Senior Product Manager - Database

Ocient; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Ocient is seeking a Senior Product Manager - Database to lead end-to-end product strategy for large-scale data analytics products. This remote US role requires deep experience with databases, data movement, and enterprise software, driving roadmaps, prioritizing features, and collaborating with sales, marketing, and customers to deliver high-value solutions.

You will work with a Senior Vice President of Product Management and own roadmap development for use cases across industries, including

Qualifications

• Significant experience: 10+ years in enterprise software.
• 5+ years in product management or closely collaborating with PMs.
• 5+ years with database or data analytics products.
• Experience with on-premise, cloud, and service deployments.
• Excellent presentation and written communication to senior audiences.
• Ability to drive complex projects with many moving parts.

Responsibilities

• Translate customer business problems into feature specifications with sales and partners.
• Collaborate with technical PMs to build requirements and drive to completion.
• Prioritize features to deliver highest value.
• Own and develop roadmaps for key solutions and use cases.
• Work with sales to communicate roadmap and priorities.
• Monitor market positioning relative to customers and competition.
• Coordinate with product marketing on strategy for owned solutions.
• Engage directly with customers on new use cases as an advocate.

Skills

Communication

Project management

Leadership

Enterprise software

Education

BS/MS/PhD in computer science or related field

Job description

Job Title: Senior Product Manager - Database

Location: Remote (US Only)

• We cannot sponsor or transfer any visas, of any kind now or in the future (ex. OPT, EAD, H1B, H4, etc.)*

Hiring Manager: Senior Vice President of Product Management

Estimated salary range: $165,000 to $195,000

• The salary offered for this position will be based on a candidate’s experience and skill demonstrated during interviews and other evaluations

Position Overview

We're building a world-class team with the aim of providing polished, professional, and technically capable vision for an emerging company and product. Ocient is looking for ultimate team players who are dedicated to improving our product and customer experience with every interaction. A deep understanding of the end-to-end sales, development, and delivery cycle is key to adding unique value to the organization.

Candidates must have significant data warehousing, analytics, and database expertise. They should have experience either building, selling, or managing database products for external consumption. Candidates should have a working knowledge and experience with data movement and data ingest into databases. Product managers at Ocient are responsible for both internal and external facing product work. As such, their technical depth and expertise in database and data movement need to be significant.

Responsibilities

• Working closely with other sales, customers, and partners to translate customer business problems into specifications for sets of features.
• Work closely with technical product managers to build requirement specifications and see them through to completion.
• Participating in the prioritization process to identify which features deliver the highest value.
• Owning and developing the roadmap for key solutions and use cases. This might include use cases in telecommunications, government, automotive, and more.
• Working closely with sales to communicate the roadmap and priority of outstanding feature requests by customers.
• Understanding and tracking the positioning of your solutions with respect to where customers and our competition are headed.
• Interacting with product marketing on the strategy of the solutions and use cases that you own.
• Working directly with customers on new use cases as a customer advocate and partner in building out new solutions with Ocient.

Ideal Qualifications

• BS, MS, or PhD in computer science, computer engineering, or related technical field
• 10+ years of professional working experience in enterprise software
• 5+ years of product management experience or closely working with product management
• 5+ years of working with database or data analytics products
• A passion for large-scale data management, analytics, and enterprise-level problems
• Background working with databases on-premise, in the cloud, and running as a service
• Excellent presentation and written communication skills to senior internal and external audiences
• Ability to drive complex projects with many moving parts
• Ideal candidates will also have spent some time working in technical sales or technical consulting
• An interest in developing out use cases and new markets for emerging technologies

An Exceptional Candidate Will Have:

Our ideal Senior Product Manager is adept at identifying new opportunities and refining solutions around massive-scale data analytics within complex enterprises. They are driven to build enjoyable products, solve complex problems, and push the bounds of what is possible with performance and scale. Ocient Product Managers are self-motivated, enthusiastic leaders. They work directly with every part of the internal Ocient organization helping drive complex database features to successful completion.

• Has experience identifying new partnership opportunities and managing their relationships
• Has experience delivering or building internal enablement
• Has experience running new projects or startups as a key leader in the company or project
• Are a self-starter who can work projects from start to finish
• Thrive in fast-paced, dynamic environments
• Like to lead teams, projects, and visions