Sr. Product Manager, Flink Could Platform

With Confluent, organizations can harness the full power of continuously flowing data to innovate and win in the modern digital world. We have a purpose that drives us to do better every day – we're creating an entirely new category within data infrastructure - data streaming. This technology will allow every organization to create experiences and use the power of data in ways that profoundly impact the way we all live. This impact is our purpose and drives us to do better every day.

One Confluent. One team. One Data Streaming Platform.

Data Connects Us.

About the Role:

With more data being produced in real-time by many systems and devices than ever before, it is critical to be able to process it in real time and get actionable insights while the data is still relevant. To help our customers get these insights, the SPA team (Storage, Processing and AI team) at Confluent built a serverless Flink service, supporting Stream Processing, AI, and Analytics.

We are looking for an experienced Product Manager focusing on our Flink Cloud Platform and helping to define a long-range, strategic roadmap for this area, maintain a tight feedback loop with our customers, and work closely with our engineering team.

What You Will Do:

• Drive the development and enhancements of our Flink Cloud Platform, including: API definition, Terraform Provider and CLI
• Drive the integration of Flink with Confluent Cloud, including new and enhanced integrations with our other products in order to provide a seamless experience for our customers (e.g. integration of security/RBAC, Lineage, Governance, etc.)
• Drive Flink regional availability roadmap, and integration with networking
• Work across teams: Create shared understanding and direction across engineering, product, business development, support, sales, and marketing teams within Confluent and externally with our partners.

What You Will Bring:

• Developing product and technical specifications for this area
• Working closely with customers to help gather feedback, and requirements, share our vision and roadmap, and deeply understand their user journeys.
• Educating Confluent’s field and the broader community about new features.
• Be responsible for the whole lifecycle: Drive multi-company, 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 next development cycle.
• Manage complexity: Deliver value while handling the surprises and challenges of a quickly evolving product, ambitious partnership targets, and a rapidly growing organization.
• Develop a strategic vision of where to invest our efforts to help our customers succeed.
• Think through a great end-to-end product experience with a focus on detailed user stories.
• Create a roadmap to deliver that experience to customers.

What Gives You an Edge:

• 4 + years of software, or product management experience
• Experience defining product functional specifications including API, CLI and GUI.
• Understanding of Cloud Infrastructure and services
• Demonstrated strong written and verbal communication
• Ability to understand and learn new technical concepts quickly.
• Knowledge of Flink or other streaming processing technologies is preferred but not required.

Come As You Are

At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact. Employment decisions are made on the basis of job-related criteria without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.

At Confluent, we are committed to providing competitive pay and benefits that are in line with industry standards. We analyze and carefully consider several factors when determining compensation, including work history, education, professional experience, and location. This position has an annual estimated salary of $153,200 - $180,000 an annual bonus, and a competitive equity package. The actual pay may vary depending on your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Confluent offers a wide range of employee benefits. To learn more about our benefits click HERE.

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