Product Manager (Percona Monitoring and Management)

Join Percona, a leading provider of open-source database solutions. As the Product Manager for Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), you will own the product strategy and execution for our open-source observability platform for databases. You will work closely with engineering, design, product leadership, customers, and the open-source community to define the future of PMM. This is a highly technical product role, and you will be responsible for prioritizing features, defining success metrics, and collaborating closely with engineering throughout the entire product lifecycle.

• Own the product strategy and roadmap for Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), ensuring alignment with Percona's overall product vision.
• Work directly with customers and the community to understand their challenges, validate ideas, and identify new product opportunities.
• Conduct market research and competitive analysis to help shape product direction, and translate customer problems into clear product requirements and priorities.
• We're looking for someone with an entrepreneurial mindset who enjoys moving quickly, talking to customers, validating ideas early, and iterating rapidly. This is not a role where you'll spend months writing specifications before shipping. We value experimentation, pragmatism, and delivering customer value
• Experience working cross-functionally across engineering, design, marketing, sales, and customer success
• Strong customer empathy with the ability to translate customer problems into products that deliver real value
• Fluent in English
• Proven success managing technical products, particularly developer tools, infrastructure, platform, or observability products
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, making decisions with incomplete information, and iterating quickly based on customer feedback
• Strong technical understanding of modern infrastructure, databases, cloud-native, and observability technologies, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into product strategy and customer value
• Willingness to travel occasionally for customer visits, conferences, and company events
• Demonstrated experience shipping successful software products from idea to release
• Experience with observability technologies such as Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, VictoriaMetrics, or similar platforms
• Experience with databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or other data platforms
• Experience with Kubernetes, Linux, cloud-native technologies, and distributed systems
• Experience working with open source communities as an active contributor or community member
• Experience building products for developers, SREs, platform engineers, DevOps engineers, database administrators, or other highly technical users
• Experience defining AI-powered workflows, developer productivity tools, or AI-assisted observability experiences
• Experience working in startups or high-growth companies where rapid iteration, experimentation, and customer feedback drive product decisions
• Comfortable taking ownership and wearing multiple hats in a small, collaborative team
• Passion for open source and building products in close partnership with engineering and the community