Senior Technical Product Manager

Summary

Join ClickHouse, a company behind a high-performance columnar OLAP database, as a Product Manager. You will be responsible for understanding the real-time analytics and cloud database markets, engaging with the ClickHouse community, prioritizing feature requests, working with engineering teams, setting measurable goals, and staying updated on market trends. This role requires deep knowledge of data engineering markets, experience with ClickHouse or similar OLAP technology, and excellent communication skills. The position offers a flexible work environment, healthcare contributions, stock options, flexible time off, a home office setup allowance, and international mobility opportunities. The ideal candidate is passionate about data engineering, possesses strong technical skills, and enjoys working collaboratively.

Requirements

• Knowledgeable and passionate about data engineering markets - data warehousing, data analytics, data science, business intelligence, and observability
• Strong vision around where these markets are headed, and what it takes to become a leader in this space
• Previous experience with ClickHouse or a highly related OLAP technology at a deeply technical level, including expert SQL skills
• Previous experience with open-source projects, ideally as a product manager
• Passionate about building enterprise capabilities that are powerful yet easy to use
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Comfortable with public speaking at meetups, conferences, webinars
• Ability to influence multiple stakeholders without direct authority
• Comfortable working with ambiguity and evolving based on business needs
• Ability and desire to work with customers or community members, being able to provide technical guidance and help customers during their POC

Responsibilities

• Understand the real-time analytics and cloud database markets, competition, and technology trends in depth
• Engage with the ClickHouse open-source user community and ClickHouse Cloud customers to understand current and aspirational use cases for ClickHouse core database
• Distill and prioritize feature requests and issues into clear priorities for net-new capabilities and improvements
• Work with engineering teams to scope and refine approaches to solving customer problems, both in the core database and in ClickHouse Cloud offerings
• Set clear measurable goals around customer success, and use data-driven approaches to ensure new capabilities meet customer needs
• Stay up-to-date on the state of the market and competitive landscape to identify needed features and areas of improvement for ClickHouse that align with the roadmap and general requests received by our community and customers
• Work with partners to grow ClickHouse awareness and visibility

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous contributions to open-source projects
• Engineering experience, ideally around distributed/cloud systems in C++
• Experience effectively working remotely in a global, distributed organization

Benefits

• Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a distributed company offering remote-first work to all employees
• Healthcare - Employer contributions towards your healthcare
• Equity in the company - Every new team member who joins our company receives stock options
• Time off - Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in all countries
• A $500 Home office setup if you’re a remote employee
• Employee-driven international mobility - we enable you to relocate internationally if you wish (within certain countries and timelines and subject to role requirements, time zones and work permit considerations)