We are looking for an outstanding and visionary product leader who is passionate about serving the developer community. This person will define and drive the execution of our product strategy and roadmap across the developer journey with a portfolio that spans MongoDB's traditional developer tools, MongoDB Compass, mongosh (MongoDB’s shell), Atlas CLI, IDE integrations and extensions and local development experiences, to libraries such as language drivers and application frameworks, to MongoDB’s offerings to support those on the forefront of developing with AI–such as our MCP server and AI framework support. You will collaborate closely with stakeholders at every level of the organization, including executive leadership and cross-functional teams across multiple business units, to ensure that all MongoDB features are seamlessly woven into one of the best developer experiences in technology as we move into the age of AI.
Your leadership in this role will be instrumental in not just maintaining, but increasing and intensifying developers’ love of MongoDB.
We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Dublin for our hybrid working model.
What You'll Do
- Lead and develop a high-performing product team. You'll manage a team of product managers, including managers of managers, creating an environment where people grow, stay challenged, and do their best work. You'll be a hands-on coach who can help your team get unstuck — not just a strategist, but someone who has shipped complex products themselves
- Define and own a coherent vision across a broad portfolio. Developer Experience isn't a single product — it's a collection of interconnected tools, libraries, and frameworks. You'll develop a strategy that makes the whole greater than the sum of its parts, and communicate that vision clearly to stakeholders up and down the organization
- Set goals, track the right metrics, and drive outcomes. Developer tooling doesn't have a direct revenue line, but it has a profound impact on activation, retention, and churn. You'll build a strong partnership with product analytics to identify the right signals, formulate meaningful metrics, and use data to drive decisions
- Be a credible technical voice. You'll engage deeply with engineering directors and architects on decisions involving network protocols, distributed systems, client libraries, and simplification of our driver stack. You won't write the code, but you'll need to understand it well enough to help the team make the right tradeoffs, communicate confidently with technical customers, and be a strong advocate for the developers out there who are building on MongoDB
- Champion AI as a first-class capability. Developers are both increasingly relying on AI to build but also build AI-native applications, and MongoDB is at the center of this shift. You'll help ensure our developer tooling is purpose-built for the AI era — and you'll bring genuine enthusiasm for what that means for the products your team owns
- Partner deeply with engineering and design. You'll be a trusted counterpart — not a gatekeeper — to your engineering and design partners. When hard prioritization calls have to be made, you'll bring the team along with transparency and clear reasoning
- Drive go-to-market as a product leader. You understand what a productive collaboration with product marketing looks like. You'll help shape messaging and positioning for a developer audience, and you'll be a participant in that process — not someone who throws products over the fence and expects others to figure out how to talk about them
- Represent Developer Experience to the business. This is a highly visible role. You'll present roadmaps and strategies to executive leadership, engage with key customers, and serve as the organizational voice for why developer experience matters to MongoDB's long-term success
What We're Looking For
- 12+ years of product management or engineering experience, including meaningful time managing product teams and managers
- A strong track record of taking complex, technically sophisticated products from 0 to shipped — and the coaching instincts to help others do the same
- Deep technical credibility: you can engage confidently on topics like client libraries, network protocols, distributed systems, and developer tooling — because you've built software yourself at some point in your career
- Real-world experience building products for developers — you've felt the pain firsthand and you know what moves the needle
- A growth mindset when it comes to business impact: you understand how developer tools connect to activation, retention, and platform success even when revenue isn't the direct output
- Genuine enthusiasm for AI — you understand how developers are building both with AI and building AI applications today and you're excited to help MongoDB be the platform they reach for when they do
- Experience working with product analytics to define metrics, interpret data, and use it to inform strategy and prioritization
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills — you're as effective in an executive review as you are in a working session with an engineering team
- Experience at a company of meaningful scale, with an understanding of how to navigate process and organizational complexity in service of getting great products built
- Familiarity with developer-focused go-to-market, including messaging, positioning, and what it means to market to a technical audience
Success Measures
Within 30 days:
- Develop a deep understanding of the Developer Experience portfolio, including the current state of drivers, client libraries, and frameworks
- Build strong working relationships with your engineering, design, and product marketing counterparts
- Get to know your team: understand their strengths, development goals, and where they need support
Within 60 days:
- Evolve the existing vision and strategy for the Developer Experience portfolio
- Further establish a metrics framework that connects developer tooling outcomes to broader business goals
- Actively participate in hiring, performance conversations, and team development activities
Within 90 days:
- Ship meaningful improvements across the portfolio that demonstrably improve developer activation and satisfaction
- Complete a roadmap aligned with the initiative to simplify MongoDB's driver and connectivity stack
- Be recognized as a cross-functional leader who engineering, design, and marketing partners trust and want to work with
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 database for the AI era, enabling innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified database platform—the most widely available, globally distributed database 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 database and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
With offices worldwide and nearly 60,000 customers—including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups—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!
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MongoDB is an equal opportunities employer.
Req ID: 1273372186