Senior Product Manager, Developer Experience

About the role

We're looking for a Product Manager to join our Platform team. This role will empower developers and operators to automate their operations by evolving Confluent's API platform and making it AI-ready. You'll own and drive the vision and strategy for the API platform, ensuring it simplifies the experience for developers, operators, and data scientists across all Confluent products.

What You Will Do

• Understand our users: Collect feedback, conduct interviews, and analyze data to define user journeys and key jobs to be done for developers, operators, and data scientists.
• Drive the API Platform Strategy & Roadmap to simplify the experience for developers, operators, and data scientists across all Confluent products with AI.
• Define and prioritize key initiatives by linking them to measurable business outcomes (ROI) and validated customer demand.
• Govern the API/CLI/TF interfaces across all Confluent products to offer consistent experiences while empowering product teams to move fast.
• Execute on key initiatives across multiple teams through initial delivery and by driving adoption after launch.
• Close the loop: Define quantitative and qualitative targets, measure performance against them, share results with stakeholders, and incorporate those learnings back into the strategy & product.

What You Will Bring

• 5+ years of experience as a product owner or product manager working on developer-focused products.
• A highly technical and deep understanding of how developers or tools interact with API/CLI/TF interfaces.
• Empathy and passion for solving customer problems and addressing end user needs.
• Experience in making an infrastructure product AI-ready.
• Experience building and supporting enterprise-grade products as an engineer, product manager, or solutions architect.
• Experience building, writing, maintaining, and defending a clear product roadmap and backlog backed by user stories and customer research.
• Exceptional written and presentation skills.

Qualifications

• Ready to build what's next?
• Believe in belonging and diversity.
• Strong background in product management and development.
• Experience with API/CLI/TF interfaces.
• Proven track record of delivering successful product strategies and roadmaps.
• Ability to work across time zones and backgrounds.