Senior Product Manager, Kafka Connect

About the role

We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead the development of Confluent Connect’s Enterprise feature portfolio. This role involves enabling seamless, enterprise-grade integration between Kafka and common external systems, supporting on-premise deployments and managed services in Confluent Cloud, and using or introducing AI/ML capabilities for the features being built or enhanced.

Responsibilities

• Drive the success of a major product initiative, from initial conception and customer development to growth strategy.
• Work closely with the field on GTM initiatives and serve as the focal point for customer success.
• Collaborate with engineering, design, sales, and marketing teams to craft a product strategy and roadmap.
• Ensure that the engineering, design, sales, and marketing teams have what they need to make the right trade-offs, build the right product, and grow it successfully in the market.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a software product manager, ideally for an Enterprise technical product.
• Empathy for our enterprise customers, and a passion for solving their problems with the software, sometimes being hands-on.
• Ability to craft a product strategy and roadmap in concert with customers, engineering, design, and go-to-market teams.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to distill technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
• Strong technical competency, especially with distributed data systems, public and private clouds, and stream processing.
• Experience with a modern integration platform is a plus.
• Experience with Enterprise software features like security, networking, observability is a plus.
• MBA is a strong plus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's, Master’s, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related technical field.

Skills

• Experience with AI/ML capabilities for product development.
• Experience with enterprise software features like security, networking, observability.

Benefits

Confluent is committed to providing benefits that support the health, financial stability, and well-being of our employees. These benefits may include:

• Health insurance
• Retirement savings plans
• Flexible spending accounts
• Employee assistance programs
• Parental leave
• Family and medical leave
• Commuter benefits
• Wellness programs

Pay

$193.2K - $227K

Schedule

Full-time