Senior Product Manager, PostgreSQL

We’re a global team of over 400 people, working together to push the boundaries of open-source technology and multi-cloud solutions. Our vision is to help developers, builders, and creators bring their ideas to life with speed and simplicity, by providing a cloud data platform that makes open-source databases, search, streaming, and application infrastructure easily accessible to everyone. 

The Role:

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to own the developer experience for PostgreSQL at Aiven. Your mission is to make building applications on Postgres not just reliable, but delightful — removing friction, accelerating time-to-value, and creating a developer journey that feels effortless from setup to scale.

This is a high-impact role for someone who loves solving hard problems at the intersection of databases, developer platforms, and modern application building. You will define and own the roadmap, ensuring developer delight becomes a competitive advantage for Aiven’s Postgres offering.

What You’ll Do:

• Make the complex simple: Translate advanced database features into intuitive, developer-friendly workflows and APIs.
• Own the roadmap: Define, prioritize, and drive the PostgreSQL developer experience roadmap end-to-end.
• Design golden paths: Create opinionated best practices (branching, migrations, schema management etc) that guide developers toward success quickly.
• Build integrations: Partner with IDEs, frameworks, and AI coding assistants to meet developers where they already work.
• Drive adoption: Ensure Postgres is the easiest choice for developers — the database that “just works” when building modern apps.
• Partner with sales & customer success: Support deals and enterprise adoption by aligning devex features with business needs.
• Collaborate cross-functionally: Work with engineering, design, and GTM to turn complex technical capabilities into elegant, usable experiences.
• Measure success: Track developer activation, engagement, retention, and expansion as core KPIs.

What We’re Looking For:

• 5 to 7+ years in product management, ideally in databases, developer platforms, or cloud services.
• Proven ability to simplify complex technical features into intuitive developer experiences.
• Comfortable bringing clarity and prioritization in ambiguous, fast-changing environments.
• Strong understanding of PostgreSQL and/or relational databases, plus curiosity about extensions like pgvector, PostgREST, and Citus.
• Experience with developer workflows (CI/CD, branching, observability, AI tooling).
• Strong collaboration skills; equally comfortable working with engineers, sales teams, and developer communities.
• Excellent communication and storytelling ability to align teams and inspire adoption.

Amazing! What’s next:

If you think Aiven is the place for you and that our Values align with yours, send us your resume and we’ll get in touch!

Global Benefits:

Our global benefits are designed to help you thrive and grow, personally and professionally:

• Participate in Aiven’s equity plan.
• Balance work and life with our hybrid work policy.
• Choose the equipment you need to set yourself up for success.
• Use your Professional Development Plan budget for learning opportunities.
• Receive holistic wellbeing support through our global Employee Assistance Program.
• Inquire about our Global Time Off Commitment (Parental and Sick Leave, as well as Personal Time)
• Enjoy country-specific benefits for our global cast.

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Equal Opportunities:

Aiven provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for employment without regard to age, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, religion, sexual orientation, physical and mental ability, marital and family status or without regard to any other similar personal attributes. Aiven complies with applicable local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company operates. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, training and any other terms and conditions related to employment.

At Aiven we are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities or special needs in our working environment and job application procedures. We make all reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities or who otherwise need support to thrive in the workplace. We are committed to continuously improving workplace accessibility. There is an option to request a discussion in the application process but if you have any questions before applying please write to us at recruitment@aiven.io.