Key skills
Product ManagementCloud technologiesEnterprise-grade product developmentUser researchProduct roadmap developmentNetworking technologiesAWS private networkingAzure private networkingGCP private networkingEnvoyService MeshDNSKubernetes NetworkingNetwork traffic metering and billingAnalytical skillsCommunicationCollaborationRelationship buildingDriving business outcomesKafkaAWSAzureGCPTerraformKubernetesSaaS
About this role
Confluent is a company focused on transforming how data moves and is utilized globally. They are seeking a Senior Product Manager for their Cloud Networking Product team to enhance the reliability, scalability, and user experience of their cloud services, ensuring users can efficiently build streaming applications without managing complex infrastructure.
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
- 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