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Weaviate is hiring a Product Manager, Database

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
Required Skills
DatabasesVector Search
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Weaviate
Weaviate is an AI startup with open source at its core. It builds an AI-native vector database that uses machine learning to create insights from unstructured data.
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Job Details
Department Product
Category product
Posted 2 months ago