Senior Product Manager, Data Federation - Remote | Equity

Starburst; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 162,000 - 198,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity (ISOs)

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Starburst is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead the federation strategy for the data platform, enabling cross-source querying and agent-driven workloads. You will shape the federation vision and work with engineering and GTM teams to execute.

You will collaborate across catalog implementations (Polaris, Glue, Unity Catalog, Snowflake Open Catalog) and define how agents interact with data infrastructure, including partial visibility and in-place querying at scale.

Qualifications

• 6+ years as a Product Manager, owning a technical infrastructure or data platform product.
• Experience with federated query or data virtualization.
• Strong point of view on precomputation and materialized views for agent workloads in a data platform.
• Experience with lakehouse products and ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• Identify and define next workloads where federating across sources beats consolidation.
• Define what agents need from data infrastructure beyond access.
• Ensure federation layer interoperates with customer catalogs (Polaris, Glue, Unity Catalog, Snowflake Open Catalog).

Skills

Product management

Data federation

Data platform

Trino

Stakeholder management

Travel willingness

Tools

Polaris

Glue

Unity Catalog

Snowflake Open Catalog

Job description

Starburst is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead the federation strategy for the data platform, enabling cross-source querying and agent-driven workloads. You will shape the federation vision and work with engineering and GTM teams to execute.

You will collaborate across catalog implementations (Polaris, Glue, Unity Catalog, Snowflake Open Catalog) and define how agents interact with data infrastructure, including partial visibility and in-place querying at scale.