Senior Staff Product Manager, Query
About The Position
The MongoDB Query Team is seeking a Senior Staff Product Manager to provide division-wide, product leadership for our fast, modular distributed query engine and flexible query system. As the most senior product management contributor, you will shape the multi-year strategy, product architecture, and market trajectory for the entire Query business unit. You will be the primary product authority on the most complex trade-offs, anticipating systemic risks and cutting through structural friction that blocks multiple teams and initiatives. This role requires collaboration with distinguished engineers to rigorously debate strategy and pressure-test assumptions and advise executive leadership on options that balance long-term monetization, strategy, and business outcomes. And, where relevant, owns the pricing and monetization strategy for the product line.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional experience, including significant leadership in product management for platform, infrastructure, or database domains
- Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical issues simply and convincingly to a wide range of audiences, including executive leadership
- Proven success in delivering complex cross-functional projects and the ability to write, defend, and execute on multi-year business cases
- B.Sc. in a technical discipline, with Computer Science preferred, or equivalent relevant experience
- Deep technical fluency in database query engines, query languages (SQL, MQL, etc.), developer experiences, distributed systems, and potentially AI platform tooling or LLM orchestration
Nice To Haves
- MBA, M.Sc., or Ph.D. in relevant technical or business domains
- Experience with MongoDB or other non-relational database technologies
- Demonstrated success leading products targeting developer personas in fast-paced, growing environments
- Familiarity with open-source and cloud-native technologies
Responsibilities
- Spearhead strategic unity across multiple product areas over a multi-year horizon to drive a coherent product experience
- Originate and de-risk the division’s most consequential strategic bets, owning rigorous business cases and advising leadership on multi-year economic outcomes
- Engage with strategically significant customers at the senior level (e.g., advisory boards and executive briefings) to surface cross-portfolio opportunities and inform the roadmap
- Elevate the global standard of product management by mentoring Staff and Senior PMs and pioneering new data-driven playbooks across the organization. Create frameworks and standards for customer and market research that others use for conducting high-quality customer and market research
- Partner with Directors and VPs to shape investment allocation and sequencing across the query, developer experiences, and core database portfolio
- Act as a primary external face for the product line, representing MongoDB to the industry, developers, standards bodies and at major conferences
Benefits
- equity
- participation in the employee stock purchase program
- flexible paid time off
- 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave
- fertility and adoption assistance
- Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with employer match
- mental health counseling
- backup child and elder care
- health, dental, and vision benefits offerings
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Associate degree
