Product Manager, PaaS

Join to apply for the Staff Product Manager, PaaS role at Digital Ocean in a remote setting. We value winning together—while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and builders in the world. If you have a growth mindset, naturally like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast‑paced environment of a true industry disruptor, you’ll find your place here.

We are looking for a Staff Product Manager to lead our Data Analytics offerings and deliver amazing developer, data scientist, and data engineer experiences focusing on providing AI‑led differentiated analytics capabilities while preserving our key values of simplicity and cost‑effectiveness.

• Define and own the product vision, roadmap, and success metrics for AI‑led analytics workloads.
• Collaborate closely with engineering and design to bring new features and experiences to market, focusing on developer simplicity, performance, and scalability.
• Engage with customers directly to gather feedback, and validate solutions and use these insights to guide product decisions and prioritize the roadmap.
• Analyze usage data, market trends, and competitive dynamics to identify opportunities and shape a product strategy that balances innovation with reliability.
• Write clear product requirements and specifications, ensuring alignment across teams and driving execution from concept through launch.
• Represent the product internally and externally, sharing the roadmap with stakeholders, supporting customer‑facing teams, and enabling go‑to‑market success.
• Drive cross‑functional alignment by communicating product goals, timelines, and rationale clearly and consistently across the company.
• Continuously iterate and improve existing features based on feedback, performance metrics, and strategic shifts.

• 10+ years of product management experience with a focus on cloud platforms, developer tools, or infrastructure products.
• Strong technical depth—understanding modern data warehouses, lakehouse architecture, iceberg, data catalog and metadata, and fluency in how analytics applications are built at scale with best‑practice recommendations.
• Proven ability to build products for technical users, especially data scientists, data engineers and developers, with a strong intuition for user experience in complex environments.
• Track record of delivering high‑impact products from concept to launch, including ownership of roadmaps, prioritization, and success metrics.
• Customer‑focused mindset, with direct experience gathering insights and translating them into valuable product improvements.
• Excellent communication skills, able to explain technical decisions to non‑technical stakeholders and align diverse teams around a shared vision.
• Data‑informed and outcomes‑oriented, comfortable using metrics and analytics to inform decisions and measure success.
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical or business field (e.g., Computer Science, Engineering, Economics); advanced degree is a plus but not required.

• $176,000 - $264,000
• This is a remote role