Principal Product Manager - Developer APIs & Frameworks

Everyday we tackle new and exciting challenges to empower developers to build responsive and flexible cloud, mobile, and edge computing applications that scale effortlessly. Couchbase delivers unmatched versatility, performance, scalability and financial value across cloud, on premises, hybrid, distributed cloud and edge commuting deployments. The database market is one of the largest undisturbed markets for enterprise software. The main catalyst for this is the need for digital transformation. Join Couchbase to be a part of a greater change. Here you’ll have the opportunity to learn and grow with some of the most innovative, passionate and humble individuals in the database industry. 

Location: US Remote

Couchbase’s platform depends on client libraries (SDKs) in many languages to provide access to all of the cutting edge features in our leading NoSQL database platform. These SDKs give developers data access to services from CRUD to Query and Full Text Search at their core. We also support integrations with popular IDEs and frameworks to surface this data access up-the-stack in the most easy-to-use way possible. We're a small, dedicated, product team with great engineers who have a diverse range of backgrounds. Are you a passionate product manager, with some application development background? Are you also driven by a powerful desire to make it easy for developers to develop applications on the next generation NoSQL platform? Then we want you. 

Your role

Couchbase is looking for a Principal Product Manager to drive the developer adoption on our leading NoSQL database platform. You will work with our customers and partners to identify requirements, collaborate with our management team to set strategy direction, and partner with our engineering team to define an innovative yet pragmatic roadmap. We are looking for a versatile team player who can be both inward and outward facing, understand market dynamics and application development trends, help define and deliver solutions that make Couchbase Server that chosen NoSQL platform for developers.

Responsibilities

• Follow the application development trends and evaluate opportunities to make Couchbase the preferred platform for developers and enterprises. 

• Define and drive integrations with popular IDEs and development frameworks in areas such as serverless, JAMstack, and WebAssembly

• Partner with developer advocacy and community development teams to engage developers with our platform and integrations

• Perform competitive analysis on the surrounding and adjacent developer frameworks

Qualifications

• 5+ years highly-focused product management experience within a dynamic technology company.

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science.

• Experience in enterprise software across a range of functional roles including: development, product management, or developer advocacy experience.

• Strong technical skills and the ability to understand and discuss challenges facing developers

• Critical thinker with a strong bias towards action, able to go deep into technology and relate technical improvements to customer use cases.

• Track record of extraordinary performance and ability to work as a collaborative teammate.

• Clear, crisp communicator with strong written and oral communication skills with spectacular presentation abilities.

For Colorado residents:

In accordance with applicable law, the following represents a reasonable estimated salary range for this role: the estimated salary range for this role, if based in Colorado, is $140,000 - $170,000 base.

Please note that this information is provided for those hired in Colorado only, and this role is open to candidates outside of Colorado with compensation that aligns with your location. Actual compensation will be determined based on skills, experience, and geographic location and may be more or less than the amount shown above.

Why Couchbase? 

Couchbase is named one of DTBA’s top 100 companies that matter in data. At Couchbase, we believe data is at the heart of the enterprise. We empower developers and architects to build, deploy, and run their most mission-critical applications. Couchbase delivers end-to-end technical solutions for all our customers with high-performance, flexible and scalable modern databases that run across the data centers and any cloud. Many of the world’s largest enterprises rely on Couchbase to power the core applications their businesses depend on. See our recent awards to learn what makes Couchbase such a great company to work at.

We are honored to be a part of the best workplace award in the Bay Area. In 2022, Couchbase is recognized as the best workspace in the Bay Area. Couchbase offers a total rewards approach to benefits for the value you create here, so that you in turn may best serve yourself and your family. Some benefits include: 

• Unlimited time off (DTO)

• Matching 401K contributions

• ESPP 

• Medical, Dental & Vision

• Monthly credit towards a lifestyle spending account

• An ergonomic and comfortable in-office setup, with food and supporting technology, to assist in the setup of an efficient WFH and office environment

• And much more!

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