DigitalOcean

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Job Description: • 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. • Serve as the technical product owner for your scope by maintaining a healthy backlog, writing high-quality user stories and acceptance criteria, and keeping engineering unblocked through fast decisions and clear tradeoffs. • Partner deeply with engineering leadership to drive delivery planning, estimates, dependency management, and release readiness, with a focus on predictable outcomes and minimal rework. • Collaborate with UX and UI to design simple security experiences in the DigitalOcean console and API, then convert designs into actionable requirements, workflows, and instrumentation needs. • Work cross-functionally across Security, IAM, Networking, Support, Billing, and service teams to ensure integrated customer journeys, clear ownership boundaries, and clean remediation paths. • Define and maintain release criteria for your scope, including quality bars, rollout approach, customer readiness inputs, and internal enablement requirements. • Produce clear written narratives and launch assets that explain customer value, expected behavior, and operational considerations, in partnership with Corporate Communications, Product Marketing, and Developer Relations. • Create and maintain reusable templates, checklists, and stakeholder workflows that make product launches and customer updates consistent and low-friction. • Help align incident response communications by maintaining customer-facing update templates, coordinating stakeholder workflows, and ensuring product and incident messaging remains accurate and timely during high-priority events. • Use customer feedback, product data, and operational learnings to iterate quickly, reduce friction, and improve the effectiveness of Security Products over time. Requirements: • 5+ years of experience in Product Management or a related technical field • Prior product experience in cloud, SaaS, or security products preferred • Strong ability to partner with engineering teams at a high level of technical detail • Experience translating strategy and customer needs into clear engineering requirements, sequencing, and shippable increments • Strong writing skills with the ability to produce clear requirements and documentation • Experience with 0 to 1 product development or early-stage product execution • Understanding of security concepts such as posture management, IAM, logging, or WAF preferred • Experience working with UX and UI teams to translate problem statements into intuitive experiences • Ability to work across multiple teams to align on requirements, dependencies, and system interactions • Comfort working in a fast-paced environment with evolving inputs and a bias toward action • A collaborative, low-ego approach that strengthens team health and accelerates delivery Benefits: • Employee Assistance Program • Local Employee Meetups • Flexible time off policy • Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education • Access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses • Competitive array of benefits to support well-being • Bonus based on company and individual performance • Equity compensation including equity grants upon hire • Participation in Employee Stock Purchase Program