Staff Product Manager, Compute Platform

DigitalOcean

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

Posted 10/31/2026full-timeRemote • 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 solutions, with a strong focus on platform economics, performance metrics, and cross-functional collaboration. Proven ability to translate customer insights into actionable product strategies and drive adoption and retention metrics.

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 DeploysAPI SpecificationCost Drivers AnalysisUtilization TargetsFunction RuntimesConcurrency TradeoffsMicroVM UnderstandingContainer Runtime Knowledge

Soft Skills

Excellent CommunicationCross-Functional Leadership

Tools & Technologies

KubernetesHerokuCloud RunLambdaFargateECRGCRACR

Industry Keywords

Platform EconomicsWorkload PlacementAutoscaled ApplicationsManaged ComputeDigitalOcean 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 placement, 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 and functions
Conduct discovery with developers, startups, and SMB platform teams
Translate customer and support insights into jobs-to-be-done, user stories, and acceptance criteria
Own packaging and pricing, including metering compute, egress, build minutes, storage, invocations, and image pulls
Partner with engineering on control-plane and data-plane architecture tradeoffs
Drive performance, reliability, and efficiency outcomes through SLOs and cost targets
Monitor competitors in managed compute and PaaS
Lead launches with product marketing, documentation, sales, and support
Own post-GA results including adoption, activation, retention, and margin
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 experience on an IaaS or compute team
Preferred: Experience with Heroku, Render, Fly.io, Cloud Run, Lambda, Fargate, ECR/GCR/ACR, or similar
Preferred: Familiarity with datacenter fundamentals
Preferred: Experience as an early or lead PM for a product area in a new geography
Preferred: Familiarity with DigitalOcean’s product portfolio

Benefits

Comp & perks

Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education, subject to company policy
Flexible time off
Local team meetups
Mental health and well-being support
Eligible employees may receive equity compensation, including a new hire equity grant
Eligible employees in participating countries may participate in the Employee Stock Purchase Program
Eligibility for DigitalOcean’s annual bonus plan
Equal-opportunity employment