Staff Product Manager

Materialize; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in real-time data solutions is seeking a Staff Product Manager to drive the development of their SQL experience and collaborate with multiple engineering teams. The role requires deep technical expertise and excellent communication skills to convey product value to diverse audiences. This position is based in New York and involves a hybrid work model, requiring a minimum of three days a week in the office.

Qualifications

• 8+ years experience with databases or data infrastructure.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Define product strategy and collaborate across teams.
• Become the expert in your product area through research.
• Manage a portfolio of projects balancing short and long-term goals.

Skills

Communication

Collaboration

Technical Expertise

Job description

Materialize is a real-time data platform built on a breakthrough in incremental computation, enabling up-to-date, trustworthy views into any aspect of your business using just SQL. Build and adapt live, composable data products in minutes—with the team you already have. Use Materialize to power data-intensive UIs, deliver fresh context to AI/ML pipelines, and create dynamic digital twins of manufacturing processes for real-time optimization. Materialize is trusted by General Mills, Ryder, and Fubo.tv to solve their most pressing real-time data challenges.

Our team spans the US (with a NYC headquarters), Canada, and EMEA.

Investors:

Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

About the Role:

As a Staff Product Manager for the Materialize database, you will own a significant portion of the Materialize product. You will drive the development and delivery of Materialize’s SQL experience, compute clusters (powered by Timely and Differential Dataflow), and sources & sinks. Your work will span multiple Engineering teams. You’ll craft roadmaps that help customers deploy Materialize and expand their use cases, all while staying true to our product principles: trust, scale, and ease. You’ll develop deep expertise in our product, our customers, and the broader data market. With that knowledge, you’ll help us ship solutions our customers love—and enable our GTM teams and users to clearly understand the value of each new release.

This role sits within our Product organization and reports directly to our CEO. If you’re excited about taking on a deeply technical Product role with massive responsibility, we’d love to hear from you!

About You:

• You have 8+ years experience working with databases, streaming systems, or other types of data infrastructure
• You love technology, but you also care about the people who use it (our customers!)
• You have a proven history or collaborating with people from every department to ensure solutions drive real business impact
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills with a track record of presenting deeply technical content to diverse non-technical audiences
• Proven ability to create quickly create compelling demos for new capabilities using LLMs
• You are based in New York and excited about coming to our office (in Astor Place)
• Optional, but nice to have: you have previously been an Engineer who has worked on a related product

Responsibilities:

• Define the strategy of your product area and work collaboratively across the company to ensure you deliver on it
• Become the authoritative expert in your product area — both internally and externally — by conducting market research, learning from our customers, and using the product yourself
• Proactively manage a portfolio of small and big projects, while balancing short-term goals against long-term vision
• Drive the understanding of user pain points with the current product, and aim to reduce the sophistication required for our customers to be successful
• Instrument, monitor, and report on your product area, prioritizing and delivering on improvements where necessary
• Work with our Product, Engineering, and Go-To-Market teams to tell the story of your product area through documentation, educational content, blogs, and presentations

Location: NYC (hybrid, minimum 3 days/week in HQ)

The salary range provided in this job description should not be considered a guarantee or commitment. The actual compensation offered may vary based on individual qualifications objectively assessed during the application and interview process, including but not limited to the candidate’s:

• Qualifications and relevant work experience
• Educational background and credentials
• Relevant skills and certifications
• Geographic location

Materialize reserves the right to adjust the salary range based on the candidate's specific circumstances and the overall compensation package.

We understand it takes a diverse team of highly intelligent, passionate, curious, and creative people to develop the exceptional product we are building. Our dynamic team has incredible perspectives to share, just as we know you do, and we take great pride in being an equal opportunity employer.

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