Principal Product Manager

Overview

Principal Product Manager to own execution for the Couchbase Mobile portfolio (Couchbase Lite, Sync Gateway / Capella App Services, and Edge Server), focused on release quality, developer experience, and technical depth of requirements as the portfolio supports edge and on-device AI use cases.

What you'll do

• Turn product strategy for the Couchbase Mobile portfolio into a detailed, well-sequenced roadmap and drive it through to shipped, adopted product.
• Own end-to-end execution day-to-day: write detailed technical product requirements, partner closely with engineering and design, and validate pre-release features hands-on.
• Contribute to the operational cadence (JIRA, sprint and roadmap reviews, agile ceremonies).
• Bring operational excellence to a mature, multi-product portfolio: tighten release quality, close gaps in documentation and developer experience, and remove accumulated friction across established products.
• Shape how the portfolio supports on-device and edge AI use cases and turn that into concrete, engineering-ready requirements.
• Work directly with customers and prospects to pressure-test use cases and turn them into functional requirements and clear build/don't-build decisions.
• Be the first line of product ownership on live customer escalations, working with field, sales, and support leadership to unblock accounts and drive fixes through engineering.
• Act as the portfolio's lead technical evangelist, representing Couchbase Mobile in talks, webinars, and technical content, and equipping sales, solutions engineering, and marketing with training and positioning.
• Represent the portfolio in cross-org planning with senior leadership.

What you'll need

• 8+ years of product management experience, with a track record of driving flawless execution for a mature product or portfolio at scale; distributed systems, databases, or developer platforms strongly preferred.
• 3+ years of hands-on software development experience, writing or architecting production applications yourself.
• Demonstrated ability to take an already-successful, mature product and materially improve how well it's executed: release quality, operational rigor, developer experience.
• A genuine technical/developer background: you have built or architected client-side applications (mobile, desktop, or web) yourself and are comfortable prototyping.
• Practical understanding of the concepts behind complex distributed systems (high availability, disaster recovery, security and access control) and how they apply to mobile/embedded apps and to server-side sync infrastructure (Sync Gateway, Capella App Services).
• Familiarity with a public cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• A working, opinionated understanding of edge computing and AI concepts relevant to on-device and edge inference, and the judgment to turn that into product strategy.
• AI-forward in how you work: you use AI tools in your own PM process (requirements, research, analysis) and push that adoption across the team.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, comfortable in deep technical design reviews with engineers and in front of customers, press, or executive leadership.
• Fluency with agile development process and tooling (JIRA or equivalent), and experience operating in a fast-moving, cross-functional org.
• A high bar for ownership: self-directed, comfortable setting direction under ambiguity, and driving alignment across engineering, marketing, and sales without formal authority.
• A strong team player, curious and collaborative.

Nice to have

• Fluency in client mobile app technologies (Flutter, KMM, etc.).

Details

• Remote, US-based.
• Base pay range: $160,000 to $188,000 USD, plus eligibility for bonus, commissions, and other benefits.