Principal Product Manager

couchbaseinc; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Couchbase, Inc. seeks a Senior Product Manager to own day-to-day execution for a mature portfolio of mobile and edge data products, translating strategy into a sequenced roadmap and shipped improvements.

The role blends technical product judgment, release discipline, customer engagement, and developer experience, with an emerging focus on AI on devices and at the edge. You will convert strategy into roadmaps, write PRDs, partner with engineering and design, validate pre-release features, and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product management experience with strong execution across a mature product or portfolio.
• Hands-on software development experience; at least 3 years including building or architecting production applications.
• Strong technical depth and product judgment, ideally in distributed systems, databases, or developer platforms.
• Ability to write detailed, engineering-ready requirements and validate product behavior directly.
• Experience working with customers and coordinating cross-functional responses to product issues.
• Clear communication skills for technical audiences and customer-facing teams.

Responsibilities

• Convert portfolio strategy into a detailed roadmap and drive features from requirements through release and adoption.
• Write technical product requirements, partner with engineering and design, validate pre-release features, and contribute to planning and delivery routines.
• Improve release quality, documentation, and developer workflows across established products.
• Define requirements for on-device and edge AI use cases, grounded in technical understanding of the portfolio.
• Meet with customers and prospects to test use cases and make clear product scope decisions.
• Coordinate resolution of customer escalations with field, sales, support, and engineering teams.
• Represent the portfolio through technical presentations and content, and equip customer-facing teams with product guidance.

Skills

Product management

Software development

Distributed systems

Engineering collaboration

Customer engagement

Technical writing

Job description

Role overview

Own day-to-day product execution for a mature portfolio of mobile and edge data products, translating strategy into a sequenced roadmap and shipped improvements. The work combines technical product judgment, release discipline, customer engagement, and developer experience, with an emerging focus on applications that use AI on devices and at the edge.

Responsibilities

• Convert portfolio strategy into a detailed roadmap and drive features from requirements through release and adoption.
• Write technical product requirements, partner with engineering and design, validate pre-release features, and contribute to planning and delivery routines.
• Improve release quality, documentation, and developer workflows across established products.
• Define requirements for on-device and edge AI use cases, grounded in technical understanding of the portfolio.
• Meet with customers and prospects to test use cases and make clear product scope decisions.
• Coordinate resolution of customer escalations with field, sales, support, and engineering teams.
• Represent the portfolio through technical presentations and content, and equip customer-facing teams with product guidance.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of product management experience with strong execution across a mature product or portfolio.
• Hands‑on software development experience; the source specifies at least 3 years, including building or architecting production applications.
• Strong technical depth and product judgment, ideally in distributed systems, databases, or developer platforms.
• Ability to write detailed, engineering‑ready requirements and validate product behavior directly.
• Experience working with customers and coordinating cross‑functional responses to product issues.
• Clear communication skills for technical audiences and customer‑facing teams.

Benefits and work setup

Remote position for candidates based in the United States.

• Benefits include flexible time off, health and wellness coverage, retirement plans, business travel coverage, and ergonomic equipment for home or office use.
• Benefit details vary by country.