Senior/Staff Product Manager, TigerData
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Building the new standard for data infrastructure, built on PostgreSQL, designed for the future
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Building the new standard for data infrastructure, built on PostgreSQL, designed for the future
101-200 employees
Open for applications
+ Stock options
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
TigerData is the fastest PostgreSQL platform for real-time, analytical, and agentic applications.
Role
Who you are
- You'll succeed at Timescale if you are entrepreneurial, bold, scrappy, decisive, fired up in front of challenges and uncertainty, and get things done
- 7+ years of proven track record in product management, with at least 3+ years of recent experience on complex technical products/platforms for a technical audience, ideally developers
- Experience with databases or other technical products with high scale, high performance needs. Deep knowledge of modern distributed systems and the data infrastructure ecosystem
- Computer Science or technical degree and prior technical development experience strongly preferred
- Experience working closely with marketing and sales to define positioning and take products to market
- Experience defining pricing and packaging for new features or products, incorporating customer willingness to pay, usage patterns, infrastructure costs, and competitive dynamics to drive sustainable monetization
- Excellent written and verbal communication and the ability to explain complex technical design in 20 seconds or 20 minutes, depending on the audience and goals
- Ability to combine data-driven approaches with strong user empathy to figure out what/when/why to ship - we’re building a platform for millions of developers, and there is lots to do!
- Excited by ambiguous and vague problem definitions and the ability to refine them into an actionable plan
- Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and problem-solving skills - Timescale is moving fast, and so should you. Trying things, making mistakes, and quickly improving are in our DNA
- Comfortable engaging and working in the open with developer communities
What the job involves
- Timescale is looking for an experienced and entrepreneurial Sr/Staff Product Manager with a track record of successfully leading highly technical platform products end-to-end
- In this role, you will be responsible for delivering and evolving key customer-facing features of our cloud platform such as horizontal scaling, high availability, and our new storage engine — all critical to helping developers run demanding mission-critical workloads at scale with confidence
- This is an exciting opportunity to build the next great cloud-native database for the 25 million developers in the world
- Product Managers at Timescale have a lot of responsibility and own the success of their products
- You’ll deeply understand our customers, identify their jobs to be done, build product strategies to go after those markets, collaborate with design and engineering to build solutions to the identified problems, define positioning, and drive adoption, working closely with our go-to-market teams
- You’ll work strategically and tactically to lead your product end-to-end, obsess about the customer experience, grow product adoption, and drive business outcomes
- Develop a deep understanding of our customers and their problems, the competitive landscape, and market trends
- Identify what problems to focus on and the sequence of steps to solve them. Provide engineering and design with all the customer, market, and business context they need to define and build the right solutions
- Articulate the value new products and features deliver before we start building them and iterate on that with input from customers as we make progress towards the release
- Define pricing and packaging strategies for new features and capabilities in collaboration with finance by integrating customer research (including willingness to pay), infrastructure cost models, and competitive analysis to ensure monetization aligns with product value and business goals
- Collaborate with product marketing, marketing and sales to define positioning and messaging, communicate the value of the product and drive adoption
- Define and measure success in the form of input and output metrics and connect those to the business outcomes the company wants to drive
- Measure adoption of the product, run experiments, collect customer feedback regularly, and adjust plans as needed. Use data to support your decisions
- Help support customer engagements and participate in sales enablement activities within the company as needed
- Serve as the connective tissue between engineering, design, marketing, customer care, and other stakeholders, proactively communicating product questions and decisions
- We share our tech stack with the caveat that we don’t require previous experience in it (but a love of these languages is helpful): Timescale's tech stack includes TimescaleDB, built on PostgreSQL, along with AWS, Go, Docker, Kubernetes, and Python for scalable time-series data management
Application process
- We will respond to all applicants
- We strive to review all applications fairly, without bias, and shortlist based on relevant skills and experience
- All active candidates will be informed of what is happening next in the process
Our take
Timescale helps developers and businesses manage and analyze big data sets that power large-scale operations. It offers this through its own open-source time-series SQL database which, unlike many competitors, is built with PostgreSQL.
The product’s broad client applications include finance, logistics, and space. It serves hundreds of customers, with tens of thousands of other organizations using the TimescaleDB platform in the community (including companies like IBM, Microsoft, Pfizer, and Samsung, among others.)
Timescale has also landed substantial funding, becoming a Unicorn back in 2022. This all signifies the value that Timescale's platform provides. The company continues to grow, investing across product, engineering, and R&D, as well as broadening its efforts in serving the Timescale community.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Feb 2022
$110m
SERIES C
May 2021
$40m
SERIES B
Total funding: $184.8m
Company benefits
- Flexible PTO & family leave
- Professional development & educational benefits
- Summer Fridays off in August
- Fully remote work from anywhere
- Stock options
- Monthly WiFi stipend
- FSA/Dependent FSA plans 🇺🇸
- 401(k) retirement plan 🇺🇸
- Premium insurance options for you and your family 🇺🇸
Company HQ
Midtown East, New York, NY
Leadership
Ajay Kulkarni
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previous CEO and Co-Founder of computer software company Sensobi, and worked in product at GroupMe/Skyprosoft.
Michael Freedman
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previous Research Assistant at multiple universities, including Berkeley and Stanford University. Co-founded Illuminics Systems, which was later acquired by Neustar. Current Advisor to Blockstack and Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University.
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