Confluent - Senior Product Manager, Cloud Networking

IBM Software builds AI-powered, cloud-native products that help transform client challenges into business and societal solutions. The Senior Product Manager will lead cloud networking initiatives for Confluent Cloud, focusing on reliable, scalable, secure, cost-efficient, and user-friendly connectivity. The role manages product strategy, roadmaps, cross-functional execution, launches, and ongoing measurement and iteration.

Responsibilities:

• Understand our users: Conduct interviews and analyze data to define personas, user journeys, and key jobs to be done
• Drive crucial aspects of Confluent Cloud Network Roadmap supporting Confluent Cloud services like Kafka, Flink, Connectors, Data Governance, etc with a heavy focus on user experience and cost efficiency
• Define flexible interfaces powering API, CLI and Terraform, data models, and processes and launch a variety of new network options and rapidly iterate on existing ones
• Be responsible for the whole lifecycle: Drive multi-team, 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 product
• Manage complexity: Deliver value while handling the surprises and challenges of a quickly evolving product, ambitious partnership targets, and a rapidly growing organization

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience as a Product Manager with focus on cloud technologies
• Experience building and supporting enterprise-grade products as a product manager, engineer or solutions architect
• Experience building, writing, maintaining and defending a clear product roadmap and backlog backed by user stories and customer research
• Excellent analytical, communication & collaboration skills
• Ability to build relationships with co-workers and customers located around the world
• Demonstrated ability to drive business outcomes through product changes
• Master's Degree
• 6+ years of experience in Networking in a PM or technical role
• Experience with enabling AWS/Azure/GCP private networking features such as Private Link, VPC Peering, Transit Gateway, etc for a SaaS product
• Experience with Envoy, Service Mesh, DNS and Kubernetes Networking
• Experience with network traffic metering and billing
• Domain expertise in networking technologies combined with Product Management experience
• An MBA degree is a plus