Senior Technical Product Manager I – Security Products

Job Description

Senior Technical Product Manager I, Security Products | DigitalOcean

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at DigitalOcean, located remotely. DigitalOcean builds the simplest scalable cloud, and this role is crucial for developing and delivering the company’s Security Products, ensuring high execution quality and clear communication to customers. It involves working alongside a strong community of talent, fostering a growth mindset, and operating in a fast-paced environment where thinking big and bold is valued. The company emphasizes winning together—while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for dreamers and builders.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Remote
• Pay: $131200–$164000 yearly
• Team: Reports to the Head of Security Products
• Mission: This person translates customer needs and security outcomes into well-scoped work, crisp requirements, and shippable increments for DigitalOcean’s Security Products.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Own Execution: Own the end-to-end execution of one or more Security Products workstreams, translating strategy and customer needs into clear requirements, sequencing, and shippable increments.
• Product Ownership: Serve as the technical product owner by maintaining a healthy backlog, writing high-quality user stories and acceptance criteria, and unblocking engineering with fast decisions and clear tradeoffs.
• Delivery Partnership: Partner deeply with engineering leadership to drive delivery planning, estimates, dependency management, and release readiness, ensuring predictable outcomes and minimal rework.
• Customer Communication: Produce clear written narratives and launch assets explaining customer value, expected behavior, and operational considerations, and create reusable templates and workflows for consistent product launches and incident updates.
• Cross-Functional Alignment: Collaborate with UX, UI, and various internal teams including Security, IAM, Networking, Support, and Billing to ensure integrated customer journeys, clear ownership boundaries, and clean remediation paths.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Senior level product management focused on security products.
• Experience: 5+ years in Product Management or a related technical field, with prior product experience in cloud, SaaS, or security products, and a strong ability to translate strategy and customer needs into clear engineering requirements, sequencing, and shippable increments.
• Skills: Strong writing skills for producing clear requirements and documentation, experience with 0 to 1 product development or early-stage product execution, experience working with design tools (like Figma), UX, and UI teams, and comfort working in an evolving, fast-paced environment with a bias toward action.
• Bonus: Understanding of security concepts such as posture management, IAM, logging, or WAF is preferred.