Define and execute the product strategy and roadmap, driving adoption and customer success
Lead the evolution of USM as the modern, cloud-native management and observability surface for Confluent Platform and Confluent Private Cloud
Drive the Control Center roadmap, balancing maintenance of the existing product with the strategic migration path toward USM
Own the observability story for self-managed Confluent — including metrics integration with third-party monitoring systems (e.g., Dynatrace, Datadog, Prometheus)
Collaborate closely with engineering, design, field, and support teams to deliver capabilities that reduce operational burden for customers
Measure and report on product adoption, customer satisfaction, and business impact
Partner with GTM teams to enable field communication, customer onboarding, and competitive positioning

5–8+ years of product management experience, with meaningful time in infrastructure, platform, or observability domains
Have deep experience with enterprise observability, monitoring, and operations tooling — familiarity with platforms like Grafana, Datadog, Dynatrace, Prometheus, or similar
Understand enterprise platform management — deployment lifecycle, configuration management, health monitoring, alerting, and governance
Demonstrate strong UX sensibility for enterprise operations interfaces (dashboards, CLIs, APIs)
Have experience with distributed systems and the operational challenges they present
Be comfortable navigating complex enterprise software ecosystems — understanding how on-prem, private cloud, and hybrid architectures differ from pure SaaS
Demonstrate exceptional written and verbal communication skills — at Confluent, we rely heavily on documents to explain the vision and facilitate concrete communication
Show ability to drive business outcomes through product decisions.

Senior Product Manager – Hybrid Control Plane for Observability, Management

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