Owns technical revenue accounting for complex customer, partnership, and marketplace arrangements. Evaluates ASC 606 issues, advises commercial and product stakeholders, operationalizes new monetization models, and manages recurring accounting, reporting, controls, reconciliations, disclosures, and audit matters. Leads process, systems, automation, and AI improvements while partnering cross-functionally with Sales, Legal, Product, Billing, Engineering, and Finance.
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.
As a Revenue Accounting Lead at DigitalOcean, you will be a senior individual contributor on the Revenue Accounting & Operations team, reporting to the Sr. Director of Revenue Accounting & Operations. You will serve as a key Revenue Accounting partner to Sales, Partnerships, Legal, Product, Infrastructure, Billing, Engineering, and Finance, owning complex and non-standard revenue arrangements from commercial structure and ASC 606 assessment through operational design, implementation, and recurring execution. The ideal candidate combines strong technical accounting judgment with commercial fluency and an operator mindset, and can independently lead cross-functional collaborations while escalating the highest-risk judgments. appropriately.
What You’ll Do:- Own technical revenue accounting for complex and non-standard arrangements across customers, strategic partnerships and marketplaces, including ASC 606 assessments of pricing, variable consideration, contract modifications, and evolving commercial terms.
- Partner with Sales, Partnerships, Legal, Product and Finance before deals and new initiatives are finalized, providing practical accounting guidance and helping shape structures that achieve business objectives while appropriately addressing accounting and operational requirements.
- Lead the accounting operationalization of new arrangements and monetization models, translating contractual and product economics into billing, revenue recognition, reporting, data and control requirements and driving cross-functional implementation, including where existing systems do not natively support the terms.
- Own the ongoing accounting for assigned complex arrangements, including recurring calculations and estimates, monitoring contractual and delivery variables, assessing amendments and other changes, resolving issues, and ensuring accurate accounting through close and financial reporting.
- Support the broader revenue close, reporting and control environment, including review of analyses and workpapers, account reconciliations, disclosures, internal controls and external audit matters within areas of responsibility.
- Develop and lead process, system, automation and AI-enabled improvements that reduce manual effort and operational risk, strengthen controls, and make complex revenue accounting more scalable.
- Quality and timeliness of technical accounting assessments for complex deals, partnerships and pricing models.
- Accuracy and audit readiness of revenue accounting for owned arrangements, including timely identification and resolution of issues.
- Timely and effective operationalization of new arrangements, with clear accounting processes, controls, ownership and documentation.
- Improved scalability and efficiency of revenue operations through process, system, automation and AI-enabled improvements that reduce manual effort and recurring exceptions.
- Effectiveness as a cross-functional partner, including responsiveness and quality of support to commercial, product and Finance stakeholders.
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field. CPA preferred.
- 6+ years of progressive revenue accounting experience, ideally within SaaS, cloud, AI, infrastructure, or another technology business with complex usage-based and enterprise arrangements.
- Strong technical knowledge of ASC 606 and demonstrated ability to independently evaluate complex and non-standard contracts, including modifications, variable consideration and evolving pricing or commercial structures.
- Proven ability to partner with and influence cross-functional stakeholders across Sales, Partnerships, Legal, Product, Billing, Engineering and Finance, balancing commercial responsiveness with sound accounting judgment.
- Experience translating technical accounting conclusions into operational execution, including scalable processes, controls, system requirements and recurring accounting procedures.
- Experience with revenue operations and supporting systems, including billing, order-to-cash, ERP/revenue platforms (e.g., Oracle, NetSuite or RMCS), data analysis, automation and control design.
- Strong ownership, communication and problem-solving skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, clearly articulate technical conclusions, lead cross-functional initiatives and appropriately escalate high-risk matters.
- $120,000 - $150,000
*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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