Staff Product Manager, AI/ML

About DigitalOcean

At DigitalOcean, we are on a mission to simplify cloud computing for developers and their teams. As a dynamic and rapidly growing company, we are reshaping the cloud landscape and solving complex technical problems on a global scale. Trusted by developers, our platform helps millions of users build, deploy, and scale applications in the cloud with speed and simplicity.

We are seeking a Staff Product Manager to lead strategic product initiatives and drive innovation across our product portfolio. This role is ideal for a highly strategic, technically proficient leader who can drive product vision and execution at scale. You’ll work with a cross-functional team of engineers, designers, marketers, and business leaders to deliver innovative, customer-centric solutions that empower developers and businesses to succeed.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Own the Product Strategy & Vision: Lead the strategy and vision for product areas, ensuring alignment with broader company goals and customer needs. Define a long-term roadmap and guide the execution of high-impact features that improve the user experience.
• Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams: Work closely with engineering, design, marketing, business development, and sales teams to define and validate product requirements, driving consensus across various stakeholders.
• Define and Prioritize Features: Develop comprehensive business cases and product roadmaps. Translate complex business and technical requirements into clear user stories and product features, and manage a robust product backlog.
• Performance and Impact Metrics: Define key performance indicators (KPIs) and success criteria for your products. Measure and analyze product performance, iterating based on real-world usage, and continuously improving the user experience.
• Lead Product Development: Act as the primary Product Owner for the team, driving the product development process, grooming the backlog, and leading product iteration cycles. Lead by example to ensure high-quality delivery with a customer-first approach.
• Community Engagement & Advocacy: Champion the voice of the customer across the organization, leveraging direct user feedback, community engagement, and market insights. Create and drive initiatives to foster engagement with our user community.
• Evangelize and Enable: Provide thought leadership both internally and externally. Enable sales teams with effective product training, collateral, and messaging to ensure alignment with product value propositions.

What We’ll Expect From You:

• Leadership & Collaboration: Ability to lead, influence, and work effectively across cross-functional teams. Experience managing complex products with multiple stakeholders and conflicting priorities.
• Deep Product Knowledge: Proven track record of working in technology products, with a strong understanding of the developer ecosystem. Experience in cloud computing or distributed systems is highly desirable.
• Strategic Product Thinking: Strong analytical skills to define and prioritize product features based on user needs, business value, and technical feasibility. Ability to see the big picture while being detail-oriented in execution.
• Technical Expertise: Ability to engage with engineering teams on highly technical products, understanding the challenges developers face and making decisions that balance customer needs with technical constraints.
• Data-Driven: Solid experience in analyzing product data, defining hypotheses, and measuring the impact of product features. You will need to be able to effectively translate data into actionable insights.
• Communication Skills: Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present product roadmaps, explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, and collaborate across teams.
• Entrepreneurial Spirit: A self-starter with a strong desire to innovate and build products that have a lasting impact on the market and the user community. MBA or equivalent business experience is a plus.

Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean

• We innovate with purpose. You’ll be a part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. As a member of the team, you will be a Shark who thinks big, bold, and scrappy, like an owner with a bias for action and a powerful sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, and decisions. 
• We prioritize career development. At DO, you’ll do the best work of your career. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that will alw