Senior Staff Product Manager, Query

• The MongoDB Query Team is seeking a Senior Staff Product Manager to provide division-wide, product leadership for our fast, modular distributed query engine and flexible query system.
• As the most senior product management contributor, you will shape the multi-year strategy, product architecture, and market trajectory for the entire Query business unit.
• You will be the primary product authority on the most complex trade-offs, anticipating systemic risks and cutting through structural friction that blocks multiple teams and initiatives.
• This role requires collaboration with distinguished engineers to rigorously debate strategy and pressure-test assumptions and advise executive leadership on options that balance long-term monetization, strategy, and business outcomes.
• And, where relevant, owns the pricing and monetization strategy for the product line.
• This role can be in-office, flexible (hybrid), or remote anywhere in Canada.

Responsibilities

• Product Vision and Roadmap: Spearhead strategic unity across multiple product areas over a multi-year horizon to drive a coherent product experience
• Business Leadership: Originate and de-risk the division's most consequential strategic bets, owning rigorous business cases and advising leadership on multi-year economic outcomes
• Customer Advocacy: Engage with strategically significant customers at the senior level (e.g., advisory boards and executive briefings) to surface cross-portfolio opportunities and inform the roadmap
• PM Excellence: Elevate the global standard of product management by mentoring Staff and Senior PMs and pioneering new data-driven playbooks across the organization. Create frameworks and standards for customer and market research that others use for conducting high-quality customer and market research
• Cross-Functional Alignment and Execution: Partner with Directors and VPs to shape investment allocation and sequencing across the query, developer experiences, and core database portfolio
• Market and Engagement: Act as a primary external face for the product line, representing MongoDB to the industry, developers, standards bodies and at major conferences

Requirements

• Experience: 10+ years of professional experience, including significant leadership in product management for platform, infrastructure, or database domains
• Communication: Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical issues simply and convincingly to a wide range of audiences, including executive leadership
• Strategic Execution: Proven success in delivering complex cross-functional projects and the ability to write, defend, and execute on multi-year business cases
• Education: B.Sc. in a technical discipline, with Computer Science preferred, or equivalent relevant experience
• Domain Expertise: Deep technical fluency in database query engines, query languages (SQL, MQL, etc.), developer experiences, distributed systems, and potentially AI platform tooling or LLM orchestration

Nice to Have

• MBA, M.Sc., or Ph.D. in relevant technical or business domains
• Experience with MongoDB or other non-relational database technologies
• Demonstrated success leading products targeting developer personas in fast-paced, growing environments
• Familiarity with open-source and cloud-native technologies

About MongoDB

• MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market.
• We have redefined the data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software.
• MongoDB's unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI.
• Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud data platform and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
• With offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we're powering the next era of software.
• Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It's what makes us MongoDB.
• To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we're committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone.
• From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy , we value our employees' wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys.
• Learn more about what it's like to work at MongoDB , and help us make an impact on the world!
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• MongoDB is an equal opportunities employer.

• AI is used to review applications based on job-related criteria and does not replace human decision-making. The hiring team decide who moves forward.
• MongoDB's base salary range for this role is posted below.
• Compensation at the time of offer is unique to each candidate and based on a variety of factors such as skill set, experience, qualifications, and work location.
• Salary is one part of MongoDB's total compensation and benefits package.

Other benefits for eligible employees may include: equity, participation in the employee stock purchase program, flexible paid time off, 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave, fertility and adoption assistance, Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with employer match, mental health counseling, backup child and elder care, and health, dental, and vision benefits offerings.

• Please note, the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to candidates based in Canada.
• MongoDB's base salary range for this role in Canada is:

$173,000 — $240,000 CAD