Senior Staff Product Manager, Security Products

About DigitalOcean DigitalOcean is the AI-Native Cloud purpose-built for the inference and agentic era. Its five-layer integrated platform—spanning GPU and CPU infrastructure, core cloud, inference, data, and managed agent orchestration—is open throughout with no vendor lock-in, giving builders everything they need to start fast, scale production AI workloads, and improve unit economics. More than 650,000 customers and millions of developers globally trust DigitalOcean to build, ship, and scale their applications.

DigitalOcean

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digitalocean.com

1,001-5,000 employees

Software Development

Broomfield, Colorado

2012

Public Company

177k LinkedIn followers

• Own the complete product lifecycle across DigitalOcean’s Security Products
• portfolio, including discovery, strategy, experience design, prototyping,
• usability validation, delivery, launch, adoption, and iteration.
• Build direct relationships with customers, prospects, and design partners to
• understand their security workflows, existing tools, unmet needs, buying
• considerations, and barriers to adoption.
• Turn customer interviews, product usage, support patterns, market research,
• and competitive intelligence into clear product insights and investment
• recommendations.
• Define and evolve an opinionated Security Products strategy aligned with the
• needs of DigitalOcean customers and the direction of Agentic Cloud, Core
• Compute, and the broader platform.
• Shape a unified security experience in the DigitalOcean console that gives
• customers a clear, actionable view of their security posture, risks,
• identities, secrets, vulnerabilities, and available protections.
• Identify and validate new product opportunities across areas such as cloud
• security posture management, secrets management, vulnerability management,
• identity and access management, secrets observability, web application
• security, and emerging agent security needs.
• Lead zero-to-one product development from initial problem definition and
• value proposition through prototypes, customer validation, technical
• implementation, launch, and measurable adoption.
• Work directly with UX and customers to design, prototype, test, and refine
• security experiences before and throughout engineering delivery.
• Partner deeply with engineering leadership and architects to shape platform
• capabilities, assess technical tradeoffs, sequence foundational investments,
• and establish a credible path from initial product to scalable service.
• Define product requirements, customer journeys, APIs, workflows, packaging
• considerations, instrumentation, launch criteria, and success measures
• without losing sight of the underlying customer outcome.
• Connect individual security products into a coherent portfolio rather than
• allowing them to become disconnected tools with inconsistent experiences.
• Lead customer-facing launches in partnership with Product Marketing,
• Developer Relations, Sales, Support, and other teams, ensuring the product,
• positioning, documentation, enablement, and feedback mechanisms are ready.
• Measure product success through adoption, engagement, retention, customer
• security outcomes, expansion, and revenue potential, then use those signals
• to guide continued investment.
• Represent Security Products in customer conversations, strategic planning,
• technical reviews, go-to-market discussions, and senior leadership decisions.
• Successful validation and launch of zero-to-one products
• Measurable improvement in customers’ ability to identify, understand, and
• reduce security risk
• Customer satisfaction and usability across the unified security experience
• Growth in portfolio usage, retention, expansion, and revenue
• Quality and velocity of customer learning, from discovery through post-launch
• iteration
• Effective integration of Security Products across Agentic Cloud, Core
• Compute, and the broader DigitalOcean platform
• Significant experience building and launching customer-facing cloud,
• infrastructure, developer, or security products.
• Demonstrated ownership of the full product lifecycle, including customer
• discovery, product strategy, prototyping, usability testing, technical
• delivery, launch, adoption, and iteration.
• Experience taking complex technical products from zero to one and creating
• clarity where the customer problem, product boundaries, or technical path are
• initially ambiguous.
• Strong customer discovery skills and experience turning interviews, observed
• workflows, product data, and market evidence into specific product decisions.
• Experience developing coherent product strategy across a portfolio or
• multiple related product capabilities.
• Familiarity with several security areas such as unified security experiences,
• cloud security posture management, secrets management, vulnerability
• management, identity and access management, secrets observability, web
• application firewalls, workload security, or agent security. Deep experience
• in every area is not required.
• Strong technical fluency and the ability to work directly with engineers and
• architects on APIs, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, identity,
• security models, and platform tradeoffs.
• Strong product and experience judgment, including the ability to use
• prototypes and usability validation to simplify complex security workflows.
• A track record of leading customer-facing launches that include product
• readiness, positioning, documentation, enablement, instrumentation, and
• post-launch learning.
• The ability to form and defend an opinionated product direction while
• changing course when customer, market, or technical evidence requires it.
• Experience connecting customer security outcomes to adoption, retention,
• differentiation, and business value.
• A hands-on leadership style. You can set portfolio direction, interview
• customers, work through a prototype, engage in technical design, make
• prioritization decisions, and drive a launch end to end.

• $186,400 - $233,000
• We innovate with purpose. You’ll be a part of a cutting-edge technology
• company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud and AI so
• builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. As a
• member of the team, you will be a Shark who thinks big, bold, and scrappy,
• like an owner with a bias for action and a powerful sense of responsibility
• for customers, products, employees, and decisions.
• We prioritize career development. At DO, you’ll do the best work of your
• career. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people
• in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that will always
• challenge you to think big. Our organizational development team will provide
• you with resources to ensure you keep growing. We provide employees with
• reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education. All
• employees have access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses to support their
• continued growth and development.
• We care about your well-being. Regardless of your location, we will provide
• you with a competitive array of benefits to support you from our Employee
• Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to
• name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide,
• specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.
• We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on
• market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You 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 equity grants upon hire and the option to
• participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
• DigitalOcean is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the
• basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual
• Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day
• period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages
• thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.