Principal Product Manager, Agentic AI Infrastructure
DigitalOcean is hiring a Principal Product Manager to own the strategy and roadmap for a new managed agentic AI infrastructure product line (e.g., Action Gateway, Inference Router). Day to day, they work with agent-native customers and engineering to define services around MicroVMs, sandboxing, tool execution, and observability, shape developer experience, and launch and price new SKUs.
- Compensation
- $218.4K–$273K / yr
- Location
- Seattle
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Principal
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Product
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Strong product leadership in infrastructure or developer platforms (cloud infrastructure, developer tools, ML platforms, runtime systems, workflow engines, security products, or API-first platforms)
- Fluency in agentic AI systems (tools, code execution, context management, API calls, long-running sessions, external systems)
- Technical depth in cloud primitives: containers, MicroVMs, sandboxing, IAM, stateful workloads, distributed systems, observability, secure execution
- Customer-backed product instincts: turning ambiguous early-customer feedback into product direction and roadmap
- Strong systems thinking across UX, architecture, security, reliability, pricing, and operational complexity
- Developer empathy: simple APIs, clear mental models, fast onboarding, trustworthy docs
- Business judgment connecting product investments to revenue, adoption, margin, and platform strategy
- Executive communication and influence across engineering, design, GTM, finance, legal, security, and executive stakeholders
Nice to have
- Category-building mindset for emerging markets with undefined primitives
Full description
Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey alongside a strong community of top talent who are relentless in their drive to build the simplest scalable cloud. If you have a growth mindset, naturally like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast-paced environment of a true industry disruptor, you’ll find your place here. We value winning together—while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and builders in the world.
Are you passionate about building the next generation of infrastructure for the future 100 million developers? Are you excited to define the products that AI-native companies will use to build, scale, and operate agents in production?DigitalOcean is entering a pivotal moment as we build infrastructure for the agentic future. Agents will change how software is built, deployed, operated, and scaled. Developers will need infrastructure that lets them move from local development to cloud execution, from short-running tasks to long-horizon workflows, and from experimental prototypes to reliable production systems.
We are looking for a Principal Product Manager for Agentic AI Infrastructure to define and own the product strategy for a new generation of managed agent infrastructure products. This role will shape one or more products like Action Gateway, Inference Router, and related services that make it simple for developers to run, scale, and operate agents in the cloud.This is a rare opportunity to help define a new product category at DigitalOcean and build the infrastructure layer that agent-native companies will depend on.
What You’ll Do
- Define the Agentic AI infrastructure product strategy: Own the product vision, roadmap, and execution plan for DigitalOcean’s managed agent infrastructure products.
- Build foundational agent infrastructure products: Lead product definition for services such as Action Gateway, Inference Router, and related developer experiences.
- Work backwards from agent-native customers: Partner directly with companies building coding agents, productivity agents, workflow agents, and custom AI systems to understand the infrastructure they need to move from prototype to production.
- Create simple abstractions for complex workloads: Define product experiences that make it easy for developers to run long-lived agents, fork sessions, resume work, attach tools, manage credentials, execute code safely, and observe agent behavior.
- Shape the developer experience: Build intuitive APIs, CLIs, docs, examples, and workflows that let developers bring their existing harnesses and agent frameworks to DigitalOcean with minimal friction.
- Partner with engineering on architecture and tradeoffs: Work closely with engineering leaders to translate customer needs into product requirements across MicroVMs, sandboxing, tool execution, identity, state management, observability, security, and scale.