Senior Director, Product Management (Growth)

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 and GM of Growth and Marketplace, the Senior Director, Product Management will be our product leader for DigitalOcean’s Growth initiative. You’ll be working closely with partners across the company to help drive our product-led growth strategy to directly impact customer acquisition, retention, and revenue.

You will get to work with a team of high-energy and dedicated product managers, designers, and engineers to accelerate revenue growth in creative ways, by focusing on lightweight engineering efforts that can be paired with creative marketing to upsell and cross-sell into our customer base. This includes packaging products into solution-centric bundles that are oriented around our customers’ jobs-to-be-done.

This role is a great opportunity for Product Leaders with a track record of working across organizational functions (product, marketing, engineering, customer success, etc.), using data to drive decisions, and working in a rapid experimentation and fail-fast model.

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:

• Wrangling options, reconciling them with data, and prioritizing actions that will have a positive impact on revenue and growth

• Using a fail-fast mode to test hypotheses with minimum engineering efforts and expanding on experiments that indicate success

• Partnering with a wide range of functions and people within the organization, from marketing, sales, engineering, support, etc.

• Building a team with a bias towards speed, while not sacrificing quality and simplicity

• Driving Product Management best practices

• Hire, develop, mentor, and provide ongoing performance feedback to Product Managers on your teams

• Support senior management in the Rhythm of the Business rituals (e.g. quarterly and yearly planning, monthly business reviews, etc.)

What You'll Add to DigitalOcean:

• 15 years or more of relevant experience in tech and cloud. 5 years or more of leadership experience. Track record leading growth initiatives

• Strong product management leadership, both in this team and across the entire product space

• Proven ability to manage and mentor, with 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

Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean:

• We reward our employees. The base salary range for this position is between $221,000-$270,000 based on relevant years of experience and skills. The salary range for this role is specific to candidates located within the U.S. and will vary for candidates outside the U.S.. 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.

*This is a remote role