Staff Product Manager (Atlas Clusters)

MongoDB Inc.; Ireland; On-site; EUR 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

MongoDB Inc. is seeking a Staff Product Manager for Atlas Clusters to own cross-domain initiatives and drive strategic programs across engineering, design, security, and GTM.

You will translate complex requirements into prioritized roadmaps and ensure execution with senior stakeholders. You will lead governance and success metrics for multi-team programs, partnering with finance and GTM on pricing, launch decisions, and market expansion.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of product management experience on technically complex, infrastructure-level products.
• Demonstrated success owning enterprise-grade, technical products end-to-end with measurable outcomes.
• Strong analytical skills and metrics rigor; data-informed judgment.
• Hands-on experience with databases, distributed systems, or cloud infrastructure platforms.
• Excellent written and verbal communication for engineers, executives, and customers.
• Ability to drive cross-functional programs and align senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own cross-domain initiatives within Atlas Clusters and define goals and milestones.
• Lead product strategy and execution, translating requirements into clear roadmaps.
• Translate customer needs into prioritized investments and outcomes across teams.
• Set governance, success metrics, and operating cadence for multi-team programs.
• Collaborate with Engineering, SRE, GTM, and Finance on launches, pricing, and packaging.
• Represent MongoDB with customers and executives as a subject-matter expert on Atlas.

Skills

Product management

Cross-functional leadership

Analytical skills

Data-driven decision making

Executive communication

Customer orientation

Stakeholder management

Technical fluency

Education

MBA or MSc or PhD

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

• This team is at the forefront of innovation, having brought to life some of the most exciting features we’ve launched in the past, such as multi-cloud databases, predictive autoscaling, and next-generation hardware support on AWS
• Furthermore, this team will continue to play a critical role as the platform expands to where developers need it most
• MongoDB’s Atlas Product Management team is seeking a Staff Product Manager to own key cross-domain initiatives within Atlas Clusters
• In this role, you will be a key member of the Atlas Clusters product management team, helping make the core Atlas platform a market differentiator that enables MongoDB to win in enterprise and at scale
• You will lead product strategy and execution for capabilities and programs that support enterprise platform requirements and broader large-scale customer needs
• You will work across Engineering, Design, Support, Security, and Go-to-Market teams to translate complex technical and customer requirements into clear product investments, roadmaps, and outcomes
• This role is suited for a candidate who can orchestrate multiple interlinked product areas, own cross-team product and architectural trade-offs, and align senior stakeholders around multi-year bets
• You will be expected to identify opportunities and dependencies that cut across team boundaries, bring clarity to ambiguous problem spaces, and establish reusable ways of working that help MongoDB deliver reliable, scalable platform capabilities for enterprise and other demanding markets
• You will partner closely with senior engineering and business leaders to evaluate trade-offs, sequence investments, and bring clarity to decisions that balance customer impact, execution risk, and long-term business value
• Atlas Clusters Product Strategy
• Own key cross-domain initiatives on the Atlas Clusters roadmap, translating requirements e.g., enterprise platform blockers, multi-cloud architecture, and resilience programs into clear product priorities
• Define goals and milestones for major platform programs, including platform resiliency, and drive accountability across teams
• Lead gap assessments and scope customer-driven engineering work
• Cross-Functional Program Leadership
• Drive complex, multi-team programs by setting governance, success metrics, and operating cadence across teams
• Partner with Engineering and SRE on architecture interpretation, implementation decisions, and launch readiness
• Embed reliability- and scale-first workflows into product development and delivery
• Market Expansion and Enterprise go-to-market (GTM)
• Lead product strategy for growing Atlas, partnering with GTM to bring new platform capabilities to market and drive adoption
• Evaluate control plane and infrastructure options, assess engineering trade-offs, and align teams on expansion requirements
• Partner with Finance, Engineering, and GTM on pricing, packaging, and launch decisions
• Customer-Driven Product Development
• Build strong feedback loops with Customer Engineering, Solutions Architects, Support, and GTM to ensure roadmap priorities reflect field needs
• Translate customer escalations, support trends, and market gaps into a prioritized Atlas Clusters roadmap
• Serve as an internal expert on emerging infrastructure and platform trends that shape product direction
• Stakeholder Alignment and Executive Communication
• Align Engineering, Design, Product Marketing, and GTM around product strategy and execution
• Define KPIs and success metrics for Atlas Clusters investments
• Represent MongoDB with customers and prospects as a subject matter expert on Atlas architecture and large-scale cloud database deployments

10+ years of product management experience on technically complex, infrastructure-level products. Database, distributed systems, or cloud infrastructure experience is a plus but not required. We care about your ability to ramp fast on hard technical domains and make sound product decisions once you doDemonstrated success owning enterprise-grade, technical products end-to-end — not just shipping them, but delivering measurable customer and business outcomes you can quantifyStrong analytical skills and metrics rigor, including defining success metrics, instrumenting and debugging analytics, and using data to inform (but not replace) judgmentTrack record of taking products from 0 to 1 and from 1 to 50 — building something new and scaling what worksHands-on experience with databases, distributed systems, or cloud infrastructure platforms (compute, storage, networking, capacity planning). MongoDB experience is a plusStrong customer-orientation and field-connection, regularly engaging directly with customers and field teams and translating their input into clear requirements and roadmap decisionsTechnical fluency: comfortable discussing architecture, failure modes, performance characteristics, and tradeoffs with Staff and Distinguished engineers, and connecting technical decisions directly to customer outcomes. You do need to be the kind of PM who will understand key areas deeply within your first month and have an opinion about how it affects the customer experience by month twoExcellent written and verbal communication: crisp, high-quality artifacts and the ability to tailor the message by audience (engineering, executives, customers, field). In this role you will represent product direction to enterprise CTOs and to senior engineering leaders who may disagree with your priorities. You need to hold the roomAbility to write, promote, and execute business cases. The ability to drive complex projects across multiple teams and deliver resultsDesire to be a part of the Go-to-Market, Marketing, and Sales enablement processDemonstrated decision-making speed and conviction under ambiguity, with specific examples of making hard calls, cutting scope, and holding a position under pushback. We will ask you about this in the interview, and we will push back on your answerExperience with Cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, and GCPCommunity support and participation to advance cloud database and infrastructure technology such as conference or meetup panels and blog or paper authorshipProficiency in managing large scale software rollouts, especially in ways to automate and cohort rollouts to prioritize different environments and customersExperience collaborating with customers in highly regulated industries, understanding the unique challenges and requirements they faceMBA, M.Sc. or Ph.D. in relevant domains