Pincipal, Product Manager

Confluent is an IBM subsidiary focused on transforming how data moves. They are seeking a Principal Product Manager to define and drive the product strategy for Apache Flink, ensuring alignment across various stakeholders and identifying new product opportunities.

Responsibilities:

• Define and drive the multi-year product strategy and roadmap for Apache Flink across cloud and on-prem products
• Establish structured processes to align product, engineering, GTM, and executive stakeholders
• Identify high-leverage, 0-to-1 product opportunities for Flink and in adjacent areas like AI, data engineering, data warehousing, and event-driven applications
• Define how Confluent Flink offerings will work across Confluent and IBM product portfolio

Requirements:

• Proven ability to own and deliver product strategy for complex cloud data products for customers ranging from data engineers to software developers
• Deep technical expertise in distributed systems, data engineering, and cloud. Domain expertise in streaming technologies such as Kafka, Flink, or Spark is a plus but not required
• Experience leading product development across the entire lifecycle, scaling businesses from early product-market fit to substantial revenue
• 10+ years of experience in product management for a technical software or cloud service product
• Hands-on engineering or technical background, including comfort with systems design, API design, and several languages (e.g., Python, Java, Scala, SQL, etc.)
• Experience with open-source software and determining commercialization strategy while building the community
• Track record in data infrastructure, analytics, AI/ML platforms, real-time systems, or streaming systems, especially where the product serves customers with a diversity of technical depth