Staff Product Manager

DigitalOcean is a cutting-edge technology company focused on simplifying cloud and AI for builders. They are seeking a Senior Product Manager II to lead the development of their security and identity capabilities, ensuring user-friendly experiences while maintaining security. This role involves defining product strategy, collaborating with engineering, and engaging with customers to enhance the security product offerings.

Responsibilities:

• Own the roadmap for your product surface within the Security Products portfolio, translating customer needs and platform capabilities into a clear multi-quarter product strategy
• Translate complex identity, access, and security problems into intuitive experiences in the DigitalOcean console and API, focusing on usability for developers and small teams without sacrificing security or capability
• Work closely with engineering leaders to define architecture, shape technical direction, and ensure product decisions reflect both customer value and platform realities
• Engage directly with customers to understand how they manage access, credentials, automation, CI/CD workflows, service-owned workloads, and security in cloud environments today, then identify friction points and shape solutions that reduce operational complexity
• Drive the full product lifecycle from discovery through launch and iteration. Write clear product narratives and requirements, align cross-functional teams, and ensure successful delivery
• Collaborate with teams across Security, IAM, Accounts, Networking, Compute, App Platform, Inference, Billing, and Support to ensure security and identity capabilities integrate cleanly into the broader DigitalOcean experience
• Use prototyping tools, including Figma, Cursor, Claude, and other AI-assisted development tools, to clarify product requirements, test experience concepts, and help move ideas from customer problem to usable product experience
• Define clear success metrics, analyze product usage and customer feedback, and continuously refine the product to increase adoption, reduce customer risk, and improve customer value
• Partner with developer relations, marketing, and communications to ensure the value of DigitalOcean security and IAM capabilities is clearly communicated to customers

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in Product Management or a related technical role
• Experience working on cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, IAM, or security-related products
• Experience releasing customer-facing IAM, access control, identity, or security products, preferably in cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, SaaS, or enterprise control-plane environments
• Strong technical fluency with distributed systems, APIs, authentication, authorization, and modern cloud architectures
• Familiarity with identity and access concepts such as service accounts, API tokens, scoped permissions, RBAC, federation, workload identity, auditability, and credential lifecycle management
• Familiarity with AI-native infrastructure patterns, including machine identity, agent identity, delegated access, MCP-style workflows, and secure access for automated systems
• Experience partnering closely with engineering teams to define technical capabilities and deliver complex platform products
• Ability to translate customer problems into clear product strategy, requirements, and customer-facing experiences
• Strong written communication skills and ability to produce clear product narratives, specifications, and documentation
• Use tools like Figma, Cursor, Claude, and other prototyping or AI-assisted development tools to create mockups, workflow prototypes, and product concepts when needed to clarify requirements, test ideas, and unblock engineering, particularly in situations where design resources are limited
• Experience working cross-functionally across engineering, design, security, infrastructure, and go-to-market teams
• Comfort operating in fast-moving environments where product direction evolves with customer insight
• A collaborative ownership mindset and ability to drive alignment across multiple teams while staying accountable for customer value and product outcomes