Product Manager - Data

Mixpanel, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Vision, Dental coverage

Mental wellness benefits

Vacation policy & holidays

Parental leave

Volunteer time off

401(k) benefits

Job summary

Mixpanel is seeking a Product Manager for Mixpanel Data to own strategy and roadmap for data architecture evolution, including data warehouses, lakes, and governance. You will turn ambiguous tradeoffs into a clear point of view and work with engineering leadership to shape the data stack for years to come.

You'll translate customer data workflows into product bets, build the business case for infrastructure investments, and align teams with a shared strategic narrative while measuring progress

Qualifications

• Experience owning infrastructure- or platform-level product areas.
• Proven ability to turn ambiguous data-architecture tradeoffs into a clear point of view.
• Strong communication with technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive strategy and roadmap for data infrastructure evolution.
• Turn complex tradeoffs into clear recommendations with measurable impact.
• Partner with engineering on build-vs-integrate-vs-partner decisions.
• Engage with customers to understand data workflows and translate into bets.
• Build a business case for long-horizon data investments.
• Define data model, governance, and metadata evolution.
• Align squads around a shared strategic direction and communicate clearly.
• Define and track metrics to validate strategy effectiveness.

Skills

Infrastructure ownership

Data stack experience

Strategic storytelling

AI in PM workflows

Customer discovery

Cross-functional collaboration

Architectural tradeoffs

Tools

Snowflake

BigQuery

Databricks

Open data formats

Job description

About Mixpanel

Mixpanel is the leading product intelligence and analytics platform, trusted by more than 29,000 companies to help understand how people use the products they build. By combining powerful analytics with AI that knows your business, Mixpanel helps teams see what’s working, diagnose what’s not, and decide what to build next. Learn more at mixpanel.com.

About the Role

The core of Mixpanel’s value to customers has always been great data. We’re in an exciting moment for the way our users are thinking about and working with product data, and we need help figuring out how our position in the data infrastructure stack evolves. That’s why we’re hiring a fantastic Product Manager for Mixpanel Data.

In this role, you'll own Mixpanel's strategy and roadmap for where we sit in the data landscape - how our data architecture evolves, where we build versus integrate versus get out of the way, and what it means for Mixpanel to work with data that increasingly lives outside our walls as well as inside them. This is a pathfinding role: a large part of the job is turning ambiguous technical and business tradeoffs into a clear point of view, a roadmap, and decisions the engineering and leadership team can act on.

What You'll Do

• Define and drive Mixpanel's strategy and roadmap for how the product evolves alongside customers' data warehouses, lakes, and the broader modern data stack
• Turn complex, ambiguous architecture and business tradeoffs into a clear recommendation, grounded in customer evidence, competitive context, and business impact
• Partner closely with engineering leadership on build-vs-integrate-vs-partner decisions that shape Mixpanel's data architecture for years to come
• Talk directly to customers and prospects to understand how their data infrastructure and workflows are changing, and translate that into product bets
• Build the business case for infrastructure-level investments, making the ROI of foundational, long-horizon work legible to leadership
• Define how Mixpanel's data model, governance, and metadata need to evolve to support deeper analysis and a growing product portfolio
• Align engineering, design, and go-to-market teams around a shared strategic point of view, with clear, written communication
• Define and track the metrics that tell you whether the strategy is working, and course-correct as new evidence comes in

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of hands-on product management experience, including ownership of technically complex, infrastructure- or platform-level problems
• Direct experience with the modern data stack — data warehouses, data lakes, ETL/ELT, or data platform tooling — as a builder, user, or product owner
• Comfort operating in ambiguity, with a track record of synthesizing competing technical and business inputs into a clear strategic point of view
• Experience partnering closely with engineering on architecture-level tradeoffs, not just feature scoping
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to bring technical and non-technical audiences along on a strategic narrative
• Experience using AI tools in product management workflows (e.g., competitive research, prototyping)

Nice to Have

• Experience at a data infrastructure, data platform, or analytics company
• Hands-on experience with data warehouses/lakehouses (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks) or open data formats
• Experience writing production-grade software
• Experience designing products using tools like Figma, Sketch, or Abstract

Compensation

The amount listed below is the total target cash compensation (TTCC) and includes base compensation and variable compensation in the form of either a company bonus or commissions. Variable compensation type is determined by your role and level. In addition to the cash compensation provided, this position is also eligible for equity consideration and other benefits including medical, vision, and dental insurance coverage. You can view our benefits offerings here.

Our salary ranges are determined by role and level and are benchmarked to the SF Bay Area Technology data cut released by Radford, a global compensation database. The range displayed represents the minimum and maximum TTCC for new hire salaries for the position across all of our US locations. To stay on top of market conditions, we refresh our salary ranges twice a year so these ranges may change in the future. Within the range, individual pay is determined by experience, job-related skills, qualifications, and other factors. If you have questions about the specific range, your recruiter can share this information.

Mixpanel Compensation Range

$175,000 — $210,000 USD

Benefits and Perks

• Comprehensive Medical, Vision, and Dental Care
• Mental Wellness Benefit
• Generous Vacation Policy & Additional Company Holidays
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Volunteer Time Off
• Additional US Benefits: Pre-Tax Benefits including 401(K), Wellness Benefit, Holiday Break

*please note that benefits and perks for contract positions will vary*

Culture Values

• Make Bold Bets: We choose courageous action over comfortable progress.
• Innovate with Insight: We tackle decisions with rigor and judgment - combining data, experience and collective wisdom to drive powerful outcomes.
• One Team: We collaborate across boundaries to achieve far greater impact than any of us could accomplish alone.
• Candor with Connection: We build meaningful relationships that enable honest feedback and direct conversations.
• Champion the Customer: We seek to deeply understand our customers’ needs, ensuring their success is our north star.
• Powerful Simplicity: We find elegant solutions to complex problems, making sophisticated things accessible.

Why choose Mixpanel?

We’re a leader in analytics with over 29,000 customers and $277M invested from prominent investors: like Andreessen-Horowitz, Sequoia, YC, and, most recently, Bain Capital. Mixpanel’s pioneering event-based data analytics platform offers a powerful yet simple solution for companies to understand user behaviors and easily track overarching company success metrics. Our accomplished teams continuously facilitate our expansion by tackling the ever-evolving challenges tied to scaling, reliability, design, and service. Choosing to work at Mixpanel means you’ll be helping the world’s most innovative companies learn from their data so they can make better decisions.

Mixpanel is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity. At Mixpanel, we are focused on things that really matter—our people, our customers, our partners—out of a recognition that those relationships are the most valuable assets we have. We actively encourage women, people with disabilities, veterans, underrepresented minorities, and LGBTQ+ people to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance or other similar laws that may be applicable, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We’ve immersed ourselves in our Culture and Values as our guiding principles for the impact we want to have and the future we are building.