We are seeking a Staff Product Manager, Compute Infrastructure and hardware to lead the strategy and execution of our core compute offerings. You will be responsible for defining the roadmap and driving innovation for our compute platform, ensuring we deliver powerful, reliable, and cost-effective solutions that meet the evolving needs of our customers. This role requires a solid understanding of the cloud computing landscape, including processor technologies, virtualization, and infrastructure optimization.
What You’ll Do:- Compute Platform Strategy: Develop and champion the long-term vision and strategy for DigitalOcean's compute platform. Define the roadmap for new compute offerings, features, and enhancements, aligning with overall company goals and customer needs.
- Processor Roadmap Expertise: Stay ahead of the curve on processor technologies from Intel, AMD, ARM, and other vendors. Analyze performance benchmarks, cost-efficiency, and emerging trends to inform compute platform decisions.
- Fleet Management and Utilization: Drive initiatives to optimize the efficiency and utilization of our compute infrastructure. Identify opportunities to reduce costs, improve performance, and maximize resource allocation.
- Virtualization and Containerization: Deepen our expertise in virtualization and containerization technologies. Explore and evaluate new technologies to enhance our compute offerings and support evolving customer workloads.
- Performance and Reliability: Champion efforts to ensure the performance, reliability, and scalability of our compute platform. Collaborate with engineering teams to address performance bottlenecks, improve system stability, and enhance the customer experience.
- Cost Optimization: Identify and implement strategies to optimize the cost-efficiency of our compute infrastructure. Analyze pricing models, negotiate with vendors, and drive initiatives to reduce operational expenses.
- Competitive Analysis: Continuously monitor the competitive landscape for compute offerings. Analyze competitor strengths and weaknesses to identify opportunities for differentiation and innovation.
- Customer Collaboration: Engage with customers to understand their compute needs and gather feedback on our offerings. Incorporate customer insights into the product roadmap and prioritize features that deliver maximum value.
- Cross-functional Leadership: Collaborate effectively with engineering, finance, marketing, and sales teams to ensure alignment on compute platform strategy and execution.
- Compute Platform Growth: Track the growth and adoption of our compute offerings, including virtual machines, bare metal servers, and container services.
- Infrastructure Efficiency: Monitor key metrics related to infrastructure utilization, cost per unit of compute, and operational efficiency.
- 8+ Years of Product Management Experience: Proven track record in defining and launching successful compute infrastructure products, ideally within a cloud computing environment.
- Compute Knowledge:
- Strong understanding of CPU architectures (Intel, AMD, ARM), including microarchitectures, instruction sets, and performance characteristics.
- Ability to translate the benefits of different CPU architectures to customer use cases and articulate the value proposition of each offering.
- Datacenter Fundamentals: Familiarity with datacenter design principles, including rack layouts, power distribution, cooling systems, and networking infrastructure.
- Cost Optimization:
- Understanding of server component costs, including CPUs, memory, storage, and networking.
- Ability to analyze and optimize the cost of compute infrastructure at scale.
- Data-Driven Decision Making: Ability to analyze data, derive insights, and make informed decisions to drive product strategy and execution.
- Leadership and Collaboration: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams.
- 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 $170,000 - $230,000 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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DigitalOcean is the Inference Cloud — a full-stack, production-ready cloud platform built to run AI applications with predictable performance, sustainable economics, and radically simpler operations at scale. We are built for teams turning AI into real products — not just training models. Our advantage is not fewer features, but fewer failure modes when operating AI at scale — combining minimal operational overhead, predictable cost efficiency, and a full-stack cloud that works as a system. Hyperscalers are broad by design. Neoclouds are infrastructure-first. DigitalOcean is inference-first — with a real cloud underneath. It combines inference-optimized compute, managed inference software, and integrated cloud capabilities that reduce operational burden for teams running real workloads. Inference is the foundation—not the boundary. Everything else builds on top of it.
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