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# Director, Product Management (Remote) at Imply

- **Company:** Imply
- **Location:** Burlingame California, United States
- **Posted:** 2026-03-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-04
- **Apply:** https://imply.io/positions?gh_jid=7590615003

## Job description

At Imply, our mission is to empower people and organizations to achieve more with their data.  We believe that better insights lead to better decisions, and that the right technology can remove barriers, spark innovation and create lasting impact. Building on the success of our database business, we have created the industry’s first observability warehouse, Imply Lumi. Built by the creators of Apache Druid, Lumi lets organizations store more data, support more use cases and spend less for observability. Imply Lumi is a high-performance, cost-efficient data layer built to decouple existing observability tools with zero disruption.

In this role, you will help redefine what is possible with observability and security data. As the leader of our Product Team you will play a critical role in bringing  Imply Lumi to life.  Lumi delivers lightning fast queries, significant cost savings and seamless integration with leading observability technologies while giving customers the freedom to innovate without vendor lock-in. You will partner directly with our teams who are innovating and building this first-in-class technology that allows our customers to unlock new levels of speed, scale and value from their data.

Backed by leading investors including a16z and Bessemer Venture Partners, Imply is on a fast growth trajectory, transforming how organizations manage and gain insights from their observability and security data. Our customers, including  Pepsi, Reddit, Roblox, Salesforce, and others, rely on our technology to power faster decisions, reduce costs, and unlock new possibilities. Come join a team of innovators and problem-solvers who are reshaping the future of data!

## The Role

We are hiring a Director of Product Management to lead our team of product managers, shaping the direction and vision of Imply Lumi. This role will own strategy and execution: defining how customers ingest, store, query, and act on massive volumes of machine data in the most performant, scalable, and cost-effective way possible.

You'll work directly with our co-founders and CPO to set product direction, and partner closely with engineering, design, and go-to-market teams to define and execute the Lumi roadmap. This is a hands-on role, and you should expect to go deep on customer problems, write specs, and drive delivery alongside your team, not just manage up or coordinate.

As a people leader, you'll manage and grow a team of 3 product managers, setting clear direction, coaching for growth, and creating the conditions for them to do their best work. We care as much about the success and development of the people on this team as we do about shipping great product.

We are looking for someone who combines deep technical curiosity, strong execution skills, and a collaborative mindset. At Imply, we believe diverse backgrounds lead to stronger teams, and we welcome product managers who have taken varied paths to get here.

## Responsibilities

- Define and evolve the roadmap and own the success of Imply Lumi
- Meet regularly with customers and prospects to understand their needs
- Work alongside founders and our CPO to align on product vision and roadmap
- Drive the launch of new products, capabilities, and features
- Work across multiple teams to deliver large complex features
- Become the face of your product area both for internal and external stakeholders

## Requirements

- 10+ years of product management experience in B2B software, with a focus on infrastructure, observability, security, or data platforms
- Experience working with complex distributed systems or backend services for data ingestion, storage, and access
- Strong technical fluency—you can navigate architecture discussions with engineers and evaluate trade-offs in scalability, latency, and cost
- Proven track record of taking technically complex features to market, with high customer impact and adoption
- Clear and concise communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences
- Passion for customer problems, curiosity to dig deep into use cases, and a bias for action
- Experience as a people manager of product managers
- Project management and excellent communication skills; ability to present at the CxO level
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or similar; MBA is a plus

Bonus Points

- Experience working on observability or SIEM platforms such as Splunk, Datadog, New Relic
- Familiarity with open-source technologies such as OpenTelemetry, Fluent Bit, OCSF
- Exposure to Apache Druid, Kafka, or other modern data infrastructure stacks
- Background in data engineering or database management

What We Offer:

- Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits (employee premiums 100% paid by Imply)
- Fertility Coverage - Integrated with our medical insurance
- Dependent Care FSA
- Mental Health Support via Betterhelp
- Life and AD&D Insurance
- 401(k) Program
- Unlimited Paid Time Off - USA Only
- Wellness Stipend
- Home Office Equipment Reimbursement
- Pre-Tax Commuter Benefits
- Pet Insurance

Individual compensation will be determined based on the candidate's experience and qualifications aligned with Imply’s internal levelings guidelines and benchmarks. The below range encompasses roles with on target earnings. This role is also eligible to participate in Imply’s equity plan subject to the terms of the applicable plans and policies.

Compensation:  $230,000 - $295,000

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that certain minority groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every qualification. At Imply, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or for other roles in the future.

Imply is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, race, religion, pregnancy, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

Please note, applications and candidate submissions are subject to our privacy policy and, for California residents, the CCPA terms available at https://imply.io/privacy.

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## About Imply

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Imply provides a commercial, full-stack platform built on the open-source Apache Druid real-time database to decouple observability stacks and power fast, cost-efficient analytics.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Venture-backed, Series D, $215.3M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Fangjin Yang, Gian Merlino, Vadim Ogievetsky

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Data & Analytics / Observability / Real-time Analytics
- **Target customers**: B2B; enterprises with large-scale observability, security, and business intelligence data needs (SMB to Enterprise)
- **Mission or purpose**: To make it faster, cheaper, and more open to store, query, and analyze observability data – enabling AI/BI use cases without disrupting existing workflows.

## Products & Services
- **Imply Polaris**: A fully managed, cloud-native platform for Apache Druid that enables petabyte-scale streaming analytics, sub-second queries, and AI/BI integration (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, Tableau, Power BI). Offers zero workflow changes when migrating from existing tools.
- **Imply Lumi (Loglake)**: A new product that allows enterprises to search unstructured logs directly in object storage, decoupling storage from compute and reducing costs.
- **Imply Self-Managed**: Commercial software and support for running Apache Druid on-premises or in customer-managed cloud environments.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company, last Series D in April 2022 at $100M)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $215.3M; annual revenue estimated at $8.7M (LinkedIn data, may be outdated)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Thoma Bravo (lead Series D), Bessemer Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Tiger Global Management, OMERS Growth Equity, Geodesic Capital, Khosla Ventures (seed)
- **Growth Signals**: 127 employees (LinkedIn) or 170 employees (PitchBook); headcount grew +0.6% YoY; 8 active job postings; LinkedIn followers up 16.7% yearly; recent product launch (Lumi Loglake); patents for query-time data sessionization.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Open-source moat**: Core technology is Apache Druid, a widely adopted real-time analytics database with a strong community. Imply is the primary commercial steward.
- **Zero workflow disruption**: Customers can keep existing dashboards, agents, and queries without migration effort – a strong differentiator for switching.
- **Cost efficiency**: Claims 70%+ cost reduction and 10x faster queries compared to traditional observability stacks.
- **AI/BI readiness**: Built-in integrations with LLMs (Claude, ChatGPT) and BI tools (Tableau, Power BI) for conversational access and model training.

## Strategic Focus
- **Decoupling observability stacks**: Encouraging customers to break free from monolithic, expensive platforms (e.g., Splunk) by using a decoupled, open architecture.
- **AI and BI expansion**: Leveraging stored observational data for AI model training, data science, and business intelligence – not just dashboards.
- **Product portfolio growth**: Launching Lumi (Loglake) to address unstructured log search, expanding beyond structured analytics.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Backed by top-tier VCs (Thoma Bravo, a16z, Bessemer) with a strong open-source ethos. Rated 3.6/5.0 on employer review sites (102 reviews) – work-life balance (3.7), compensation (3.8), culture (3.4), career (3.5).
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: All current open positions (8) are listed as Remote; the company has offices in San Francisco (HQ) and Burlingame, CA, but embraces remote work.
- **Notable perks**: Opportunity to work on cutting-edge real-time analytics and open-source technologies (Apache Druid). Engineering team is 35% of org. Notable alumni from Splunk, AWS, Cloudera, Confluent.
- **Recent departures**: Senior Director of Engineering and Senior VP of Engineering left in Jan 2026 – may indicate leadership changes.

## Sources
1. [Imply Homepage](https://imply.io/)
2. [Imply About Page](https://imply.io/about-imply/)
3. [Imply Careers Page](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/imply)
4. [Imply LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/imply)
5. [PitchBook Company Profile](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/126130-87)

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