Principal Product Manager - ClickHouse Cloud

ClickHouse is a real-time analytics and data warehousing company, recognized on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 list. With more than 4,000 customers and ARR growth over 250% year over year, the company leads the market in real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI workloads. Customers include Capital One, Meta, Cursor, Sony, and Tesla.

As the Principal Product Manager for ClickHouse Cloud, you will lead the development and delivery of the product, working closely with engineering, customers, and stakeholders.

• Define and drive the product roadmap for ClickHouse Cloud, focusing 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.
• Engage directly with customers to gather insights and guide product decisions.
• Work with design, marketing, operations, and sales teams to support feature launches and shape product positioning.
• Define and track KPIs to measure product success.
• Act as the primary point of contact for product-related communications.

• 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.
• Hands-on experience with SQL and understanding of query execution, indexing, partitioning, and performance tuning.
• Experience 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.
• Ability to work with engineering on low-level technical topics such as schema management, query planning, and storage engines.
• Experience designing features such as database replication, consistency models, and backup/restore workflows.
• Strong leadership, communication, and presentation skills.

• Experience working and scaling open source technologies.
• Prior experience at a startup.

The typical starting salary for this role in the US is $169,000—$225,000 USD. In premium markets (e.g., San Francisco Bay Area and New York City Metro Area), the range is $188,000—$250,000 USD.

• Flexible work environment - remote-friendly, globally distributed company.
• Healthcare - employer contributions.
• Equity - stock options for every new team member.
• Flexible time off in the US.
• $500 home office setup for remote employees.
• Company-wide offsites (Global Gatherings).

This position can be remote anywhere within the United States.