Staff Product Manager, Fivetran
dbt v2
$226.7-304.9k
Office located in Oakland, CA
Automated data movement platform
Open for applications
Automated data movement platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$226.7-304.9k
Office located in Oakland, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make access to data s simple and reliable as electricity.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of product management experience in technical domains such as developer tooling, data platforms, or open source software
- Strong grasp of system architectures, particularly for local deployments and how they scale to enterprise use cases
- Understanding of how open source investments drive PLG growth and product strategy
- Ability to bridge technical delivery with business impact, translating features into revenue and growth metrics
- Experience working with engineering teams to define, prioritize, and ship complex technical features
- Strong communication skills with empathy for open source contributors and enterprise users alike
Desirable
- Hands-on experience with dbt or similar transformation frameworks
- Background in plugin architectures, extensibility systems, or platform ecosystems
- Understanding of PLG motions and freemium-to-paid conversion strategies
- Experience with SQL engines, query optimization, or compute systems
- Prior experience as an engineer whose worked with modern development frameworks (examples: React, Typescript, Python, etc.)
What the job involves
- We're hiring a Product Manager to lead the dbt v2 roadmap — the future of dbt Labs' intellectual property and a critical driver of product-led growth. You will own net-new functionality in Fusion that identifies and monetizes local deployments of dbt, shipping net new features, many of which also land in dbt Core, as well as proprietary ELv2 plugins that integrate seamlessly with the dbt platform
- This role is co-located with our dbt v2 engineering team in the US to accelerate execution, strengthen prioritization, and ensure tight alignment across product, engineering, and platform teams. You'll bridge open source product strategy with technical delivery and business impact, translating strategic investments into shipped features that drive the Fusion PLG motion
- Own and deliver the dbt v2 roadmap, shipping net new functionality to dbt v2 like SQL comprehension, compute, governance, and SAO
- Define requirements for Fusion features that integrate seamlessly with the dbt platform and unlock enterprise value
- Keep the Fusion engineering team aligned, unblocked, and executing on a predictable cadence
- Contribute hands-on to the dbt Core / Fusion codebases, including code reviews, documentation, and small feature implementations
- Collaborate with OSS strategy leads, platform PM peers, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver a unified roadmap
- What success looks like:
- Shipping net-new features on a predictable quarterly cadence
- Measurable contribution to Fusion PLG growth metrics, including identification and monetization of local dbt deployments
- Hands-on contributions to dbt Core and Fusion code bases, including merged PRs and meaningful improvements to the open source codebase
- Strong execution and alignment across the Fusion engineering team
Our take
Fivetran is a data integration company focused on one simple idea: making data easy to move and use. It provides a fully managed platform that automatically moves data from hundreds of sources into cloud destinations, helping team centralize information without building or maintaining complex pipelines. So, by handling the heavy lifting behind the scenes, Fivetran allows organizations to spend less time managing infrastructure and more time working on their data.
This approach has a real and growing impact, with more than 700 fully managed connectors, Fivetran supports hybrid and multi-cloud environments and keeps data accurate and secure as it flows into analytics and AI systems. Trusted by over 7,600 customers worldwide, the platform helps businesses standardize how data is collected and shared across teams, breaking down silos and making insights more accessible. And the result is a stronger data foundation that supports faster decision-making and innovation.
In 2025, the company's momentum was also recognized with a Microsoft Marketplace Partner of the Year Award and a finalist spot for Microsoft's Americas Emerging Partner of the Year. These milestones reflect its role in helping enterprises modernize data infrastructure on Microsoft Azure and prepare for AI-driven workloads. By continuing to deepen its partnerships and focus on reliable, automated data movement, Fivetran is well positioned to carry this success forward as organizations increasingly rely on data s the backbone of future intelligence.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Sep 2021
$565m
SERIES D
Jun 2020
$100m
SERIES C
Total funding: $727.7m
Company HQ
Downtown, Oakland, CA
Leadership
George Fraser
(CEO)George graduated with a PhD in Neurobiology from the University of Pittsburgh.
Taylor Brown
(COO)Taylor studied Business Administration (focusing on design strategy) at California College of the Arts to Masters level.
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