Director of Product, ClickHouse Cloud

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Develop the multi-year product strategy and roadmap for ClickHouse Cloud.

• Direct the product vision for multi-region replication, distributed query execution, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, storage architecture, and release management.

• Collaborate with Engineering leadership to prioritize investments in the core database engine, storage layer, and query execution framework.

• Guide and mentor Product Managers in related platform areas.

• Facilitate prioritization, address cross-team dependencies, and uphold a unified platform strategy.

• Work alongside Design, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Support, and Customer Success teams on product launches and customer experiences.

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

• Make well-informed investment and resource allocation decisions throughout the platform roadmap.

• Provide strategic advice to executives and cross-functional partners regarding product strategy, execution, risks, and trade-offs.

• Represent ClickHouse with strategic customers, partners, and at industry events.

• Convert customer needs into a long-term product vision.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in Product Management.

• Extensive experience in defining strategy 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 knowledge of distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and modern data infrastructure.

• Capability to engage at both strategic and technical levels with senior engineering leaders regarding architectural decisions.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

• Solid understanding of SQL, query execution, indexing, partitioning, and database performance optimization.

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

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

• Proficient in discussing schema management, query planning, storage engines, replication, consistency models, backup and recovery, and distributed systems design.

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

• Ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority.

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

• A proven track record of coaching, mentoring, or guiding Product Managers.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible work environment with a remote-friendly work arrangement.

• Employer contributions towards healthcare.

• Stock options available for every new team member.

• Flexible time off policy in the US.

• Generous time-off entitlement in other countries.

• USD$500 home office setup allowance for remote employees.

• Opportunities to connect with colleagues at company-wide offsites.