Technical Product Manager, Ocient
Database
$160-190k
Dataset analysis and management platform
Job no longer available
Dataset analysis and management platform
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$160-190k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To create, advance, sell and support the leading high-performance data platform the world uses to analyze its hyper scale data sets.
Role
Who you are
- BS, MS, or PhD in computer science, computer engineering, or related technical field
- 5+ years of product management experience or closely working with product management
- 5+ years of database experience
- 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
- An intermediate understanding of SQL, database HA/DR, and database security
- Ability to drive complex projects with many moving parts
- Excellent technical and non-technical written and oral communication in English
- Ideal candidates will also have spent some time working in engineering
- Our ideal Technical Product Manager is adept at translating customers business problems around massive-scale data analytics into technical requirements that developers can easily consume
- 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
- Interested in pushing the bounds of what’s possible in large-scale data analytics
- Like to get hands-on with enterprise data products
- Love the challenge of making complex concepts seem simple
- 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
What the job involves
- Ocient is looking for ultimate team players who are dedicated to improving our product and customer experience with every interaction
- They work directly with every part of the internal Ocient organization helping drive complex database features to successful completion
- Working closely with other Product members, Ocient teams, and partners to translate customer business problems into technical specifications for sets of features
- Participating in the prioritization process to identify which features deliver the highest value
- Owning and developing the roadmap for key areas of the Ocient database. This might include components like streaming, loading, UI, the SQL engine, and others
- Working closely with engineering to communicate the requirements and acceptance plan for the features you manage. Contributing to feature design from a user perspective
- Understanding and tracking the positioning of your parts of the database with respect to where customers and our competition are headed
- Interacting with the Product Research team to plan benchmarks and demos around new features associated with the areas you own
- Working closely with support to identify technical challenges, areas to improve our user experience, and opportunities for customers to self-serve
Our take
The rate of digital data creation is rising exponentially, and this isn't making data analysis easy for enterprises. Data sets are becoming too large and complex, resulting in it becoming difficult and time-consuming to analyze what could otherwise be actionable data.
Ocient develops a database and analytics software program that is capable of processing billions of rows of data per second. The startup claims that the platform is typically 50 times faster than high-performance alternatives, whilst facilitating integration within existing industry-standard hardware, SQL systems, and machine learning algorithms.
Whilst there are many new platforms arising that focus on the automatic analysis of large datasets, Ocient claims that it focuses on datasets measured in petabytes or exabytes - not the standard terabytes. The startup has demonstrated great foresight by preparing for inevitable bottlenecks that will be seen with the continuous growth of dataset size.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
17% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2025
$42.1m
SERIES B
Mar 2024
$49.4m
SERIES B
Total funding: $156.5m
Company benefits
- 100% Monthly Premium Paid Medical Insurance For Employees
- 100% Monthly Premium Paid Dental Insurance For Employees
- Vision Insurance
- Long-Term Disability Insurance
- HSA
- FSA – General Purpose Medical, Limited Purpose, and Dependent Care
- Unlimited PTO
- Work Where You Live (Remote-first Policy)
- Paid Parental Leave
- Employee Assistance Program – connect with a licensed professional to get support when and where you need it
- Blue365 – health and wellness discount program
- “Well on Target” Fitness Program – free and discounted gym memberships
- Work From Home Stipend
- Commuter Benefits
- Equity Incentive Award Program
- Educational Assistance Program
- 401k
- $3,000 Referral Bonus Program
- $1,000 Patent Filing Bonus Program
Company HQ
West Loop Gate, Chicago, IL
Leadership
Chris Gladwin
(Co-Founder & CEO)They studied at MIT before working at Martin Marietta, Zenith Data Systems, Cruise Technologies, and MusicNow. They founded Endstor and Cleversafe before starting Ocient as CEO in October 2014.
Joe Jablonski
(Co-Founder & CPO)They founded Visibility Systems, Acumence, and WeGather before spending 12 years at Cleversafe and co-founding Endstor.
George Kondiles
(Co-Founder)Having studied at the University of Illinois, they co-founded Acumence, WeGather, and Endstor. They left this position in 2016 having co-founded Ocient with Chris and Joe.
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