Senior/Staff Product Manager, Platform

At Timescale, we empower businesses with real-time insights from their data, allowing them to make faster decisions and optimize operations. We are creating a movement to unblock developers who are building the future. Timescale is a product-led growth organization driven by transparent leaders and a globally diverse, remote-first team that is proudly building a modern PostgreSQL cloud platform.

Timescale is looking for an experienced and entrepreneurial Sr/Staff Product Manager with a track record of successfully leading highly technical platform products end-to-end. In this role, you will be responsible for delivering and evolving key customer-facing features of our cloud platform such as horizontal scaling, high availability, and our new storage engine — all critical to helping developers run demanding mission-critical workloads at scale with confidence.

This is an exciting opportunity to build the next great cloud-native database for the 25 million developers in the world.

Product Managers at Timescale have a lot of responsibility and own the success of their products. You’ll deeply understand our customers, identify their jobs to be done, build product strategies to go after those markets, collaborate with design and engineering to build solutions to the identified problems, define positioning, and drive adoption, working closely with our go-to-market teams. You’ll work strategically and tactically to lead your product end-to-end, obsess about the customer experience, grow product adoption, and drive business outcomes.

You'll succeed at Timescale if you are entrepreneurial, bold, scrappy, decisive, fired up in front of challenges and uncertainty, and get things done.

Timescale is a mostly remote company with team members around the world, and English language fluency is a requirement. The preferred candidate for this role will have working hours in East Coast American or European time zones to better coordinate with their teams.

Responsibilities:

• Develop a deep understanding of our customers and their problems, the competitive landscape, and market trends.

• Identify what problems to focus on and the sequence of steps to solve them. Provide engineering and design with all the customer, market, and business context they need to define and build the right solutions.

• Articulate the value new products and features deliver before we start building them and iterate on that with input from customers as we make progress towards the release.

• Define pricing and packaging strategies for new features and capabilities in collaboration with finance by integrating customer research (including willingness to pay), infrastructure cost models, and competitive analysis to ensure monetization aligns with product value and business goals.

• Collaborate with product marketing, marketing and sales to define positioning and messaging, communicate the value of the product and drive adoption.

• Define and measure success in the form of input and output metrics and connect those to the business outcomes the company wants to drive.

• Measure adoption of the product, run experiments, collect customer feedback regularly, and adjust plans as needed. Use data to support your decisions.

• Help support customer engagements and participate in sales enablement activities within the company as needed.

• Serve as the connective tissue between engineering, design, marketing, customer care, and other stakeholders, proactively communicating product questions and decisions.

Requirements:

• 7+ years of proven track record in product management, with at least 3+ years of recent experience on complex technical products/platforms for a technical audience, ideally developers.

• Experience with databases or other technical products with high scale, high performance needs. Deep knowledge of modern distributed systems and the data infrastructure ecosystem.

• Computer Science or technical degree and prior technical development experience strongly preferred.

• Experience working closely with marketing and sales to define positioning and take products to market.

• Experience defining pricing and packaging for new features or products, incorporating customer willingness to pay, usage patterns, infrastructure costs, and competitive dynamics to drive sustainable monetization.

• Excellent written and verbal communication and the ability to explain complex technical design in 20 seconds or 20 minutes, depending on the audience and goals.

• Ability to combine data-driven approaches with strong user empathy to figure out what/when/why to ship - we’re building a platform for millions of developers, and there is lots to do! 

• Excited by ambiguous and vague problem definitions and the ability to refine them into an actionable plan.

• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and problem-solving skills - Timescale is moving fast, and so should you. Trying things, making mistakes, and quickly improving are in our DNA.

• Comfortable engaging and working in the open with developer communities.

Our Commitment:

• We will respond to all applicants

• We strive to review all applications fairly, without bias, and shortlist based on relevant skills and experience.

• All active candidates will be informed of what is happening next in the process.
  

About Timescale🐯

Timescale is the creator of TimescaleDB and PGVectorscale, trusted by tens of thousands of organizations for their mission-critical time-series applications. We're committed to empowering developers and businesses worldwide, helping them build data-driven products that measure everything that matters—from software applications and industrial equipment to financial markets, blockchain activity, consumer behavior, machine learning models, and climate change.

By analyzing data across time (“time-series data”), developers gain insights into what’s happening, how it’s changing, and why. With a global, fully remote workforce, Timescale is supported by top investors, including Tiger Global, Benchmark Capital, NEA, Redpoint Ventures, Icon Ventures, and Two Sigma Ventures.

Enjoy debating the crunch-factor of different chicken nuggets 🍗, sweating it out during lunch 💦, talking about your kids, whether they be actual children 👶🏽, potted plants 🌱, or four-legged creatures 🐾? You’ll fit right in at Timescale!

Our Tech stack: 

We share our tech stack with the caveat that we don’t require previous experience in it (but a love of these languages is helpful): Timescale's tech stack includes TimescaleDB, built on PostgreSQL, along with AWS, Go, Docker, Kubernetes, and Python for scalable time-series data management.

To learn more, visit www.timescale.com or follow us on Twitter @TimescaleDB.

What we’re offering

Benefits may differ from country to country.

• Flexible PTO and family leave

• Fridays off in August 😎

• Full remote work from almost anywhere

• Stock options

• Monthly WiFi stipend

• Professional development and educational benefits 📚

• Premium insurance options for you and your family (US employees)