Staff Product Manager (Data Onboarding)

Category-defining tech. Career-defining work. Lots of tech companies disrupt. But, many fail when they try to scale. We're different. CockroachDB makes it easier for companies to build and scale apps. This is how and why we're helping some of the most innovative companies on the planet. We tackle problems head-on and focus on solutions that create lasting impact. Because when our customers win, we all win. The Role We are looking for a seasoned Product Manager to own the end-to-end CockroachDB Data Onboarding user journey — the critical on-ramp for every CockroachDB customer. You will define the strategy, product direction, and measurable outcomes that transform complex migrations from databases like PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, and SQL Server into a predictable, low-friction, and self-service experience, powered by AI-native tooling. Your north star: any user can go from schema introspection to a successful data load in under an hour. This is a deeply customer-centric role that sits at a critical inflection point in CockroachDB’s growth. Migrations are among the most painful and high-stakes steps in adopting any database platform — and a friction point in our sales motion today. The migration experience spans schema conversion, bulk data ingestion, compatibility validation, and live cutover, and it must work seamlessly across a diverse set of source databases and deployment environments. Strong data onboarding shortens time-to-production, reduces dependency on professional services, and builds early trust in the platform. This is CockroachDB’s front door, and you will define what it means to walk through it confidently. Large language models are poised to fundamentally transform what is possible with database migrations, turning what has historically been one of the most manual, expert-intensive workflows in enterprise software into something that could be self-service. As the PM for Data Onboarding, you will be at the frontier of a new class of AI-native developer tooling, and you will wrestle with some of the most interesting product questions of our time: What are the right economics of embedding LLMs in a migration workflow — and who bears the token costs? Should customers bring their own model or API key, or does CockroachDB provide a fully managed AI experience hosting the models ourselves? How do you design for trust when an LLM is making schema decisions on behalf of a DBA? How do you measure and improve AI accuracy in a domain where a wrong data type mapping can break production? These are open questions without obvious answers, and this role puts you squarely at the center of defining them. You Will Own the end-to-end journey. Lead the full lifecycle of the Data Onboarding experience — from initial schema introspection through data load, cutover, and post-migration validation — across all supported source databases. Define metrics that capture migration completion rates, time-to-value, and customer support signal to surface gaps and drive continuous improvement across all customer personas: Architects, DBAs, and Developers. Build a problem-first, data-driven strategy. Deeply understand the pain customers face during migrations: fragmented tooling, incomplete compatibility coverage, manual workarounds, and the lack of prescriptive guidance that leaves teams without a clear path forward. Define a roadmap that balances AI-augmented schema conversion, unified migration tooling, expanded database source coverage, and self-service capabilities — prioritizing using a combination of qualitative customer signals and quantitative migration funnel data. Deliver measurable outcomes. Set and track success metrics spanning self-service migration completion rates, reduction in migration-related professional services engagements, and time-to-first-successful-import. Ensure product changes deliver real, validated value and iterate rapidly when they don’t. Lead with clarity and customer centricity. Act as the voice of the customer — pa