Senior Product Manager - Clickhouse Cloud

ClickHouse ClickHouse · Data AI · Product & Engineering

Senior Product Manager for ClickHouse Cloud, responsible for leading product development, defining roadmap, and collaborating with engineering, customers, and stakeholders on cloud-native database capabilities, core engine improvements, and customer engagement. Requires strong experience in cloud-based SaaS products, databases, and distributed systems.

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

  • 5+ 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 in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills

Nice to have

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

What the JD emphasized

  • cloud-based SaaS products
  • database systems
  • distributed systems
  • real-time analytics platforms
  • SQL
  • query execution
  • indexing strategies
  • partitioning
  • performance tuning
  • databases
  • data lakes
  • ETL pipelines
  • CDC
  • data orchestration frameworks
  • schema management
  • query planning
  • storage engines
  • schema design
  • database replication
  • consistency models
  • backup/restore workflows