Senior Technical Product Manager II, Security Products

DigitalOcean is a cutting-edge technology company focused on simplifying cloud and AI for builders. They are seeking a Senior Technical Product Manager II to lead the execution of Security Products, ensuring high-quality delivery and effective communication of security outcomes.

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
• 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
• Experience working with design tools like Figma, UX and UI teams to translate problem statements into intuitive experiences