Senior Product Manager - Data Streaming

HiveMQ; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

In this role, you will define roadmaps, collaborate with customers, sales, and partners to identify integrations, and drive API-driven provisioning to simplify deployment and operation at scale.

Qualifications

• 8–15 years of product management or consulting experience.
• Experience with enterprise infrastructure products with real revenue potential.
• Familiarity with messaging middleware (MQTT, Kafka, Solace, RabbitMQ).
• Experience using data to guide product decisions and influence senior stakeholders.
• Excellent communication and prioritization skills.

Responsibilities

• Define the portfolio strategy and roadmap, connecting investments to adoption, usage, revenue, and customer satisfaction.
• Collaborate with customers, sales, and partners to identify integration opportunities and understand broader solutions.
• Sequence development of the core broker while managing ongoing releases and commitments.
• Improve provisioning and operation through APIs and clear specifications.
• Instrument products, analyze outcomes, and communicate progress and value to executives and stakeholders.
• Coordinate across engineering, go-to-market, and customer-facing teams; manage strategic relationships and escalations.

Skills

Product management

Stakeholder communication

Strategic thinking

Data-driven decision making

Project management

Tools

MQTT

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Job description

Role overview

Set product direction for an enterprise data-streaming portfolio built around messaging infrastructure. The role spans strategy and hands-on execution: improving deployment and management, guiding the next generation of the core broker, and balancing customer commitments with investments in cloud-native, multi-tenant capabilities and agent-friendly workflows.

Responsibilities

• Define the portfolio strategy and roadmap, connecting investment choices to adoption, usage, revenue, and customer satisfaction.
• Work with customers, sales, and partners to identify integration opportunities and understand how the product fits into broader solutions.
• Sequence development of the core broker while managing ongoing release and customer commitments.
• Make products easier to provision and operate through APIs and clear specifications, reducing unnecessary setup and infrastructure work.
• Instrument products, analyze outcomes, and communicate progress and product value to executives and other stakeholders.
• Coordinate across engineering, go-to-market, and customer-facing teams; manage strategic relationships and escalations, and improve processes as the organization scales.

Requirements

• 8–15 years of total experience, including substantial product management or consulting work.
• Experience guiding established enterprise infrastructure products with real customer commitments, revenue, and further growth potential.
• Deep familiarity with messaging middleware or event-driven systems, such as MQTT, Kafka, Solace, or RabbitMQ, including their performance and reliability trade-offs.
• Meaningful experience with operational technology and its connection to IT systems.
• Evidence of using qualitative and quantitative data to guide product decisions, managing resources, and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Strong communication, customer discovery, risk assessment, and decision-making skills; comfort making difficult prioritization calls.
• Eastern US time-zone location is preferred.

Nice to have

• Experience with edge or self-managed enterprise software, long-term support releases, upgrades, and enterprise procurement.
• Product-led growth experience for infrastructure or developer products, and familiarity with distributed systems operations.