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Recognized on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 list, ClickHouse is one of the most innovative and fast-growing private cloud companies. With more than 3,000 customers and ARR that has grown over 250 percent year over year, ClickHouse leads the market in real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI workloads. The company’s sustained, accelerating momentum was recently validated by a $400M Series D financing round. Over the past three months, customers including Capital One, Lovable, Decagon, Polymarket, and Airwallex have adopted the platform or expanded existing deployments. These customers join an established base of AI innovators and global brands such as Meta, Cursor, Sony, and Tesla. We’re on a mission to transform how companies use data. Come be a part of our journey!
NOTE: this position can be remote anywhere within the United States.
We're looking for a Senior Product Operations Manager to bring structure, tooling, and operational clarity to ClickHouse's Product Management organization. This is a greenfield role — you'll be the first person dedicated to product ops — which means you'll have the opportunity to build workflows and systems from scratch rather than maintain someone else's. This role sits within the Product Management organization. You'll work day-to-day alongside PMs and Engineering to reduce operational overhead, establish meaningful metrics, and make sure the right information reaches the right people at the right time. You're someone who gets energy from making systems work — whether that's building automations, leveraging AI to eliminate repetitive work, or designing reporting cadences that people actually look forward to.
Tooling & Automation:
- Own and continuously improve the PM tooling stack: Linear for issue and roadmap tracking, GitHub for engineering alignment, and Notion as the team's knowledge and documentation hub.
- Build lightweight automations and integrations across Linear, GitHub, and Notion — syncing issue states, triggering notifications, and surfacing relevant signals and dependencies, and auto-generate roadmaps.
- Identify opportunities to apply AI tools to product operations workflows — from drafting status updates to accelerating research synthesis and reducing repetitive coordination overhead.
- Evaluate and pilot new tools or integrations as the product org grows, with a bias toward practical solutions that reduce friction.
Strategy Translation & Initiative Structuring:
- Translate company priorities into structured Linear projects with defined scope, owners, milestones, and success criteria.
- Partner with PM and engineering leads to map priorities to team capacity, surface conflicts early, and ensure cross-functional execution is coordinated rather than siloed.
- Maintain a single source of truth in Linear and Notion with self-serve dashboards giving stakeholders real-time visibility into execution vs. goals.
- Establish repeatable processes for how new initiatives get ingested, decomposed, and divided into clearly owned workstreams across the full product lifecycle: new product introductions, major feature updates, iterative improvements, and deprecations.
- Own a launch readiness process and checklist that coordinates pre-launch responsibilities across Legal, Sales Enablement, Support Enablement, Marketing, and other stakeholders — ensuring nothing falls through the cracks when shipping.
What We're Looking For
- 3–5 years of experience in product operations, technical program management, or a closely related operational role at a relevant SaaS company. Start-up experience preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to take high-level company goals or strategic priorities and decompose them into structured, actionable projects that cross-functional teams can execute against.
- Hands-on proficiency with Linear, GitHub, and Notion — you understand how these tools work individually and how to make them work together.
- Experience building automations or integrations (using no-code tools, webhooks, or scripting) to solve real operational problems without engineering support.
- Comfortable working with metrics and data: you can define what to measure, set up tracking, and communicate findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong written communication skills — you produce documentation and status updates that are clear, concise, and actually get read.
- Organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams across Product and Engineering simultaneously.
- Collaborative by default — you're energized by making others more effective and thrive in a role where your impact shows up in the work of those around you.
The typical starting salary for this role in the US is $128,500 - $183,000 USD. The typical starting salary for this role in US Premium Markets is $140,000 - $203,000 USD.
Compensation
For roles based in the United States, the typical starting salary range for this position is listed above. In certain locations, such as the San Francisco Bay Area and the New York City Metro Area, a premium market range may apply, as listed. These salary ranges reflect what we reasonably and in good faith believe to be the minimum and maximum pay for this role at the time of posting. The actual compensation may be higher or lower than the amounts listed, and the ranges may be subject to future adjustments. An individual’s placement within the range will depend on various factors, including (but not limited to) education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, location, performance, and the needs of the business or organization. If you have any questions or comments about compensation as a candidate, please get in touch with us at paytransparency@clickhouse.com.
Perks
- Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in 20 countries.
- Healthcare - Employer contributions towards your healthcare.
- Equity in the company - Every new team member who joins our company receives stock options.
- Time off - Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries.
- A $500 Home office setup if you’re a remote employee.
- Global Gatherings – We believe in the power of in-person connection and offer opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites.
Culture - We All Shape It
As part of our first 500 employees, you will be instrumental in shaping our culture. Are you interested in finding out more about our culture? Learn more about our values here. Check out our blog posts or follow us on LinkedIn to find out more about what’s happening at ClickHouse.
Equal Opportunity & Privacy
ClickHouse provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type based on factors such as 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. Please see here for our Privacy Statement.
About ClickHouse
Recognized on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 list, ClickHouse is one of the most innovative and fast-growing private cloud companies. With more than 3,000 customers and ARR that has grown over 250 percent year over year, ClickHouse leads the market in real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI workloads. The company’s sustained, accelerating momentum was recently validated by a $400M Series D financing round. Over the past three months, customers including Capital One, Lovable, Decagon, Polymarket, and Airwallex have adopted the platform or expanded existing deployments. These customers join an established base of AI innovators and global brands such as Meta, Cursor, Sony, and Tesla. We’re on a mission to transform how companies use data. Come be a part of our journey!
NOTE: this position can be remote anywhere within the United States.
We're looking for a Senior Product Operations Manager to bring structure, tooling, and operational clarity to ClickHouse's Product Management organization. This is a greenfield role — you'll be the first person dedicated to product ops — which means you'll have the opportunity to build workflows and systems from scratch rather than maintain someone else's. This role sits within the Product Management organization. You'll work day-to-day alongside PMs and Engineering to reduce operational overhead, establish meaningful metrics, and make sure the right information reaches the right people at the right time. You're someone who gets energy from making systems work — whether that's building automations, leveraging AI to eliminate repetitive work, or designing reporting cadences that people actually look forward to.
Tooling & Automation:
- Own and continuously improve the PM tooling stack: Linear for issue and roadmap tracking, GitHub for engineering alignment, and Notion as the team's knowledge and documentation hub.
- Build lightweight automations and integrations across Linear, GitHub, and Notion — syncing issue states, triggering notifications, and surfacing relevant signals and dependencies, and auto-generate roadmaps.
- Identify opportunities to apply AI tools to product operations workflows — from drafting status updates to accelerating research synthesis and reducing repetitive coordination overhead.
- Evaluate and pilot new tools or integrations as the product org grows, with a bias toward practical solutions that reduce friction.
Strategy Translation & Initiative Structuring:
- Translate company priorities into structured Linear projects with defined scope, owners, milestones, and success criteria.
- Partner with PM and engineering leads to map priorities to team capacity, surface conflicts early, and ensure cross-functional execution is coordinated rather than siloed.
- Maintain a single source of truth in Linear and Notion with self-serve dashboards giving stakeholders real-time visibility into execution vs. goals.
- Establish repeatable processes for how new initiatives get ingested, decomposed, and divided into clearly owned workstreams across the full product lifecycle: new product introductions, major feature updates, iterative improvements, and deprecations.
- Own a launch readiness process and checklist that coordinates pre-launch responsibilities across Legal, Sales Enablement, Support Enablement, Marketing, and other stakeholders — ensuring nothing falls through the cracks when shipping.
What We're Looking For
- 3–5 years of experience in product operations, technical program management, or a closely related operational role at a relevant SaaS company. Start-up experience preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to take high-level company goals or strategic priorities and decompose them into structured, actionable projects that cross-functional teams can execute against.
- Hands-on proficiency with Linear, GitHub, and Notion — you understand how these tools work individually and how to make them work together.
- Experience building automations or integrations (using no-code tools, webhooks, or scripting) to solve real operational problems without engineering support.
- Comfortable working with metrics and data: you can define what to measure, set up tracking, and communicate findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong written communication skills — you produce documentation and status updates that are clear, concise, and actually get read.
- Organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams across Product and Engineering simultaneously.
- Collaborative by default — you're energized by making others more effective and thrive in a role where your impact shows up in the work of those around you.
The typical starting salary for this role in the US is $128,500 - $183,000 USD. The typical starting salary for this role in US Premium Markets is $140,000 - $203,000 USD.
Compensation
For roles based in the United States, the typical starting salary range for this position is listed above. In certain locations, such as the San Francisco Bay Area and the New York City Metro Area, a premium market range may apply, as listed. These salary ranges reflect what we reasonably and in good faith believe to be the minimum and maximum pay for this role at the time of posting. The actual compensation may be higher or lower than the amounts listed, and the ranges may be subject to future adjustments. An individual’s placement within the range will depend on various factors, including (but not limited to) education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, location, performance, and the needs of the business or organization. If you have any questions or comments about compensation as a candidate, please get in touch with us at paytransparency@clickhouse.com.
Perks
- Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in 20 countries.
- Healthcare - Employer contributions towards your healthcare.
- Equity in the company - Every new team member who joins our company receives stock options.
- Time off - Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries.
- A $500 Home office setup if you’re a remote employee.
- Global Gatherings – We believe in the power of in-person connection and offer opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites.
Culture - We All Shape It
As part of our first 500 employees, you will be instrumental in shaping our culture. Are you interested in finding out more about our culture? Learn more about our values here. Check out our blog posts or follow us on LinkedIn to find out more about what’s happening at ClickHouse.
Equal Opportunity & Privacy
ClickHouse provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type based on factors such as 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. Please see here for our Privacy Statement.
How to Get Visa Sponsorship as a Product Operations Manager
Clarify whether your role qualifies for STEM OPT extension
Product operations roles often qualify for the 24-month STEM extension if your degree is in information systems, computer science, or engineering. Confirm the CIP code alignment with your DSO before accepting an offer to avoid surprises.
Lead with cross-functional impact in your resume
Hiring managers for product operations want evidence you can align engineering, product, and go-to-market teams. Quantify process improvements, tool rollouts, or efficiency gains rather than listing responsibilities. Numbers make sponsorship conversations easier to justify internally.
Address your work authorization timeline proactively
Bring up OPT early in the process, not at the offer stage. Framing it as a structured 12-month window with a clear STEM extension path gives hiring managers a concrete sponsorship roadmap and reduces uncertainty that causes rejections.
Focus on mid-size tech and SaaS companies
Startups often lack the legal infrastructure to sponsor visas, and large enterprises move slowly. Mid-size technology and SaaS companies typically have established immigration counsel and enough operational complexity to justify a dedicated product operations hire.
Build fluency in tools that signal seniority
Jira, Looker, Salesforce, and SQL are recurring requirements in product operations job descriptions. Demonstrating hands-on proficiency in these tools positions you as immediately productive, which makes the sponsorship investment easier for employers to approve.
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Does a Product Operations Manager role qualify for the STEM OPT extension?
It depends on your degree field, not the job title. If your bachelor's or master's is in a STEM-designated CIP code such as computer science, information systems, or industrial engineering, and the role uses that technical background, it likely qualifies. Confirm the specific CIP code with your DSO and get written confirmation from your employer that the job duties align before filing.
How do I explain OPT work authorization to a Product Operations Manager hiring manager?
Be direct and specific. Tell them you're authorized to work for 12 months on OPT, that you're likely eligible for a 24-month STEM extension if your degree qualifies, and that H-1B sponsorship would be the next step after that. Framing it as a three-year runway with a clear process reduces ambiguity and signals you've thought it through.
Where can I find Product Operations Manager jobs that are open to OPT candidates?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for F-1 OPT students and filters for employers willing to sponsor or extend work authorization. Rather than sorting through thousands of listings with no visibility into sponsorship history, Migrate Mate surfaces roles where the employer has a relevant track record, saving you time during your 60-day or active OPT window.
What degree backgrounds do employers typically expect for Product Operations Manager roles on OPT?
Most job descriptions require a bachelor's or master's in business administration, computer science, information systems, or industrial engineering. A technical undergraduate degree combined with a business-focused master's is a strong combination. Employers prioritize candidates who can speak both product and operational process, so a mixed quantitative and analytical background stands out.
Can I work as a Product Operations Manager on OPT without employer sponsorship right away?
Yes. OPT is an F-1 benefit authorized by USCIS through your school, so you can start working as soon as your EAD is valid and the job is directly related to your degree field. Sponsorship only becomes relevant when your OPT period ends and you need an H-1B or other visa to continue working legally in the United States.
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