MongoDB appoints Pablo Stern as Chief Product Officer

MongoDB (MDB) 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 CEO. 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 $100M to more than $1B in five years and launched multiple product lines that contributed hundreds of millions to ServiceNow’s revenue. 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 $2.46B 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 CTO 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.