Principal Product Manager

<div class="content-intro"><p>Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey alongside a strong community of top talent who are relentless in their drive to build the simplest scalable cloud. If you have a growth mindset, naturally like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast-paced environment of a true industry disruptor, you’ll find your place here. We value winning together—while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and builders in the world. </p></div><p>We’re looking for a Principal Product Manager to lead the evolution of DigitalOcean’s Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) )offerings. In this role, you’ll shape the future of developer experience on DO by building offerings like AI-friendly Databases and enabling enterprise scale, security, durability and much more - helping startups, SMBs and Enterprises go from code to scale with minimal friction.</p> <p>As Principal PM, you’ll drive product vision, strategy, execution and customer success for relational and non-relational database areas, collaborating with engineering, design, and marketing teams. You’ll bring a deep understanding of cloud-native databases, strong customer empathy, and a track record of delivering successful products. You will report to the Director of Product Management, and play a key role in shaping how customers build and deploy modern apps on DigitalOcean.</p> <h2>What You’ll Do:</h2> <ul> <li>Define the strategy and roadmap for DigitalOcean’s Databases offerings.</li> <li>Work closely with engineering and design to deliver performant, reliable, and delightful experiences.</li> <li>Partner with developer relations, marketing, and sales to drive awareness, adoption, and retention.</li> <li>Conduct deep customer research and usability testing to inform prioritization and validate solutions.</li> <li>Track competitive trends in the PaaS and serverless space to identify opportunities for differentiation.</li> <li>Collaborate with internal platform and infrastructure teams to ensure services are scalable and cost-efficient.</li> </ul> <h2>Key Metrics:</h2> <ul> <li>Customer adoption and retention</li> <li>Developer satisfaction and NPS</li> <li>Application performance and deployment reliability</li> <li>Revenue and usage growth</li> </ul> <h2>What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:</h2> <ul> <li>10+ years of product management experience, with 5+ years focused on databases.</li> <li>Fluency with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, others), no-sql (MongoDB, Linux foundation DocDB etc), vector databases and AI initiatives in databases.</li> <li>Strong technical understanding and collaboration with engineering teams.</li> <li>Experience owning full product lifecycles—from strategy and ideation to launch and iteration.</li> <li>Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with a track record of cross-functional influence.</li> <li>Bonus points for experience in developer-first SaaS companies or contributing to open-source platforms.</li> </ul> <h2>Compensation Range: </h2> <ul> <li>$211,200 - $264,000</li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">*This is a remote role</span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">#LI-Remote</span></em></span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">#LI-SK1</span></em></span></p><div class="content-conclusion"><h2 class="p-rich_text_section"><strong data-stringify-type="bold">Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean</strong></h2> <ul class="p-rich_text_list p-rich_text_list__bullet p-rich_text_list--nested" data-stringify-type="unordered-list" data-list-tree="true" data-indent="0" data-border="0"> <li data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0"><strong data-stringify-type="bold">We innovate with purpose. </strong>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 m ... (truncated, view full listing at source)