Certification Manager

ClickHouse; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 169,000 - 212,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible remote work

Healthcare

Equity in the company

Generous time off

Home office stipend of USD 500

Global gatherings

Job summary

ClickHouse's Learning Team is expanding its certification program to deliver more hands-on exams and credentialed badges for developers and engineers. The role owns certification design, grading scripts, quizzes, and community building around ClickHouse credentials.

You will collaborate with SMEs, run metrics, coordinate with vendors, and travel occasionally to conferences to promote ClickHouse certifications while ensuring scalable, rigorous assessments for a technical audience.

Qualifications

• Proven experience developing certification exams and quizzes for a highly technical audience like software engineers and database developers.
• Experience with SQL.
• Technical breadth and depth in DBMS, OLAP, Cloud/SaaS platforms, distributed systems software engineering, and big data.
• High level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability.
• Excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop performance-based, hands-on ClickHouse certification exams on real-time analytics, observability and data warehousing use cases.
• Work with SMEs to create job task analyses for exams.
• Grade and maintain all certification exams, including writing grading scripts.
• Develop quizzes for course-completion badges and credentials.
• Establish a community presence for ClickHouse certified professionals via social media, conferences, and meetups.
• Track and report metrics and KPIs of the certification program.
• Coordinate with certification and badging vendors to ensure proper delivery of exams and badges.
• Handle customer support from learners interested in obtaining certifications.
• Travel occasionally to meetups and conferences to promote ClickHouse to the community.

Skills

SQL

DBMS

OLAP

Big data

Distributed systems

Cloud/SaaS

Communication

Ownership

Job description

The Learning Team at ClickHouse is growing fast as more and more users discover the power of ClickHouse and need to understand how to use it effectively. As part of that growth, we want to expand our certification program. We currently offer credentialed badges for completion of courses and one performance-based ClickHouse Certified Developer exam for those who are subject matter experts. We are looking for someone to take ownership of our certification program, expand our certification exam offerings, and build a community around our ClickHouse certified professionals.

Responsibilities

• Developing performance-based, hands-on ClickHouse certification exams on ClickHouse use cases like real-time analytics, observability and data warehousing
• Working with company SME's to create job task analyses for exams
• Grading and maintaining all certification exams, including writing grading scripts
• Developing quizzes for our course-completion badges
• Writing and deploying quizzes for ClickHouse credentials
• Establishing a community presence for ClickHouse certified professionals using popular social media outlets and also while attending ClickHouse user conferences and Meetups
• Tracking and reporting on the metrics and KPIs of the certification program
• Working with the certification and badging vendors to ensure proper delivery of the exams and badges
• Handling customer support from learners interested in obtaining our certifications
• Traveling occasionally to Meetups and conferences to promote ClickHouse to the community

Requirements

• A self-motivated attitude that provides you with the desire and determination to complete projects in a fast-paced startup environment
• Proven experience developing certification exams and quizzes for a highly technical audience like software engineers and database developers
• Experience with SQL
• Technical breadth and depth in relevant subjects such as DBMS, OLAP, Cloud/SaaS platforms, distributed systems software engineering, and big data
• You have a high level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly and effectively
• Excellent communication skills

Bonus Points

• 5+ years of experience in certification in the technical software industry
• Experience with curriculum development or instruction for databases and/or distributed systems
• Experience with ClickHouse database
• Experience with one or more Cloud Service Providers such as AWS, GCP, Azure
• Experience building software certification exams
• Ability to work cross-functionally amongst engineering, support, product and development teams
• Technical degree (e.g. Computer Science or related field)

You'll Love This Role If

• You thrive in a customer-facing role, collaborating closely with Engineering, Marketing and Sales teams
• You are self-driven, curious, and eager to continuously learn and grow
• You possess a mindset of teamwork, global engagement, empathy, and a drive for solving challenging problems
• You have a sense of adventure and urgency in building the most scalable, highest performing, largest, and fastest databases in the world

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. Are you interested in finding out more about our culture? Learn more about our values here. Check out our blog posts or follow us on LinkedIn to find out more about what's happening at ClickHouse.

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Compensation Range: $169K - $212K