Senior Product Manager

The role

This Senior Product Manager will own the search, indexing, and query product surface across Capella and Couchbase Enterprise. You will manage the roadmap, PRFAQs, and PRDs while partnering with engineering, sales, and the AI organization to deliver retrieval capabilities for AI applications.

What you will do

• Own the search, indexing, and query product surface including SQL++, secondary indexing, and vector search
• Manage the roadmap, PRFAQs, PRDs, launch, and adoption
• Develop retrieval layers for RAG applications and agents
• Improve developer experience for query writing, indexing, and debugging
• Own performance, cost, and benchmark credibility
• Work backwards from customers to validate requirements
• Partner with query, indexing, and search engineering teams
• Run design partner programs and engage customers
• Coordinate across Core Database, Capella, Analytics, Mobile, and Edge
• Equip sales and GTM teams with positioning, demos, and competitive context

Required qualifications

• Seven or more years in product management
• At least three years on a technical platform such as database, data infrastructure, search, analytics, developer tools, cloud infrastructure, or AI infrastructure
• Systems depth in latency, throughput, recall, index structures, query plans, memory, storage, and cost per operation
• Customer obsession and working-backwards rigor
• Engineering credibility
• Cross-functional trust
• Use of AI in product management work
• Hands-on experience building with frontier AI models including APIs, code-generation tools, MCP, and agent frameworks
• Strong written communication
• A shipping record of products and features from PRFAQ to launch
• Ability to work effectively with a distributed organization across India and US time zones

Nice to have

• Direct experience with query engines, query optimization, secondary indexing, full-text search, vector search, or retrieval and ranking systems
• Working familiarity with SQL and SQL-like query languages, Lucene-family search stacks, or vector databases
• Experience at a database, data platform, search, or AI infrastructure company
• Experience owning a performance, benchmark, or TCO narrative in a competitive market
• Public presence such as blog posts, conference talks, OSS contributions, or analyst-facing work
• Prior experience mentoring associate or early-career PMs
• Familiarity with Anthropic’s Claude stack

Benefits

• Generous Time Off
• Medical, dental, vision, mental health, life insurance, and employee assistance programs
• Competitive retirement plans
• Business travel coverage
• Career Growth
• Ergonomic setups for WFH and in-office
• Snacks and meals when in the office

About the company

Couchbase provides an operational data platform for AI that empowers businesses to succeed. Their technology is used by major market-leading companies for mission critical operational, analytical, mobile and AI workloads.