Certification Manager

Details

ClickHouse is expanding its certification program as more users adopt its platform for real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI workloads. The role will take ownership of the certification program, expand certification exam offerings, and build a community around ClickHouse-certified professionals.

Responsibilities

• Develop performance-based, hands-on ClickHouse certification exams covering use cases such as real-time analytics, observability, and data warehousing.
• Work with company subject matter experts to create job task analyses for exams.
• Grade and maintain all certification exams, including writing grading scripts.
• Develop quizzes for course-completion badges and ClickHouse credentials.
• Establish a community presence for ClickHouse-certified professionals through social media, user conferences, and meetups.
• Track and report certification-program metrics and KPIs.
• Work with certification and badging vendors to ensure proper delivery of exams and badges.
• Provide customer support to learners interested in obtaining ClickHouse certifications.
• Travel occasionally to meetups and conferences to promote ClickHouse to the community.

Requirements

• Self-motivated attitude with the desire and determination to complete projects in a fast-paced startup environment.
• Proven experience developing certification exams and quizzes for highly technical audiences, such as software engineers and database developers.
• Experience with SQL.
• Technical breadth and depth in areas such as DBMS, OLAP, cloud and SaaS platforms, distributed systems, software engineering, and big data.
• High level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability.
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly and effectively.
• Excellent communication skills.

Bonus Points

• Five or more years of experience in certification in the technical software industry.
• Experience with curriculum development or instruction for databases and/or distributed systems.
• Experience with the ClickHouse database.
• Experience with one or more cloud service providers, such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience building software certification exams.
• Ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, support, product, and development teams.
• Technical degree, such as Computer Science or a related field.

Role Fit

This role involves customer-facing collaboration with Engineering, Marketing, and Sales teams. ClickHouse is seeking someone who is self-driven, curious, eager to learn, and motivated by teamwork, global engagement, empathy, and solving challenging problems.

Compensation

The typical starting salary for this role in the United States is $169,000–$191,000 USD per year. In US premium markets, such as the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City Metro Area, the typical starting salary is $188,000–$212,000 USD per year. Actual compensation depends on factors including education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, location, performance, and business needs.

Benefits

• Flexible, remote-friendly work environment.
• Employer contributions toward healthcare.
• Company stock options for new team members.
• Flexible time off in the United States and generous entitlement in other countries.
• $500 home-office setup allowance for remote employees.
• Opportunities to participate in company-wide global gatherings and offsites.

Equal Opportunity

ClickHouse provides equal employment opportunities and prohibits discrimination and harassment based on protected characteristics under applicable law.