Remote Principal Product Manager, Mobile & Edge AI

Couchbase; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 188,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous Time Off Program

Wellness Benefits

Retirement program

Ergonomic in‑office / WFH setup

Job summary

Couchbase is hiring a Principal Product Manager to own execution for the Couchbase Mobile portfolio—Couchbase Lite, Sync Gateway/Capella App Services, and Edge Server. You will be responsible for release quality, developer experience, and technical depth to support edge and on-device AI use cases.

The role spans a full cloud-to-edge-to-device data layer, including embedded databases and sync backends, with a focus on practical, engineering-ready requirements and strong collaboration with

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product management experience for a mature product or portfolio at scale, preferably distributed systems or developer platforms.
• 3+ years of hands-on software development experience, writing or architecting production apps.
• Proven ability to improve execution on a mature product, including release quality and developer experience.

Responsibilities

• Turn product strategy for the Couchbase Mobile portfolio into a detailed roadmap and drive it to shipped, adopted products.
• Own end-to-end execution day-to-day: write detailed technical requirements, collaborate with engineering and design, validate features hands-on.
• Improve release quality and documentation, enhance developer experience, and reduce friction across products.
• Define how on-device and edge AI use cases are supported, turning ideas into engineering-ready requirements.
• Engage with customers to pressure-test use cases and translate them into build/don't-build decisions.
• Serve as the portfolio's lead technical evangelist in talks, webinars, and customer-facing content.
• Collaborate with leadership to align in cross-organization planning and strategy.

Skills

Product management

Software development

Technical depth

Edge computing / AI concepts

Communication

Agile / JIRA

Tools

JIRA

Job description

Couchbase is hiring a Principal Product Manager to own execution for the Couchbase Mobile portfolio—Couchbase Lite, Sync Gateway/Capella App Services, and Edge Server. You will be responsible for release quality, developer experience, and technical depth to support edge and on-device AI use cases.

The role spans a full cloud-to-edge-to-device data layer, including embedded databases and sync backends, with a focus on practical, engineering-ready requirements and strong collaboration with