Senior Product Manager (PMM)

Percona is a respected thought leader in the open source community. We provide services and software for MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL and MariaDB to open source users globally.

Percona is remote-first and globally dispersed; we have colleagues in more than 40 countries. We offer a collaborative, highly-engaged culture where your ideas are welcome and your voice is heard. The growth and development of our staff is a top priority; we provide funding for training, certifications, conferences and more.

Discover what it means to work with some of the smartest people in the industry, who also know how to have fun and are always willing to lend a helping hand. We offer flexible hours, the ability to work remotely and the amazing experience of working with a multinational team of experts.

As the Senior Product Manager for Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), you would be responsible for the inbound and outbound product management efforts. Working closely with engineering teams, the goal is to further product adoption and commercial success. You will collaborate with customers, partners, product leadership and tech leads, balance time and scope to ensure that we are delivering value to the user.

What You Will Do

• Establish a product strategy that complements both our corporate and product vision, whilst also solving customer problems.
• Perform broad customer research to formulate market needs and product vision.
• Collaborate with product leadership and other teams to lead product development efforts.
• Work closely with Engineering, Design, Marketing and other teams to deliver a product that delights customers.

What You Have Done

• Proven success in product management with enterprise IT software, including experience shipping products.
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of customers’ business challenges and needs, and how those translate to products that delight the customer.
• Proven technical background in software development or operations.
• Experience in working cross-functionally within and beyond engineering, to successfully develop and deliver software products and solutions.
• Language skills: English fluently, additional languages appreciated.
• Exceptional communication skills including verbal, written, and presentation skills, including public speaking skills.
• Willing to travel occasionally on business (as travel conditions permit).

What Will Make You Stand Out

• Experience with open-source technologies, databases and/or monitoring and observability.
• Experience working with open-source communities, as an active member who is involved with various open source projects.
• Experience creating products for highly technical users; such as developers, cloud / systems engineers, site-reliability engineers, database administrators, etc.
• Experience creating products for a multi-faceted B2B ecosystem or marketplace, including multiple personas within a single organization.

Why Percona?

At Percona, we believe an open world is a better world. Our mission is to enable everyone to innovate freely, by providing the best open source database software, support, and services. We make databases and applications run better through a unique combination of expertise and open source software built with the community for you. Our technical teams are experts in MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB.

Percona is proud to be a remote-only and globally dispersed workforce – we have colleagues in more than 50 countries! We offer a collaborative, highly-engaged culture where your ideas are welcome and your voice is heard.

Our staff receives generous benefits including flexible work hours and various paid time off programs, all your equipment for your remote office, funds for career development (external training, certifications, conferences), ongoing connectivity allowances, and the opportunity to participate in our equity incentive plan. We also have benefits that support a healthy work/life balance such as The Percona Adventure Team, Work-from-Anywhere, FlowDays, FryDays, and overall flexibility. We also support being socially responsible through our PAVE volunteering program and Women Transforming Technology.

If you love the idea of working with a high-growth tech company that is one of the best in the business and known globally as a leader in the open-source database space, let’s talk!

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