Staff Product Manager

About the role

Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey alongside a strong community of top talent who are relentless in their drive to build the simplest scalable cloud. 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 value winning together—while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and builders in the world. We are looking for a Senior Product Manager II to help build DigitalOcean’s next generation of security and identity capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap for your product surface within the Security Products portfolio, translating customer needs and platform capabilities into a clear multi-quarter product strategy.
• Translate complex identity, access, and security problems into intuitive experiences in the DigitalOcean console and API, focusing on usability for developers and small teams without sacrificing security or capability.
• Work closely with engineering leaders to define architecture, shape technical direction, and ensure product decisions reflect both customer value and platform realities.
• Engage directly with customers to understand how they manage access, credentials, automation, CI/CD workflows, service-owned workloads, and security in cloud environments today, then identify friction points and shape solutions that reduce operational complexity.
• Drive the full product lifecycle from discovery through launch and iteration. Write clear product narratives and requirements, align cross-functional teams, and ensure successful delivery.
• Collaborate with teams across Security, IAM, Accounts, Networking, Compute, App Platform, Inference, Billing, and Support to ensure security and identity capabilities integrate cleanly into the broader DigitalOcean experience.
• Use prototyping tools, including Figma, Cursor, Claude, and other AI-assisted development tools, to clarify product requirements, test experience concepts, and help move ideas from customer problem to usable product experience.
• Define clear success metrics, analyze product usage and customer feedback, and continuously refine the product to increase adoption, reduce customer risk, and improve customer value.
• Partner with developer relations, marketing, and communications to ensure the value of DigitalOcean security and IAM capabilities is clearly communicated to customers.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Product Management or a related technical role.
• Experience working on cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, IAM, or security-related products.
• Experience releasing customer-facing IAM, access control, identity, or security products, preferably in cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, SaaS, or enterprise control-plane environments.
• Strong technical fluency with distributed systems, APIs, authentication, authorization, and modern cloud architectures.
• Familiarity with identity and access concepts such as service accounts, API tokens, scoped permissions, RBAC, federation, workload identity, auditability, and credential lifecycle management.
• Familiarity with AI-native infrastructure patterns, including machine identity, agent identity, delegated access, MCP-style workflows, and secure access for automated systems.
• Experience partnering closely with engineering teams to define technical capabilities and deliver complex platform products.
• Ability to translate customer problems into clear product strategy, requirements, and customer-facing experiences.
• Strong written communication skills and ability to produce clear product narratives, specifications, and documentation.
• Experience working cross-functionally across engineering, design, security, infrastructure, and go-to-market teams.
• Comfort operating in fast-moving environments where product direction evolves with customer insight.
• A collaborative ownership mindset and ability to drive alignment across multiple teams while staying accountable for customer value and product outcomes.

Qualifications

• Compensation Range: $160,000-$199,000
• This is a remote role
• JR: 2026-8016