• We are looking for a Product Owner Specialist responsible for leading the strategy, evolution, and sustainment of critical financial products, working with high autonomy and directly impacting business results. • Key role in defining and evolving the end-to-end payments journey, ensuring scalability, operational efficiency, security, and excellence in customer experience. • Drive the payments product strategy, connecting business vision, technology, and customer experience. • Define and evolve the short-, medium-, and long-term roadmap, with a focus on value creation and financial results. • Manage and prioritize the product backlog, balancing value, effort, and risk. • Define releases, MVPs, and incremental delivery strategies, ensuring continuous learning. • Build and refine user stories together with the engineering team.

• Support product roadmap execution by helping translate company goals, customer needs, and team input into clear priorities and deliverables. • Partner with Product Managers and engineering teams to coordinate feature development, follow-ups, and release readiness. • Gather and synthesize customer, sales, support, and market feedback to help inform product decisions and identify opportunities for improvement. • Assist with product messaging, internal enablement materials, and go-to-market preparation alongside marketing, sales, and customer success teams. • Write and maintain research documentation, product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and other supporting documentation.

Role Description We are looking for a Senior Product Manager II to help build DigitalOcean’s next generation of security and identity capabilities. This role will lead one of the core product surfaces within the Security Products portfolio and help define how secure access, identity, and workload trust are delivered across the DigitalOcean platform. As a Senior Technical Product Manager, you will: - Own the roadmap for your product surface within the Security Products portfolio, translating customer needs and platform capabilities into a clear multi-quarter product strategy. - Translate complex identity, access, and security problems into intuitive experiences in the DigitalOcean console and API, focusing on usability for developers and small teams without sacrificing security or capability. - Work closely with engineering leaders to define architecture, shape technical direction, and ensure product decisions reflect both customer value and platform realities. - Engage directly with customers to understand how they manage access, credentials, automation, CI/CD workflows, service-owned workloads, and security in cloud environments today, then identify friction points and shape solutions that reduce operational complexity. - Drive the full product lifecycle from discovery through launch and iteration. Write clear product narratives and requirements, align cross-functional teams, and ensure successful delivery. - Collaborate with teams across Security, IAM, Accounts, Networking, Compute, App Platform, Inference, Billing, and Support to ensure security and identity capabilities integrate cleanly into the broader DigitalOcean experience. - Use prototyping tools, including Figma, Cursor, Claude, and other AI-assisted development tools, to clarify product requirements, test experience concepts, and help move ideas from customer problem to usable product experience. - Define clear success metrics, analyze product usage and customer feedback, and continuously refine the product to increase adoption, reduce customer risk, and improve customer value. - Partner with developer relations, marketing, and communications to ensure the value of DigitalOcean security and IAM capabilities is clearly communicated to customers. Qualifications - 5+ years of experience in Product Management or a related technical role. - Experience working on cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, IAM, or security-related products. - Experience releasing customer-facing IAM, access control, identity, or security products, preferably in cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, SaaS, or enterprise control-plane environments. - Strong technical fluency with distributed systems, APIs, authentication, authorization, and modern cloud architectures. - Familiarity with identity and access concepts such as service accounts, API tokens, scoped permissions, RBAC, federation, workload identity, auditability, and credential lifecycle management. - Familiarity with AI-native infrastructure patterns, including machine identity, agent identity, delegated access, MCP-style workflows, and secure access for automated systems. - Experience partnering closely with engineering teams to define technical capabilities and deliver complex platform products. - Ability to translate customer problems into clear product strategy, requirements, and customer-facing experiences. - Strong written communication skills and ability to produce clear product narratives, specifications, and documentation. - Use tools like Figma, Cursor, Claude, and other prototyping or AI-assisted development tools to create mockups, workflow prototypes, and product concepts when needed to clarify requirements, test ideas, and unblock engineering, particularly in situations where design resources are limited. - Experience working cross-functionally across engineering, design, security, infrastructure, and go-to-market teams. - Comfort operating in fast-moving environments where product direction evolves with customer insight. - A collaborative ownership mindset and ability to drive alignment across multiple teams while staying accountable for customer value and product outcomes. Requirements - Adoption and usage of owned security and IAM capabilities. - Customer security outcomes and risk reduction. - Reduction in long-lived credential usage and shared access patterns. - Product delivery predictability and release quality. - Customer feedback and developer satisfaction. - Cross-product platform integration effectiveness. Benefits - Competitive array of benefits to support employee well-being. - Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education. - Access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses for continued growth and development. - Equity compensation, including equity grants upon hire and participation in the Employee Stock Purchase Program.

Role Description - Own the overall health and performance of the Mitra9 product portfolio. - Conduct ongoing portfolio reviews focused on revenue, profitability, inventory performance, consumer demand, and strategic fit. - Lead SKU rationalization efforts and recommend additions, modifications, or discontinuations. - Develop channel-specific assortment strategies and product configurations. - Maintain product lifecycle plans from concept through end-of-life. - Partner with Finance to evaluate product-level performance and profitability opportunities. Innovation & Future Growth - Develop and maintain Mitra9's innovation pipeline and future product roadmap. - Identify emerging consumer trends, category opportunities, and whitespace opportunities. - Conduct competitive analysis and market intelligence reviews. - Build product business cases and growth recommendations for future innovation initiatives. - Partner with Marketing, Sales, Operations, and R&D/QA to evaluate new products, formats, flavors, packaging, and channel opportunities. - Translate consumer insights into actionable growth opportunities. Consumer Insights & Brand Stewardship - Serve as the voice of the consumer throughout product portfolio decision-making. - Analyze customer reviews, surveys, purchase behavior, subscription trends, and market feedback. - Develop recommendations around product positioning, packaging strategy, and consumer communication. - Ensure products align with overall brand strategy and consumer expectations. - Support brand architecture and portfolio expansion decisions. - Partner with Marketing to ensure portfolio strategy is reflected in go-to-market execution. Strategic Sourcing & Supplier Optimization - Identify opportunities to improve margins through supplier, packaging, ingredient, and manufacturing optimization. - Support supplier evaluations, negotiations, and sourcing initiatives. - Develop business cases for sourcing improvements and cost-saving opportunities. - Evaluate supplier performance and recommend improvements to cost, service, quality, and lead times. - Partner with Operations to identify opportunities for supply chain efficiency and working capital improvements. - Monitor industry trends and supplier markets to proactively identify opportunities and risks. Operations & Supply Planning Support - Partner with Operations to support forecasting, inventory planning, and new product introductions. - Participate in S&OP planning and portfolio decision-making. - Evaluate inventory risks associated with product launches, transitions, and portfolio changes. - Support commercialization readiness for new products and major product updates. - Assist in identifying opportunities to improve inventory turns and reduce obsolete inventory. - Ensure portfolio decisions align with operational capabilities and scalability requirements. Cross-Functional Leadership - Serve as the central coordinator between Marketing, Sales, Operations, Finance, R&D/QA, and Supply Chain for portfolio-related initiatives. - Lead cross-functional discussions regarding portfolio performance, innovation opportunities, sourcing initiatives, and product lifecycle decisions. - Establish reporting and review processes that improve visibility into portfolio performance. - Drive alignment between commercial objectives and operational execution. Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Supply Chain, Product Development, Merchandising, Finance, or related field. - 5+ years of experience in portfolio management, product management, merchandising, category management, commercialization, sourcing, or related business functions. - Strong understanding of product lifecycle management, portfolio strategy, and consumer insights. - Experience evaluating product profitability, margins, pricing, and business performance. - Experience working with suppliers, manufacturers, packaging vendors, or sourcing partners. - Demonstrated ability to identify growth opportunities and translate insights into business recommendations. - Strong analytical, financial, and problem-solving skills. - Excellent project management and cross-functional leadership capabilities. - Experience within consumer packaged goods, beverage, food, wellness, retail, or related industries preferred.