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Staff Product Manager, Kafka Connect

Leads product initiatives for Kafka Connect's enterprise features, driving strategy, integrations with external systems, AI/ML enhancements, and GTM efforts. Requires 8+ years PM experience, strong technical skills in data streaming and clouds.

206k – 242k/yr
Remote8+ YOEProduct Management

About the role

What You Will Do

  • Responsible for the success of a major product initiative, from conception and customer development to growth strategy.
  • Become the trusted resource for your product, ensuring engineering, design, sales, and marketing have what they need to make trade-offs, build, and grow the product successfully.

What You Will Bring

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

Skills

KafkaKafka ConnectAI/MLDistributed Data SystemsStream ProcessingConfluent CloudIntegration PlatformsPublic CloudPrivate CloudObservability
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