Cockroach Labs
Staff Product Marketing Manager, Developer Experience
$158K–$209K
New York, NY +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 26, 2026
- Location
- New York, NY
New York, NY, United States - Experience
- 8+ years in product marketing; senior candidates with exceptional depth considered.
About the job
Owns product marketing for CockroachDB’s Onboard & Build customer journey, shaping how developers and their agents discover, adopt, and build on the product.
What you'll do
- Develop positioning, messaging, and a coherent narrative across four developer journeys.
- Lead launch messaging, content, field enablement, and go-to-market readiness for related launches.
- Partner with product, engineering, DevRel, and other teams on technical storytelling, proof, and roadmap feedback.
What they ask for
- 8+ years in product marketing, with experience owning positioning, messaging, and launches for technical products.
- Technical fluency in distributed systems, databases, and software development.
- Understanding of AI-native developer workflows, including LLMs, agents, RAG, vector search, agent memory, and MCP.
- Strong technical storytelling and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Nice to have
- Experience with databases, developer tools, data infrastructure, or cloud platforms.
Pay
$158,000 — $208,900 USD (base salary)
Tools
CockroachDB, RAG, vector search, MCP, SQL Server, Dynamic SQL, AI Migration Assistant, MOLT
AI focus
Own the AI-native adoption story, including agent-driven discovery, agents as a first-class audience, and positioning CockroachDB for developers building with LLMs and agents.
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