Director of Product Marketing

San Francisco, CA (Remote)

$174K/yr – $217K/yrDirector/ExecutiveFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Own the AI narrative and market position at DigitalOcean, building and scaling a world-class PMM team, turning complex AI capabilities into a clear value story, and guiding narrative-led GTM and sales enablement.

  • Lead a high-impact PMM team to translate architecture into market value.
  • Drive narrative-led GTM and customer storytelling that prove tangible value.
  • Define positioning and competitive moats to empower sales opportunities.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Architect and Evolve the Narrative: Own the development and global adoption of the DigitalOcean narrative. Transform complex product capabilities into a sharp market point of view—defining not just what we built, but who it’s for, what it replaces, and why it wins.
  • Lead, Scale, and Elevate: Hire, coach, and scale a world-class PMM team. You are responsible for raising both the floor and the ceiling of your team's output—ensuring technical accuracy while empowering your reports to become elite storytellers for complex AI capabilities.
  • Translate Architecture into Market Value: You bridge the gap between deep engineering and market-facing authority. You distill complex technical architectures—such as latency benchmarks, model quantization, and RAG efficiency—into the high-impact value propositions that convince technical buyers, media, and investors that DigitalOcean is the definitive platform for production-grade AI.
  • Orchestrate Narrative-Led GTM: Move beyond launching features. Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Marketing to drive narrative-led introductions, defining clear objectives, GTM strategies, and success metrics. Ensure every launch includes rigorous proof points that demonstrate tangible value to our ICP.
  • Own the Revenue Toolkit: Define our positioning and moats and against competitors. Translate technical intelligence and competitive differentiation into high-impact sales toolkits (e.g. pitch decks, playbooks, battlecards, and talk tracks) that give our field teams the technical and strategic confidence to win complex AI opportunities and close high-value deals.
  • Cultivate Radical Customer Empathy: Lead your team–and inspire other teams–in maintaining a real-time understanding of the technical buyer. You ensure our roadmap and messaging remain grounded in truth, steering the organization away from marketing fluff. You focus on celebrating our customers’ success and telling their stories, thereby pulling through vs. pushing DigitalOcean’s value message.

Requirements

  • Experienced Leader: A proven track record of hiring, coaching, and leading high-performing teams, with deep experience in product marketing for developer platforms or infrastructure. You are as comfortable presenting to the C-suite as you are reviewing a technical launch plan.
  • Hands-on and Curious: You love rolling up your sleeves and accomplishing things you’ve never done before. You don't wait for a technical writer to explain a feature; you test it yourself. You are comfortable in a terminal and an IDE, and you can spin up a containerized environment to see exactly how a product works.
  • AI-Native: You use AI daily to augment your own workflows. You have a pulse on the weekly shifts in the landscape—from model benchmarks to emerging agentic frameworks like AutoGen, CrewAI, or LangGraph.
  • Turn Ambiguity into Clarity: You can transform complex product capabilities into a sharp market point of view. You define the "ground truth" of what developers are building, steering the organization away from marketing fluff and toward provable value.
  • A "Shark" Mindset: You are a self-starter who thrives in ambiguity. You don’t wait for a playbook; you write it. You think big, bold, and scrappy.

Benefits

  • We care about your well-being. Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.
  • We prioritize career development. At DO, you’ll do the best work of your career. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that will always challenge you to think big. Our organizational development team will provide you with resources to ensure you keep growing. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education. All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses to support their continued growth and development.
  • We provide equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
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DigitalOcean

3.7 Glassdoor

DigitalOcean simplifies cloud computing so businesses can spend more time creating software that changes the world. With its mission-critical infrastructure and fully managed offerings, DigitalOcean helps developers at startups and growing digital businesses rapidly build, deploy and scale, whether creating a digital presence or building digital products. DigitalOcean combines the power of simplicity, security, community and customer support so customers can spend less time managing their infrastructure and more time building innovative applications that drive business growth.

Founded in 2012
Broomfield, Colorado, USA
2.3K employees (514 in marketing)
70% recommend to a friend
39% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$174K/yr – $217K/yr

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Funding

Total Funding
$1.9B
Last Raise
$625M
Post IPO Debt, 7 months ago

Funding History

  • Aug 2025
    Post IPO Debt • $625M
  • May 2025
    Post IPO Debt • $800M
  • Sep 2021
    Post IPO Equity • $34.9M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
3.7M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$125.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
49.7%
Direct
43.7%
Referral
5.1%
Social
0.6%
Paid
0.9%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~2.3K

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