Principal Product Manager - ClickHouse Cloud

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the product roadmap for ClickHouse Cloud, focusing on cloud-native database capabilities such as multi-region replication, distributed query execution, fault tolerance, storage tiering, and schema evolution.
• Collaborate with engineering to prioritize and deliver improvements to the core database engine, storage layer, and query optimizer.
• Engage directly with customers to gather insights through interactions, feedback, and market research.
• Work with design, marketing, operations, and sales teams to support feature launches, contribute to blog posts, and shape product positioning.
• Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure product success.
• Act as the primary point of contact for product-related communications.

Requirements

• 8+ years of product management experience with cloud-based SaaS products.
• Deep familiarity with database systems, distributed systems, or real-time analytics platforms.
• Hands-on experience with SQL and understanding of query execution, indexing, partitioning, and performance tuning.
• Experience with databases such as ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or columnar databases.
• Understanding of modern data infrastructure: data lakes, ETL pipelines, CDC, and data orchestration frameworks.
• Ability to work with engineering on technical topics like schema management, query planning, storage engines.
• Experience designing features such as database replication, consistency models, backup/restore workflows.
• Strong leadership, communication, and presentation skills.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience scaling open source technologies.
• Prior experience at a startup.

Compensation

• Typical starting salary: $169,000–$225,000 USD.
• Premium markets (e.g., San Francisco Bay Area, New York City Metro): $188,000–$250,000 USD.