Head of Product Design - Remote (m/w/d)

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Drive the Presto engine roadmap: query planning, coordinator scalability, native worker rollout, and connector ecosystem.

Native Worker Migration: Help define the strategy for transitioning from Java workers to native C++ execution: compatibility requirements, migration paths, fallback logic, and rollout milestones.

Help prioritize pushdown and predicate handling improvements.

End-User Experience: Work with BI and analyst-facing teams to translate engine.

Domain Experience: 10+ years of experience in the data infrastructure ecosystem, which may include roles in product management, solutions engineering, sales engineering, developer advocacy, or technical architecture within query engines, lakehouse platforms, or distributed data systems.

Demonstrated ability to translate customer needs, system constraints, and performance insights into clear product requirements and roadmap priorities.

Open-Source Presto & SQL: Hands-on experience with open-source Presto or Trino in a production environment. Strong familiarity with SQL-based analytics platforms and the open-source community model.

Connector & Federated Query: Familiarity with connector development tradeoffs - predicate pushdown, remote source latency, type fidelity - and the implications for query correctness and performance.

Track record working across BI tooling, data science, data engineering, and infrastructure SRE teams.

Bachelor's Degree

Bachelor's in Computer Science or related field; Experience with native Presto workers or the Java-to-C++ migration surface.

BI & Semantic Layer: Experience with BI tooling (Superset, Looker, Tableau) and how query layer capabilities translate to analyst-facing quality.

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