Senior Product Manager

Role Description

Couchbase is building the operational data platform for AI. We are hiring a Senior Product Manager, AI to own a defined capability area within the AI portfolio across Capella and Couchbase Enterprise. Reporting to the VP of AI Product Management, this Senior 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.

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 — at the center of one of the most consequential shifts in enterprise data infrastructure. The role is fully remote within the United States, working alongside a distributed product and engineering organization.

What You Will Own

• Product execution within a defined AI capability area: End-to-end ownership of one or more capabilities inside the AI portfolio.
• Working backwards from the customer: Start with the customer and work backwards.
• Engineering partnership: Work shoulder-to-shoulder with engineering.
• Customer and design partner engagement: Support and run design partner programs for the capabilities you own.
• Cross-portfolio collaboration: Coordinate across the broader product organization.
• Sales and GTM partnership: Equip sales, sales engineering, PMM, and partner GTM with what they need to win.
• External voice: Contribute as the product owner in customer briefings, webinars, blog posts, documentation, and enablement content.
• AI-driven PM practice: Use AI deeply and visibly in your own product management work.
• Raising the bar: Share what works and mentor associate and early-career PMs.

What You Will Deliver

• PRFAQs and PRDs for the capabilities you own, validated with named enterprise customers before engineering starts.
• Shipped capabilities in your area with measurable adoption and at least one named reference customer per major launch.
• Clear, defensible tradeoff decisions visible to engineering, sales, and GTM.
• Sales and GTM enablement that the field actually uses.
• Contributions to the broader AI portfolio narrative.
• Visible AI-driven PM practice.

Qualifications

• Seven or more years in product management, with at least three on a technical platform.
• Technical fluency in modern AI infrastructure.
• Customer obsession and working-backwards rigor.
• Engineering credibility.
• Cross-functional trust.
• AI-driven PM practice.
• Frontier-model experience.
• Strong written communication.
• A shipping record.

Requirements

• Experience at a database, data platform, or AI infrastructure company.
• 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.
• Prior experience mentoring associate or early-career PMs.

Location and Reporting

Remote-US. This role is virtual-first by design — day-to-day execution, including PRFAQs, customer engagement, engineering collaboration, sales partnership, and content development, happens predominantly through virtual channels. Limited travel is required, reserved for high-value moments such as key customer engagements, major industry conferences, team onsites, and periodic visits to Couchbase HQ in Santa Clara. Reports to the VP of AI Product Management.

Benefits

• Generous Time Off Program - Flexibility to care for you and your family.
• 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.
• Career Growth - Be valued, Create value approach.
• Fun Perks - An ergonomic and comfortable in-office / WFH setup. Food & Snacks for in-office employees.

Company Description

Couchbase, the operational data platform for AI, empowers businesses to succeed by bringing data to life in new ways. Major market-leading companies rely on Couchbase for mission critical operational, analytical, mobile and AI workloads. Built to replace legacy infrastructure and fragmented data services, Couchbase empowers enterprises with a unified platform architected for performance, flexibility and global scale.

With Couchbase, organizations bring their data to life, launching game‑changing customer experiences, exploring the limitless potential of AI, and seamlessly extending applications from the cloud to the edge and beyond.