Principal Product Manager - ClickHouse Cloud

The role

You will lead the development and delivery of ClickHouse Cloud. You will define the product roadmap and collaborate with engineering, customers, and stakeholders.

What you will do

• Define and drive the product roadmap for ClickHouse Cloud.
• Collaborate with engineering to prioritize and deliver improvements to the core database engine, storage layer, and query optimizer.
• Engage directly with customers to gather insights through interactions, feedback, and market research.
• Work with design, marketing, operations, and sales teams to support feature launches and product positioning.
• Define and track key performance indicators to measure product success.
• Act as the primary point of contact for all product-related communications.

Required qualifications

• Minimum 8+ years of product management experience with a strong background in cloud-based SaaS products.
• Hands-on experience with SQL and 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 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

Benefits

• Flexible work environment
• Employer contributions towards healthcare
• Stock options
• Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries
• USD$500 Home office setup for remote employees
• Global Gatherings

About the company

ClickHouse is a globally distributed company that operates in over 25 countries.