Senior Staff Product Manager, Query

MongoDB is seeking a Senior Staff Product Manager to lead product strategy for its distributed query engine and query system. The role shapes multi-year strategy, product architecture, business cases, and monetization, while advising executives and aligning teams across the query, developer experience, and database portfolio.

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
• Computer Science
• 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