Principal Product Manager - Ecosystems & Connectors

ClickHouse ClickHouse · Data AI · United States · Product Management

Product Manager for ClickHouse's connectors and ecosystem, focusing on data integration, partner relationships, and driving product strategy for data pipelines and analytics tools.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the product strategy, roadmap, and execution across ClickHouse's native connectors and partner ecosystem.
  2. Build close feedback loops with technology partners, driving co-innovation and a growing joint integration surface.
  3. Track the competitive landscape closely and form strong, data-backed opinions on which ecosystem investments will move the business.
  4. Work with engineering to build a roadmap that balances connector stability, ClickHouse feature coverage, and developer experience.
  5. Measure and communicate the business impact, ROI, and customer success of the connectors portfolio to leadership.

Skills

Required

  • modern data integration landscape
  • streaming
  • orchestration
  • ETL/ELT
  • ingestion
  • developer-facing platform products
  • APIs
  • schema design
  • performance trade-offs
  • connector architecture
  • customer conversations
  • partner relationships
  • industry events
  • publicly representing the product
  • customer-first instincts
  • crisp requirements
  • prioritized roadmap
  • fast-moving environments
  • high ownership
  • limited hand-holding
  • written and verbal communication
  • presenting roadmap strategy
  • presenting trade-offs
  • open source software
  • developer-focused products

Nice to have

  • integration / ecosystem product manager
  • engineer
  • solutions architect
  • ClickHouse
  • Snowflake
  • BigQuery
  • Redshift
  • remote, multi-timezone environments

What the JD emphasized

  • deep knowledge of the technologies and integration points within the ClickHouse ecosystem
  • define the strategy, build partner relationships, and drive execution
  • external face of the connectors team
  • building deep relationships with partners, customers, and the broader ClickHouse community
  • translate external signals and market trends into a roadmap
  • Deep, hands-on domain expertise in the modern data integration landscape: streaming, orchestration, ETL/ELT, ingestion, or developer-facing platform products.
  • Technical depth to hold peer-level conversations about APIs, schema design, performance trade-offs, and connector architecture.
  • You anticipate where the integration landscape is heading and bring that perspective to engineering and leadership before they ask.
  • External-facing: you're energized by customer conversations, partner relationships, industry events, and publicly representing the product.
  • Customer-first instincts: you translate loosely structured partner and customer signals into crisp requirements and a prioritized roadmap.
  • Comfortable operating in fast-moving environments with high ownership and limited hand-holding.
  • Strong written and verbal communication, including presenting roadmap strategy and trade-offs to engineering leadership and executives.
  • background working with open source software or developer-focused products