Product Marketing Manager, Cloud Security

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Couchbase is building the operational data platform for AI. We are hiring a Principal Product Manager, AI to own a meaningful area of the AI portfolio across Capella and Couchbase Enterprise. Reporting to the VP of AI Product Management, this Principal PM partners closely with engineering, sales and GTM, marketing, and the broader AI organization to ship capabilities that solve real problems for our enterprise ICP — at the seniority where roadmap decisions, customer commitments, and analyst positioning are decided.

This is a hands-on senior individual contributor role for someone who wants to do the work at the Principal level — write the PRFAQ, sit with the customer, push the tradeoff, ship the capability, defend the roadmap to leadership and analysts — at the center of one of the most consequential shifts in enterprise data infrastructure. Working backwards from the customer: Start with the customer and work backwards. Validate with real, named enterprise customers. Engineering partnership: Own the PRD as a living document, not a one-time artifact.

Hold the bar on quality, scope, and timing through to launch. Customer and design partner engagement: Bring real customer voice into roadmap decisions and back to the broader team. Build a pipeline of named reference customers willing to talk publicly about what they have shipped. Coordinate across the broader product organization — Core Database, Capella, Analytics, Mobile and Edge, and the AI Specialist team — so AI capabilities compose as one platform.

Apply a deliberate build-vs-partner lens: build where Couchbase is uniquely strong, and identify partnerships and integrations where we can deliver a better customer experience faster and more resource-efficiently than building ourselves. Sales and GTM partnership: Equip sales, sales engineering, PMM, and partner GTM with what they need to win in the capabilities you own — positioning, demos, competitive context, customer proof points. Be the product owner in deals where the technical depth matters.

Contribute meaningfully as the product owner in analyst engagements (Gartner, Forrester, IDC), customer briefings, keynote content, partner co-marketing, blog posts, and documentation for the capabilities you own. Use AI deeply and visibly in your own product management work — research, PRFAQ drafting, customer synthesis, competitive analysis, roadmap modeling, engineering collaboration. Set an example for the team in what AI-driven PM and AI-DLC (AI-driven development lifecycle) practices look like in day-to-day execution.

PM team development: Help shape the operating cadence, the PRFAQ and PRD standards, and the culture. PRFAQs and PRDs for the capabilities you own, validated with named enterprise customers before engineering starts. Ship capabilities within your AI portfolio area with measurable adoption and at least one named reference customer per major launch. 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 AI portfolio narrative — analyst materials, keynote content, partner co-marketing, and blog and documentation work in partnership with the AI Specialist team, PMM, and AR. Visible AI-driven PM practice that the rest of the team can learn from — concrete examples of AI-DLC in your daily work. Twelve or more years in product management, with at least five on a technical platform — database, data infrastructure, developer tools, or AI infrastructure.

Deep technical fluency in modern AI infrastructure: vector search, embeddings, RAG, agent frameworks, model serving, context engineering, and emerging interoperability standards. Customer obsession and working-backwards rigor: You start with the customer and work backwards. You already use AI heavily in your own PM work — research, PRFAQ drafting, customer synthesis, competitive analysis, roadmap modeling — and you can point to concrete examples. Advanced, 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, ideally including one that opened a new revenue line. Experience at a database, data platform, or AI infrastructure company (MongoDB, Snowflake, Databricks, Elastic, Confluent, Redis, Pinecone, AWS, GCP, Azure, or comparable). Direct experience building or shipping vector search, agent memory, RAG pipelines, model serving, or related AI infrastructure capabilities. Public presence — blog posts, conference talks, OSS contributions, or analyst-facing work. Remote-US.

Regular travel to Couchbase HQ, customer sites, partner events, and industry conferences. Base salary is not the only component of our competitive total rewards package - you may also be eligible for bonus, commissions, and other benefits as described below. We actively encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds—including women, people of color, LGTBQIA+ professionals, veterans, and individuals with disabilities. Modern customer experiences need a flexible cloud database platform that can power applications spanning from cloud to edge and everything in between.

Couchbase’s mission is to simplify how developers and architects develop, deploy and consume modern applications wherever they are. We have reimagined the database with our fast, flexible and affordable cloud database platform Capella, allowing organizations to quickly build applications that deliver premium experiences to their customers- all with best-in-class price performance. More than 30% of the Fortune 100 trust Couchbase to power their modern applications and build innovative new ones.

Wellness Benefits - A variety of world class medical plans to choose from, along with dental, vision, life insurance, and employee assistance programs*
Financial Planning - Retirement program* and Business Travel Insurance
Fun Perks - An ergonomic and comfortable in-office / WFH setup. Food & Snacks for in-office employees.

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