Senior Product Manager, Compute

Who We Are:

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, Ververica, and Stripe. 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.

Investors:

Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

The compute team is responsible for translating SQL into dataflow, which is the technology on which Materialize was founded. This position demands technical sophistication but it also rewards you with an opportunity to partner with a talented group of engineers and computer scientists eager to creatively push database and streaming technology.

About You:

• Scope, specify, design and drive the completion of new features in partnership with engineering and technical leaders across multiple teams.
• Balance myriad factors including market, customers, and team to prioritize what we build and what we do not build.
• Collaborate with sales and marketing to plan, execute and bring new features to market.
• Gain deep knowledge of the streaming and database ecosystem to understand requirements and opportunities for the compute layer.
• Conduct basic research, experimentation, interviews, and usability testing to decrease uncertainty and increase confidence that what we build satisfies customer needs and desires.
• Use data and analytics and to help understand how customers use Materialize and define metrics to understand where we have success.
  

Requirements:

• You are a seasoned product manager with experience in software-as-a-service businesses
• You have strong user experience sensibilities, product tastes and experience building for developers.
• You enjoy talking to highly technical customers.
• You get things done, take ownership over your work and are motivated by the impact your actions have around you.
• You have a degree in computer science and experience with databases and streaming architectures.

We understand it takes a diverse team of highly intelligent, passionate, curious, and creative people to develop the exceptional product we are building. Our dynamic team has incredible perspectives to share, just as we know you do, and we take great pride in being an equal opportunity employer.