Senior Product Manager (m/f/x)

DAILY PLAYGROUND

ABOUT THE ROLE
 
CrateDB is looking for a Senior Product Manager for its Database and IoT Solutions. In this position, you will have a primary role in setting the vision for our products while also playing an integral part in the day-to-day activities to make the vision a reality. Your communication skills are impeccable, whether you’re interacting with executive leadership, your team, or other stakeholders; you excel at cross-functional work. You are devoted to solving complex consumer-facing and/or business challenges and working with others to develop roadmaps that will build sustained value for our business and our customers.  
 
You will closely work with the CTO, Engineers, Designer, Tech Writer as well as business and operations stakeholders to support the organization’s hyper-growth. You also know how to help in the trenches and see your role not merely as one of strategic product decision-making, but also as one in service to your team.  You’re able to clear a path for your team to execute, learn, and operate effectively.

WHAT YOU GET OUT OF THIS OPPORTUNITY

• The ability to shape the strategy of a growing deep-tech scale-up and bring to commercial success  
• Join a leading VC funded tech company from the pre-B stage through the exit 
• Benefit from a welcoming and supportive working climate
• Be part of an open collaborative culture with “Craties” from diverse backgrounds

WHAT YOU’RE RESPONSIBLE FOR  

• Develop, evolve and drive CrateDB’s strategic and competitive position and deliver products that are recognized as best in the industry
• Establish shared vision across the company by building consensus on strategies and priorities leading to product execution
• Manage multiple products and priorities and ensure your org is effective, healthy and set up for success by establishing clear and measurable goals
• Identifies and initiates opportunities for new projects or focus areas and builds teams necessary to execute
• Coordinate product roadmaps with all stakeholders
• Attract, build, manage, and develop a talented, diverse, equitable and inclusive team of product managers, product owners, UX designers and tech writers
• Inspire and drive activity cross-functionally through information sharing, persuasion and mutual respect
• Set and own process to ensure effective new product ideation and hypothesis testing process
• Define and analyze metrics that inform the success of products
• Act as a product evangelist both inside and outside the company

YOUR SKILLS

• 5 years Product Management experience with some senior or management experience
• Experience in all stages of the product life cycle
• Significant experience in the database / or related field (e.g. data processing, streaming) in an engineering or product leadership position
• Experience with SaaS, web technologies, open source and lifecycle management in a fast-paced software environment
• Deep technical understanding in software engineering
• The ability to establish and grow relationships both inside and outside the company
• Willingness to be an individual contributor as well as a leader
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, well organized and analytical

NICE TO HAVE

WHAT WE OFFER

• Remote workplace
• Competitive compensation
• Flexible working hours
• A variety of perks (flexible holidays, fitness, education)
• Participation in our Employee Stock Options Plan

At CrateDB, we don't just accept different - we celebrate it and support it. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.

About us

Join CrateDB to become part of an international open source software and database company that's revolutionizing SQL database management for developers.
On our journey we like to explore, code, solve customer problems, and develop our database to become even better.

Who works at CrateDB?
An amazingly diverse group of talented individuals, who together make an awesome team. If you are creative and have a self-start attitude, then you would fit into the CrateDB team incredibly well. Come grow with us! Our people work in agile teams, always willing to take on new challenges as we continue to develop our technology. We love what we do… And we are total geeks at heart. Whilst working on some database stuff, we also like to explore, travel, make friends, eat, and code.

Our Mission
With offices in the US and in Europe, Crate.io unifies a multi-cultural group of people. The Crate.io team is distributed globally, connected with the common goal of working hard and playing harder in that the successes are celebrated as a reward for hard work.

The company’s mission is to put the customer’s machine data to work, empower the employees to work cohesively as teams to build the best database technology in the world, whilst having some fun along the way