Principal Product Manager – TiDB Management Console

PingCAP Remote in San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, or West coast timezone Full-time

About PingCAP
PingCAP has established a strong presence in the Asia-Pacific region and China, delivering innovative database solutions to a diverse clientele. As we aggressively expand into the United States market, we are committed to providing cutting-edge products that meet the evolving needs of our customers. Our flagship product, TiDB, is a distributed SQL database that offers horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.
Role Overview
We are seeking a seasoned Principal Product Manager to lead the development of the Management Console for TiDB’s self-managed deployments. In this role, you will play a critical part in harmonizing the user interface across TiDB’s self-managed and cloud offerings, ensuring a consistent and seamless experience for users. You’ll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including engineering, design, and customer success, to drive the product roadmap and deliver a console that aligns with the TiDB Cloud interface. This console will empower database administrators to efficiently manage, monitor, and optimize their TiDB instances, whether in self-managed or cloud environments.

Responsibilities

  • Strategic Product Leadership: Define and execute a comprehensive product strategy for the TiDB Management Console, focusing on usability, performance, and feature richness.
  • User Experience Harmonization: Ensure that the Management Console aligns closely with the TiDB Cloud interface wherever possible, creating a unified and intuitive experience across platforms that supports seamless transitions between self-managed and cloud environments.
  • Feature Prioritization and Innovation: Identify and prioritize features that simplify cluster management, including monitoring, alerting, performance tuning, and scaling capabilities.
  • Cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with engineering to define technical requirements, establish timelines, and oversee the delivery of console features.
  • Customer Feedback Integration: Gather and analyze customer feedback to inform product enhancements that align with user needs, improve productivity, and reduce operational complexity.
  • Security and Reliability Focus: Maintain a strong emphasis on security, reliability, and ease of integration with other database management tools.

Qualifications

  • Educational Background: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; MBA or Master’s in a technical field is a plus.
  • Professional Experience: 10+ years of product management experience in enterprise software, database management, or cloud infrastructure.
  • Technical Proficiency: Strong understanding of database systems, distributed systems, and the needs of database administrators.
  • Product Development Expertise: Proven experience managing product roadmaps, defining requirements, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
  • Communication Skills: Excellent ability to translate technical details into customer-focused product features.
  • Management Console Development: Experience in building management consoles and contributing to open-source development projects.
  • Enterprise Offering Development: Demonstrated experience in developing differentiated enterprise, and licensed offerings while remaining true to open-source values.