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.
We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in New York City for our hybrid working model.
Responsibilities- Product Vision and Roadmap: Spearhead strategic unity across multiple product areas over a multi-year horizon to drive a coherent product experience
- Business Leadership: Originate and de-risk the division’s most consequential strategic bets, owning rigorous business cases and advising leadership on multi-year economic outcomes
- Customer Advocacy: 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
- PM Excellence: 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
- Cross-Functional Alignment and Execution: Partner with Directors and VPs to shape investment allocation and sequencing across the query, developer experiences, and core database portfolio
- Market and Engagement: Act as a primary external face for the product line, representing MongoDB to the industry, developers, standards bodies and at major conferences
- Experience: 10+ years of professional experience, including significant leadership in product management for platform, infrastructure, or database domains
- Communication: Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical issues simply and convincingly to a wide range of audiences, including executive leadership
- Strategic Execution: Proven success in delivering complex cross-functional projects and the ability to write, defend, and execute on multi-year business cases
- Education: B.Sc. in a technical discipline, with Computer Science preferred, or equivalent relevant experience
- Domain Expertise: Deep technical fluency in database query engines, query languages (SQL, MQL, etc.), developer experiences, distributed systems, and potentially AI platform tooling or LLM orchestration
- 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
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Req. ID: 2273467505
MongoDB’s base salary range for this role is posted below. Compensation at the time of offer is unique to each candidate and based on a variety of factors such as skill set, experience, qualifications, and work location. Salary is one part of MongoDB’s total compensation and benefits package. Other benefits for eligible employees may include: equity, participation in the employee stock purchase program, flexible paid time off, 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave, fertility and adoption assistance, 401(k) plan, mental health counseling, access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage, and health benefits offerings. Please note, the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to U.S.-based candidates.
Skills Required
- 10+ years professional experience with significant product leadership in platform, infrastructure, or database domains
- Deep technical fluency in database query engines and query languages (SQL, MQL)
- Experience with distributed systems and cloud-native architectures
- Exceptional communication skills for technical and executive audiences
- Proven success delivering complex cross-functional projects and multi-year business cases
- B.Sc. in a technical discipline (Computer Science preferred) or equivalent experience
- Based in New York City for hybrid working model
- Experience with AI platform tooling or LLM orchestration
- Experience with MongoDB or other non-relational database technologies
- MBA, M.Sc., or Ph.D. in relevant technical or business domains
- Familiarity with open-source and cloud-native technologies
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