Ocient

Senior Technical Product Manager

Ocient

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $165,000 - $200,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

SQL

About the role

  • Own vision, strategy, and roadmap for storage, query processing, and system performance across the Ocient offering
  • Work hand-in-hand with engineering architects to profile, analyze, and document performance and identify bottlenecks
  • Develop and maintain the performance and storage roadmap aligned with strategic product goals and business outcomes
  • Establish release-level performance benchmarks, review results, and approve releases for performance readiness
  • Identify and de-risk new workloads through simulation, synthetic data generation, and creative testing approaches
  • Collaborate with sales, customer success, and solutions engineering to translate customer workload performance requirements into product specifications
  • Quantify the business impact of performance initiatives and communicate their value to internal stakeholders and customers
  • Track competitive positioning in performance and scalability and partner with product marketing to articulate differentiators
  • Advocate for performance-related priorities during feature planning and prioritization

Requirements

  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical field
  • 8+ years of professional experience in enterprise software with a strong focus on databases, data warehouses, or large-scale data platforms
  • 5+ years of experience in database performance tuning, storage optimization, and/or query processing
  • Deep understanding of database internals (query optimizers, storage engines, indexing, distributed execution)
  • Experience with analytical workloads and benchmarking (e.g., TPC-H, TPC-DS)
  • Strong understanding of hardware and systems-level factors affecting performance (CPU, memory, I/O, networking)
  • Experience profiling complex workloads, tuning query engines, and driving architectural decisions
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical findings to business stakeholders
  • Track record of driving cross-functional initiatives from concept to delivery
  • Experience setting performance SLAs/SLOs and holding releases accountable to them
  • Has worked on high-performance database platforms at scale (product manager, performance engineer, or database architect)
  • Must be based in the United States and not require visa sponsorship or transfer