Director of Product Management, Security

ClickHouse; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 310,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work environment

Healthcare contributions

Equity stock options

Flexible time off

Home office stipend $500

Global company gatherings

Job summary

ClickHouse is seeking a Director of Product Management to own the security product strategy end to end, including vision, roadmap, and build vs buy decisions. You will drive multi-year investment plans for security offerings and work closely with engineering on database security, networking, and IAM.

You will partner with engineering, design, sales, and marketing to ship truly secure products, translate complex security requirements into specs, and guide PMs through security-adjacent challenges

Qualifications

• 10+ years of product management in B2B SaaS with focus on security.
• Hands-on experience with database security principles and best practices.
• Strong understanding of networking concepts and their security implications.
• In-depth knowledge of identity and access management (IAM).

Responsibilities

• Own the product vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for security offerings.
• Go deep on database security, networking, and IAM.
• Partner with engineering, design, sales, and marketing to ship secure products.
• Translate complex security requirements into actionable specs and user stories.
• Own backlog prioritization and trade-offs considering business value, risk, and cost.
• Drive go-to-market for security launches including positioning and documentation.
• Monitor feature performance using real-world data to inform what's built next.
• Mentor PMs on security-adjacent problems and represent roadmap externally to customers and analysts.

Skills

PM experience in B2B SaaS

Security product strategy

Database security knowledge

Networking security

IAM knowledge

Security certifications

Leadership & mentoring

Communication skills

Job description

We're looking for a Director of Product Management to own our security product strategy end to end - the vision, the roadmap, build vs buy decisions. You will set the multi-year investment strategy for our security offerings, go deep with engineering on database security, networking, and identity management. You will be the subject matter expert for other PMs navigating security-adjacent decisions..

Responsibilities

• Own the product vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for our security offerings, and make the case for it - internally with engineering and leadership, and externally with customers and the market.
• Go deep on database security, networking, and identity and access management (IAM) - enough to argue the details with engineering, not just approve what they propose.
• Partner closely with engineering, design, sales, and marketing to ship products that are actually secure, not just marketed that way.
• Translate complex security requirements into specifications and user stories that engineering can understand.
• Own backlog prioritization and the trade-offs that come with it, weighing business value, customer risk, and engineering cost.
• Drive go-to-market for security launches - positioning, sales enablement, documentation.
• Monitor how security features perform in the real world and use that data, not just instinct, to decide what to build next.
• Be the security subject-matter expert other teams come to, and provide guidance and coaching to PMs working on security-adjacent problems elsewhere in the org.
• Represent our security posture and roadmap externally - with top customers, prospects, and analysts when the conversation needs someone who actually understands the tradeoffs.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of product management experience in B2B SaaS, with a significant and sustained focus on security products or features, including experience setting security strategy at an organizational level.
• Real, hands-on experience with database security principles and best practices.
• Strong understanding of networking concepts and their security implications.
• In-depth knowledge of identity and access management (IAM).
• Security certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CompTIA Security+) preferred.
• Solid program management skills: planning, execution, and risk management across multiple concurrent workstreams.
• A track record of representing product externally - with customers, analysts, or at industry events, and translating deep technical security topics for non-technical audiences.
• Experience guiding or informally mentoring other PMs, even without a formal reporting relationship.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, and the judgment to know when to escalpce versus when to just make the call.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, collaborative environment where priorities shift and you're expected to bring order to it, not just follow along.

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.

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Compensation Range: $210K - $310K