Product Manager - ClickHouse Private

We are seeking a Product Manager to lead the strategy and execution for ClickHouse Private, purpose-built for enterprises that require full control, data sovereignty, and the highest levels of compliance.

In this role, you will own the end-to-end vision, roadmap, and commercialization strategy for customer-managed deployments. This is a high-visibility, high-impact position focused on evolving our ClickHouse Private offering into a scalable, secure, and mission-critical platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and drive the long-term product strategy for ClickHouse Private, ensuring alignment with enterprise and public-sector requirements for isolation, compliance, security, and performance.
• Lead deep customer discovery with organizations operating in customer-managed environments; translate insights into clear, prioritized roadmap initiatives.
• Partner closely with engineering on architecture decisions, hardware profiles, deployment topologies, compatibility, and release management.
• Own pricing and packaging strategy across deployment models to support sustainable growth and adoption.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with design, marketing, sales, and support to deliver compelling positioning, launch readiness, and field enablement.
• Define success metrics (KPIs), track adoption and operational performance, and communicate progress, tradeoffs, and risks to senior leadership.
• Serve as the executive facing product owner for ClickHouse Private, representing the offering with strategic customers and partners.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product management experience with substantial ownership of enterprise infrastructure, cloud platforms, databases, or developer-facing products.
• Knowledge of distributed systems with strong understanding of cloud architectures across AWS, GCP, and Microsoft Azure.
• Hands-on familiarity with Kubernetes and the operator pattern; experience managing or shipping distributed or stateful systems in containerized environments - OpenShift, Tanzu, Rancher.
• Understanding of bare metal data infrastructure and self-managed object storage (S3 APIs, MinIO, Ceph, VAST, etc.) and associated operational tradeoffs.
• Deep understanding of databases, OLAP systems, or distributed data infrastructure; ClickHouse experience strongly preferred.
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to engage deeply on architecture with engineers and credibly with executives or government stakeholders on strategy and impact.

Nice to Haves

• Experience building sovereign cloud, air-gapped, or FedRAMP-authorized offerings.
• Background commercializing open-source technologies into enterprise products.
• Experience operating in high-growth startup or scale-up environments.