Principal Product Manager, Core Database - Sunnyvale, CA - YugabyteDB

Description

Cloud-Native Database Pioneer

At yugabyte, we are on a mission to become the default transactional database for enterprises building cloud-native applications. Our PostgreSQL-compatible distributed database, yugabyteDB, is designed for cloud-native apps and offers resilience, scalability, and flexibility. It runs on any cloud, allowing developers to become instantly productive using well-known APIs.

We seek talented and driven individuals to join us on our ambitious mission and help build a lasting and impactful company. The transactional database market is projected to reach $64B by 2025, with yugabyteDB poised to meet market demand for geo-distributed, high-scale, high-performance workloads.

Modern applications require a cloud-native database that eliminates tradeoffs and silos. YugabyteDB combines the power and familiarity of PostgreSQL with a precision-engineered, distributed, cloud-native architecture. Additionally, it's 100% open source. Many leading enterprises are migrating from legacy RDBMSs (like Oracle, SQL Server, and DB2) to yugabyteDB to meet their mission-critical app demands.

About the Role
In this role, you'll have the opportunity to collaborate with yugabyte's co-founders, pioneers in distributed data systems, who helped Facebook scale to billions of users by designing and building breakthrough technologies like Apache HBase and Apache Cassandra.

Responsibilities

• Develop a product roadmap that transcends user needs and market trends, focusing on delivering game-changing value for customers.
• Collaborate closely with engineering to build features that not only solve complex problems but also delight developers, fostering innovation and ease of use.
• Conduct in-depth user and market research, translating these insights into actionable product requirements for the engineering team.
• Continuously prioritize and refine the product roadmap based on feedback from customers, developers, and other stakeholders.
• Contribute to product documentation, providing detailed explanations behind feature decisions and their real-world applications.
• Maintain close communication with sales, marketing, and support teams on feature releases and gather their feedback to refine future development.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in data infrastructure or related Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) products; background in AWS or Google Cloud is preferred.
• Strong understanding of SQL databases, particularly PostgreSQL, and familiarity with ORM frameworks, migration tools, and related technologies.
• Proven experience in building or managing products with a strong developer focus and creating significant customer value.
• Demonstrated ability in conducting user and market research.
• Proven capability to align multiple stakeholders towards a common objective.
• Solid understanding of infrastructure principles.
• Previous experience in managing open-source products is advantageous but not mandatory.
• A BS/BA degree is required.

Compensation and Benefits
We are committed to equal pay for equal work. The cash compensation for this role is market-competitive, ranging from $130,000 to $250,000. Additional benefits include equity options, comprehensive health plans, retirement benefits, and unlimited paid time off (PTO).