VP, Product Strategy

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 driving growth through strategy and cross-functional alignment.
Reporting to the Chief Strategy Officer, the VP, Product Strategy will own the product vision and translate that into an executable roadmap that delivers consistent product delivery that enhances our customer's experience and drives sustainable profitable revenue growth, supporting DigitalOcean's objective of achieving $1BN+ revenue in 2024. The VP, Product Strategy will be an integral part of the Product Leadership team, providing leadership and a strong voice for product innovation and strategy in the context of the broader strategic objectives of the company. This VP will manage pricing/monetization, organic product strategy, inorganic product strategy (partner/buy), and research. This leader will need to be highly collaborative with the Product Managers, Engineering teams, Corporate Development, Revenue teams, etc.
What you will be doing (first two years)

• Develop a product vision that is translated into an executable multi-year product delivery roadmap, supporting DigitalOcean's goal to grow 25%+ of revenue sustainably derived from new products/capabilities less than three years old.

• Engage with DigitalOcean customers and Revenue teams to understand market opportunities and customer needs and utilize the "voice of the customer" to keep our product roadmap responsive to market trends with goal to enable sustained robust customer and revenue growth
• Build strong working relationships across the company, including Product, Engineering and Infrastructure teams, to regularly achieve buy-in that facilitates repeatable and consistent product delivery, from ideation, roadmap, development, launch, metrics reporting and ongoing enhancements
• Effectively work with our Corporate Development team to establish buy and partner strategies that accelerate product roadmap execution
• Develop an external facing voice to promote and enhance the DigitalOcean brand for product innovation, via blogs, social media, press and other relevant forums

What You'll Add to DigitalOcean:

• Highly collaborative, embraces working cross-functionally to drive desired outcomes for the company
• Is customer-centric, believes that product innovation starts and ends with addressing customer needs and solving customer problems
• Is a builder, who wants to build new products that drive profitable revenue growth
• Product visionary with business outcomes orientation - has a passion for driving the product strategy to deliver value for customers and profitable revenue growth for the business
• Holds a strong command of software technologies and can translate that into creative, innovative solutions that supports new customer growth and existing customer retention and expansion
• Execution-oriented. Will work closely with engineering and other functions to ensure high-quality products can be delivered against deadlines to achieve planned product and business outcomes
• Will be an evangelist for DigitalOcean and is comfortable with a public-facing role to communicate our product strategy and build relationships across the technology community, including investors, customers, and media
• Thrives managing and driving change amid the ambiguity associated with a business growing from $500M in revenue to $2+B
• Willing to embrace and live DOs values

Why You'll Like Working for DigitalOcean :

• We reward our employees . The salary range for this position is $275,000.00 - $300,000.00 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. 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.

*This is a remote role
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