Principal Product Manager - ClickHouse Cloud

About this role

NOTE: this position can be remote anywhere within the United States.

As the Principal Product Manager for ClickHouse Cloud, you will be responsible for leading the development and delivery of the product working closely with engineering, customers, and stakeholders.

What you will do:

• 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.

About You:

• 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.