Sr Product Manager (Platform EXP)

Do you ever wonder what happens inside the cloud?
Headquartered in New York but based around the world, DigitalOcean is a dynamic, high-growth technology company that serves a robust and passionate community of developers around the world. Our mission is to simplify cloud computing for every developer. We are working on solving some of the most challenging and interesting technology projects around, on a scale unmatched by most.
We want people who are passionate about creating products that millions of developers will love.
We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to join our User Experience team to lead cross-platform initiatives that improve our customer's experience building with DigitalOcean. Reporting to the product leader for User Experience, this Senior Product Manager will work directly with our customers and cross-functionally with Product Design, Engineering, Marketing, and other Product Managers. In this role, you will impact the direction of our control panel and many other features customers use daily while also improving internal development team productivity.
DigitalOcean values determined leaders who have a bias for action and actively work to eliminate obstacles required to achieve their objectives. Projects and initiatives in this space represent a new strategic opportunity for the company, and this role will require experience building teams and alignment from the ground up.
In joining our team, you'll enjoy a competitive salary, great benefits, a creative and comfortable work environment, and the exciting opportunity to be part of a fast-paced and growing technology company.
What You'll Be Doing:

• Lead, define, and communicate the strategy, vision, and roadmap of the Platform Experience team with all key stakeholders, partnering with leaders across User Experience and the Product Leadership Team.
• Collaborate with engineering teams, product design, and research to build and evolve a world-class design system that enables consistent and lovable customer experiences across the platform.
• Build and nurture an agile and innovative product culture within the team, founded on the importance of continuous and rapid prototyping and learning.
• Develop business cases, including financial models, for new products and features to create alignment between opportunities and business value.
• Use analytical and quantitative skills to understand and communicate key customer problems and evaluate the impact of the team's work.
• Drive innovative ideas, solutions, and products through leadership and decisive action.
• Understand the competitive landscape for cloud computing, how it is evolving, and opportunities for strategic partnerships or new product offerings.
• Coordinate and lead discovery processes with research to gain insights into important customer pain points and problems to solve.

What You'll Add to DigitalOcean:

• 6+ years of experience envisioning and building high impact products, ideally with a platform context (internal/external customer facing components).
• Ability to work across engineering, architecture, design, product marketing, GTM sales, and customer support to help launch new products and support existing ones.
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment and coordinating directly with engineers and designers to ship high quality products.
• Successful at communicating with audiences at all levels of the organization, and can effectively tailor messages between technical and business stakeholders.
• Embodies the "builder" mentality and can develop a deep understanding of technical problems faced by internal engineering teams and developer customers in order to determine the shortest course of action to impact.
• Ability to excel in a distributed workplace environment and collaborate asynchronously where appropriate.
• Has strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

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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