Senior Staff Product Manager, Query
MongoDB- Base salary
- $178k–$350k Published base salary range · Top quartile for Product (158 listings)
- Location
- Hybrid - US (in-office, flexible hybrid, or remote anywhere in the US) Remote eligibility
- Employment
- Full-time Staff / Principal
About the job
About the Role
MongoDB's Query Team is seeking a Senior Staff Product Manager to provide division-wide product leadership for the fast, modular distributed query engine and flexible query system. As the most senior product management contributor, you will shape the multi-year strategy, product architecture, and market trajectory for the entire Query business unit. You will be the primary product authority on the most complex trade-offs, anticipating systemic risks and cutting through structural friction that blocks multiple teams and initiatives. This role requires collaboration with distinguished engineers to rigorously debate strategy and pressure-test assumptions and advise executive leadership on options that balance long-term monetization, strategy, and business outcomes. Where relevant, you will own the pricing and monetization strategy for the product line.
Responsibilities
- Spearhead strategic unity across multiple product areas over a multi-year horizon to drive a coherent product experience.
- Originate and de-risk the division's most consequential strategic bets, owning rigorous business cases and advising leadership on multi-year economic outcomes.
- Engage with strategically significant customers at the senior level (e.g., advisory boards and executive briefings) to surface cross-portfolio opportunities and inform the roadmap.
- Elevate the global standard of product management by mentoring Staff and Senior PMs and pioneering new data-driven playbooks across the organization.
- Partner with Directors and VPs to shape investment allocation and sequencing across the query, developer experiences, and core database portfolio.
- Act as a primary external face for the product line, representing MongoDB to the industry, developers, standards bodies, and at major conferences.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional experience, including significant leadership in product management for platform, infrastructure, or database domains.
- Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical issues simply and convincingly to a wide range of audiences, including executive leadership.
- Proven success in delivering complex cross-functional projects and the ability to write, defend, and execute on multi-year business cases.
- B.Sc. in a technical discipline, with Computer Science preferred, or equivalent relevant experience.
- Deep technical fluency in database query engines, query languages (SQL, MQL, etc.), developer experiences, distributed systems, and potentially AI platform tooling or LLM orchestration.
Nice to Have
- MBA, M.Sc., or Ph.D. in relevant technical or business domains.
- Experience with MongoDB or other non-relational database technologies.
- Demonstrated success leading products targeting developer personas in fast-paced, growing environments.
- Familiarity with open-source and cloud-native technologies.
Compensation & Benefits
MongoDB's base salary range for this role in the U.S. is $178,000—$350,000 USD. Other benefits for eligible employees may include: equity, participation in the employee stock purchase program, flexible paid time off, 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave, fertility and adoption assistance, 401(k) plan, mental health counseling, access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage, and health benefits offerings.
Application Instructions
Apply through the MongoDB careers portal using the provided link.
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