Director of Product, ClickHouse Cloud
ClickHouseThis Director of Product role focuses on the infrastructure and core capabilities of a cloud database platform. You will lead multi-year strategy for distributed systems, storage architecture, and high-availability features.
What you’d own
- Multi-year roadmap for cloud-native database capabilities
- Core infrastructure: replication, query execution, and fault tolerance
- Mentoring and coaching product managers across platform areas
- Cross-functional alignment between engineering, sales, and customer success
Who it’s for
A fit if you…
- ✓You have 10+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure or database products
- ✓You can navigate deep technical topics like query planning and consistency models
- ✓You enjoy mentoring other product managers and influencing without direct authority
- ✓You are comfortable representing the company at industry events and with customers
Not for you if…
- ✗You prefer high-level marketing or UI/UX focused product management
- ✗You prefer to work in isolation rather than coordinating across many engineering teams
- ✗You are uncomfortable discussing low-level technical architecture with engineers
Reading between the lines
- The requirement to balance 'long-term platform investments' with 'near-term customer commitments' suggests a need to manage tension between R&D and sales pressure.
- The focus on 'core database engine' and 'storage layer' implies a highly technical role where you must be deeply embedded in the engineering process.
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Benefits
Full job description
Compensation: $210K – $310K • Offers Equity • Multiple Ranges
As Director of Product Management, you'll define the multi-year strategy for the ClickHouse Cloud platform. You'll lead the product direction for foundational cloud capabilities such as multi-region replication, distributed query execution, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, storage architecture, and release management working closely with Engineering leadership to ensure ClickHouse Cloud continues to scale with the needs of our customers.
YOU WILL
- Define the multi-year product strategy and roadmap for ClickHouse Cloud, covering cloud-native database capabilities including multi-region replication, distributed query execution, fault tolerance, storage tiering, schema evolution, and disaster recovery.
- Partner closely with Engineering leadership to prioritize investments across the core database engine, storage layer, and query execution framework, ensuring Cloud evolves alongside our open-source platform while meeting enterprise customer needs.
- Coach and mentor Product Managers across adjacent platform areas, helping drive prioritization, resolve cross-team dependencies, and maintain a cohesive platform strategy.
- Partner with Design, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Support, and Customer Success to deliver compelling product launches and customer experiences.
- Balance long-term platform investments with near-term customer commitments and business priorities.
- Partner with Engineering leadership to make informed investment and resourcing decisions across the platform roadmap.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to executives and cross-functional partners, providing clear visibility into product strategy, execution, risks, and trade-offs.
- Represent ClickHouse with strategic customers, partners, and at industry events, translating customer needs into long-term product direction.
YOU BRING
- 10+ years of Product Management experience, including significant experience defining strategy for cloud infrastructure, enterprise SaaS, developer platforms, or database products.
- Demonstrated ability to influence product direction across multiple engineering teams and drive large cross-functional initiatives.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and modern data infrastructure.
- Comfortable working at both strategic and technical levels, partnering closely with senior engineering leaders on architectural decisions.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with engineers, executives, customers, and external audiences.
TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE
- Strong understanding of SQL, query execution, indexing, partitioning, and database performance optimization.
- Experience working with databases such as ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or other distributed or analytical database systems.
- Familiarity with modern data infrastructure, including data lakes, ETL pipelines, CDC, orchestration platforms, and cloud-native data architectures.
- Ability to discuss technical concepts such as schema management, query planning, storage engines, replication, consistency models, backup and recovery, and distributed systems design with engineering teams.
- Experience shipping or contributing to complex infrastructure capabilities such as replication, disaster recovery, storage systems, consistency models, or backup and restore workflows.
LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE
- Proven ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority.
- Experience representing products with customers, analysts, or at industry conferences.
- Track record of coaching, mentoring, or guiding Product Managers, either formally or informally.
BONUS
- Experience working on or contributing to open-source projects.
- Experience in high-growth startup environments.
PERKS
- Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in over 25 countries.
- Healthcare - Employer contributions towards your healthcare.
- Equity in the company - Every new team member who joins our company receives stock options.
- Time off - Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries.
- A USD$500 Home office setup if you’re a remote employee.
- Global Gatherings – We believe in the power of in-person connection and offer opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites.
CULTURE - WE ALL SHAPE IT
As part of a rapidly scaling start-up, you will be instrumental in shaping our culture.
Are you interested in finding out more about our culture? Learn more about our values here https://clickhouse.com/company/careers. Check out our blog posts https://clickhouse.com/blog or follow us on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/clickhouseinc/life/0c1ee7f4-2129-488d-b413-e7f6270659fd/?viewAsMember=true to find out more about what’s happening at ClickHouse.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY & PRIVACY
ClickHouse provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type based on factors such as race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Please see here https://clickhouse.com/legal/applicant-privacy-notice for our Privacy Statement.
About ClickHouse
See all roles →ClickHouse is an open-source, column-oriented OLAP database built for sub-second analytical queries over petabyte-scale data, offered both as the original OSS engine and as a managed cloud service. It's used for real-time analytics, observability (via the ClickStack open-source stack), and increasingly as the storage layer behind AI and agentic systems — customers include Anthropic, Cloudflare, Meta, Sony, eBay, Spotify, Vercel, and thousands more. The company is fully remote with employees in 10+ countries, recently acquired Langfuse to expand into LLM observability, and notes that 40% of its leadership team is women. For PMs, it's one of the more interesting data infrastructure companies riding the AI workload curve.
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