MongoDB Expands Product Leadership to Accelerate Growth and Innovation

NEW YORK, April 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- MongoDB, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDB) today announced the expansion of its product leadership team with two executive appointments. Pablo Stern will join the company as Chief Product Officer, AI and Emerging Products, and Ben Cefalo, a longtime MongoDB product leader, has been named Chief Product Officer, Core Products. Jim Scharf continues in his role as Chief Technology Officer. Stern, Cefalo, and Scharf will report to CJ Desai, President and Chief Executive Officer.

"MongoDB's innovation agenda is aggressive," said Desai. "We are driving significant innovation across our core database products while simultaneously moving with velocity and faster iterations on our emerging products. Having a dedicated leader for each focus area will allow us to deliver what our customers need as they standardize both their core applications and AI workloads on MongoDB. With our new Chief Revenue Officer, Chief Customer Officer, and now this expanded product leadership team in place, I'm confident we have the right leaders to establish MongoDB as the generational data platform for the AI era."

Stern joins MongoDB as Chief Product Officer, AI and Emerging Products, with responsibility for the company's AI product portfolio, including Search, Vector Search, and Voyage, as well as future AI products and strategic initiatives with top AI-native and foundation model companies. Most recently, Stern served as EVP & GM of Technology Workflow Products at ServiceNow, where he scaled the IT Operations Management business from $100 million to more than $1 billion in five years and launched multiple product lines that contributed hundreds of millions to ServiceNow's revenue. He has also held leadership roles at Symantec and several technology startups. Stern is based in San Francisco, placing him at the center of the global AI ecosystem.

Cefalo has been appointed Chief Product Officer, Core Products, overseeing MongoDB's core product portfolio, including Atlas and Enterprise Advanced. He joined MongoDB in 2017 and most recently served as SVP, Head of Core Products and Atlas Foundational Services. MongoDB's database offerings have been the primary driver of the company's growth to $2.46 billion in FY26 revenue and more than 65,200 customers worldwide, and Cefalo will pursue an ambitious product roadmap to build on that foundation as large enterprises and fast-scaling digital natives continue to standardize on MongoDB.

Scharf will continue as Chief Technology Officer, overseeing MongoDB's engineering organization and Global Security Office. In this role, he will drive execution of the product strategy and roadmap across both core and emerging products, while ensuring the security, durability, availability, and performance the world's most demanding organizations depend on.

About MongoDB
Headquartered in New York, MongoDB's mission is to empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB's unified database platform was built to power the next generation of applications, and MongoDB is the most widely available, globally distributed database on the market. With integrated capabilities for operational data, search, real-time analytics, and AI-powered data retrieval, MongoDB helps organizations everywhere move faster, innovate more efficiently, and simplify complex architectures. Millions of developers and more than 65,200+ customers across industries – including ~75% of the Fortune 100 – rely on MongoDB for their most important applications. To learn more, visit mongodb.com.

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