Senior Director, Product Management (Kubernetes)

Do you ever wonder what happens inside the cloud?
DigitalOcean (NYSE: DOCN) simplifies cloud computing so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. With our mission-critical infrastructure and fully managed offerings, DigitalOcean enables startups and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to rapidly deploy and scale modern applications. As a remote-first organization, our employees, like our customers, are based around the world.
We want people who are passionate about creating products that millions of developers will love.
Reporting to the VP of Kubernetes, the Senior Director, Product Management will be our product leader for DigitalOcean's Kubernetes product portfolio. You'll be driving product strategy and innovating on solutions that will help our SMB customers to be successful.
You will get to work with a team of high-energy and dedicated product managers, designers and engineers to deliver products that enable our SMB customers to spend more time on innovation instead of managing infrastructure. This role is a great opportunity for Product Leaders with a track record of managing product teams and expertise in IaaS, PaaS or infrastructure B2B Software.
What You'll Be Doing:

• Oversee Product Management work in your teams, to ensure that development effort meets user needs, is aligned with company goals, and ships product in a consistent, plannable cadence
• Relentlessly listen and proactively reach out to customers through a variety of channels
• Drive Product Management best practices to improve consistency and sustainable organizational growth
• Hire, develop, mentor, and provide ongoing performance feedback to Product Managers on your teams
• Support senior management during quarterly and yearly planning through roadmap prioritization, definition, and refinement of business cases
• Drive alignment with partner organizations such as Marketing, Sales, Support, and Operations

What You'll Add To DigitalOcean:

• 15 years or more of relevant experience in tech and cloud. 5 years or more of leadership experience.
• Ability to work at multiple levels of abstraction; directly influencing the technical roadmaps of your teams while also communicating the business impact of your unit to executive leadership
• Proven ability to manage, mentor, and grow a sizable team; a love of management-you succeed when you see your team succeed
• You're a standard bearer, setting high expectations for yourself and your team members
• Demonstrated bias towards action tempered with critical assessment
• Clear data-driven decision making skills even in the face of incomplete or uncertain information
• Standing strong behind good decisions, course-correcting bad ones, having the wisdom to identify the difference between the two
• An intuitive understanding of developer needs and a passion to make their lives easier
• Repeatability- best practices get codified and positive outcomes can be repeated across your teams

Why You'll Like Working for DigitalOcean:

• We reward our employees . The salary range for this position is based on relevant years of experience and skills. Employees 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 grants of equity upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
• We value development. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that is always challenging our teams and employees to continuously grow. We maintain a growth mindset in everything we do and invest deeply in employee development through formalized mentorship and other internal programs. We provide all employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
• We care about your well-being. In addition to cash and equity compensation, we also offer employees a competitive array of benefits. In the United States, these include health insurance, unlimited vacation, retirement benefits, a generous parental leave program, and additional resources to support employees' overall well-being. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary in other countries due to local regulations and preferences.
• We value diversity and inclusivity. We are an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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