[Hiring] Product Manager, Database @Weaviate

Role Description

You thrive in technically complex domains and know how to earn the trust of engineers. You care as much about why customers need something as what they're asking for, and you'll push back when the ask doesn't match the underlying problem. You bring structure to ambiguity without creating bureaucracy, and you treat a clear roadmap as a forcing function for good decisions, not a planning ritual.

You're a strong communicator, moving fluidly between customer discovery, cross-team coordination, and GTM partnership. You're aligned with our company values and bring a collaborative mindset and a bias toward shipping.

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.

Qualifications

• 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-haves

• 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.