Senior Technical Product Manager II, Security Products

DigitalOcean is a cutting-edge technology company focused on simplifying cloud services. The Senior Technical Product Manager II will oversee the execution of Security Products, ensuring that customer needs are met through clear requirements and effective communication with engineering and UX teams.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• 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
• 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
• Prior product experience in cloud, SaaS, or security products
• Understanding of security concepts such as posture management, IAM, logging, or WAF