Senior Tech Marketing Manager, Real-Time Data Streaming

International Business Machines Corporation; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Global Sales is seeking a Senior Technical Marketing Manager to drive Streamhouse adoption, turning real-time data stories into compelling content for developers, architects, and executives. You will collaborate across Product Marketing, Product Management, Engineering, Developer Relations, and Field teams to shape technical narratives.

You will build demos, create reference architectures, and deliver hands-on workshops, webinars, and talks that demonstrate Confluent in action and translate

Qualifications

• 5+ years working with streaming/data technologies such as Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Spark Structured Streaming, or similar.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals and cloud native architectures.
• Solid software engineering skills with production code experience in Java or Python and SQL.

Responsibilities

• Build flagship demos and reference solutions for the Streamhouse category.
• Create technical content (blogs, whitepapers, labs, demos) explaining use cases.
• Deliver live and virtual workshops, webinars, and conference talks.
• Enable sales with demos, playbooks, and training materials.

Skills

Streaming/data experience

Apache Kafka

Apache Flink

Kafka Streams

Spark Structured Streaming

Distributed systems fundamentals

Event driven architectures

Cloud native architectures

Software engineering

Java or Python

SQL skills

Kubernetes

Docker

Technical storytelling

Content creation

Customer and field orientation

Cross-functional collaboration

Self directed

Tools

Confluent Cloud

Confluent Platform

Apache Kafka

Terraform

Job description

IBM Global Sales is seeking a Senior Technical Marketing Manager to drive Streamhouse adoption, turning real-time data stories into compelling content for developers, architects, and executives. You will collaborate across Product Marketing, Product Management, Engineering, Developer Relations, and Field teams to shape technical narratives.

You will build demos, create reference architectures, and deliver hands-on workshops, webinars, and talks that demonstrate Confluent in action and translate