Principal 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 Principal 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 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 $250,000.00-$325,000.00 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.
• We value diversity and inclusion. We are an equal-opportunity employer, and recognize that diversity of thought and background builds stronger teams and products to serve our customers. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. 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.

*This is a remote role

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