Staff Product Manager, Compute Platform

DigitalOcean

. Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for App Platform, Serverless Functions, and DigitalOcean Container Registry .

Posted 10/31/2026full-timeRemote • Texas • United StatesLead💰 $186,400 - $279,600 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in product management for managed cloud compute, PaaS, and serverless products, with a strong focus on platform economics, cost modeling, and data-driven decision-making. Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive product launches while ensuring performance, reliability, and user satisfaction.

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Product Management ExperiencePaaS KnowledgeContainer Registry ModelsData-Driven Decision-MakingKubernetes Experience

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Hard Skills

Managed Cloud ComputeServerless ProductsCost-To-Serve ModelsAPIs SpecificationUtilization Metrics

Soft Skills

Excellent CommunicationCross-Functional Leadership

Tools & Technologies

KubernetesHerokuCloud RunLambdaFargate

Industry Keywords

Platform EconomicsWorkload MappingContainer RuntimesMicroVMsDigitalOcean

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudHerokuKubernetes

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for App Platform, Serverless Functions, and DigitalOcean Container Registry
Own platform economics, including workload mapping, cost to serve, utilization, density, and bin-packing improvements
Track processor, virtualization, microVM, and container runtime trends and translate them into platform decisions
Define the end-to-end developer journey from source repository or container image to deployed, autoscaled, observable applications or functions
Conduct customer discovery with developers, startups, and SMB platform teams
Analyze support and community feedback and translate it into jobs-to-be-done, user stories, and acceptance criteria
Own packaging and pricing for platform services
Partner with engineering on control-plane and data-plane architecture tradeoffs
Drive performance, reliability, efficiency, SLO, and cost-target outcomes
Monitor the competitive landscape for managed compute and PaaS offerings
Lead launches with product marketing, documentation, sales, and support
Own post-launch adoption, activation, retention, expansion, and margin results
Report to the Director of Product and collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, finance, and go-to-market teams

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of product management experience
Proven track record defining and launching managed cloud compute, PaaS, serverless, or container products
Strong working knowledge of PaaS, serverless, and container registry models
Knowledge of buildpack-based deploys, function runtimes and triggers, concurrency and cold start tradeoffs, and OCI image build, storage, and distribution
Understanding of CPU architectures including Intel, AMD, and ARM, virtualization and microVMs, container runtimes and isolation, density, latency, and cost
Understanding of compute, memory, storage, and network cost drivers
Ability to build cost-to-serve models for multi-tenant services and translate them into pricing and utilization targets
Ability to specify simple APIs, CLIs, and console flows
Data-driven decision-making and ability to define and interpret product, utilization, and margin metrics
Excellent communication and cross-functional leadership
Preferred: hands-on Kubernetes experience
Preferred: prior IaaS or compute team experience
Preferred: experience with Heroku, Render, Fly.io, Cloud Run, Lambda, Fargate, ECR/GCR/ACR, or similar
Preferred: datacenter fundamentals familiarity
Preferred: early or lead PM experience for a product area in a new geography
Preferred: familiarity with DigitalOcean's product portfolio

Benefits

Comp & perks

Annual bonus plan eligibility
Possible new hire equity grant, subject to plan terms and local eligibility
Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education, subject to company policy
Flexible time off
Local team meetups
Mental health and well-being support
Employee Stock Purchase Program in participating countries
Remote work