with AI/ML product strategies
Understanding of pricing models in cloud infrastructure

About Digitalocean

DigitalOcean is a cloud infrastructure company headquartered in Boston that provides simplified, scalable cloud computing solutions. The company focuses on making cloud and AI accessible to developers and builders worldwide, positioning itself as an industry disruptor in the cloud computing space.

Staff Product Manager (IaaS Storage)

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