Position: Product Manager
Perks: Attractive Equity &benefits including 25 days PTO, medical/dental/vision insurance
Location: Remote anywhere in the U.S. or Canada
Work Visa's: No sponsorships are available at this time
Salary: $120K-$150K (dependent on work location &level of experience)
Are you interested in working in a dynamic and growing international company with a strong Open Source culture and whose products are used by big Internet and other companies all over the world? MariaDB is the fastest growing Open Source database worldwide, with more than 12 million users. We power applications at companies like booking.com, Virgin Mobile and Wikipedia, and we partner with companies like Alibaba and Facebook. The company was founded by the team that founded and built MySQL and enjoys unprecedented technical depth for a startup.
The MariaDB team is looking for a passionate problem solver to join our team as a product manager. You’ll be leading the charge in developing the most advanced database products on the most popular open-source database platform.
Someone who can easily navigate both business &technical conversation and not be afraid to roll up your sleeves to solve technical challenges will thrive in this role. As a technical Product Manager, you will be involved with everything related to developing MariaDB products further to become the next generation of database products.
The role and your impact:
- Drive the product roadmap from start to finish, from product feature definition, prioritization and successful execution through multiple releases
- Engage with customers, partners and field teams to understand use cases, requirements and customer needs
- Partner with world-class engineering talent to influence design/architectural decisions and collaborate on feature definition and development
- Create product specifications and requirements to drive the engineering process
- Perform competitive market analysis to help make product choices and prioritize features
- Maintain product feature lists and define the scope for each release
- Analyze and identify new opportunities and key trends
- Lead beta programs with key customers
- Collaborate with marketing to participate in product launch activities
- Write technical product updates, architecture diagrams, feature descriptions and customer presentations
- Work with marketing to enable sales to effectively communicate the use cases and value proposition
What we're ideally looking for:
- 2-3+ years product management experience
- Experience with databases, public/private cloud and data platforms
- Experience working with distributed teams across the world
- Strong desire to take ownership of the full product lifecycle
- Good understanding of database internals
- Experience working with AWS/GCP/Azure cloud platforms
- Hands-on nature with a strong interest in technology, ability to work with and influence highly talented engineering teams
- Excellent written and communication skills and equally able to talk to and influence engineers, executives, customers, and partners
- Ability to work with cross-functional teams such as marketing, sales, and field engineering
- Technical Bachelor’s degree (e.g., CS, CE, EE) or equivalent.
Bonus if you have:
- Familiarity with public cloud database services such as RDS, Aurora, Mongo Atlas
MBA degree
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