Senior Product Manager

About This Role

This role involves leading the MongoDB Search Systems Engineering team in developing next-generation database infrastructure at scale. You will work with highly technical engineering teams to architect distributed systems that power performant search and AI applications for enterprise customers globally, operating at the intersection of infrastructure innovation and customer impact.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the future of search infrastructure: Drive the long-term technical vision for MongoDB Search, anticipating emerging patterns in vector, hybrid, and AI-native applications to build conviction around platform investments 12–18 months ahead of market demand
• Champion the customer and innovation: Act as the voice of customers building mission-critical AI applications, using deep technical discovery to uncover latent needs around scalability and consistency, ensuring our architecture leads the industry in performance and multi-tenancy
• Drive engineering strategy and impact: Partner deeply with engineering leadership to translate complex technical tradeoffs into business value, balancing rapid innovation velocity with the rigorous production stability required for long-term platform health
• Orchestrate world-class observability: Collaborate with SRE and Solutions Architects to build advanced instrumentation strategies and feedback loops, turning production signals and incident learnings into proactive improvements that secure system resilience

Requirements

• Deep technical authority: 5+ years of PM experience with a specific focus on infrastructure or distributed systems. You possess a mastery of concepts like CAP theorem, consistency models, and sharding strategies, backed by real-world empathy for the engineering experience—whether that’s being on-call or debugging production incidents
• Strategic vision at the technical edge: You operate comfortably at the intersection of complex architecture and business strategy, capable of debating consensus algorithms with engineers while Data-Driven Storytelling: A proven track record of driving operational excellence combined with exceptional narrative skills. You effortlessly pivot from analyzing low-level system metrics to crafting executive narratives that connect infrastructure health to critical business outcomes
• Unrivaled influence: You earn the trust of senior engineers through technical depth and respect for complexity, not just title. You excel at guiding architectural decisions without needing formal authority helping to translate those decisions into market differentiation and forward-looking product investments
• Visionary customer obsession: You understand that for platform products, your customers are often building abstractions on top of your abstractions, and you design deeply technical products with their long-term success criteria in mind

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