Director of Product, Clickhouse Cloud

ClickHouse ClickHouse · Data AI · United States · Product Management

Director of Product Management for ClickHouse Cloud, focusing on defining the multi-year strategy and roadmap for foundational cloud capabilities like multi-region replication, distributed query execution, fault tolerance, and storage architecture. The role involves partnering with Engineering, Sales, Marketing, and Support to deliver compelling product launches and customer experiences, while also coaching other Product Managers and representing ClickHouse with strategic customers.

What you'd actually do

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Coach and mentor Product Managers across adjacent platform areas, helping drive prioritization, resolve cross-team dependencies, and maintain a cohesive platform strategy.
  4. Partner with Design, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Support, and Customer Success to deliver compelling product launches and customer experiences.
  5. Balance long-term platform investments with near-term customer commitments and business priorities.

Skills

Required

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

Nice to have

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