Senior Cloud Networking PM - Remote | Equity

Confluent; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 193,000 - 227,000; Full time

Job summary

Confluent Cloud delivers a complete end-to-end streaming experience via a Software as a Service (SaaS) model.

As a Senior Product Manager on the Cloud Networking Product team, you’ll contribute to the mission of making connectivity to and from Confluent Cloud reliable, scalable, secure, cost efficient and simple to use so that users can focus on building streaming applications instead of managing infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 5+ years as a Product Manager with focus on cloud technologies.
• Experience building enterprise-grade products as a product manager, engineer or solutions architect.
• Experience building, writing, maintaining and defending a clear product roadmap and backlog backed by user stories and customer research.
• Excellent analytical, communication & collaboration skills.
• Ability to build relationships with co-workers and customers located around the world.
• Demonstrated ability to drive business outcomes through product changes.
• 6+ years of experience in Networking in a PM or technical role.
• Experience with enabling AWS/Azure/GCP private networking features such as Private Link, VPC Peering, Transit Gateway, etc for a SaaS product.
• Experience with Envoy, Service Mesh, DNS and Kubernetes Networking.
• Experience with network traffic metering and billing.
• Domain expertise in networking technologies combined with Product Management experience. An MBA degree is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Understand our users: Conduct interviews and analyze data to define personas, user journeys, and key jobs to be done.
• Drive crucial aspects of Confluent Cloud Network Roadmap supporting Confluent Cloud services like Kafka, Flink, Connectors, Data Governance, etc with a heavy focus on user experience and cost efficiency.
• Define flexible interfaces powering API, CLI and Terraform, data models, and processes and launch a variety of new network options and rapidly iterate on existing ones
• Be responsible for the whole lifecycle: Drive multi-team, cross-functional initiatives from conception through initial delivery and ongoing iteration after launch.
• Close the loop: Define quantitative and qualitative targets, measure performance against them, share results with stakeholders, and incorporate those learnings into the product.
• Manage complexity: Deliver value while handling the surprises and challenges of a quickly evolving product, ambitious partnership targets, and a rapidly growing organization.

Skills

Cloud product management

Enterprise software

Roadmapping & backlog

Analytical and communication skills

Global collaboration

Business impact focus

Job description

Confluent Cloud delivers a complete end-to-end streaming experience via a Software as a Service (SaaS) model.

As a Senior Product Manager on the Cloud Networking Product team, you’ll contribute to the mission of making connectivity to and from Confluent Cloud reliable, scalable, secure, cost efficient and simple to use so that users can focus on building streaming applications instead of managing infrastructure.