Product Manager, MotherDuck
Core Platform
$150-220k
+ Equity
3 days a week in office
Data analytics platform
Open for applications
Data analytics platform
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$150-220k
+ Equity
3 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To radically transform the data analyst user experience.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of product management experience with databases, cloud infrastructure, or developer tools in or adjacent to the (Post-) Modern Data Stack
- Experience owning complex product surfaces and building platform infrastructure and observability solutions for a technical product and audience
- A strong track record of working cross-functionally and driving clarity and alignment to bridge the translation gap between customers and Product, Engineering, and Go-to-Market teams
- Comfort operating in ambiguity and navigating fast-evolving, early-stage startup environments
- Strong technical acumen with a deep understanding of databases, application development, and data engineering principles
- A keen sense of product quality and taste, with a sharp eye for the details, and a desire to take ownership of shaping your Product domain without losing sight of the big picture
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to craft and measure testable hypotheses, prioritize features based on customer impact and strategic objectives, and use metrics and user feedback to align product usage with customer value
- Passion for building something distinctive and coming up with creative, unique solutions - you are a first principles thinker who is excited about going beyond the confines of how things have always been done
What the job involves
- As MotherDuck’s Product Manager, Core Platform, you’ll be a key member of our Product ‘flock,’ with ownership for steering our product direction to ensure we support customer needs based on their feedback and market tailwinds
- You’ll partner closely with teams across the company, from Engineering to Go-to-Market, to develop and deliver solutions that meet market needs and delight our users
- Your background in databases, analytics, and infrastructure will be a crucial foundation to help us innovating well and ship features that meet our bar for quality and excellence to support analysts as well as software and data engineers who use MotherDuck in their core workflows
- Get to know our customer: Deeply understand the needs, pain points, and behaviors of our data warehousing customers, from early-stage startups to established companies, to proactively champion their needs, translating them into clear product direction
- Partner closely with Engineering and Go-to-Market teams: Become a trusted advisor by collaborating cross-functionally internally to refine and ship quality features quickly that solve high-priority problems and proactively wow users with unexpected details and a thoughtful experience
- Proactively drive the product development lifecycle: Ensure new features and capabilities maintain momentum, moving from ideation through launch to land smoothly in the hands of our customers. You are someone who takes pride in bringing internal stakeholders along for the journey, carving out time to continuously improve how we work along the way
- Own market research as a subject matter expert: Align our vision with customer value by uncovering novel insights to identify new features and experiences we should build, and identify opportunities to innovate on how we architect core workflows and user journeys for our customers
- Craft and communicate a compelling product roadmap: Lead a core area of the MotherDuck product, driving vision, strategy, and roadmap while providing clarity internally and externally on our value proposition and how it helps us turn market tailwinds into tangible business impact. You care deeply about improving MotherDuck’s product adoption in the market while balancing the needs of existing customers and active prospects
- Use data and metrics as a guidepost - not a crutch: Seek out quantitative and qualitative insights to inform and refine hypotheses based on product usage to propose adjustments and experiments. You finesse our product offering based on customer feedback and perceived areas of opportunity by working to see around corners and navigating tradeoffs between performance, craftsmanship, and complexity to deliver elegant, straightforward solutions for our customers
Our take
In the increasingly complex landscape of data analytics, the challenges faced in managing and extracting meaningful insights from large datasets are on the rise. Conventional approaches, often involving distributed architectures and petabyte-scale data solutions, can be cumbersome, expensive, and less user-friendly for the majority of users who do not operate at such a large scale.
MotherDuck, recognizing this issue, has emerged as a solution provider with its serverless, user-friendly data analytics platform. Leveraging the power of the open-source database DuckDB, MotherDuck aims to simplify the scale-up approach to SQL analytics, offering a faster, more cost-effective alternative for the 95% of analysts who do not require petabyte-scale data solutions.
Having secured funding in 2023, the company is now well-positioned to further enhance its platform and expand its user base. As MotherDuck continues to collaborate closely with the DuckDB team and integrate user feedback for enhancements, the company is also poised to play a pivotal role in the evolution of serverless data analytics.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2023
$52.5m
SERIES B
Nov 2022
$35m
SERIES A
Total funding: $100m
Company benefits
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- 401k plan
- Regular offsites in hub or exotic locations
- 100% paid medical, dental, and vision for employees (plus 80% paid medical, dental, and vision for dependents)
Company HQ
Central Business District, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jordan Tigani
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously the CPO at SingleStore. Prior to that, they were a Product Leader, Engineering Leader, and Founding Engineer on Google BigQuery.
Ryan Boyd
(Co-Founder)Currently a Partner at HyperGrowth as well as an Advisor at SparrowLabs. With a background in Coding, Leadership, and Management working at Google, Flux, and Databricks.
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