Director of Product, ClickHouse Cloud

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Develop a multi-year product strategy and roadmap for ClickHouse Cloud, focusing on cloud-native database features such as multi-region replication, distributed query execution, fault tolerance, storage tiering, schema evolution, and disaster recovery.

• Collaborate closely with Engineering leadership to prioritize investments across the core database engine, storage layer, and query execution framework, ensuring that Cloud progresses in tandem with our open-source platform while fulfilling enterprise customer requirements.

• Guide and mentor Product Managers in related platform areas, facilitating prioritization, resolving inter-team dependencies, and sustaining a unified platform strategy.

• Work alongside Design, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Support, and Customer Success teams to launch compelling products and enhance customer experiences.

• Balance long-term platform investments with immediate customer obligations and business priorities.

• Collaborate with Engineering leadership to make data-driven investment and resourcing choices across the platform roadmap.

• Act as a trusted advisor to executives and cross-functional partners, offering clear insights into product strategy, execution, risks, and trade-offs.

• Represent ClickHouse with strategic customers, partners, and at industry events, converting customer needs into long-term product direction.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in Product Management, with substantial involvement in defining strategies for cloud infrastructure, enterprise SaaS, developer platforms, or database products.

• Proven ability to influence product direction across multiple engineering teams and lead large cross-functional initiatives.

• Strong grasp of distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and modern data infrastructure.

• Comfortable operating at both strategic and technical levels, closely collaborating with senior engineering leaders on architectural decisions.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, enabling effective interaction with engineers, executives, customers, and external audiences.

• In-depth knowledge of SQL, query execution, indexing, partitioning, and database performance optimization.

• Experience with databases such as ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or other distributed or analytical database systems.

• Familiarity with contemporary data infrastructure, including data lakes, ETL pipelines, CDC, orchestration platforms, and cloud-native data architectures.

• Ability to discuss technical topics such as schema management, query planning, storage engines, replication, consistency models, backup and recovery, and distributed systems design with engineering teams.

• Experience in shipping or contributing to complex infrastructure capabilities such as replication, disaster recovery, storage systems, consistency models, or backup and restore workflows.

• Proven capability to influence cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority.

• Experience representing products to customers, analysts, or at industry conferences.

• A track record of coaching, mentoring, or guiding Product Managers, whether formally or informally.

• Experience working on or contributing to open-source projects is a plus.

• Experience in high-growth startup environments is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed and remote-friendly company, currently operating in over 20 countries.

• Healthcare - Employer contributions towards your healthcare.

• Equity in the company - Every new team member who joins us receives stock options.

• Time off - Flexible time off in the US, with generous entitlements in other countries.

• A $500 home office setup for remote employees.

• Global Gatherings – We believe in the significance of in-person connections and offer opportunities for engagement with colleagues during company-wide offsites.