Certification Manager

Details

The Learning Team at ClickHouse is expanding its certification program as more users adopt ClickHouse. The role will own 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 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 subjects such as database management systems, OLAP, cloud/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 certification experience 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.

Preferred Attributes

• Comfortable in a customer-facing role collaborating closely with Engineering, Marketing, and Sales teams.
• Self-driven, curious, and eager to continuously learn and grow.
• Team-oriented, globally engaged, empathetic, and motivated to solve challenging problems.
• Excited to help build scalable, high-performance databases.

Benefits

• Flexible work environment at a globally distributed, remote-friendly company operating in more than 25 countries.
• Employer contributions toward healthcare.
• Stock options for every new team member.
• Flexible time off in the United States and generous entitlement in other countries.
• USD 500 home office setup allowance for remote employees.
• Opportunities to participate in company-wide global gatherings.

Equal Opportunity

ClickHouse provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants and prohibits discrimination and harassment based on legally protected characteristics.