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 • Colorado • 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, customer discovery, and cross-functional leadership. Proficient in defining developer journeys and translating customer feedback into actionable product strategies.

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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

KubernetesDigitalOcean Product PortfolioHerokuRenderFly.ioCloud RunLambdaFargateECRGCR

Industry Keywords

Platform EconomicsContainer RegistryMicroVMIsolationCost DriversDatacenter FundamentalsManaged Compute LandscapeDeveloper JourneyCustomer DiscoverySLOs

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 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 or functions
Conduct customer discovery with developers, startups, and SMB platform teams
Convert customer and community feedback 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, and efficiency outcomes through SLOs and cost targets
Monitor the competitive managed compute and PaaS landscape
Lead launches with product marketing, documentation, sales, and support
Own post-launch adoption, activation, retention, 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
Understanding 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 and interpret product, utilization, and margin metrics
Excellent communication and cross-functional leadership across time zones
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: familiarity with datacenter fundamentals
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
Potential 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 opportunity in participating countries
Remote work