Staff Product Manager

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. This role will lead one of the core product surfaces within the Security Products portfolio and help define how secure access, identity, and workload trust are delivered across the DigitalOcean platform.

Security Products is a rapidly growing area of investment at DigitalOcean. We are building foundational capabilities that help customers understand their security posture, control access to infrastructure, manage human and non-human identities, and protect their workloads while maintaining the simplicity that DigitalOcean is known for.

As a Senior Technical Product Manager, you will define product strategy, shape platform capabilities with engineering, and lead the delivery of security and identity solutions used by thousands of developers and growing digital-native companies around the world.

This role focuses on DigitalOcean's customer-facing security and IAM platform, including capabilities that help customers securely manage access across users, services, workloads, automation, and emerging AI-native workflows. Responsibilities may include service accounts, workload identity, OIDC federation, scoped API access, machine and agent identity, remediation guidance, auditability, and intuitive identity and security experiences across the DigitalOcean console and API.

You will report to the Head of Security Products, who owns the overall portfolio strategy.
What You'll Do:

• 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.

(Optional) Key Metrics:

• Adoption and usage of owned security and IAM capabilities
• Customer security outcomes and risk reduction
• Reduction in long-lived credential usage and shared access patterns
• Product delivery predictability and release quality
• Customer feedback and developer satisfaction
• Cross-product platform integration effectiveness

What You'll Add to DigitalOcean:

• 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.
• Use tools like Figma, Cursor, Claude, and other prototyping or AI-assisted development tools to create mockups, workflow prototypes, and product concepts when needed to clarify requirements, test ideas, and unblock engineering, particularly in situations where design resources are limited.
• 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.

Compensation Range:

• $160,000-$199,000

*This is a hybrid role

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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 always challenge you to think big. Our organizational development team will provide you with resources to ensure you keep growing. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education. All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses to support their continued growth and development.
• We care about your well-being. Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.
• We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
• DigitalOcean is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.

Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.