Senior Staff Product Manager

MongoDB
Cork +1 more
Hybrid

Who this role is best for

Best suited to technically fluent product leaders with multi-year strategic vision, working in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure domains.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 10+ years of product leadership in infrastructure or database domains
    — “10+ years of professional experience, including significant leadership in product management for platform, infrastructure, or database domains”
  • Candidates with experience in cross-functional alignment and execution for enterprise products
    — “Partner with Directors and VPs to shape investment allocation and sequencing across the Atlas Clusters portfolio”
  • People who can represent the product externally at industry events and to key stakeholders
    — “a primary external face for the product line, representing MongoDB to the industry, developers, standards bodies and at major conferences”

Things to consider

  • Geographic preference is strong, with the role requiring presence in Dublin or Cork for hybrid work
    — “candidates who are based in Dublin or Cork for our hybrid working model”
  • The role is highly strategic, with expectations to influence executive decisions and long-term monetization
    — “advise executive leadership on options that balance long-term monetization, strategy, and business outcomes”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience in shaping multi-year product strategies and cross-functional project delivery
    — “Spearhead strategic unity across multiple product areas over a multi-year horizon”
  • Showcase leadership in pricing models or monetization for enterprise software products
    — “owns the pricing and monetization strategy for the product line”
  • Emphasize mentorship of product managers and development of research frameworks
    — “mentoring Staff and Senior PMs and pioneering new data-driven playbooks”
  • Demonstrate engagement with senior-level customers and ability to surface cross-portfolio opportunities
    — “Engage with strategically significant customers at the senior level (e.g., advisory boards and executive briefings)”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Company

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What success looks like

  • shaped multi-year strategy for Atlas Clusters
  • mentored Staff and Senior PMs
  • partnered with Directors and VPs
Typical background
10+ years of professional experiencesignificant leadership in product management

Skills & requirements

Required

Product VisionBusiness LeadershipCustomer AdvocacyCross-functional AlignmentMarket Engagement

Preferred

MBAMongoDBNon-relational Database TechnologiesLeading Products Targeting Developer Personas

Stack & domain

Product ManagementLeadershipCommunicationTechnical FluencyCloud InfrastructureDatabaseDistributed SystemsStrategic ExecutionCustomer AdvocacyCross-functional AlignmentMentoringFinanceHealthcareTechnology

About the role

Original posting from MongoDB

The MongoDB Atlas Clusters Team is seeking a Senior Staff Product Manager to provide division-wide, product leadership for MongoDB Atlas which is our best-in-class, fully managed, multi-cloud database service that simplifies the complexities of deploying and managing highly available database deployments across multiple regions and cloud providers. As the most senior product management contributor, you will shape the multi-year strategy, product architecture, and market trajectory for the entire Atlas Clusters 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 Dublin or Cork 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 Atlas Clusters 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

Requirements

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 Databases, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure

Nice to Have

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

About MongoDB

MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud data platform and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

With offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including AI-native startups and approximately 75% of the Fortune 100, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.

Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB. 

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!

MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.

MongoDB is an equal opportunities employer.

Req ID: 3273519782

Source: MongoDB careers

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