Director of Product Management, Security

About ClickHouse

Recognized on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 list, ClickHouse is one of the most innovative and fast-growing private cloud companies. With more than 4,000 customers and ARR that has grown over 250 percent year over year, ClickHouse leads the market in real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI workloads. The company’s sustained, accelerating momentum was recently validated by a $400M Series D financing round. Over the past three months, customers including Capital One, Lovable, Decagon, Polymarket, and Airwallex have adopted the platform or expanded existing deployments. These customers join an established base of AI innovators and global brands such as Meta, Cursor, Sony, and Tesla. We’re on a mission to transform how companies use data.

Responsibilities

• Own the product vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for our security offerings, and make the case for it - internally with engineering and leadership, and externally with customers and the market.
• Go deep on database security, networking, and identity and access management (IAM) - enough to argue the details with engineering, not just approve what they propose.
• Partner closely with engineering, design, sales, and marketing to ship products that are actually secure, not just marketed that way.
• Translate complex security requirements into specifications and user stories that engineering can understand.
• Own backlog prioritization and the trade-offs that come with it, weighing business value, customer risk, and engineering cost.
• Drive go-to-market for security launches - positioning, sales enablement, documentation.
• Monitor how security features perform in the real world and use that data, not just instinct, to decide what to build next.
• Be the security subject-matter expert other teams come to, and provide guidance and coaching to PMs working on security-adjacent problems elsewhere in the org.
• Represent our security posture and roadmap externally - with top customers, prospects, and analysts when the conversation needs someone who actually understands the tradeoffs.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of product management experience in B2B SaaS, with a significant and sustained focus on security products or features, including experience setting security strategy at an organizational level.
• Real, hands-on experience with database security principles and best practices.
• Strong understanding of networking concepts and their security implications.
• In-depth knowledge of identity and access management (IAM).
• Security certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CompTIA Security+) preferred.
• Solid program management skills: planning, execution, and risk management across multiple concurrent workstreams.
• A track record of representing product externally - with customers, analysts, or at industry events, and translating deep technical security topics for non-technical audiences.
• Experience guiding or informally mentoring other PMs, even without a formal reporting relationship.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, and the judgment to know when to escalate versus when to just make the call.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, collaborative environment where priorities shift and you're expected to bring order to it, not just follow along.

Pay

The typical starting salary for this role in the US is $230,000 - $290,000 USD. In certain premium markets, such as the San Francisco Bay Area and the New York City Metro Area, the typical starting salary range is $260,000 - $310,000 USD.

Benefits

• Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly, currently operating in over 20 countries.
• Employer contributions towards healthcare.
• Equity in the company - every new team member receives stock options.
• Flexible time off in the US; generous entitlement in other countries.
• A $500 home office setup for remote employees.
• Global gatherings – opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites.
• Culture - as part of a rapidly scaling startup, you will be instrumental in shaping our culture.