About the Role
Fivetran aims to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. As a Senior Manager, Product Management for our Databases team at Fivetran, you will both improve our industry-leading portfolio of data connectors and manage a team of people who are helping to drive that alongside you. You will be a player / coach starting with two direct reports (more depending on company growth) while also driving forward your own initiatives. You’ll be a product leader who collaborates across the company to meet measurable key objectives strategically and effectively alongside your team.
This is a full-time position based out of our Oakland office.
What You'll Do
- Build and manage the product strategy and roadmap for different database systems
- Set annual and quarterly goals for yourself and the team and track deliverables and results
- On-board and grow product managers with coaching, resources and feedback
- Perform in-depth customer research and data analysis to identify opportunities for your product area and coach your team to do the same
- Prioritize and define major initiatives to improve the value of Fivetran’s connectors for all personas in the Fivetran customer base
- Collaborate closely with engineering, analytics, design, and business leads on features and projects
- Evangelize the success of your (and your teams’) initiatives
Skills We're Looking For
- Experience in databases (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, etc.), data movement (real-time replication or ETL/ELT), multiple clouds (AWS, Azure Google, Alibaba), cloud analytics destinations (Snowflake, Databricks, Kafka, RDS, Synapse, BigQuery, etc.), SQL and API technologies
- Passion for expanding and developing a team of A+ product managers
- Ability to analyze user data and research and extract business requirements from multiple stakeholders and transform them into usable and elegant product specifications
- Technically fluent and able to collaborate easily with engineers to accomplish multiple projects
- Highly collaborative cross-functionally and within product organization
- Strong analytical skills, including basic SQL scripting
- Proven track record running successful, high ROI initiatives
- Have a user focused mindset; deeply empathetic to customer needs
- Embody our product team values of Curiosity, Ownership, Collaboration, Kindness, and Integrity.
- Minimum of 3 years of formal leadership experience
Bonus Skills
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Experience covering database design (CAP, row vs columnar, etc), networking, servers, and cloud, data types, storage, and evaluation
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Developed industry-leading products that have gained product loyalty
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Experience as a data analyst, data engineer, data scientist, or software engineer
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Familiarity with leading user research discussions
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History of working in a high-growth company
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