Staff Product Manager, Compute Platform

DigitalOcean

. Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for App Platform, Serverless Functions, and DOCR .

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

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in product management for managed cloud compute, PaaS, and serverless solutions, with a strong focus on platform economics, performance metrics, and cross-functional collaboration. Proven ability to define and execute product strategies that drive adoption and retention in competitive landscapes.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Product Management ExperiencePaaS And Serverless KnowledgeCost-To-Serve ModelingData-Driven Decision-MakingCross-Functional Leadership

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Hard Skills

Managed Cloud ComputeContainer ProductsBuildpack-Based DeploysFunction RuntimesAPIsCLIsPricing ModelsUtilization TargetsCPU Architecture UnderstandingVirtualization

Soft Skills

Excellent CommunicationCross-Functional Leadership

Tools & Technologies

KubernetesContainer Registry ModelsMicroVMsContainer RuntimesData-Driven Metrics

Industry Keywords

Platform EconomicsWorkload MappingCost To ServeManaged ComputeCompetitive LandscapeDigitalOcean Product Portfolio

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudHerokuKubernetes

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for App Platform, Serverless Functions, and DOCR
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
Gather 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-GA 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
Understanding 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 and their price/performance characteristics
Knowledge of virtualization, microVMs, container runtimes, and isolation
Understanding of compute, memory, storage, and network cost drivers
Ability to build cost-to-serve models for multi-tenant services and turn them into pricing and utilization targets
Ability to specify simple APIs, CLIs, and console flows
Data-driven decision-making and ability to define product and utilization metrics
Excellent communication and cross-functional leadership
Preferred: hands-on Kubernetes experience
Preferred: prior IaaS or compute team experience
Preferred: experience shipping on or competing with Heroku, Render, Fly.io, Cloud Run, Lambda, Fargate, ECR/GCR/ACR, or similar
Preferred: familiarity with datacenter fundamentals
Preferred: prior experience as an early or lead PM for a product area in a new geography
Preferred: familiarity with DigitalOcean's existing product portfolio

Benefits

Comp & perks

Annual bonus plan eligibility
Potential new hire equity grant
Employee Stock Purchase Program opportunity in participating countries
Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education
Flexible time off
Local team meetups
Mental health and well-being support
Professional development resources
Equal-opportunity employment