Senior Product Operations Manager

ClickHouse ClickHouse · Data AI · United States · Product Management

This role is for a Senior Product Operations Manager at ClickHouse, a company specializing in real-time analytics and AI workloads. The position is a greenfield role focused on building product operations from scratch, including establishing workflows, tooling, and metrics. The manager will work with PMs and Engineering to reduce operational overhead, leverage AI for repetitive tasks, and ensure information flow. Key responsibilities include owning the PM tooling stack (Linear, GitHub, Notion), building automations, identifying AI applications for operational efficiency, and managing launch readiness processes. The role requires 3-5 years of experience in product operations or a related field, proficiency with specific tools, and strong communication and organizational skills. The company is a fast-growing cloud company with significant customer adoption and recent funding.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own and continuously improve the PM tooling stack: Linear for issue and roadmap tracking, GitHub for engineering alignment, and Notion as the team's knowledge and documentation hub.
  2. Build lightweight automations and integrations across Linear, GitHub, and Notion — syncing issue states, triggering notifications, and surfacing relevant signals and dependencies, and auto-generate roadmaps.
  3. Identify opportunities to apply AI tools to product operations workflows — from drafting status updates to accelerating research synthesis and reducing repetitive coordination overhead.
  4. Translate company priorities into structured Linear projects with defined scope, owners, milestones, and success criteria.
  5. Own a launch readiness process and checklist that coordinates pre-launch responsibilities across Legal, Sales Enablement, Support Enablement, Marketing, and other stakeholders — ensuring nothing falls through the cracks when shipping.

Skills

Required

  • 3–5 years of experience in product operations, technical program management, or a closely related operational role at a relevant SaaS company.
  • Demonstrated ability to take high-level company goals or strategic priorities and decompose them into structured, actionable projects that cross-functional teams can execute against.
  • Hands-on proficiency with Linear, GitHub, and Notion — you understand how these tools work individually and how to make them work together.
  • Experience building automations or integrations (using no-code tools, webhooks, or scripting) to solve real operational problems without engineering support.
  • Comfortable working with metrics and data: you can define what to measure, set up tracking, and communicate findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Strong written communication skills — you produce documentation and status updates that are clear, concise, and actually get read.
  • Organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams across Product and Engineering simultaneously.
  • Collaborative by default — you're energized by making others more effective and thrive in a role where your impact shows up in the work of those around you.

Nice to have

  • Start-up experience preferred.

What the JD emphasized

  • greenfield role
  • build workflows and systems from scratch
  • first person dedicated to product ops