About the role
As the Product Manager for Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), you will own the product strategy and execution for Percona's open source observability platform for databases. You will work closely with engineering, design, product leadership, customers, and the open source community to define the future of PMM.
This is a highly technical product role. Our users are database administrators, SREs, platform engineers, DevOps engineers, cloud engineers, and developers who rely on PMM to monitor and optimize mission-critical database environments.
We're looking for someone with an entrepreneurial mindset who enjoys moving quickly, talking to customers, validating ideas early, and iterating rapidly. This is not a role where you'll spend months writing specifications before shipping. We value experimentation, pragmatism, and delivering customer value.
What Will You Do
Own the product strategy and roadmap for PMM, ensuring it aligns with Percona's overall product vision.
Work directly with customers and the community to understand their challenges, validate ideas, and identify new product opportunities.
Conduct market research and competitive analysis to help shape product direction.
Translate customer problems into clear product requirements and priorities.
Work closely with Engineering, Design, Documentation, Marketing, and Customer Success to deliver outstanding product experiences.
Prioritize features and make informed trade-offs based on customer value, engineering effort, and strategic goals.
Define success metrics and use customer feedback, product telemetry, and usage data to guide product decisions.
Collaborate closely with engineering throughout the entire product lifecycle, from discovery to release.
Represent PMM internally and externally through blog posts, webinars, conferences, customer meetings, and community engagement.
Help drive the adoption of PMM across the open source community and enterprise organizations.
What You Have Done
Proven success managing technical products, particularly developer tools, infrastructure, platform, or observability products.
Demonstrated experience shipping successful software products from idea to release.
Strong technical understanding of modern infrastructure, databases, cloud-native, and observability technologies, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into product strategy and customer value.
Experience working cross-functionally across engineering, design, marketing, sales, and customer success.
Strong customer empathy with the ability to translate customer problems into products that deliver real value.
Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, making decisions with incomplete information, and iterating quickly based on customer feedback.
Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.
Fluent in English.
Willingness to travel occasionally for customer visits, conferences, and company events.
What Will Make You Stand Out
Experience with observability technologies such as Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, VictoriaMetrics, or similar platforms.
Experience with databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or other data platforms.
Experience with Kubernetes, Linux, cloud-native technologies, and distributed systems.
Experience working with open source communities as an active contributor or community member.
Experience building products for developers, SREs, platform engineers, DevOps engineers, database administrators, or other highly technical users.
Experience defining AI-powered workflows, developer productivity tools, or AI-assisted observability experiences.
Experience working in startups or high-growth companies where rapid iteration, experimentation, and customer feedback drive product decisions.
Comfortable taking ownership and wearing multiple hats in a small, collaborative team.
Passion for open source and building products in close partnership with engineering and the community.
Why Percona?
At Percona, we believe an open world is a better world. Our mission is to enable everyone to innovate freely, by providing the best open source database software, support, and services. We make databases and applications run better through a unique combination of expertise and open source software built with the community for you. Our technical teams are experts in MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB.
Percona is proud to be a remote-only and globally dispersed workforce – we have colleagues in more than 50 countries! We offer a collaborative, highly-engaged culture where your ideas are welcome and your voice is heard.
Our staff receives generous benefits including flexible work hours and various paid time off programs, all your equipment for your remote office, funds for career development (external training, certifications, conferences), ongoing connectivity allowances, and the opportunity to participate in our equity incentive plan. We also have benefits that support a healthy work/life balance such as The Percona Adventure Team, Work-from-Anywhere, FlowDays, FryDays, and overall flexibility. We also support being socially responsible through our PAVE volunteering program and Women Transforming Technology.
If you love the idea of working with a high-growth tech company that is one of the best in the business and known globally as a leader in the open-source database space, let’s talk!
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