Principal Product Manager – ClickHouse Cloud

Overview

As Principal Product Manager for ClickHouse Cloud, you shape the cloud-native database offering and drive its roadmap. You collaborate with engineering, customers, and cross-functional teams to deliver a scalable, multi-region, fault-tolerant service. You translate market needs into product decisions and measure success with clear KPIs. This role balances technical depth with communication, influencing both product and go-to-market aspects in a fast-growing startup.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible work environment
• healthcare contributions
• equity in the company
• time off with generous entitlement
• home office setup stipend
• global company culture and offsites

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the product roadmap for ClickHouse Cloud, focusing on cloud-native capabilities like multi-region replication, distributed query execution, fault tolerance, storage tiering, and schema evolution
• Prioritize and collaborate with engineering to improve core database engine, storage layer, and query optimizer to align with open-source and enterprise use cases
• Engage with customers to gather insights through interactions, feedback, and market research to inform decisions
• Coordinate with design, marketing, operations, and sales to support feature launches and shape product positioning and messaging
• Define and track KPIs to measure product success
• Act as the primary point of contact for all product communications and manage stakeholder expectations

Key requirements

• Minimum 8+ years in product management with cloud-based SaaS experience
• Strong background in database systems, distributed systems, or real-time analytics platforms preferred
• Hands-on SQL experience with understanding of query execution, indexing, partitioning, and performance tuning
• Experience with ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or other columnar databases
• Understanding of data infrastructure: data lakes, ETL pipelines, CDC and data orchestration frameworks
• Ability to work with engineering on low-level topics like schema management, query planning, storage engines, schema design
• Experience designing features for database replication, consistency models, and backup/restore workflows
• Strong leadership to influence cross-functional teams in a fast-growth environment
• Excellent communication and ability to simplify technical topics for non-technical audiences

• strong communication
• leadership
• cross-functional collaboration
• SQL
• query execution and optimization
• schema management

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