Product Manager - Core Engineering (Security Features)

ClickHouse; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 152,000 - 216,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work environment

Healthcare contributions

Equity in the company

Time off - flexible policies

Home office stipend: USD$500

Global gatherings

Job summary

ClickHouse is seeking a Product Manager focused on developing security features for our core database and ClickHouse Cloud. You will collaborate with engineering to scope and refine approaches, prioritize customer-requested capabilities, and drive measurable outcomes in a cloud-native environment.

You will engage with the open-source community and customers to identify aspirational use cases, shape the roadmap, and lead initiatives that balance enterprise security with ease of use across

Qualifications

• Experience with database security principles and best practices.
• Passion for data engineering markets including data warehousing, analytics, security, and observability.
• Ability to set a long-term vision and lead in a fast-evolving space.
• Prior experience with ClickHouse or a related OLAP tech at a technical level.
• Background with open-source projects, ideally as a product manager.
• Desire to build enterprise-grade, powerful yet easy-to-use capabilities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, and ability to influence multiple stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Understand real-time analytics and cloud database markets, competitors and tech trends.
• Engage with ClickHouse user community and Cloud customers to gather use cases.
• Distill and prioritize feature requests into clear priorities for new capabilities.
• Collaborate with engineering to scope approaches for core database and Cloud offerings.
• Set measurable goals around customer success and use data-driven methods to validate capabilities.
• Stay up-to-date with market and competitive landscape to identify necessary features.
• Work with partners to grow ClickHouse awareness and visibility.

Skills

Database security principles

Data engineering markets

Vision & strategy

Stakeholder influence

Communication skills

Ambiguity handling

Customer/community engagement

Tools

ClickHouse

OLAP technology

Open-source projects

C++ distributed/cloud systems

Job description

ClickHouse is focused on growing a vibrant user community and becoming a Cloud-first company. We are looking for a Product Manager experienced in developing security features for ClickHouse. This is an exciting opportunity to work with a popular open-source project to extend and deepen its core capabilities and to develop cloud-native extensions that delight developers and data analysts across many use cases and market segments. If you are a doer with a “can do” mentality and a bias for action, we would love to hear from you.

What You Will Be Doing

• Understand the real-time analytics and cloud database markets, competition, and technology trends in depth
• Engage with the ClickHouse open-source user community and ClickHouse Cloud customers to understand current and aspirational use cases for ClickHouse core database
• Distill and prioritize feature requests and issues into clear priorities for net-new capabilities and improvements
• Work with engineering teams to scope and refine approaches to solving customer problems, both in the core database and in ClickHouse Cloud offerings
• Set clear measurable goals around customer success, and use data-driven approaches to ensure new capabilities meet customer needs
• Stay up-to-date on the state of the market and competitive landscape to identify needed features and areas of improvement for ClickHouse that align with the roadmap and general requests received by our community and customers
• Work with partners to grow ClickHouse awareness and visibility

What You Bring Along

• Proven experience with database security principles and best practices
• Knowledgeable and passionate about data engineering markets - data warehousing, data analytics, security, and observability
• Strong vision around where these markets are headed, and what it takes to become a leader in this space
• Previous experience with ClickHouse or a highly related OLAP technology at a deeply technical level
• Previous experience with open-source projects, ideally as a product manager
• Passionate about building enterprise capabilities that are powerful yet easy to use
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to influence multiple stakeholders without direct authority
• Comfortable working with ambiguity and evolving based on business needs
• Ability and desire to work with customers or community members, providing technical guidance and support during their POC.

Bonus Points For

• Previous contributions to open-source projects
• Engineering experience, ideally around distributed/cloud systems in C++
• Experience effectively working remotely in a global, distributed organization

Perks

• Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in over 25 countries.
• Healthcare - Employer contributions towards your healthcare.
• Equity in the company - Every new team member who joins our company receives stock options.
• Time off - Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries.
• A USD$500 Home office setup if you’re a remote employee.
• Global Gatherings - We believe in the power of in-person connection and offer opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites.

Culture - We All Shape It

As part of a rapidly scaling start-up, you will be instrumental in shaping our culture.

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Compensation Range: $170K - $242K