Principal Product Manager - Clickhouse Cloud

ClickHouse ClickHouse · Data AI · United States · Product Management

Principal Product Manager for ClickHouse Cloud, focusing on cloud-native database capabilities for analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI workloads. The role involves defining product roadmaps, collaborating with engineering, gathering customer insights, and supporting feature launches. Requires strong product management experience in SaaS, familiarity with databases and distributed systems, and SQL expertise.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define and drive the product roadmap for ClickHouse Cloud, with a focus on cloud-native database capabilities such as multi-region replication, distributed query execution, fault tolerance, storage tiering, and schema evolution.
  2. Collaborate with engineering to prioritize and deliver improvements to the core database engine, storage layer, and query optimizer, ensuring the Cloud offering keeps pace with open-source and enterprise use cases.
  3. Engage directly with customers, gathering insights through interactions, feedback, and market research to guide product decisions.
  4. Work alongside design, marketing, operations, and sales teams to support feature launches, contribute to blog posts, and help shape product positioning and messaging.
  5. Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure product success.

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years of product management experience
  • Strong background in cloud-based SaaS products
  • Hands-on experience with SQL
  • Strong understanding of query execution, indexing strategies, partitioning, and performance tuning
  • Experience working with databases such as ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or other columnar databases
  • Understanding of modern data infrastructure: data lakes, ETL pipelines, CDC and data orchestration frameworks
  • Demonstrated ability to work with engineering on low-level technical topics, such as schema management, query planning, storage engines, schema design
  • Experience designing and delivering features such as database replication, consistency models, and backup/restore workflows
  • Strong leadership skills
  • Ability to influence cross-functional teams and drive execution
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills

Nice to have

  • Deep familiarity with database systems, distributed systems, or real-time analytics platforms
  • Experience working and scaling open source technologies
  • Prior experience at a startup