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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 are looking for a strategic, growth-oriented leader to serve as DigitalOcean’s primary point person for the global investment community. Reporting to the SVP of Corporate Development and Investor Relations, the Director of Investor Relations will act as the architect of our financial narrative, bridging the gap between our internal product evolution and the external investment landscape.
What You’ll Do:- Strategic Narrative: Architecting a comprehensive investor relations roadmap that identifies key potential shareholders and articulates a message aligned with DigitalOcean’s mission to simplify the cloud and AI-Native workloads.
- Relationship Stewardship: Building and nurturing deep-rooted trust within the investor community, including both sell side analysts and buy side investors, proactively educating stakeholders on our operations and long-term scaling objectives.
- Financial Storytelling: Crafting high-impact presentations, press releases, and scripts for earnings calls that translate complex financial data into a compelling vision for growth.
- KPI Management: Partnering with FP&A and operating units to track and report key metrics, ensuring our guidance models and performance tracking remain robust and transparent.
- Cross-Functional Synergy: Collaborating with Product, Marketing, finance and Legal teams to ensure a unified external voice that accurately represents our product roadmap.
- Market Intelligence: Maintaining rigorous competitive analysis and peer benchmarking to help DigitalOcean anticipate market trends and optimize our long-term investor mix.
- Required:
- Financial & Analytical Mastery: A strong background in financial analysis or accounting with a demonstrated ability to build guidance models and track complex performance metrics.
- Strategic Communication: A proven track record of building relationships in the investor community and the ability to counsel senior executives on external presentations and releases.
- Operational Excellence: A detail-oriented and highly organized approach, with the ability to consistently meet deadlines within the fixed timeframes of the financial reporting cycle.
- Investor Relations Experience: Prior investor relations experience at a publicly traded software or cloud infrastructure company is required.
- Preferred:
- Growth Mindset & Soft Skills: A proactive, persuasive communicator with an entrepreneurial spirit and a "team-first" mentality who thrives in fast-paced, high-aspiration environments.
- Software / Cloud Infrastructure Expertise: Previous experience with consumption and subscription-based revenue models, key cloud infrastructure metrics (ARR, net dollar retention, GPU/AI workload economics), and the competitive dynamics of the developer and SMB cloud market is essential to hit the ground running.
- $178,000 - $223,000
*This is a remote role
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Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean
- We innovate with purpose. You’ll be a part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. As a member of the team, you will be a Shark who thinks big, bold, and scrappy, like an owner with a bias for action and a powerful sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, and decisions.
- 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 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 reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
- DigitalOcean is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.
Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.
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