Director of Product Management

Join Cockroach Labs as the Director of Product Management, where you will own end-to-end user journeys across our products. In this player-coach role, you will set the standard for great product management and build a high-performing team. You will define the product strategy, conduct deep customer discovery, and drive evidence-based prioritization. You will also partner with engineering, establish an ongoing rhythm of customer engagement, and mentor and develop PM talent.

• Own the product strategy and portfolio of investments across user journeys, making explicit tradeoffs across user segments, product surfaces, and time horizons.
• Lead a team of Product Managers, focusing on their development, accountability, and craft, while setting the standard for great PM practices.
• Drive evidence-based prioritization using frameworks like RICE and customer signals, making tradeoffs explicit, not implicit.
• This leader brings deep customer obsession, strategic clarity, and a relentless drive to improve user outcomes at every stage of the developer lifecycle — from onboarding and activation through scale, observability, and governance
• They operate with an AI-first mindset, using intelligence as a force multiplier for both the product they build and the craft of product management itself
• We seek someone who leads with evidence, listens with empathy, and creates the kind of clarity that lets teams move fast with purpose
• Proven experience in database, infrastructure, developer tools, cloud infrastructure, or distributed systems products
• Excellent written communication — our strategic product meetings rely on written docs, not slides
• 8-12+ years of experience in Product Management, with 3-5+ years in leadership roles managing PMs
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• Demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional alignment through influence, data, and clarity
• A track record of elevating PM craft and team output — not just managing headcount
• Experience working in a SaaS, enterprise software, or open-core business model preferred
• An AI-first mindset: in how you think about product experiences and how you operate day-to-day
• Strong evidence-based decision-making: you use telemetry, NPS, RICE, and customer research — not instinct alone
• Deep fluency in user journey thinking — owning end-to-end experiences across multiple surfaces (UI, CLI/API, Docs)