Starburst is the data platform for analytics, applications, and AI, unifying data across clouds and on-premises to accelerate AI innovation. Organizations—from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises in 60+ countries—rely on Starburst for fast data access, seamless collaboration, and enterprise-grade governance on an open hybrid data lakehouse. Wherever data lives, Starburst unlocks its full potential, powering data and AI from development to deployment. By future-proofing data architecture, Starburst helps businesses fuel innovation with AI.
About the role
As a Product Manager at Starburst, you’ll play a critical role in shaping the core infrastructure and control plane that power our data products. You’ll work closely with engineering, customers, and internal stakeholders to deliver foundational capabilities that improve performance, reliability, and scalability across the platform. This is a high-impact role where you'll tackle some of the most technically complex and strategically important challenges in the data space.
You’ll be responsible for the full product lifecycle. You’ll define strategy and roadmap, gathering requirements, and driving execution to deliver best-in-class solutions aligned with company goals.
As a Product Manager at Starburst you will:
- Build and deliver on a roadmap that balances the needs of customers and internal teams with clear prioritization based on data-driven customer insights
- Collaborate with teams globally across multiple time zones and operate in an Agile development environment
- Align with other teams that depend on you across the company to ensure you understand their future needs and our roadmap is unblocked and timelines are in-sync
- Own cross-functional interactions for your features
- Collect and summarize usage data/dashboards for decision-making and OKR tracking
Some of the things we look for:
- Experience as a product manager or technical product manager.
- A deep understanding of the technical landscape and markets, experience in databases, data warehousing, and data lakes, and familiarity with many of the data infrastructure products in the industry is a nice to have.
- Experience with infrastructure or control plane components.
- Demonstrated experience prioritizing work while effectively collaborating with teams for multiple products dependent on your roadmap.
- Entrepreneurial and self-motivated personality with a track record for delivering results in a fast-moving environment.
- Experience with Hive, Iceberg or Delta Lake is strongly preferred.
Starburst is dedicated to maintaining fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range provided for this role reflects the minimum and maximum targets for candidates across all U.S. locations and could be inclusive of variable compensation, such as commission or bonus. All employees receive equity packages (ISOs) and have access to a comprehensive benefits offering. Actual compensation packages are determined based on relevant skills, experience, education and training, and specific work location. For more information, connect with the recruiting team or Hiring Manager during the process as they can provide more detailed information about the salary range.
Pay Range
$150,000—$194,250 USD
All-Stars have the opportunity and freedom to realize their true potential. By building alongside top talent, we’re empowered to take ownership of our careers and drive meaningful change. Anchored in industry-proven technology and unprecedented success, All-Stars are taking on the challenge everyday to disrupt our industry – and the future.
Our global workforce is supported by a competitive Total Rewards program that reflects our commitment to a rewarding and supportive work environment. This includes a variety of benefits like competitive pay, attractive stock grants, flexible paid time off, and more.
We are committed to fostering an intentional, inclusive, and diverse culture that drives deep engagement, authentic belonging, and an exceptional All-Star experience. We believe that diversity of thought, perspective, background and experience will enable us to own what we do, drive our success and empower our All-Stars to show up authentically.
Starburst 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.
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Starburst Boston, Massachusetts, USA Office
We are headquartered in Boston, one of the top cities for tech startups, but we’re truly remote-friendly and are hiring globally! Our Boston office is centrally located Downtown in close proximity to public transliteration, parking, restaurants, parks, and so much more!
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