Principal Product Manager – TiDB Management Console

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.

• 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.

• 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.

We encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply. Come advance with us! In keeping with our values, no employee or applicant will face discrimination/harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, or veteran status. PingCAP also strives to prevent other, subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (e.g., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our organization. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at PingCAP.