JOB DETAILS

Senior Technical Product Manager

CompanyOcient Inc.
LocationUnited States
Work ModeOn Site
PostedJanuary 17, 2026
About The Company
Ocient is a data analytics software solutions company that enables compute-intensive analysis of large, complex datasets while optimizing for performance, cost, and energy efficiency. Ocient brings data transformation, loading, complex query processing, AI, OcientML® and OcientGeo® into a single, consolidated solution for deeper insights and data-driven decision-making. Enterprises can deploy Ocient’s pilot-to-production solutions on premises, in the OcientCloud™ or the public cloud, with little to no resource-intensive integration. Ocient is a global, remote-first, carbon-neutral company, headquartered in Chicago, and backed by leading investors including Greycroft, OCA Ventures, In-Q-Tel and Buoyant Ventures. If you're interested in joining a team making data more efficient at scale, email us at: recruiting@ocient.com
About the Role
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 2;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Job Title:&nbsp;</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Senior Technical Product Manager - Performance, Storage, QP</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 2;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Location:&nbsp;</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Remote&nbsp;(US Based Only)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 2;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">&nbsp; &nbsp;*We cannot sponsor or transfer any visas, of any kind, at this time*&nbsp;</span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 2;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Hiring Manager:&nbsp;</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Vice President of Product Management</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 2;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Estimated salary range:&nbsp;</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">$165,000 to $200,000</span></p><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 2; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The salary offered for this position will be based on a candidate&rsquo;s experience and skill demonstrated during interviews and other evaluations</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 2; margin: 0in 0in 0in .5in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 2;"><strong><u><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">About Ocient:</span></u></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 2;">Ocient is a data analytics software solutions company that enables always-on, compute-intensive analysis of complex, large-scale data with outstanding performance that delivers up to 90% price savings. Ocient brings data transformation, loading, complex query processing, AI, OcientML&reg; and OcientGeo&reg; as a single, consolidated solution for deeper insights and data-driven decision making. Enterprises can deploy Ocient&rsquo;s pilot-to-production solutions on premises, in the OcientCloud&reg; or in the public cloud, with little to no resource-intensive integration. Ocient is a global, carbon-neutral company, headquartered in Chicago, and backed by leading investors including Greycroft, OCA Ventures, In-Q-Tel and Buoyant Ventures. For more information, please visit www.ocient.com.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 2;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">&nbsp;</span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 2;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Position Overview:</span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">We're building a world-class team with the aim of delivering unmatched performance and scalability in the most demanding database environments. Ocient is seeking a Technical Product Manager &ndash; Performance &amp; Storage who will own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for storage, query processing, and system performance across the Ocient offering.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">This role is highly technical and will work hand-in-hand with engineering architects to profile, analyze, and document performance, identify bottlenecks, and champion initiatives that improve speed, scalability, and efficiency. You will be responsible for defining and communicating the performance roadmap and quantifying the business impact of performance improvements, while also approving release-level performance before customer delivery.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Candidates must have deep expertise in database internals, storage systems, and performance engineering. They should have experience in profiling complex workloads, tuning query engines, and driving architectural decisions that maximize throughput and minimize latency at scale.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 2;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Responsibilities:</span></strong></p><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Work closely with engineering architects to profile and document performance characteristics across Ocient&rsquo;s product portfolio.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Develop and maintain the performance and storage roadmap, aligning it with strategic product goals and business outcomes.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Work with engineering to establish release-level performance benchmarks, review results, and approve releases for performance readiness.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Identify and de-risk new workloads through simulation, synthetic data generation, and creative testing approaches.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Collaborate with sales, customer success, and solutions engineering to translate customer workload performance requirements into product specifications.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Quantify the business impact of performance initiatives and communicate their value to internal stakeholders and customers.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Track competitive positioning in performance and scalability, ensuring Ocient&rsquo;s offerings remain industry leading.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Partner with product marketing to articulate performance differentiators in go-to-market messaging.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Advocate for performance-related priorities during feature planning and prioritization.</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 2;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Qualifications:</span></strong></p><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical field.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">8+ years of professional experience in enterprise software, with a strong focus on databases, data warehouses, or large-scale data platforms.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">5+ years of experience in database performance tuning, storage optimization, and/or query processing.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Deep understanding of database internals (query optimizers, storage engines, indexing, distributed execution).</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Experience with analytical workloads and benchmarking (e.g., TPC-H, TPC-DS, etc).</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Strong understanding of hardware and systems-level factors affecting performance (CPU, memory, I/O, networking).</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical findings to business stakeholders.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Track record of driving cross-functional initiatives from concept to delivery</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in .5in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 2;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Our Ideal Applicant:</span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Our ideal Performance &amp; Storage TPM is obsessed with efficiency, scale, and reliability. They are as comfortable reading performance data as they are presenting a performance ROI case to executives. They thrive in data-driven discussions, can translate low-level metrics into business impact, and are driven to push the boundaries of what&rsquo;s possible in large-scale data processing.</span></p><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Has experience setting performance SLAs/SLOs and holding releases accountable to them.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Has worked on high-performance database platforms at scale &mdash; either as a product manager, performance engineer, or database architect.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Has a track record of identifying and delivering performance wins that create measurable customer value.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Is a self-starter who can take ownership from strategy through execution.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Thrives in fast-paced, technical environments with ambitious goals.</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We are not open to using an agency or staffing company at this time. We do not accept unsolicited agency or staffing resumes and we are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.&nbsp;</span></em></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ocient provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and makes all hiring decisions without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><strong>All official Ocient job postings and recruiting communications will come directly from our team via our Careers page, LinkedIn, or from an ocient.com&nbsp;email address. If you receive communication about a role from any other source, please treat it with caution and direct questions to&nbsp;<a href="mailto:recruiting@ocient.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="mailto:recruiting@ocient.com" data-sk="tooltip_parent" aria-haspopup="menu">recruiting@ocient.com</a>.</strong></span></p>
Key Skills
Database InternalsPerformance EngineeringStorage OptimizationQuery ProcessingAnalytical WorkloadsBenchmarkingCross-Functional InitiativesCommunication SkillsPerformance RoadmapPerformance BenchmarksCustomer RequirementsBusiness ImpactCompetitive PositioningPerformance SLAsData-Driven DiscussionsSelf-Starter
Job Information
📋Core Responsibilities
The Senior Technical Product Manager will own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for storage, query processing, and system performance across the Ocient offering. This role involves working closely with engineering architects to profile, analyze, and document performance while identifying bottlenecks and championing initiatives for improvement.
📋Job Type
full time
💰Salary Range
$165,000 - $200,000
📊Experience Level
10+
💼Company Size
196
📊Visa Sponsorship
No
💼Language
English
🏢Working Hours
40 hours
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