Lead Product Marketing, PR, and Corporate Communications
Inspire and develop a team of storytellers and communicators who bring DigitalOcean’s value to life for developers, startups, and AI-native builders.
Design and operationalize the playbooks, processes, and cross-functional rituals that make our positioning sharper, our launches more impactful, and our narrative a consistent force across every channel where DO shows up.
Own and Execute DigitalOcean’s Corporate Narrative
Serve as the day-to-day owner of DigitalOcean’s corporate narrative — ensuring it is crisp, differentiated, and consistently reinforced across all internal and external motions.
Partner cross-functionally with Product, CEO Staff, DevRel, Sales, Growth, and Events to ensure messaging is aligned, trusted, and used.
Translate complex technical and AI-native concepts into simple, memorable stories that resonate with developers, startups, and growth-stage companies.
Build a High-Credibility, High-Velocity PR Engine
Take full ownership of PR: strategy, execution, relationships, messaging, and metrics. Lead DigitalOcean’s shift from an agency-driven PR model to a strategic, internally led powerhouse.
Develop and scale a systematic cadence of:
Executive visibility and thought leadership
Proactive media outreach
Industry commentary and timely rapid response
Customer stories and product storytelling that land in press
Build and operationalize the CEO’s public platform on cloud, AI, economics, and builder ecosystems — including social amplification.
Establish and Lead Analyst Relations
Establish DigitalOcean’s analyst relations engine and elevate how influential third-party voices perceive and categorize the emerging AI cloud landscape.
Drive consistent briefings, positioning documents, and narrative alignment to secure inclusion in waves, quadrants, and landscape reports.
Ensure analyst perception moves in measurable, positive ways.
Deliver Launches and Product Communications That Drive Adoption
Lead end-to-end product marketing for major launches, ensuring clarity, value articulation, customer proof, and external amplification.
Partner with Product and Growth to ensure launches drive adoption, attach, and awareness
Enable High-Impact Sales & GTM Alignment
Build competitive positioning, talk tracks, and enablement assets that increase seller confidence and accelerate deal cycles.
Equip Sales with the narratives and assets needed to drive multi-product, strategic deals across the platform.
Make PR and Narrative a Driver of Business Outcomes
Use data, market intelligence, customer insights, and sentiment analysis to refine and strengthen our story.
Tie PR and comms efforts directly to measurable outcomes across pipeline, branded search, site traffic, and sales opportunities.
Ensure DigitalOcean becomes a recognized, credible, and referenced voice in the AI/cloud conversation.
