Senior Technical Product Manager - Core Database

ClickHouse ClickHouse · Data AI · Netherlands +2 · Product Management

Technical Product Manager for ClickHouse's core database, focusing on real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI workloads. The role involves understanding market trends, engaging with the community and customers, prioritizing features, and working with engineering teams to develop cloud-native extensions and core database capabilities. Requires deep technical knowledge of data engineering markets and SQL databases, with experience in open-source projects.

What you'd actually do

  1. Understand the real-time analytics and cloud database markets, competition, and technology trends in depth
  2. Engage with the ClickHouse open-source user community and ClickHouse Cloud customers to understand current and aspirational use cases for ClickHouse core database
  3. Distill and prioritize feature requests and issues into clear priorities for net-new capabilities and improvements
  4. Work with engineering teams to scope and refine approaches to solving customer problems, both in the core database and in ClickHouse Cloud offerings
  5. Set clear measurable goals around customer success, and use data-driven approaches to ensure new capabilities meet customer needs

Skills

Required

  • Knowledgeable and passionate about data engineering markets - data warehousing, data analytics, data science, business intelligence, and observability
  • Strong vision around where these markets are headed, and what it takes to become a leader in this space
  • Previous experience with ClickHouse or a highly related OLAP technology at a deeply technical level, including expert SQL skills
  • Previous experience with open-source projects, ideally as a product manager
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Comfortable with public speaking at meetups, conferences, webinars
  • Ability to influence multiple stakeholders without direct authority
  • Comfortable working with ambiguity and evolving based on business needs
  • Ability and desire to work with customers or community members, being able to provide technical guidance and help customers during their POC.

Nice to have

  • Previous contributions to open-source projects
  • Engineering experience, ideally around distributed/cloud systems in C++
  • Experience effectively working remotely in a global, distributed organization

What the JD emphasized

  • deeply technical level
  • expert SQL skills
  • technical guidance