Principal Product Manager Lead, SingleStore
$200-275k
Salary applicable to Boston, Chicago, New York, Austin, Phoenix, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington, or Dallas
SQL
Python
Senior and Expert level
Remote from US
Cloud-native database
Be an early applicant
Cloud-native database
501-1000 employees
B2BData storageSecurityEnterpriseBig dataAnalyticsCloud Computing
Be an early applicant
$200-275k
Salary applicable to Boston, Chicago, New York, Austin, Phoenix, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington, or Dallas
SQL
Python
Senior and Expert level
Remote from US
501-1000 employees
B2BData storageSecurityEnterpriseBig dataAnalyticsCloud Computing
Company mission
To spark creativity, inspiration and evolution among every maker in the world.
Role
Who you are
- Deep understanding of distributed databases, query processing, and performance optimization, with comfort reading query plans, indexes, and workload patterns
- Working knowledge of, and experience delivering AI Agents, skills, and/or MCP servers
- Strong familiarity with observability and alerting systems and SRE/operations workflows
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively with senior engineering leaders and architects on complex technical decisions and trade-offs
- Strong execution skills: able to drive complex, multi-quarter initiatives across multiple teams while maintaining clarity on goals, ownership, and status
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present complex technical topics to executives, field teams, and customers in a clear, outcome-oriented way
- Willingness and ability to mentor other PMs and act as a go-to leader for performance, diagnostics, and AI/observability-related product questions
What the job involves
- This role is a principal-level, hands-on product leadership position in the Product organization
- It owns the end-to-end strategy, roadmap, and execution for a cross-cutting portfolio spanning AI text-to-SQL and data analysis (Aura Analyst), AI and ML functions, query optimization and tuning, and database / cloud platform observability & alerting
- A unifying theme of this role is analytics, including unlocking latent demand in our customers using AI-driven query and analysis, making the core database engine perform analytical workloads better via query optimization, and enabling us and customers to analyze system telemetry to make workloads shine
- If you love analytics, you're an experienced product leader, and want to build an innovative, AI-enriched product and business, not groom the backlog, this job is for you
- A major company focus is to surround SingleStore with AI assistance to make everyone using or building on SingleStore more productive
- This includes allowing data to be queried and analyzed far more easily by a much broader range of people, and making SingleStore increasingly self-observing, self-diagnosing, and self-optimizing
- This helps customers and internal teams use and analyze their data, understand workload behavior, debug issues quickly, and continuously improve performance and efficiency
- This role leads product management for a range of AI analysts, skills, and MCP servers to provide these capabilities
- Aura Analyst:
- Owns Aura Analyst as the primary end-user tool for AI-guided text-to-SQL and conversational query result analysis, including technical feature set definition, customer positioning, and roadmap
- AI & ML Functions Platform:
- Co-owns the product strategy for AI and ML capabilities exposed as AI functions, ML functions, Python UDFs, Cloud Functions, Container Services, MCP server, and AI documentation question answering (SQrL)
- Ensures these surfaces are observable, testable, and debuggable, with clear workflows for data engineers and application developers
- Aligns AI/ML function capabilities with Aura Analyst so that AI workloads are first-class citizens in observability and performance views
- Query Optimization & Tuning:
- Owns product strategy for query optimization, tuning, and AI-based database tuning, in close collaboration with the core engine team
- Defines how query plans, regressions, and recommendations are surfaced in the UI, APIs, and internal tools
- Partners with engine leadership on prioritization of query engine investments that materially improve customer performance, reliability, and cost
- Observability, Alerting & Internal Data Warehouse:
- Owns database observability, cloud containers observability, and alerting experiences used by both customers and internal SRE/support teams
- Partners with data and analytics teams on the internal product analytics and reporting stack powering dashboarding on product adoption and COGS
- Strategy & roadmap:
- Develops and maintains a multi-release roadmap for Aura Analyst, SingleStore productivity AI Agents, skills and MCP servers, AI/ML functions, query optimization, and observability & alerting, aligned with company strategy and product positioning
- Defines clear problem statements, success criteria, and scope for major initiatives; maintains a prioritized backlog across teams
- Cross-functional leadership & people management:
- Acts as the product lead across multiple engineering and design teams (engine, cloud, AI platform, SRE, support, DevX)
- Directly manages an analytics engineer responsible for building and maintaining reporting on cloud platform operations, product usage, and key business metrics; provides prioritization, feedback, and career coaching
- Provides product direction and mentorship to PMs working in adjacent areas (AI, DevX, analytics)
- Ensures initiatives in this portfolio are well understood and sequenced appropriately in planning cycles
- Customer, field, and internal stakeholder engagement:
- Regularly meets with key customers and design partners to validate problems, designs, and proposed solutions in this portfolio
- Serves as a primary point of contact for the field (Sales, Solutions, CS) on performance, observability, and AI-diagnostics-related topics
- Partners with Support and SRE to translate recurring operational pain (e.g., incidents, hot spots, noisy alerts) into product requirements
- Execution and delivery:
- Writes product requirements documents and detailed requirements for new features and enhancements; reviews technical design documents and UX designs to ensure alignment with product goals
- Drives end-to-end feature delivery: preview programs, documentation coordination, field enablement, and launch readiness
- Ensures we have clear “definition of done” and acceptance criteria for features in this portfolio
- Metrics and continuous improvement:
- Defines and tracks key metrics and leading indicators, including (examples, not exhaustive):
- Time-to-detect (TTD) and time-to-resolve (TTR) for incidents
- Query performance and resource efficiency metrics (CPU, memory, GPU)
- Adoption, engagement, and retention for Aura Analyst and AI/ML functions
- Volume and severity of support tickets related to performance and observability
- Works with analytics and data engineering teams to ensure telemetry, internal views, and dashboards exist to measure these outcomes
- Uses data and qualitative feedback to iterate on UX, feature behavior, and defaults
- Experience quality and cohesion:
- Ensures experiences across Aura Analyst, AI functions, query insights, and observability feel cohesive, not separate tools, especially for workflows like:
- AI-guided querying and analysis
- Debugging slow queries or incidents
- Understanding resource consumption and cost
- Operating AI and ML features in production
Our take
Organizations today are swimming in data, which can be difficult to manage. SingleStore provides a converged data platform for transactions and analytics, which organizations can use to process and analyze their most important time-critical application workloads.
The company can ingest and transform millions of events per day while also analyzing billions of rows of data using standard SQL, while its users can query the records in real-time. The hybrid architecture and speed of its technology are what differentiates it from competitors such as Oracle and SAP.
The vision for the company is the ability to access data anywhere, even beyond the SingleStore platform, through global federated access. In 2025, the company was bought by private equity house Vector Capital Management, a development which leads it into a new phase of innovation and growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Top investors
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Oct 2022
$30m
SERIES F
Jul 2022
$116m
LATE VC
Total funding: $414.3m
Company benefits
- Customize a benefits plan that include health, dental and vision that best fits you and your family
- Flexible time off, sick and parental leave programs, plus company holidays
- As a privately held company, we strive to give meaningful stock grants through our equity program
- Fitness subsidy, Modern Health App Subscription, Team Happy Hours and events
- Home Workstation. We provide the laptop, you design your home office any way you want it with a $500 equipment stipend
- Matching Charitable Donations. Corporate donation matching to charitable organizations with 1-week of paid volunteer time off
- Work remotely if it makes sense for you, your position, your team, and the company
- Commuter benefits
- Monthly cell phone and internet stipend
- Food perks
- 401k
- Fertility & Family Formation reimbursement
- FSA and team events and company offsites
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Raj Verma
(CEO)Joined SingleStore at the CEO in 2020. Prior to that, they were Co-CEO at MemSQL and CSO/COO/CRO at Apttus. They also worked at TIBCO Software for 5 years in a number of roles, including COO.
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