Company/Founders’ Location: Menlo Park, California

Hiring Location: Local to SF/BayArea, California preferred

About Bluesky:

Our team consists of domain experts in big data who have solved similar problems for companies such as Google, Vertica, Uber, Stripe, Facebook, Pure Storage, DBT, and Snowflake, and other thought leaders in the industry. Our company has received funding from top-tier VCs, angels, and various thought leaders, including the founders of Cloudera and Qubole. We are committed to building a world-class team that will develop systems with a profound impact on how people use their data clouds.

The Lead Product Manager will join our Founding Team to help us define the product direction of our core data efficiency platform and work closely with our customers to accelerate the delivery of that vision. As a crucial early team member, you'll work directly with the CEO to set product direction and cross-functionally to guide the prioritization of work in order to meet customer and company goals. This role offers an exceptional opportunity to make an immediate and substantial impact, fostering an enriching personal and professional growth environment. We pride ourselves on offering an unparalleled startup experience, allowing you to learn, build, and thrive alongside an ambitious and dedicated team.

What you’ll do:

• Own the product direction for Bluesky’s core data efficiency platform, collaborating closely across design, engineering, customer experience and product marketing

• Work hand-in-hand with customers, engaging in frequent dialogue to understand their needs, gather feedback, and overall ensure that product direction is in tune with customer needs. You are the champion of the customer, while remaining laser focused on delivering significant business impact

• Guide the prioritization of work and help make resourcing and prioritization tradeoffs in service of our customers’ and our company’s goals

• Understand the market, competitive landscape, and sales engagements to define key focus areas for the product to achieve product market fit.

Who you are:

• Have 5+ years of relevant experience in a technical role, with at least 2 of those in a product management role (ideally working on a developer-focused SaaS product)

• Domain expertise in the area of data management, Big Data analytics, data warehousing and/or cloud technologies

• Extensive experience working with Data Engineers in order to understand customer needs and develop product solutions with keen emphasis on stellar UX

• Experience collaborating with the engineering teams to create product specs for sprint planning, working with leadership to plan and execute sprints, and unblocking engineers as needed

• Experience using quantitative (e.g., metrics, analytics) and qualitative data (e.g., research, user feedback) to inform product prioritization, decision-making and building cross-functional consensus

• Demonstrate excellent project management skills by partnering with engineering, design, and other functions to execute on roadmaps with high velocity

• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills and the willingness to present and defend your ideas to technical stakeholders and executives alike

Nice to Haves:

• Domain expertise in data/SQL workload optimization

• Previous experience or interest in generating product marketing content (e.g. blog posts, videos)

• You've worked in the product function of a startup and care a lot about shaping and working in a high-impact, collaborative organization

Why Join Bluesky

We raised $8.8M to solve the biggest challenges of big data cloud adoption: the cost management and workload optimization. We are backed by Greylock venture capitalists. Our founder, Mingsheng Hong has decades of experience in the big data industry, and is behind the names of well-known data and ML technologies like Vertica, Google’s Ads database stack as well as TensorFlow. Bluesky has also officially joined the Snowflake Partner Network. We achieved Select Tier status less than a month after coming out of stealth. Please see techcrunch and data engineering podcast for details.

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Pay Transparency

Compensation for this role consists of a base salary, stock options, and benefits. The expected base salary range is $160,000 - $210,000 annually and will be determined based on applicable qualifications such as level, education, skills and experience.

In addition, we offer top tier medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, unlimited PTO, and a 401(k) plan.

Our Commitment To Diversity

Bluesky provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.