# Staff Product Manager, Kafka Connect

**Company:** [Confluent](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/confluent)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Product Management
**Salary:** $206k – $242k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Kafka, Kafka Connect, AI/ML, Distributed Data Systems, Stream Processing, Confluent Cloud, Integration Platforms, Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Observability
**Posted:** 2026-02-24

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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)

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