Senior Product Marketing Manager - Confluent

IBM is hiring a Senior Product Marketing Manager to define market requirements and positioning for IBM Confluent offerings. The role develops audience-specific content and go-to-market strategies, collaborates with clients and cross-functional teams, and influences the product roadmap to drive consideration, adoption, and growth.

Responsibilities:

• Define market requirements that enable differentiated positioning and messaging, clearly explaining how IBM Confluent's offerings work in-market and the value they deliver to buyers and users
• Apply strong messaging and positioning skills to craft and deliver compelling stories that drive product, services, and solution consideration and adoption by leveraging client success stories, thought-leadership, market proof points, and analyst insights
• Author content of varying technical depths (e.g., blogs, eBooks, whitepapers, reference architectures, web copy) for various personas (e.g., developers, architects, data engineers, tech execs) on IBM Confluent's category, products and features
• Collaborate across marketing, communications, analyst relations, product management, development, design, client experience, ecosystem, and sales to align strategies, activate the market, and deliver measurable business outcomes
• Lead data-driven strategies and outcome-focused marketing business plans to accelerate growth; analyze the marketing and product funnel to identify conversion gaps, diagnose performance drivers, and turn insights into recommendations that improve awareness, engagement, evaluation, and pipeline generation
• Engage directly with clients, partners, and analysts to align strategies, activate the market, and deliver measurable business outcomes
• Identify any product gaps inhibiting GTM success for IBM Confluent and work with Product Management to prioritize users' needs into the roadmap

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree
• 3+ years of product marketing experience supporting B2B SaaS products for technical users, or 5+ years of relevant experience in consulting, B2B SaaS or product
• Have strong product marketing skills that translate to clear copywriting, product evangelism, competitive positioning, and messaging
• Bring strong technical acumen - you can independently understand and explain complex products, architectures, and use cases while partnering closely with Product Management to validate technical accuracy
• Have a data-informed mindset and are driven to set measurable goals for every project you take on
• Are proactive and self-directed - you identify opportunities, create momentum, and drive initiatives from idea through execution without needing day-to-day direction
• Thrive in cross-functional environments and can effectively collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders and teams
• Lead with empathy and humility - you listen actively, value diverse perspectives, and build trust across teams and stakeholders
• Are incredibly organized and efficient—you take on complex projects and own them from start to finish
• IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship
• Master's Degree
• Experience with Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Apache Iceberg, data infrastructure, data architecture, cloud services, and/or distributed systems
• Experience marketing technical infrastructure, developer tools, data platforms, or distributed systems
• Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, stream processing, or real-time analytics
• Experience using funnel analytics, experimentation, or customer and product data to diagnose and improve GTM performance
• Experience shaping messaging for an emerging category or independently driving ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives