Staff Product Manager, Kafka Connect

Confluent is a company that is transforming how data moves and what can be achieved with it. The Staff Product Manager in the Kafka Connect team will be responsible for leading major product initiatives and ensuring the successful integration of Kafka with external systems, while also supporting customer success and growth strategies.

Responsibilities:

• You’ll be responsible for the success of a major product initiative, from initial conception and customer development to growth strategy
• You’ll become the trusted resource for your product, making sure that the engineering, design, sales, and marketing have what they need to make the right trade-offs, build the right product, and grow it successfully in the market

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience as a software product manager, ideally for an Enterprise technical product
• Empathy for our enterprise customers, and a passion for solving their problems with the software, sometimes being hands-on
• Ability to craft a product strategy and roadmap in concert with customers, engineering, design, and go-to-market teams
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to distill technical concepts to a non-technical audience
• Strong technical competency, especially with distributed data systems, public and private clouds, and stream processing
• Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related technical field
• Experience with a modern integration platform is a plus
• Experience with Enterprise software features like security, networking, observability is a plus
• MBA is a strong plus