Staff Product Manager - Cloud Networking (Remote)

Confluent; Providence (RI); Remote; USD 232,000 - 272,000; Full time

Job summary

Confluent is a global data streaming platform that moves data in real time. We’re looking for a Staff PM for Cloud Networking to own the platform strategy across AWS, Azure, and GCP, shaping the architecture and multi-year roadmap for connectivity in Confluent Cloud.

You will work with engineering leadership to balance customer needs, cost, and security, while partnering across teams to drive adoption and scale.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product management experience, with at least 3 years owning a cloud infrastructure, platform, or networking product.
• Demonstrated track record of setting product strategy and roadmap at platform or portfolio scope — not just feature-level delivery
• Fluent understanding of cloud networking concepts across AWS, Azure, and GCP
• Experience serving enterprise customers with complex compliance, security, and connectivity requirements

Responsibilities

• Own the platform strategy for Confluent Cloud Networking across AWS, Azure, and GCP — defining the north star, multi-year roadmap, and sequencing of bets that balance customer connectivity needs, cost efficiency, security posture, and engineering leverage
• Define frameworks and standards that other PMs, designers, and engineers use to evaluate networking decisions — connection model selection criteria, cost attribution models, security control frameworks, and launch readiness standards
• Drive architectural decisions in partnership with engineering leadership — weighing trade-offs between user experience, cost, and operational complexity
• Expand scope and create optionality — identify adjacencies the team should move into and build the business case for them
• Develop the product team — mentor Senior PMs on the team, provide feedback on product documents and roadmap thinking, and raise the bar on customer research
• Build senior stakeholder alignment across product, engineering, sales, field, legal, and security, then present the platform vision to executive leadership to secure investment
• Define and own success metrics at the platform level — connecting technical milestones to business outcomes
• Engage with strategic customers and prospects — represent the roadmap in technical conversations with enterprise CTOs and network engineers

Skills

Product management

Cloud networking

Architecture direction

Mentorship

Customer research

Roadmap strategy

Stakeholder management

AI-native PM

Education

MBA

Tools

Envoy

Service Mesh

Terraform

Kubernetes Networking

Job description

Confluent is a global data streaming platform that moves data in real time. We’re looking for a Staff PM for Cloud Networking to own the platform strategy across AWS, Azure, and GCP, shaping the architecture and multi-year roadmap for connectivity in Confluent Cloud.

You will work with engineering leadership to balance customer needs, cost, and security, while partnering across teams to drive adoption and scale.