Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Starburst is a company that delivers enterprise intelligence at scale by providing organizations with secure access to their data. They are seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead their federation strategy, focusing on delivering product functionality for querying data across systems and driving the federation vision through execution.
Responsibilities
- Identify and make the case for the next set of workloads, human-driven or agent-led, where federating across sources beats consolidating them, especially as agent reasoning outruns what any single lake can hold
- Define what agents actually need from data infrastructure beyond access: a way to signal partial visibility instead of returning a confident, complete-sounding answer built on whatever it could see
- Define how Starburst's federation layer interoperates with the catalog implementations customers actually run, Polaris, Glue, Unity Catalog, Snowflake Open Catalog, and others, rather than betting on a single one
Skills
- 6+ years as a Product Manager, with real ownership of a technical infrastructure or data platform product
- Real exposure to federated query or data virtualization. You understand why 'query everything without moving it' solves a core data engineering problem and isn't just a marketing line
- A clear point of view on why precomputation and materialized views break under agentic workloads, and what a data platform needs to do instead when queries are generated mid-reasoning rather than scheduled
- Experience managing lakehouse product offerings and their ecosystems
- Ability to Travel: This role will require 25% in-person travel for purposes including but not limited to new hire onboarding, team and department offsites, customer engagements, and other company events. Actual travel expectations may vary by role and business needs
- Experience with query engines (Trino) that federate across heterogeneous sources, and how table format and catalog design affect performance and reliability
Benefits
- Flexible paid time off
- Attractive stock grants
- Competitive pay
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