Senior Director, Product Management, Database

Position Overview

Location: United States, Nationwide, Remote. At Teradata, we believe that people thrive when empowered with better information. In this role, you will lead the vision, strategy, and execution for Teradata’s Database Pillar—shaping the future of our compute, data, and core database engine capabilities. Your impact will be delivering a best-in-class enterprise database that powers mission-critical analytics, AI/ML workloads, and real-time decisioning at a global scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the vision, strategy, and execution of the database product roadmap.
• Ensure leadership in price-performance, workload management, hybrid cloud deployment, elasticity, and advanced optimization techniques.
• Collaborate with engineering leadership, solution architects, sales engineering, and customer success to align product capabilities with enterprise requirements.
• Engage with enterprise customers, ecosystem partners, and industry influencers to guide product-market fit and establish thought leadership.
• Strengthen Teradata’s competitive position in both cloud and hybrid environments.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of product management experience in enterprise software, with a focus on databases, query engines, or data platforms.
• Proven ability to drive strategy and execution in database & data systems, distributed workload processing, and cloud-native architectures.
• Hands-on experience with workload optimization, indexing, partitioning, parallel processing, and security.
• Experience with cloud service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) and multi-cloud deployment in AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Successful track record of managing global product teams and delivering complex enterprise software.
• Strong financial, strategic, and operational acumen with experience managing roadmaps, budgets, and investments.
• Excellent executive communication skills with the ability to influence internal stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep technical expertise in query optimization, execution engines, distributed databases, and elastic scaling models.
• Familiarity with vectorized query processing, GPU/accelerated workloads, and AI/ML integrations with database platforms.
• Understanding of competitive database technologies (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, SQL Server, Oracle, etc.) and Teradata’s differentiators.
• Experience building data-intensive products that support both OLTP and OLAP workloads.
• Passion for database innovation and a commitment to delivering measurable value to enterprise customers.

Benefits & Perks

• Compensation: $199,500 - $299,300 Annually, with commission and incentive plans where applicable.
• Healthcare benefits including medical, life, and disability insurance.
• Retirement: 401(k)-retirement savings plan.
• Time Off: Comprehensive time-off programs to support work-life balance.