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ConfluentConfluentUnited States

Principal Product Manager

Principal Product Manager (IC) owning multi-year strategy and roadmap for Apache Flink across Confluent Cloud and on-prem. Requires 10+ years PM experience, deep technical expertise in distributed systems and data engineering, and proven ability to scale complex cloud data products.

273k – 328k/yr
Remote10+ YOEProduct Management

About the role

What You Will Do

  • 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

What You Will Bring

  • 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

What Gives You an Edge

  • 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

Skills

PythonJavaScalaSQLDistributed SystemsData EngineeringCloud PlatformsApache KafkaApache FlinkSpark

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