Director of Product Management, Couchbase
Capella
$223-262k
Office located in Santa Clara, CA
Enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database
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Enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$223-262k
Office located in Santa Clara, CA
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Couchbase's mission is to provide an enterprise-class, multi cloud-to-edge database that offers the robust capabilities required for business-critical applications on a highly scalable and available platform.
Role
Who you are
- Couchbase is seeking a dynamic and strategic Director of Product Management to lead the product direction for Capella, our Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) platform
- Educational Background: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MBA or advanced degree is a plus
- Product Management Expertise: 10+ years of product management experience, with at least 5 years leading product management for cloud or database products, preferably DBaaS
- Leadership Experience: Proven track record of managing, mentoring, and developing product managers, with the ability to inspire and lead a team to deliver results
- Technical Understanding: Strong understanding of database technology, cloud infrastructure, and modern DBaaS requirements. Hands-on experience or prior technical background in database or cloud technologies is highly desirable
- Strategic Vision: Experience in defining and executing product strategies that drive significant business growth, with a strong ability to balance customer needs and technical innovation
- Analytical Skills: Ability to leverage data and metrics to drive product decisions, with experience in conducting market and competitive analysis for product positioning
- Customer Orientation: Deep commitment to understanding and improving customer experience, with experience in collaborating with customer success teams and directly interfacing with customers
- Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Adaptability: Experience in a fast-paced environment, ideally in high-growth tech companies, with a proven ability to pivot and adapt based on market or organizational needs
What the job involves
- As the Director of Product Management, you will shape the future of Capella, define the roadmap, and lead a team of product managers to drive innovation and growth in our cloud offerings
- This is a key role with high visibility, where you will collaborate closely with engineering, marketing, sales, and support teams to deliver a best-in-class DBaaS experience for our customers
- Product Strategy: Define and drive the vision and strategy for Couchbase Capella to enhance its position as a leading DBaaS platform, aligning with customer needs and market opportunities
- Roadmap Development: Develop and manage the Capella product roadmap and requirements, balancing short-term deliverables with long-term strategic goals, and ensuring alignment with Couchbase’s business objectives
- Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and grow a team of product managers dedicated to Capella, fostering a high-performing team culture and enabling team members to execute effectively cross-functionally on product initiatives
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with engineering, cloud infrastructure, and operations teams to deliver high-quality features on schedule
- Partner with sales, marketing, and customer success to ensure successful go-to-market (GTM) strategies and to gather insights for product improvements
- Product Lifecycle Management: Oversee all stages of the product lifecycle, from ideation and development to launch and post-launch analysis, continuously evaluating product success metrics and iterating based on customer feedback
- Market and Competitor Analysis: Conduct in-depth analysis of the DBaaS landscape, identifying trends and understanding the competitive environment to ensure Capella remains at the forefront of cloud database solutions
- Advocate for Customer Experience: Champion the end-user experience, ensuring Capella’s ease of use, reliability, and performance meets the high standards of modern cloud applications and contributes to customer success
- Technical Enablement: lead development of Capella technical content for field engineering enablement, which will also be used for other Marketing assets as applicable
- Product Documentation: Collaborate with tech writers to educate them on Capella features, work with them on documentation outlines and high level scoping, and provide timely feedback
Our take
Critical functions for digital business such as compute and storage have become cheaper by orders of magnitude with the advent of cloud computing. However, these businesses still face the challenge of architecting their services under this paradigm. Couchbase’s NoSQL database makes taking advantage of these features possible.
The cloud vendor's major bets on Kubernetes, mobile, and of course, NoSQL have paid off. Many of the world’s largest companies have come to consider this software as mission-critical and Couchbase has benefitted from this as exemplified by its IPO in 2021.
The biggest challenge for Couchbase is that it is playing in a large but competitive market, with the likes of DataStax and the publically traded MongoDB, and all the major cloud vendors vying for similar customers in the NoSQL space. However, Couchbase continues to grow post-IPO and serves influential clients including Mariott International, Amadeus, and LinkedIn.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
May 2020
$105m
SERIES G
Mar 2016
$30m
SERIES F
Total funding: $251m
Company benefits
- Competitive salaries, traditional and Roth 401(k) with employer contributions (US), employee stock options, retirement planning, and ongoing pay reviews
- A sense of purpose in your work and shared passions with your teammates. Join an impact initiative group and experience the amazing feeling of Couchbase’s can-do culture
- Flexible time off, internal learning, and development opportunities, accreditations, boot camps, conferences, and a trust-based culture
- Couchbase Cares promotes philanthropy, inclusion and belonging, worldwide Couchbase celebrations, and sustainability and green teams that impact our local communities
- Full medical, dental, vision, and life insurance coverage, paid parental leave, and a Flexible Spending Account for the things you care about most
- Beautiful offices, free food, the tech you need, and a great setup whether you are office-based using an adjustable desk or receive a stipend for home-based work
- Work from home opportunities
Company values
- Be a Good Human, Always - Be authentic, assume and act with positive intent, even in tough times
- Act With Uncompromising Integrity, Period - Do the right thing every time, be honest and transparent
- Serve Your Family, As Defined by You - Put your family first and let the company work for you in times of need
- Attack Hard Problems, Driven by Customer Outcomes - Be courageous and innovative. Satisfy unmet, underserved needs delivering technical excellence and honesty
- Play to Win, Together - Put in work, be proud of it and be a great teammate for your colleagues
- Make Tomorrow Better Than Today, Start Now - Execute with intensity and urgency, knowing you have an impact
Company HQ
Santa Clara, CA
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Leadership
Matt Cain
(President & CEO, not founder)Worked recently as President of Worldwide Field Operations for Veritas Technologies. Before that, as Chief Product Officer for Veritas’ $2.5B business Also previously held a variety of senior leadership positions at Symantec Corporation and Cisco Systems and earned an MBA from Stanford.
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