Staff Product Manager
With Confluent, organisations can harness the full power of continuously flowing data to innovate and win in the modern digital world. We have a purpose that drives us to do better everyday – we're creating an entirely new category within data infrastructure - data streaming. This technology will allow every organisation to create experiences and use the power of data in ways that profoundly impact the way we all live. This impact is our purpose and drives us to do better every day.
One Confluent. One team. One Data Streaming Platform.
Data Connects Us.
About the Role:
As a Staff Product Manager in the Kafka Connect team at Confluent, you’ll contribute to the mission of building the world’s best event streaming platform. You will help drive Confluent’s open-source contributions, as well as, Confluent’s Enterprise feature portfolio. You will also be responsible for enabling seamless, enterprise-grade integration between Kafka and common external systems, and supporting on-premise deployments and managed services in Confluent Cloud.
What You Will Do:
- You’ll be responsible for the success of a major product initiative, from initial conception and customer development to growth strategy.
- You’ll become the trusted resource for your product, making sure that the engineering, design, sales, and marketing have what they need to make the right trade-offs, build the right product, and grow it successfully in the market.
What You Will Bring:
- Minimum 10+ years of experience as a software product manager, ideally for a developer product
- Empathy for our enterprise customers, and a passion for solving their problems with the software
- Ability to craft a product strategy and roadmap in concert with customers, engineering, design, and go-to-market teams
- Excellent 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 engaging with an open-source community is a plus
- MBA is a strong plus
- Bachelor's, Master’s, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related technical field
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