Senior Staff Product Manager, Query
Lead multi-year product strategy and architecture for MongoDB's distributed query engine. Mentor senior PMs, advise executives, and own pricing/monetization for the Query business unit.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Product Vision and Roadmap: Spearhead strategic unity across multiple product areas over a multi-year horizon to drive a coherent product experience
- Business Leadership: Originate and de-risk the division’s most consequential strategic bets, owning rigorous business cases and advising leadership on multi-year economic outcomes
- Customer Advocacy: Engage with strategically significant customers at the senior level (e.g., advisory boards and executive briefings) to surface cross-portfolio opportunities and inform the roadmap
- PM Excellence: Elevate the global standard of product management by mentoring Staff and Senior PMs and pioneering new data-driven playbooks across the organization. Create frameworks and standards for customer and market research that others use for conducting high-quality customer and market research
- Cross-Functional Alignment and Execution: Partner with Directors and VPs to shape investment allocation and sequencing across the query, developer experiences, and core database portfolio
- Market and Engagement: Act as a primary external face for the product line, representing MongoDB to the industry, developers, standards bodies and at major conferences
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional experience, including significant leadership in product management for platform, infrastructure, or database domains
- Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical issues simply and convincingly to a wide range of audiences, including executive leadership
- Proven success in delivering complex cross-functional projects and the ability to write, defend, and execute on multi-year business cases
- B.Sc. in a technical discipline, with Computer Science preferred, or equivalent relevant experience
- Deep technical fluency in database query engines, query languages (SQL, MQL, etc.), developer experiences, distributed systems, and potentially AI platform tooling or LLM orchestration
Nice to Have
- MBA, M.Sc., or Ph.D. in relevant technical or business domains
- Experience with MongoDB or other non-relational database technologies
- Demonstrated success leading products targeting developer personas in fast-paced, growing environments
- Familiarity with open-source and cloud-native technologies
Skills
Product Management, Database Query Engines, SQL, Mql, Distributed Systems, Developer Experience, Ai Platform Tooling, Llm Orchestration, Business Case Development, Cross-Functional Leadership
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