Senior Product Manager

Job Title: Senior Product Manager

Location: Remote (US Based Only)

*We cannot sponsor or transfer any visas, of any kind, at this time*

Hiring Manager: Vice President of Product Management

Estimated salary range: $165,000 to $200,000

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  The salary offered for this position will be based on a candidate’s experience and skill demonstrated during interviews and other evaluations

About Ocient:

Ocient is a hyperscale data solutions company headquartered in Chicago, IL, enabling organizations to analyze trillions to quadrillions of data records in seconds. Over the past five years, Ocient has built a SQL compliant data warehouse for Petabyte and beyond datasets that is 10x to 50x times faster than competitive OLAP databases.

Position Overview:

We're building a world-class team with the aim of providing polished, professional, and technically capable vision for an emerging company and product. Ocient is looking for ultimate team players who are dedicated to improving our product and customer experience with every interaction. A deep understanding of the end-to-end sales, development, and delivery cycle is key to adding unique value to the organization.

Candidates must have significant data warehousing, analytics, and database expertise. They should have experience either building, selling, or managing database products for external consumption. Candidates should have a working knowledge and experience with data movement and data ingest into databases. Product managers at Ocient are responsible for both internal and external facing product work. As such, their technical depth and expertise in database and data movement need to be significant.

Responsibilities:

• Working closely with other sales, customers, and partners to translate customer business problems into specifications for sets of features.


• Work closely with technical product managers to build requirement specifications and see them through to completion.


• Participating in the prioritization process to identify which features deliver the highest value.


• Owning and developing the roadmap for key solutions and use cases. This might include use cases in telecommunications, government, automotive, and more.


• Working closely with sales to communicate the roadmap and priority of outstanding feature requests by customers.


• Understanding and tracking the positioning of your solutions with respect to where customers and our competition are headed.


• Interacting with product marketing on the strategy of the solutions and use cases that you own.


• Working directly with customers on new use cases as a customer advocate and partner in building out new solutions with Ocient.

Qualifications:

• BS, MS, or PhD in computer science, computer engineering, or related technical field


• 10+ years of professional working experience in enterprise software


• 5+ years of product management experience or closely working with product management


• 5+ years of working with database or data analytics products


• A passion for large-scale data management, analytics, and enterprise-level problems


• Background working with databases on-premise, in the cloud, and running as a service


• Excellent presentation and written communication skills to senior internal and external audiences


• Ability to drive complex projects with many moving parts


• Ideal candidates will also have spent some time working in technical sales or technical consulting


• An interest in developing out use cases and new markets for emerging technologies

Our Ideal Applicants:

Our ideal Senior Product Manager is adept at identifying new opportunities and refining solutions around massive-scale data analytics within complex enterprises. They are driven to build enjoyable products, solve complex problems, and push the bounds of what is possible with performance and scale. Ocient Product Managers are self-motivated, enthusiastic leaders. They work directly with every part of the internal Ocient organization helping drive complex database features to successful completion.

• Has experience identifying new partnership opportunities and managing their relationships


• Has experience delivering or building internal enablement


• Has experience running new projects or startups as a key leader in the company or project


• Are a self-starter who can work projects from start to finish


• Thrive in fast-paced, dynamic environments


• Like to lead teams, projects, and visions

We are not open to using an agency or staffing company at this time. We do not accept unsolicited agency or staffing resumes and we are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Ocient provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and makes all hiring decisions without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.