Sr. Product Manager

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Job Description:

At Cloudera, we empower people to transform complex data into clear and actionable insights. With as much data under management as the hyperscalers, we're the preferred data partner for the top companies in almost every industry. Powered by the relentless innovation of the open source community, Cloudera advances digital transformation for the world’s largest enterprises.

Our Data Services Pillar is the heart of data innovation. We don’t just work with technology; we build it. Our mission is to empower data practitioners by creating seamless, enterprise-grade experiences for data engineering, warehousing, streaming, operational databases, and AI.

Cloudera is seeking a Senior Product Manager for the CDP Engines team, focusing on Apache Impala and Kudu. This is a high-impact role that will shape product strategy, drive customer success, and influence Cloudera’s long-term direction. You will lead the full product lifecycle—from vision to execution—partnering closely with engineering, marketing, and sales. Your experience in data warehousing will enable you to define a clear product vision and strengthen our presence in the cloud.

You will tackle complex distributed systems challenges, crafting the foundational software for the control and data planes that powers CDP and keeps it running at massive scale. Working at the forefront of hybrid and multi-cloud technology, you will empower data scientists, engineers, and analysts with the tools and infrastructure they need for advanced analytics and modeling.

Collaboration is key, you will work alongside brilliant minds across product, data science, and engineering to drive innovation, standardize best practices, and shape the future of enterprise AI and data platforms. This is your chance to build the future of data and see your work make a global impact.

As a Senior Product Manager you will:

• Create and execute a product strategy that appeals to the unique needs and requirements of Cloudera customers

• Manage the entire product life cycle from strategic planning to tactical execution

• Define product requirements based on an intimate knowledge of the specific market segments, customers, and existing product capabilities

• Drive field enablement, working to ensure that solution engineers and account executives have what they need to be successful

• Work directly with customers on the front line, helping to drive adoption

• Build relationships with key customer stakeholders to ensure that we remain laser focused on the customers’ experience and satisfaction

• Identify new opportunities for Cloudera to innovate on behalf of our customers

• Support sales teams, leading calls with key customers to ensure all parties have confidence in Cloudera’s capabilities today and in the future to meet their data warehousing needs

• Establish goals and review metrics to prove the effectiveness of the delivered capabilities

• Drive the product strategy, vision, and execution of our mission - working closely with our sales, engineering, documentation and partner teams to define success and win

• Advance the state of the art for user experience, performance, and security of the world’s fastest, most scalable data warehousing engines

We’re excited about you if you have:

• Ability to operate at high bandwidth, context switching regularly across multiple work streams

• Excellent written and verbal communication, applied equally well to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Technical and business acumen to interface with teams of all levels and disciplines within an organization, from engineers to senior leadership

• Conceptual and practical expertise with database management systems - e.g. query optimization, indexes, data modeling, etc.

• Knowledge of distributed data systems - e.g. consistency, CAP theorem, performance optimization, etc.

• Proficiency with SQL, especially for analytics purposes

• Have a good understanding of the data mesh market

• Experience working with Impala or Kudu is a must

• Storytelling and narrative building using the written word, as well as data and metrics

• Experience collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data from disparate sources in order to drive conclusions

• Keen sense of empathy to understand other perspectives, and discernment to incorporate them into your decision-making process

• Examples of how you took a user need or opportunity → framed it into a product capability → validated the concept → got it built → drove its adoption → and monetized it

• 3+ years in product management

• 5+ years of industry experience in the database industry

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field

You may also have:

• MBA, or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field

• Intuition and design thinking to continually simplify the user experience of a product that is forever growing in capability and complexity.

• Track record of identifying industry trends early in the lifecycle and fitting them appropriately into products you manage.

• Deep knowledge of either AWS, Azure, or Google.

• Understanding of Kubernetes concepts, architectures, tooling, et

• Ability to design an end-to-end architecture for a data solution in the analytics space

Why this Role Matters:

You will tackle complex distributed systems challenges, crafting the foundational software for the control and data planes that powers CDP and keeps it running at massive scale. Working at the forefront of hybrid and multi-cloud technology, you will empower data scientists, engineers, and analysts with the tools and infrastructure they need for advanced analytics and modeling.

Collaboration is key, you will work alongside brilliant minds across product, data science, and engineering to drive innovation, standardize best practices, and shape the future of enterprise AI and data platforms. This is your chance to build the future of data and see your work make a global impact.

This role is not eligible for immigration sponsorship

What you can expect from us:

• Generous PTO Policy

• Support work life balance with Unplugged Days

• Flexible WFH Policy

• Mental & Physical Wellness programs

• Phone and Internet Reimbursement program

• Access to Continued Career Development

• Comprehensive Benefits and Competitive Packages

• Paid Volunteer Time

• Employee Resource Groups

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