DigitalOcean is looking for a Staff Product Manager to lead their Data Analytics offerings and deliver amazing developer, data scientist, and data engineer experiences focusing on providing AI-led differentiated analytics capabilities while preserving simplicity and cost-effectiveness.
Requirements
- 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 practices 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.
- Data-informed and outcomes-oriented, comfortable using metrics and analytics to inform decisions and measure success.
- Fluency in the Data Analytics domain
Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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.
Other
- Bachelor's degree in a technical or business field (e.g., Computer Science, Engineering, Economics); advanced degree is a plus but not required.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain technical decisions to non-technical stakeholders and align diverse teams around a shared vision.
- Ability to work remotely
- Flexible time off policy
- Wellness allowance
- Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education
