Technical Program Manager, Physical Infrastructure

DigitalOcean; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

DigitalOcean is seeking a Technical Program Manager for the Physical Infrastructure team to drive value across data center builds, hardware deployment, and fleet capacity. You will partner with Product, Engineering, and infrastructure to scale our cloud infrastructure and meet customer compute needs in a fast-paced environment.

You will champion continuous improvement, coordinate with vendors and internal teams, and keep programs on track through proactive follow-ups and clear communication of

Qualifications

• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams on complex programs.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• Comfort with fast-paced environments and ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Drive value delivery across assigned programs and special projects with defined workstreams.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Infra leads to optimize value delivery and practices.
• Coordinate with supply chain, facilities, hardware engineering, and internal teams through planning and deployment stages.
• Foster cross-team relationships to align stakeholders and enable decisions across locations.
• Communicate program requirements, timelines, objectives, risks, and status to internal and external stakeholders.
• Ensure follow-through on commitments and close loops on open questions and decisions.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional leadership

Technical literacy

Job 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.

We want people who are passionate about enabling the teams they work with to effectively and efficiently deliver value in line with the DigitalOcean vision.

As a Technical Program Manager on the Physical Infrastructure team, you will drive value delivery for a set of technical programs and special projects that bring our cloud and AI infrastructure to life, spanning data center build-outs, hardware deployment, capacity across our global fleet, and the operational initiatives that keep it all running. This individual will be a cross-functional collaborator who champions continuous improvement and thrives in a fast-paced environment, applying technical literacy along with relevant experience to navigate delivering on commitments.

In this role, you will partner with Product, Engineering, and infrastructure teams to drive the delivery of valuable technical programs that scale our agentic inference cloud and meet our customers' heavy compute needs. You will connect the work across the internal teams and outside vendors that get infrastructure online, embodying servant leadership to ensure efficient, effective value delivery. You will be a proactive collaborator while driving consensus where needed and influencing decisions when teams are stuck. A real part of this job is the steady, behind-the-scenes work of keeping people on track: following up, closing loops, and making sure commitments made in a meeting still hold down the line. You'll bring a growth mindset to all of it, prioritizing learning and improvement for yourself and the teams you work with, communicating the "why" behind change, and building learning cycles into how the team works.

At any given time, you may be working on projects ranging in variety from brand new hardware deployments, to new hiring and onboarding initiatives; from a Finance partnership in need of critical infrastructure context, to an expansion of datacenter capacity.

What You'll Do

• Drive value delivery across your assigned programs and special projects, including prioritization, planning, risk management, execution, and measurement of success. You'll own delivery of your programs and deliverables with guidance from your manager and senior TPMs, and lead defined workstreams on larger, more complex programs
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and infrastructure leads throughout the life of the program on value delivery and process/practice improvements
• Keep supply chain, facilities, hardware engineering, colocation providers, remote hands, and internal networking teams informed and aligned on the schedules for your programs, coordinating the steps from site and capacity planning through deployment
• Build relationships within and across teams to lead stakeholders toward a common goal; facilitate team and cross-functional meetings that foster decision-making across multiple teams and locations, and help your team prioritize work
• Communicate clearly and often about program requirements, timelines, objectives, status, risks, technical concepts, and process, so that expectations are understood and supported by both internal and external stakeholders
• Own the follow-through on your programs: tracking commitments across teams and vendors, checking in before a date slips, and closing the loop on open questions and decisions so