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The Role
Lead product strategy and roadmap for Ocients database solutions. Translate customer problems into feature specifications, prioritize high-value work, collaborate with technical PMs, sales, and marketing, drive complex projects to delivery, and engage directly with customers and partners on large-scale data ingest, warehousing, and analytics use cases.
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About Ocient:
Ocient is building OcientAIQ™ – a complete ecosystem for delivering trusted agentic AI solutions at petabyte scale, for the organizations that can't afford to get AI wrong. Our customers protect networks, secure nations, and power the global economy. The problems we solve are genuinely hard, and the work matters.
Founded in 2016 by the team that built Cleversafe (acquired by IBM in 2015), Ocient is headquartered in Chicago with a remote-first global team. We are a carbon-neutral company backed by leading investors including Greycroft, OCA Ventures, In-Q-Tel, and Buoyant Ventures.
Job Title: Senior Product Manager - Database
Location: Remote (US Only)
- We cannot sponsor or transfer any visas, of any kind now or in the future (ex. OPT, EAD, H1B, H4, etc.)*
Hiring Manager: Senior Vice President of Product Management
Estimated salary range: $165,000 to $195,000
- The salary offered for this position will be based on a candidate’s experience and skill demonstrated during interviews and other evaluations
Position Overview:
We're building a world-class team with the aim of providing polished, professional, and technically capable vision for an emerging company and product. Ocient is looking for ultimate team players who are dedicated to improving our product and customer experience with every interaction. A deep understanding of the end-to-end sales, development, and delivery cycle is key to adding unique value to the organization.
Candidates must have significant data warehousing, analytics, and database expertise. They should have experience either building, selling, or managing database products for external consumption. Candidates should have a working knowledge and experience with data movement and data ingest into databases. Product managers at Ocient are responsible for both internal and external facing product work. As such, their technical depth and expertise in database and data movement need to be significant.
Responsibilities:
- Working closely with other sales, customers, and partners to translate customer business problems into specifications for sets of features.
- Work closely with technical product managers to build requirement specifications and see them through to completion.
- Participating in the prioritization process to identify which features deliver the highest value.
- Owning and developing the roadmap for key solutions and use cases. This might include use cases in telecommunications, government, automotive, and more.
- Working closely with sales to communicate the roadmap and priority of outstanding feature requests by customers.
- Understanding and tracking the positioning of your solutions with respect to where customers and our competition are headed.
- Interacting with product marketing on the strategy of the solutions and use cases that you own.
- Working directly with customers on new use cases as a customer advocate and partner in building out new solutions with Ocient.
Ideal Qualifications:
- BS, MS, or PhD in computer science, computer engineering, or related technical field
- 10+ years of professional working experience in enterprise software
- 5+ years of product management experience or closely working with product management
- 5+ years of working with database or data analytics products
- A passion for large-scale data management, analytics, and enterprise-level problems
- Background working with databases on-premise, in the cloud, and running as a service
- Excellent presentation and written communication skills to senior internal and external audiences
- Ability to drive complex projects with many moving parts
- Ideal candidates will also have spent some time working in technical sales or technical consulting
- An interest in developing out use cases and new markets for emerging technologies
An Exceptional Candidate Will Have:
Our ideal Senior Product Manager is adept at identifying new opportunities and refining solutions around massive-scale data analytics within complex enterprises. They are driven to build enjoyable products, solve complex problems, and push the bounds of what is possible with performance and scale. Ocient Product Managers are self-motivated, enthusiastic leaders. They work directly with every part of the internal Ocient organization helping drive complex database features to successful completion.
- Has experience identifying new partnership opportunities and managing their relationships
- Has experience delivering or building internal enablement
- Has experience running new projects or startups as a key leader in the company or project
- Are a self-starter who can work projects from start to finish
- Thrive in fast-paced, dynamic environments
- Like to lead teams, projects, and visions
Interview Requirements: All interviews are conducted via video and require candidates to have their camera on for the duration of the session. The use of video filters, face-altering effects, or virtual backgrounds is not permitted for security and verification purposes.
We are not open to using an agency or staffing company at this time. We do not accept unsolicited agency or staffing resumes and we are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
Ocient is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, parental status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, please contact [email protected] for more information.
All official Ocient job postings and recruiting communications will come directly from our team via our Careers page, LinkedIn, or from an ocient.com email address. If you receive communication about a role from any other source, please treat it with caution and direct questions to [email protected].
Skills Required
- Significant data warehousing, analytics, and database expertise
- Experience building, selling, or managing database products for external consumption
- Working knowledge and experience with data movement and data ingest into databases
- BS, MS, or PhD in computer science, computer engineering, or related technical field
- 10+ years of professional working experience in enterprise software
- 5+ years of product management experience or closely working with product management
- 5+ years of working with database or data analytics products
- Background working with databases on-premise, in the cloud, and running as a service
- Excellent presentation and written communication skills to senior internal and external audiences
- Ability to drive complex projects with many moving parts
- Experience in technical sales or technical consulting
- Experience identifying partnership opportunities and managing relationships
- Experience delivering or building internal enablement and running new projects/startups
- Self-starter who can lead teams and thrive in fast-paced environments
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What We Do
Ocient is a Chicago-based, venture-funded startup building a SQL compliant, exabyte-scale database platform that achieves better performance than Hadoop and NoSQL systems. It is a distributed system optimized for NVMe drives, RDMA networks and high core count processors and is written in C++. We are led by a management team with seven successful st
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