Product Manager - Percona Monitoring and Management (Remote)

The role

You will own the product strategy and execution for Percona's open source observability platform for databases. You will work with engineering, design, product leadership, customers, and the open source community to define the future of PMM.

What you will do

• Own the product strategy and roadmap for PMM.
• Work directly with customers and the community to understand challenges and validate ideas.
• Conduct market research and competitive analysis.
• Translate customer problems into clear product requirements and priorities.
• Work closely with Engineering, Design, Documentation, Marketing, and Customer Success.
• Prioritize features based on customer value, engineering effort, and strategic goals.
• Define success metrics and use customer feedback, product telemetry, and usage data.
• Collaborate closely with engineering throughout the entire product lifecycle.
• Represent PMM through blog posts, webinars, conferences, customer meetings, and community engagement.
• Help drive the adoption of PMM across the open source community and enterprise organizations.

Required qualifications

• Proven success managing technical products, particularly developer tools, infrastructure, platform, or observability products.
• Demonstrated experience shipping successful software products from idea to release.
• Strong technical understanding of modern infrastructure, databases, cloud-native, and observability technologies.
• Experience working cross-functionally across engineering, design, marketing, sales, and customer success.
• Strong customer empathy.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, making decisions with incomplete information, and iterating quickly.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.
• Fluent in English.

Nice to have

• Experience with observability technologies such as Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, VictoriaMetrics, or similar platforms.
• Experience with databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or other data platforms.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Linux, cloud-native technologies, and distributed systems.
• Experience working with open source communities as an active contributor or community member.
• Experience building products for developers, SREs, platform engineers, DevOps engineers, database administrators, or other highly technical users.
• Experience defining AI-powered workflows, developer productivity tools, or AI-assisted observability experiences.
• Experience working in startups or high-growth companies.
• Comfortable taking ownership and wearing multiple hats in a small, collaborative team.
• Passion for open source and building products in close partnership with engineering and the community.

Benefits

• Flexible work hours
• Various paid time off programs
• All equipment for your remote office
• Funds for career development (external training, certifications, conferences)
• Ongoing connectivity allowances
• Opportunity to participate in equity incentive plan
• The Percona Adventure Team
• Work-from-Anywhere
• FlowDays
• FryDays
• Overall flexibility
• Support for PAVE volunteering program and Women Transforming Technology

About the company

Percona is a remote-only and globally dispersed workforce. Their mission is to enable everyone to innovate freely by providing the best open source database software, support, and services.