Product Manager

Materialize is the streaming SQL database company that makes it easy for any developer or analyst to understand streaming data, answer complex questions and build intelligent applications using standard technology. Whether it’s delivering personalized experiences, accurately identifying fraud, building predictive AI, or discovering new business opportunities, the ability to run complex queries on multiple streams of data and keep their answers up to date is critical to making better decisions about the changing world around us.

We are focused on bottom-up developer adoption, our core software is free to use and source available, our business model is a cloud product that handles management of Materialize and lets businesses focus on building value. We have a vibrant developer community on Slack and as much as possible we work in public on GitHub.

The Materialize team includes engineers who were early employees of Cockroach Labs, Flink, Dropbox, and YouTube. Our work builds on top of Timely Dataflow and Differential Dataflow, both created by our co-founder Frank McSherry, a world-leading computer scientist with decades of award-winning research in all aspects of data.

Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Additional investors include executives from Cockroach Labs, Datadog, and Rubrik.

You Will

• Scope, spec, and design new features, working with executives, designers, and engineers. 
• Balance many factors (market, customers, team) to prioritize which work we do and which we defer. 
• Collaborate with marketing to adapt landing pages and messaging for specific markets
• Gain in-depth knowledge of our digital ecosystem, to be able to represent capabilities and understand how unique requirements can best be met
• Conduct basic research, interviews, and usability testing to ensure products satisfy customer needs, as well as wants.
• Talk to highly technical customers about their data challenges, listen to their needs, and work with the team to solve their problems. 

Requirements

• You have a proven track record as a product manager, ideally at a SaaS company. 
• You have strong user experience sensibilities and familiarity with platform UI best practices.
• You enjoy talking to highly technical customers. 
• You get things done and are motivated by the impact your actions have around you. 
• Bonus points if you have a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience