Senior Product Manager - Query & Execution

The database market is massive (IDC estimates it to be $121B+ by 2025!), and MongoDB is at the head of its disruption. At MongoDB, we are transforming industries and empowering developers to build amazing apps that people use daily. We are the leading modern data platform and the first database provider to IPO over 20 years. Join our team and be at the forefront of innovation and creativity

This role can be based out of an of our US offices or remotely in the US.

About the Team

The Storage Execution team's mission is to research and develop new algorithms for storing data, maintain a pluggable protocol for MongoDB storage engines, and provide a comprehensive framework for managing concurrent, transactional access to data stored locally within a MongoDB database instance. 

About the Role

Product managers on the Storage Execution team work closely with Engineering, product management, marketing, sales across the entire organization to develop and maintain new features related to database internals and the MongoDB storage engine. Product managers on the team spend time analyzing customer problems or potential improvements to the database through data, competitive analysis and user research.

Responsibilities

• Explore the problem space, interact with the customers, formulate the vision and own the roadmap for your area, keeping it aligned with the company’s strategic priorities
• Help the team manage and prioritize projects including customer requests, tech debt, and project initiatives
• Lead the team to the right product decisions via deep engagement with customers, internal stakeholders, prospects and partners
• Drive collaboration across engineering, design, marketing, sales, and executive leadership as the subject-matter expert 
• Actively maintain a view of how the market, competition, and technologies evolve, and factor competitive information and customer feedback into our product direction
• Communicate complex concepts in a manner that is easily understood by multiple audiences
• Contribute to documentation, blog posts, demos, and marketing materials for new features

Requirements

• Excellent interpersonal skills, both written and verbal, enabling you to bridge gaps and collaborate with people from different parts of the company such as engineering, marketing, sales, customer support, and users
• You have the ability to communicate technical content to diverse non-technical audiences
• You are strong technically: you understand how software is built, packaged, deployed, and operated — our users are developers, DBA's, SysAdmins, etc. Our product managers must be just as technical and have working knowledge in these areas to better advocate for our users; while not expected to write production code, you should be comfortable speaking authoritatively on any of the technical aspects of the tools in your portfolio
• You have experience guiding the full product development process: creation, design, execution, quality testing, etc.
• Curiosity, desire to learn and adapt
• You have a desire to understand the database market

Nice to have

• Familiarity or domain knowledge in database algorithm internals, time-series data, distributed systems or backend technologies 
• Comfortable with stage presence and public speaking

Education

• B.Sc. in a Computer Science preferred or equivalent work experience

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