Director of Product, ClickHouse Cloud

Responsibilities

• Define the multi-year product strategy and roadmap for ClickHouse Cloud, covering cloud-native database capabilities including multi-region replication, distributed query execution, fault tolerance, storage tiering, schema evolution, and disaster recovery.
• Partner closely with Engineering leadership to prioritize investments across the core database engine, storage layer, and query execution framework, ensuring Cloud evolves alongside our open-source platform while meeting enterprise customer needs.
• Coach and mentor Product Managers across adjacent platform areas, helping drive prioritization, resolve cross-team dependencies, and maintain a cohesive platform strategy.
• Partner with Design, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Support, and Customer Success to deliver compelling product launches and customer experiences.
• Balance long-term platform investments with near-term customer commitments and business priorities.
• Partner with Engineering leadership to make informed investment and resourcing decisions across the platform roadmap.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to executives and cross-functional partners, providing clear visibility into product strategy, execution, risks, and trade-offs.
• Represent ClickHouse with strategic customers, partners, and at industry events, translating customer needs into long-term product direction.

Requirements

• 10+ years of Product Management experience, including significant experience defining strategy for cloud infrastructure, enterprise SaaS, developer platforms, or database products.
• Demonstrated ability to influence product direction across multiple engineering teams and drive large cross-functional initiatives.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and modern data infrastructure.
• Comfortable working at both strategic and technical levels, partnering closely with senior engineering leaders on architectural decisions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with engineers, executives, customers, and external audiences.
• Strong understanding of SQL, query execution, indexing, partitioning, and database performance optimization.
• Experience working with databases such as ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or other distributed or analytical database systems.
• Familiarity with modern data infrastructure, including data lakes, ETL pipelines, CDC, orchestration platforms, and cloud-native data architectures.
• Ability to discuss technical concepts such as schema management, query planning, storage engines, replication, consistency models, backup and recovery, and distributed systems design with engineering teams.
• Experience shipping or contributing to complex infrastructure capabilities such as replication, disaster recovery, storage systems, consistency models, or backup and restore workflows.
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority.
• Experience representing products with customers, analysts, or at industry conferences.
• Track record of coaching, mentoring, or guiding Product Managers, either formally or informally.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience working on or contributing to open-source projects.
• Experience in high-growth startup environments.

Compensation

• Typical starting salary in the US: $180,000–$250,000 USD.
• Typical starting salary in US Premium Markets: $230,000–$290,000 USD.
• Equity in the company.
• Flexible work environment.
• Healthcare with employer contributions.
• Flexible time off.
• $500 home office setup for remote employees.
• Global offsites.