Responsibilities
- Own the Weaviate Database roadmap: prioritize across engineering teams, make tradeoffs explicit, and keep the plan grounded in customer reality
- Partner with Weaviate Cloud teams to ensure the database roadmap surfaces the capabilities they depend on
- Define success metrics for major features and track outcomes post-ship
- Drive product direction across schema, storage, filtering, replication, cluster topology, and migrations
- Translate customer and operational pain into clear requirements and sequence dependency-heavy work across releases
- Translate applied research outcomes for search quality, compression, and new retrieval modes into shippable features with clear use cases
- Ensure new capabilities are positioned around real customer problems, not just technical novelty
- Shape how developers integrate with and build on Weaviate with MCP, client SDKs, and future integrations
- Run ongoing discovery with developers and enterprise customers to reduce time-to-value and bring customer context into engineering
- Partner with GTM to ensure new capabilities ship with the positioning needed to land well
Requirements
- 5+ years of product management experience, with at least 2 years on a developer-facing or infrastructure product
- Proven ability to own a complex technical roadmap across multiple workstreams
- Strong written communication skills, both verbal and written
- Experience running customer discovery and translating qualitative signal into product decisions
- Comfortable working in distributed systems or data infrastructure domains
- Track record of cross-functional collaboration across engineering, design, and GTM
Nice to Have
- Experience with databases, search infrastructure, or AI/ML developer tooling
- Familiarity with vector search, embeddings, or RAG workflows
- Experience at a developer tools or open source company
- Background working with enterprise customers alongside a self-serve or community motion
Benefits
- 100% remote with flexible work hours
- Competitive compensation, including paid time off
- Budget available to spend on going to conferences, co-working space, home office equipment, etc
- Work with very experienced and fun team members
- An atmosphere that encourages learning and personal growth, and that gives you lots of freedom, flexibility, and responsibilities
- You will work at the forefront of search, ML/AI, and cloud-native technologies - and all of it is open source
Work Arrangement
Remote (Worldwide)
Additional Information
- Background check is part of onboarding
- Flexible work hours
- Remote work with flexibility to work from anywhere and at any time