Senior Product Manager - Cloud Networking (Remote, Equity)

Confluent; Concord (NH); Remote; USD 193,000 - 227,000; Full time

Job summary

Confluent is seeking a Senior Product Manager for the Cloud Networking team to drive the strategy and roadmap for private networking across Confluent Cloud. You’ll collaborate with engineering, design, sales, and marketing to ensure a scalable, secure, and cost-efficient product that delights users building streaming applications.

You’ll guide initiatives from concept through launch, communicate tradeoffs, and measure outcomes to continuously improve the offering in a fast-growing SaaS

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a Product Manager with focus on cloud technologies.
• Experience building and supporting 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.

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

Product management

Cloud technologies

Analytical skills

Communication

Collaboration

Stakeholder management

Tools

Envoy

Service Mesh

DNS

Kubernetes Networking

AWS/GCP/Azure

Job description

Confluent is seeking a Senior Product Manager for the Cloud Networking team to drive the strategy and roadmap for private networking across Confluent Cloud. You’ll collaborate with engineering, design, sales, and marketing to ensure a scalable, secure, and cost-efficient product that delights users building streaming applications.

You’ll guide initiatives from concept through launch, communicate tradeoffs, and measure outcomes to continuously improve the offering in a fast-growing SaaS