Director of Product Management - Data Streaming

Strategic Leadership & Vision

Define and drive product strategy for the Data Streaming layer of our platform with a clear thesis on how and where we should invest to drive our “expert product for experts” to be easier to deploy, easier to manage, easier to configure, etc.

Work with customers, our sales team, along with partners & alliances team to identify key integration opportunities to invest in as part of how the Data Streaming product fits within broader solutions that our customers are attempting to build.

Own the product scope and sequencing for the next-generation Core Broker — evolving toward cloud-native, multi-tenancy, and Agent Experience (AX) — while holding near-term LTS and expansion commitments in parallel.

Champion AX (Agent Experience) as a first-class design target alongside UX and DX: on-demand broker provisioning via API, OpenAPI specs across every capability, and the “ceremony elimination” heuristic — does this require the user or agent to reason about infrastructure, or does it just work?

Think cross-functionally and ahead: understand how Streaming connects to PLG, SLG, Expansion, and Partner motions, and make deliberate choices about where and how HiveMQ competes in the lower-end of the market.

Establish clear, inspiring vision for your teams derived from company strategy, helping prioritize and reprioritize for organizational success.

Business Impact & Accountability

Drive measurable business outcomes across adoption, usage, revenue, and customer satisfaction metrics for the Data Streaming portfolio.

Own the data story: work with product data analysts to instrument products effectively, measure impact, and report progress toward business objectives.

Communicate value effectively through data-backed storytelling to executives, customers, and cross-functional stakeholders.

Identify and address organizational bottlenecks, proposing process improvements as business scale demands.

Make hard calls: determine when products or features should be terminated if they don’t deliver desired outcomes.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Partner deeply with engineering leadership (Team Leads, Directors) to ensure technical feasibility and delivery excellence.

Collaborate with GTM organizations including Sales, Customer Success/Support, Alliances, and Product Marketing at director and VP levels.

Manage strategic customer relationships and handle escalations with appropriate oversight.

Build consensus across departments on complex, cross-functional initiatives.

Develop and present roadmaps and proposals to senior leadership, occasionally engaging with C-suite executives.

Customer-Centricity

Maintain intimate customer knowledge through ongoing strategic customer relationships.

Advocate for customer needs by framing capabilities in terms of customer outcomes and business priorities.

Validate product-market fit through continuous discovery and customer feedback loops.

Drive customer intimacy beyond strategic accounts to understand broader market needs.