Principal Product Manager - ClickHouse Cloud

This Principal Product Manager role focuses on infrastructure and cloud-native database capabilities. You will lead the roadmap for a managed database service, balancing core engine improvements with enterprise-grade cloud features.

What you’d own

ClickHouse Cloud product roadmap
Cloud-native features (multi-region replication, storage tiering)
Core database engine and query optimizer improvements
Product positioning and messaging across marketing/sales

Who it’s for

A fit if you…

✓8+ years of experience in cloud-based SaaS products
✓Deep expertise in distributed systems or real-time analytics
✓Hands-on SQL skills with knowledge of indexing and partitioning
✓Ability to translate complex technical topics for non-technical audiences

Not for you if…

✗You prefer high-level product management without deep technical involvement
✗You lack experience with database internals or infrastructure components
✗You prefer a role focused on UI/UX rather than backend systems and query optimization

Reading between the lines

The requirement for 'low-level technical topics' like storage engines suggests you will work very closely with engineers on deep architectural problems.
The mention of 'keeping pace with open-source' implies a need to balance community-driven features with proprietary enterprise requirements.

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Benefits

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Full job description

Compensation: $210K – $310K • Offers Equity • Multiple Ranges

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.

Understanding of modern data infrastructure: data lakes, ETL pipelines, CDC and data orchestration frameworks.

Demonstrated ability to work with engineering on low-level technical topics, such as schema management, query planning, storage engines, schema design.

Experience designing and delivering features such as database replication, consistency models, and backup/restore workflows.

Strong leadership skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams and drive execution in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

Excellent communication and presentation skills, capable of simplifying deep technical topics for non-technical audiences.

Bonus Points:

Experience working and scaling open source technologies

Prior experience at a startup

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

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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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