Principal Product Manager, Inference Engine

Digital Ocean
Seattle
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 218,400 - 273,000 annuallyFunction: Product ManagementSkills: ["Communication","Leadership","Problem-solving","Strategic thinking","Stakeholder management"]

Lead the GPU strategy and pricing for DigitalOcean’s AI inference platform, shipping high-performance, scalable infrastructure for AI-native developers and startups. Own roadmap, balance developer usability with infrastructure economics, and collaborate across engineering, finance, and GTM to maximize utilization, margin, and customer impact in a rapidly growing AI-enabled cloud service.

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Digital Ocean
Digital Ocean
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Principal Product Manager, Inference Engine

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Job Summary

Lead the GPU strategy and pricing for DigitalOcean’s AI inference platform, shipping high-performance, scalable infrastructure for AI-native developers and startups. Own roadmap, balance developer usability with infrastructure economics, and collaborate across engineering, finance, and GTM to maximize utilization, margin, and customer impact in a rapidly growing AI-enabled cloud service.
Location: Seattle
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Product Management
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the GPU strategy for the inference business: Define how to deploy, allocate, price, and optimize GPU capacity across serverless inference, dedicated inference, batch workloads, and future offerings.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 218,400 - 273,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Learning BudgetEquity CompensationAnnual Bonus

Key Requirements

  • •Deep product judgment in infrastructure or AI, with experience building infrastructure, developer platforms, ML platforms, or inference systems for developers and enterprises.
Experience:AIInfrastructureGPU
Skills:CommunicationLeadershipProblem-solvingStrategic thinkingStakeholder management
Languages:English
Tech Stack:GPUInferenceModel servingPrompt cachingBatchingLatencyObservabilityPricingServerless

Company Brief

Digital Ocean
Provides cloud infrastructure and developer-focused cloud services including scalable droplets, managed databases, Kubernetes, object storage, and networking to simplify deploying and managing applications for developers and small-to-medium businesses.
Industry: Cloud Computing
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 250M to 500M
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2011
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