Senior Technical Product Manager - Core Database

Summary

Join ClickHouse, a leading open-source column-oriented database company, as a Technical Product Manager. You will be responsible for understanding real-time analytics and cloud database markets, engaging with the ClickHouse community and customers, prioritizing feature requests, working with engineering teams, setting measurable goals, and staying updated on market trends. This role requires deep technical knowledge of OLAP technology, including expert SQL skills, and experience with open-source projects. You will need excellent communication skills and the ability to influence stakeholders. Bonus points for contributions to open-source projects and engineering experience. The position is remote within the United States.

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 globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in 20 countries
• 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 other countries
• A $500 Home office setup if you’re a remote employee
• Global Gatherings – We believe in the power of in-person connection and offer opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites