Senior Product Manager

Are you passionate about crafting scalable, high-performing data systems in a cloud-native environment? Do you thrive at the intersection of product strategy, engineering, and infrastructure, balancing technical challenges with business impact? Are you ready to lead the evolution of a data platform that powers an industry-leading solution for investment management? If so, we invite you to be a part of our innovative team.

As a Data Persistence Platform Product Manager, you will own the strategy, vision, and execution of Ridgeline’s data persistence and database initiatives. Your work will enhance the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of a platform critical to our cloud-native back-to-front-office solution for investment managers. You’ll collaborate across engineering, product teams, and leadership to drive innovation in our data infrastructure, enabling seamless experiences for both internal teams and external customers. In this role, you’ll use cutting-edge technologies and tools—including AI tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot—to create solutions that redefine how investment managers interact with their data.

What will you do?

• Develop and maintain the vision and roadmap for Ridgeline’s Data Persistence platform, ensuring alignment with broader company goals and industry regulations.
• Partner with engineering teams to prioritize features and enhancements that optimize the performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency of our data infrastructure.
• Oversee the management and optimization of PostgreSQL databases, ensuring effective capacity planning, disaster recovery, regionalization, read replica strategies, and scaling.
• Collaborate with teams to manage Kafka infrastructure, maintaining robust, low-latency messaging pipelines and real-time data streams.
• Drive initiatives to enhance observability and reliability by implementing monitoring best practices, improving incident response, and leveraging tools like Datadog.
• Refine and establish CI/CD workflows, particularly for Infrastructure as Code (IaC), to ensure seamless deployments with minimal downtime.
• Analyze and optimize database usage patterns, query performance, and infrastructure metrics to improve efficiency and reduce costs.
• Coordinate with finance and leadership to ensure budgets and resource allocations align with product and company objectives.
• Serve as the primary liaison between engineering, operations, and executive stakeholders, capturing technical requirements and translating them into actionable backlogs.
• Effectively communicate updates, timelines, and risks to internal teams and leadership.

Desired Skills and Experience

• Strong knowledge of SQL and PostgreSQL, including schema design, query optimization, and managing read replicas.
• Hands-on experience administering PostgreSQL in high-scale environments.
• Familiarity with Kafka for real-time data streaming and managing clusters.
• Proficiency with AWS infrastructure and services such as EC2, S3, RDS, and EKS.
• Experience with observability tools such as Datadog for monitoring and alerting.
• Expertise in CI/CD workflows and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like GitHub Actions and Terraform.
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals, including VPCs, subnets, and security groups.

• Successfully scaling PostgreSQL or similar databases to support high availability and large-scale data workloads.
• Proficient in query optimization and performance tuning for high-throughput systems.
• Platform product management experience balancing technical constraints, product needs, scalability, and cost objectives.
• Proven ability to manage stakeholders and prioritize initiatives to align with company goals.
• Familiarity with disaster recovery strategies, including automated failover, backups, and Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR).

Bonus

• Experience with alternative database technologies or advanced query engines.
• Knowledge of global operations and compliance considerations in data infrastructure.
• Familiarity with leveraging AI tools for database optimization or pipeline management.

About Ridgeline

Ridgeline is the industry cloud platform for investment management. It was founded by visionary tech entrepreneur Dave Duffield (co-founder of both PeopleSoft and Workday) to apply his successful formula of solving operational business challenges with bold innovation and human connectivity to the unique needs of the investment management industry. 

Ridgeline started with a clean sheet of paper and a deep bench of experts bound by a set of core values and motivated to revolutionize an industry underserved by its current tech offerings. We are building a new, modern platform in the public cloud, purpose-built for the investment management industry and we are prioritizing security, agility, and usability to empower business like never before.

With a growing campus in Reno and offices in New York, Lake Tahoe, and the Bay Area, Ridgeline is proud to have built a fast-growing, people-first company that has been recognized by Fast Company as a “Best Workplace for Innovators,” by The Software Report as a “Top 100 Software Company,” and by Forbes as one of “America’s Best Startup Employers.”

Ridgeline is proud to be a community-minded, discrimination-free equal opportunity workplace.

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Compensation and Benefits 

The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is $135,000-$158,000. Final compensation amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amount listed above. 

As an employee at Ridgeline, you’ll have many opportunities for advancement in your career and can make a true impact on the product. 

In addition to the base salary, 100% of Ridgeline employees can participate in our Company Stock Plan subject to the applicable Stock Option Agreement. We also offer rich benefits that reflect the kind of organization we want to be: one in which our employees feel valued and are inspired to bring their best selves to work. These include unlimited vacation, educational and wellness reimbursements, and $0 cost employee insurance plans. Please check out our Careers page for a more comprehensive overview of our perks and benefits.

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