Director of Product - Weaviate

About Weaviate

Weaviate is an AI startup with open source and creativity at its core. Our AI-native vector database uses machine learning to create meaningful insights from unstructured data in a completely new way. Named one of Forbes’ Top 50 AI startups, and with over a million monthly downloads, Weaviate is quickly growing in popularity with developers and enterprises alike.

Our team members work remotely across the globe with the flexibility to work from anywhere and at any time. Operating with a strong sense of ownership and collaboration, our teams prioritize results while empowering each individual to do their best work.

About this role

Weaviate has been successful in enterprise, and we're doubling down on that by growing our enterprise-facing teams. As Director of Product, you'll own product strategy and decision-making across the Weaviate Database, Weaviate Cloud, and our agent products. You'll spend a significant part of your week with customers, turning insights into an actionable engineering roadmap while working directly with our CTO on vision.

This is a player-coach role. You'll manage a small product team (one to three PMs over time) while continuing to own core product areas yourself.

Responsibilities

Translate Customer Reality into a Roadmap

• Run a continuous rhythm of customer conversations: discovery calls, renewals, and support signal.
• Turn enterprise requirements into clear specs engineering can build from.
• Maintain one prioritized roadmap that shows what's shipping, what got moved, and why.

Own Prioritization and Business Value

• Attach expected business impact to significant roadmap items.
• Assess incoming enterprise requests for criticality and pattern.
• Manage expectations across sales, leadership, and customers when priorities change.
• Define success metrics for major features and follow up post-launch.

Work Closely with Engineering

• Partner with tech leads on sequencing, feasibility, and dependencies.
• Make the cost of a change in direction explicit.
• Keep the balance between customer-driven work and reliability/platform work.

Set the Operating Standard for Product

• Establish operating cadence for planning and execution.
• Hire and develop PMs as the team grows while staying hands-on.
• Partner with GTM and marketing on product positioning.

Requirements

• 8+ years in product management, including recent hands-on IC work.
• Experience with enterprise customers: discovery, requirements gathering, and expectation management.
• Track record of quantifying business impact and defending prioritization decisions.
• Comfortable in a technically deep domain (databases, data infrastructure, distributed systems, developer tools).
• Experience running product process in Linear or a comparable tool.
• Strong written documentation skills.
• People management experience or clear readiness to lead 1-3 PMs.
• Working hours between GMT and ET, with flexibility for occasional early/late calls.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience at a developer tools or open source company.
• Familiarity with vector search, embeddings, RAG, or agent workflows.
• Background working with enterprise customers alongside a self-serve motion.
• Experience in a company where product owned both an open source project and a commercial cloud offering.

What We Offer

• 100% remote with flexible work hours.
• Competitive compensation including paid time off.
• Budget for conferences, co-working space, and home office equipment.
• Opportunity to work at the forefront of search, ML/AI, and cloud-native technologies.