Principal Product Manager - ClickHouse Cloud

ClickHouse is a fast-growing private cloud company recognized on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 list, specializing in real-time analytics and data warehousing. As the Principal Product Manager for ClickHouse Cloud, you will lead product development, collaborate with engineering and stakeholders, and engage with customers to drive product success.

Responsibilities:

• Define and drive the product roadmap for ClickHouse Cloud, with a focus on cloud-native database capabilities such as multi-region replication, distributed query execution, fault tolerance, storage tiering, and schema evolution
• Collaborate with engineering to prioritize and deliver improvements to the core database engine, storage layer, and query optimizer, ensuring the Cloud offering keeps pace with open-source and enterprise use cases
• Engage directly with customers, gathering insights through interactions, feedback, and market research to guide product decisions
• Work alongside design, marketing, operations, and sales teams to support feature launches, contribute to blog posts, and help shape product positioning and messaging
• Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure product success
• Act as the primary point of contact for all product-related communications, effectively managing expectations and keeping stakeholders informed

Requirements:

• Minimum 8+ years of product management experience with a strong background in cloud-based SaaS products
• Deep familiarity with database systems, distributed systems, or real-time analytics platforms is strongly preferred
• 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 with the ability to influence cross-functional teams and drive execution in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, capable of simplifying deep technical topics for non-technical audiences
• Experience working and scaling open source technologies
• Prior experience at a startup