Director of Product Management, Security
About The Position
ClickHouse is a rapidly growing cloud company recognized on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 list, leading the market in real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI workloads. With over 4,000 customers and significant year-over-year ARR growth, ClickHouse is transforming how companies use data. We are seeking a Director of Product Management to take full ownership of our security product strategy, including vision, roadmap development, and build vs. buy decisions. This role involves setting the multi-year investment strategy for security offerings, collaborating closely with engineering on database security, networking, and identity management, and serving as the subject matter expert for other Product Managers on security-related matters.
Requirements
- 10+ years of product management experience in B2B SaaS.
- Significant and sustained focus on security products or features.
- Experience setting security strategy at an organizational level.
- Real, hands-on experience with database security principles and best practices.
- Strong understanding of networking concepts and their security implications.
- In-depth knowledge of identity and access management (IAM).
- Solid program management skills: planning, execution, and risk management across multiple concurrent workstreams.
- A track record of representing product externally with customers, analysts, or at industry events.
- Ability to translate deep technical security topics for non-technical audiences.
- Experience guiding or informally mentoring other PMs.
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
- Judgment to know when to escalate versus when to make decisions independently.
- Comfortable in a fast-paced, collaborative environment where priorities shift.
Nice To Haves
- Security certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CompTIA Security+).
Responsibilities
- Own the product vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for our security offerings, and advocate for it internally with engineering and leadership, and externally with customers and the market.
- Gain deep expertise in database security, networking, and identity and access management (IAM) to effectively discuss technical details with engineering.
- Collaborate closely with engineering, design, sales, and marketing to ensure products are genuinely secure.
- Translate complex security requirements into clear specifications and user stories for the engineering team.
- Manage backlog prioritization, balancing business value, customer risk, and engineering costs.
- Lead go-to-market strategies for security product launches, including positioning, sales enablement, and documentation.
- Monitor the real-world performance of security features and use data to inform future product development.
- Serve as the primary security subject-matter expert for other teams, providing guidance and coaching to PMs on security-adjacent issues.
- Represent our security posture and roadmap externally to key customers, prospects, and analysts, demonstrating a deep understanding of technical trade-offs.
Benefits
- Flexible work environment - globally distributed and remote-friendly.
- Employer contributions towards healthcare.
- Stock options for every new team member.
- Flexible time off in the US.
- Generous time off entitlement in other countries.
- A $500 Home office setup for remote employees.
- Opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
