Principal Product Manager, Platform

Hydrolix; Portland, Northern (OR, KY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Hydrolix is seeking a product leader to shape the core data platform for a petabyte-scale analytics runtime. You will translate business priorities into a coherent platform roadmap and communicate platform capabilities across engineering, product, sales, and customer success.

You will collaborate with executives to drive reliability, scalability, and AI-enabled workflows, balancing technical depth with organizational clarity to accelerate customer value.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in product management with data/platforms or analytics tooling.
• Technical foundation to discuss trade-offs around scope and sequencing with engineers.
• Experience delivering platform products in Enterprise SaaS or cloud data firms.
• Ability to write clear narratives showing how platform work impacts customer outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate on the core platform roadmap — reliability, scalability, authentication, and operator experience.
• Drive platform decisions to optimize key customer journeys and future product options.
• Drive investments in agentic readiness and AI workflows, including customer-facing support.
• Implement and iterate a cross-functional SDLC so Sales Engineering and Customer Success stay aligned.
• Make platform investments legible to the business with narratives connecting investments to outcomes and metrics.
• Define and track platform metrics like onboarding time and incident volume.

Skills

Platform roadmap

Data platforms

Distributed systems

Enterprise SaaS

Technical communication

Cross-functional leadership

AI workflows

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Hydrolix | Portland, OR or Remote (US & EU Time Zones)

Job Description

At Hydrolix, we are revolutionizing the world of data management and analytics with an innovative cloud data platform purpose-built for petabyte-scale datasets. Hydrolix enables organizations to slash their data costs while simultaneously increasing their data retention.

Every part of Hydrolix’s growth story runs through the core platform. Expanding partnerships, reducing user friction, expansion into new verticals; none of it is possible without a platform that is reliable, operable, and easy to build on, especially for emergent agentic workflows. Right now, too much of that operational burden falls on humans. That’s the problem this role exists to solve. You’ll partner with core engineering & product leadership to translate business priorities into a coherent platform roadmap, and translate platform capabilities into terms the rest of the company can sell, support, and build on. It’s equal parts technical depth and organizational clarity.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate on the core platform roadmap — reliability, scalability, authentication, console architecture, provisioning, and the operator experience for customers and partners, supporting the next order of magnitude of ingested data.
• Drive the platform product decisions behind ongoing strategic bets: what does it mean to make our key customer journey loops faster and easier, and how does the future of the platform reflect that priority?
• Drive internal investments into agentic readiness and supporting architectural AI workflows as well as customer-facing support for novel technologies.
• Implement and iterate on a cross-functional SDLC that ensures Sales Engineering and Customer Success are never learning about platform changes at the 11th hour; then improve and iterate on that process.
• Make core engineering’s work legible to the rest of the business: write the narratives that connect platform investments to customer outcomes and business metrics
• Partner with engineering leadership on the sequencing decisions that create or enable future product options — you’re not just prioritizing a backlog, you’re making architectural bets
• Define and track the platform metrics that matter: onboarding time, support escalation rate, operational incident volume, time-to-value for new customers and partners

Qualifications and Skills

• Extensive experience in product management, with meaningful time on data or analytics platforms, data warehouse or transformation tooling, infrastructure, or developer/operator-facing products
• Technical foundation strong enough to earn engineering trust — you’ve worked closely enough with distributed systems, data infrastructure, or cloud platforms to credibly provide feedback and discuss trade offs around scope and sequencing
• Systems thinker who sees how platform decisions today create or foreclose options for product teams building on top of them tomorrow
• Clear, structured writer; platform work is invisible until it breaks; your job is to make it legible before that happens
• Significant experience developing platform in an Enterprise SaaS or cloud data firm.
• Experience building the operational discipline — processes, communication rhythms, cross-functional templates — that lets an engineering-led company grow without losing coherence
• Experience with columnar databases, time-series data, distributed/cloud compute platforms or log/event data platforms
• Experience implementing platforms for modern AI solutions – not just solutions themselves, but the architecture and scaffolding to support broad, customer-ready agentic workflows.

Bonus Qualifications

• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, SaaS multi-tenancy, or Kubernetes-based deployments
• Experience at a company transitioning from high-touch enterprise delivery to self-service or product-led growth

We look forward to seeing how you can make an impact at Hydrolix.

Hydrolix provides equal employment opportunities without regard to an applicant’s race, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, religion, marital status or veteran status.

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