Senior Director Product Management, Growth at MongoDB

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About the Role We’re looking for a Senior Director of Product Management to help define and drive our next phase of growth. Our team owns the end-to-end product-led growth journey, from developer acquisition and onboarding through activation, adoption, monetization, retention, expansion, and sales handoffs. We use customer insight, data, and experimentation to reduce friction, accelerate time-to-value, grow revenue, and increase long-term customer value. This is a high-impact, strategic role that requires strong leadership, creativity, strong product sense, and the ability to mentor a team of high-performing Product Managers. You’ll be expected to lead your team, but also influence across the Product and Technology and Marketing teams, build cross-functional relationships, and elevate the team’s overall strategic thinking and execution. What You’ll Do Develop a clear, cohesive product-led growth strategy for both MongoDB Community Edition and MongoDB Atlas translating that strategy into testable hypotheses, measurable growth outcomes, and a prioritized experimentation roadmap Identify and validate opportunities to expand into new user segments, improve onboarding and activation, accelerate time-to-value, and strengthen product education across the developer journey Own the growth measurement and experimentation framework across acquisition, activation, adoption, retention, expansion, and sales handoffs, using product and customer insights, rapid testing, and structured learning loops to identify friction, prioritize investments, measure impact, and scale what works Mentor and guide Product Managers to think more broadly and creatively about the customer journey, instilling a culture of innovation and strategic problem-solving Partner closely with Engineering, Design, Marketing, Sales, Finance, and other go-to-market teams to shape and launch growth initiatives, align product and GTM strategy, and identify opportunities across packaging, pricing, and monetization that accelerate self-service adoption and broader customer expansion Collaborate with engineering leaders beyond the dedicated Growth team to align technical roadmaps, resource allocation and cross-product investments required to deliver growth outcomes Work closely with product leadership in other areas of the organization to build consensus, identify cross-product growth opportunities, and rally support for initiatives that span the MongoDB developer journey Present updates and learnings in monthly and quarterly business reviews, influencing executive stakeholders and guiding critical decisions Stay close to developers and customers through direct research, feedback, usage insights, and market engagement, translating those signals into differentiated product opportunities and growth priorities What We Look For Passion for MongoDB with a strong understanding of software engineering concepts and the developer audience 10+ years of Product Management experience, including 4+ years leading Product-Led Growth, Growth Product, or adjacent self-service growth motions at SaaS, cloud or developer-centric companies Deep understanding of product-led growth mechanics across acquisition, onboarding, activation, retention, expansion, and monetization, ideally within self-service, freemium, subscription, or consumption-based products Background in engineering (computer science, electrical, software) Strategic Vision & Creativity - A track record of crafting innovative growth strategies that expand market reach and build long-term product differentiation Influential Leadership - Ability to lead cross-functional teams and develop your team. You’re skilled at aligning diverse stakeholders around a shared vision Passion for deeply understanding developer needs and delivering seamless onboarding, education, adoption and product experiences Familiarity with open-source software, self-service, subscription, and consumption based cloud models Excellent written and verbal communication skills — you’ll need to distill complex product ideas, rally teams, and evangelize new growth initiatives across the org Data-driven and business-minded — you can define meaningful growth metrics, interpret funnel and usage behavior, evaluate experiments, and connect product decisions to key metrics Strong research and analytical skills with the ability to identify insights, uncover opportunities, and translate findings into actionable strategies Experience building programmatic product experiences with a deep understanding of developer-centric requirements, including IAM, integrations, and automation use cases Experience with how to leverage UI/UX design and/or user research teams Familiarity with AI/ML products or cloud-based platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure. Comfort using AI-native tools and workflows to accelerate research, experimentation, prototyping, and product decision-making is a plus About MongoDB MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud data platform and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. With offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including AI-native startups and 75% of the Fortune 100, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software. Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB. To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy , we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB , and help us make an impact on the world! MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter. MongoDB, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and makes all hiring decisions without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. REQ ID: 3273530567 MongoDB’s base salary range for this role is posted below. Compensation at the time of offer is unique to each candidate and based on a variety of factors such as skill set, experience, qualifications, and work location. Salary is one part of MongoDB’s total compensation and benefits package. Other benefits for eligible employees may include: equity, participation in the employee stock purchase program, flexible paid time off, 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave, fertility and adoption assistance, 401(k) plan, mental health counseling, access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage, and health benefits offerings. Please note, the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to U.S.-based candidates. MongoDB’s base salary range for this role in the U.S. is: $168,000 — $330,000 USD

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What You’ll Do
Identify and validate opportunities to expand into new user segments, improve onboarding and activation, accelerate time-to-value, and strengthen product education across the developer journey
Mentor and guide Product Managers to think more broadly and creatively about the customer journey, instilling a culture of innovation and strategic problem-solving
Collaborate with engineering leaders beyond the dedicated Growth team to align technical roadmaps, resource allocation and cross-product investments required to deliver growth outcomes
Work closely with product leadership in other areas of the organization to build consensus, identify cross-product growth opportunities, and rally support for initiatives that span the MongoDB developer journey
Present updates and learnings in monthly and quarterly business reviews, influencing executive stakeholders and guiding critical decisions
Stay close to developers and customers through direct research, feedback, usage insights, and market engagement, translating those signals into differentiated product opportunities and growth priorities
What We Look For
Passion for MongoDB with a strong understanding of software engineering concepts and the developer audience
10+ years of Product Management experience, including 4+ years leading Product-Led Growth, Growth Product, or adjacent self-service growth motions at SaaS, cloud or developer-centric companies
Deep understanding of product-led growth mechanics across acquisition, onboarding, activation, retention, expansion, and monetization, ideally within self-service, freemium, subscription, or consumption-based products
Background in engineering (computer science, electrical, software)
Strategic Vision & Creativity - A track record of crafting innovative growth strategies that expand market reach and build long-term product differentiation
Influential Leadership - Ability to lead cross-functional teams and develop your team. You’re skilled at aligning diverse stakeholders around a shared vision
Passion for deeply understanding developer needs and delivering seamless onboarding, education, adoption and product experiences
Familiarity with open-source software, self-service, subscription, and consumption based cloud models
Excellent written and verbal communication skills — you’ll need to distill complex product ideas, rally teams, and evangelize new growth initiatives across the org
Data-driven and business-minded — you can define meaningful growth metrics, interpret funnel and usage behavior, evaluate experiments, and connect product decisions to key metrics
Strong research and analytical skills with the ability to identify insights, uncover opportunities, and translate findings into actionable strategies
Experience building programmatic product experiences with a deep understanding of developer-centric requirements, including IAM, integrations, and automation use cases
Experience with how to leverage UI/UX design and/or user research teams

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Familiarity with AI/ML products or cloud-based platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure. Comfort using AI-native tools and workflows to accelerate research, experimentation, prototyping, and product decision-making is a plus

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