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Couchbase is building the operational data platform for AI. Search, indexing and query are the core of it — how data is found, filtered, ranked and returned is what determines whether an application, or an agent, can actually use the data underneath. We are hiring a Senior Product Manager to own that surface area across Capella and Couchbase Enterprise: the SQL++ query experience, secondary indexing, full-text search, and vector and hybrid search.

This is a hands-on individual contributor role for someone who wants to do the work at the Senior level — write the PRFAQ, sit with the customer, push the tradeoff, ship the capability, and own the outcome after launch. You do not need to have shipped a query engine or a search product before. End-to-end ownership of how customers express and satisfy a query on Couchbase — SQL++ query, global secondary indexes, full-text search, and vector and hybrid search. Make Couchbase the retrieval layer that RAG applications and agents actually use — hybrid search relevance, metadata filtering, recall and freshness, and cost per query. Developer experience for query and indexing: Performance, cost and benchmark credibility: Own the performance story for your area. Reproducible benchmarks the field can stand behind, a defensible cost and TCO narrative against MongoDB, Elastic, Postgres and pgvector, and dedicated vector stores, and a clear point of view on where Couchbase wins and where it does not.

Make clear tradeoff calls about what to build and what to defer based on what the enterprise ICP universally needs — not features chasing competitors or one-off requests outside the ICP.

Hold the bar on quality, scope, and timing through to launch.

Help build a pipeline of named reference customers willing to talk publicly about what they have shipped.

Coordinate across Core Database, Capella, Analytics, Mobile and Edge, and the AI Specialist team so the capabilities you own compose cleanly with the rest of the platform. Equip sales, sales engineering, PMM,



and partner GTM with what they need to win on search, indexing and query — positioning, demos, competitive context, benchmark data, customer proof points. Be the product owner in deals where the technical depth matters.

Contribute as the product owner in customer briefings, webinars, blog posts, documentation, and enablement content for the capabilities you own. Support analyst engagements and keynote content led by the Principal PM, PMM, and AR.

Adopt and contribute to the team's AI-driven PM and AI-DLC (AI-driven development lifecycle) practices in day-to-day execution.

Shipped capabilities across query, indexing and search with measurable adoption and at least one named reference customer per major launch.

A published, reproducible performance and cost position for your area that sales and engineering both stand behind.

Sales and GTM enablement that the field actually uses — measured by pipeline influence and win-rate signals, not enablement-decks-produced.

Contributions to the broader platform narrative — customer-facing content, blog posts, and documentation in partnership with the AI Specialist team, PMM, and AR.

Visible AI-driven PM practice — concrete examples of AI-DLC in your daily work that the rest of the team can learn from.

Seven or more years in product management, with at least three on a technical platform — database, data infrastructure, search, analytics, developer tools, cloud infrastructure, or AI infrastructure.

You can reason about latency, throughput, recall, index structures, query plans, memory and storage tradeoffs, and cost per operation. You can tell which feature requests reflect universal ICP needs and which are noise, and you make the call clearly.

You already use AI in your own PM work — research, PRFAQ drafting, customer synthesis, competitive analysis — and you can point to concrete examples.

Frontier-model experience: Hands-on experience building with frontier AI models — APIs, code-generation tools, MCP, agent frameworks, and modern developer ecosystems. A shipping record — products and features you have personally taken from PRFAQ to launch to adoption.

Direct experience with query engines, query optimization, secondary indexing, full-text search, vector search, or retrieval and ranking systems.

Working familiarity with SQL and SQL-like query languages, Lucene-family search stacks (Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Solr), or vector databases.

Experience at a database, data platform, search, or AI infrastructure company (MongoDB, Snowflake, Databricks, Elastic, Confluent, Redis, Pinecone, AWS, GCP, Azure, or comparable).





Experience owning a performance, benchmark, or TCO narrative in a competitive market.

Prior experience mentoring associate or early-career PMs.

Prior search, indexing or query product experience is genuinely not required. We expect strong candidates to come from adjacent areas: data platforms and warehouses, streaming and messaging, analytics, observability and monitoring, developer tools, API platforms, cloud infrastructure, or AI and ML infrastructure. What we will test for instead of domain history: how you reason about a performance or correctness tradeoff you have never seen before, how quickly you get to the right question when a customer describes a slow or wrong result, how you decide what to build and what to defer, and how well you write.

Based in Bangalore, India, working primarily from Couchbase's Bangalore office with flexibility for hybrid work.

We actively encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds—including women, people of color, LGBTQIA+ professionals, veterans, and individuals with disabilities. We also value unconventional career paths and unique life experiences.

Studies show that underrepresented talent is less likely to apply unless they meet 100% of the criteria. If you are excited about this role and feel you can make robust contributions to our team, please apply —even if your experience doesn't check every single box.

If you require reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let your recruiter know. Modern customer experiences demand a flexible cloud database platform that powers applications from the cloud to the edge and everywhere in between. With Capella —our fast, flexible, and affordable cloud database platform—we enable organizations to deliver premium user experiences backed by best-in-class price performance.

We offer a holistic approach to benefits that recognizes the value you create, helping you care for yourself and your family:

Generous Time Off: Flexible programs designed to support your work-life balance.

World-class medical, dental, vision, mental health, life insurance, and employee assistance programs.*

Financial Security: Competitive retirement plans* and business travel coverage.

Career Growth: Ergonomic setups for both WFH and in-office employees, plus snacks and meals when you're in the office.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans' status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Join an impact initiative group and experience the amazing feeling of Couchbase can-do culture.

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