Senior Staff Product Manager, Query

MongoDB is seeking a Senior Staff Product Manager for their Query Team to lead product strategy for their distributed query engine. The role involves shaping the product architecture and market trajectory while collaborating with engineers and advising executive leadership on strategic decisions.

Responsibilities:

• Product Vision and Roadmap: Spearhead strategic unity across multiple product areas over a multi-year horizon to drive a coherent product experience
• Business Leadership: Originate and de-risk the division’s most consequential strategic bets, owning rigorous business cases and advising leadership on multi-year economic outcomes
• Customer Advocacy: Engage with strategically significant customers at the senior level (e.g., advisory boards and executive briefings) to surface cross-portfolio opportunities and inform the roadmap
• PM Excellence: Elevate the global standard of product management by mentoring Staff and Senior PMs and pioneering new data-driven playbooks across the organization. Create frameworks and standards for customer and market research that others use for conducting high-quality customer and market research
• Cross-Functional Alignment and Execution: Partner with Directors and VPs to shape investment allocation and sequencing across the query, developer experiences, and core database portfolio
• Market and Engagement: Act as a primary external face for the product line, representing MongoDB to the industry, developers, standards bodies and at major conferences

Requirements:

• 10+ years of professional experience, including significant leadership in product management for platform, infrastructure, or database domains
• Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical issues simply and convincingly to a wide range of audiences, including executive leadership
• Proven success in delivering complex cross-functional projects and the ability to write, defend, and execute on multi-year business cases
• B.Sc. in a technical discipline, with Computer Science preferred, or equivalent relevant experience
• Deep technical fluency in database query engines, query languages (SQL, MQL, etc.), developer experiences, distributed systems, and potentially AI platform tooling or LLM orchestration
• MBA, M.Sc., or Ph.D. in relevant technical or business domains
• Experience with MongoDB or other non-relational database technologies
• Demonstrated success leading products targeting developer personas in fast-paced, growing environments
• Familiarity with open-source and cloud-native technologies