Senior Product Manager

Do you ever wonder what happens inside the cloud?

DigitalOcean (NYSE: DOCN) simplifies cloud computing so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. With our mission-critical infrastructure and fully managed offerings, DigitalOcean enables startups and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to rapidly deploy and scale modern applications. As a remote-first organization, our employees, like our customers, are based around the world.

We are looking for a seasoned senior product manager who is passionate about technology and building products that help businesses build and scale on cloud infrastructure. 

We are looking for an experienced Product Manager who is passionate, technical, results-oriented, and a motivated self-starter to develop and innovate to build out DigitalOcean’s new data products. Reporting to the Senior Director of Product Management, this Senior Product Manager will define and lead the vision and strategy for the evolution of DigitalOcean’s new initiatives in  storage and data areas. Storage and data are foundational primitives within DigitalOcean’s platform and in this highly-visible role, you will work with a cross-functional team of Product Managers, Designers, User Researchers, Engineering, Product Strategy, Infrastructure and Architecture to expand DO’s product portfolio around data initiatives. Along the way, you’ll drive yourself and others towards the vision, and have a meaningful impact on the future success of this rapidly growing company. 

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Develop the product vision, strategy, roadmap for new data initiatives and translate those into prioritized, impactful, high-quality, yet simple features.
• Develop a deep understanding of customer needs as they build their and scale their businesses on DigitalOcean’s cloud platform. 
• Work with customers, as well as internal and external stakeholders to gather requirements, define “jobs to be done” and build out user stories.
• Develop business cases and model unit economics for relevant features and capabilities.
• Define, monitor and measure well defined KPIs, measure success and course correcting when and where necessary.
• Develop and Lead quarterly planning for owned areas. 
• As a Product leader in your area, you will influence and guide the development process and prioritizing and grooming the product backlog.
• Drive a high-performance culture within your team that iterates frequently and learns continuously without sacrificing product quality.
• Collaborate and contribute to pricing, product positioning, and to go-to-market plans for the DO Droplets working with key stakeholders such as business strategy team, pricing team and go to market teams. 
• Enable the DO Sales team with product training and collateral.

What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:

• Leadership: ability to lead and collaborate with a cross-functional team (and examples) 
• Customer Focus: a deep understanding of the challenges that face businesses while adopting, building and scaling on a Cloud Infrastructure platform, and a vision for how great products can help. 
• Technical Knowledge: the ability to collaborate with engineering teams on a highly technical product, and advocate for a customer base made up of professional developers.
• Data Driven Approach: ability to articulate user hypotheses in terms of objective measures, and project KPI impact of new features. 
• Verbal and Written Communication: the ability to lead productive meetings, create effective and useful product documents, on a technically sophisticated product

Minimum Qualifications

• Proven experience operating in a Product Management capacity for technical products, having managed at least one entire product development cycle from concept to launch.
• Strong understanding of multiple aspects of Cloud Data technologies and foundational areas such as Object Storage, unstructured/structured data, Data Lakes, Databases, Data Warehousing, ETL, Analytics, data-architectures, data-center server and rack design, etc. 
• Demonstrated ability to grasp and learn new concepts and technologies. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to work in a fast-paced and agile development environment.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in a technical field, such as computer science, engineering or mathematics. 
• Past experience developing storage, analytics, ETL or data products or Cloud Compute  infrastructure at scale. 
• Past success in shaping highly scalable software products with an eye on ease-of-use.
• Successfully managed and launc