Senior Product Manager, Redpanda Data
Platform
$155-210k
Salary varies depending on location of applicant
Open-source data streaming platform
Job no longer available
Open-source data streaming platform
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$155-210k
Salary varies depending on location of applicant
101-200 employees
Company mission
To build the best present and future of streaming data.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for a Senior Product Manager (or experienced engineer/sales consultant with relevant domain expertise) to guide the evolution of our core product capabilities for the Redpanda streaming data platform
- This role requires deep comfort with enterprise infrastructure technology, working closely with customers often in high pressure situations, and collaborating cross-functionally across technical and non-technical teams in a fast-paced environment, juggling many tasks and responsibilities
- 2+ years of experience in direct role-related product management for B2B enterprise software platforms, particularly data infrastructure, data integration or other distributed systems. Alternatively, 5+ years of experience in a sales consulting / customer success role supporting B2B enterprise software sales
- 5+ years of experience overall experience in enterprise software companies
- Experience working cross-functionally with technical and non-technical teams
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to to concisely explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences (and vice-versa)
- Work with a 100% distributed / remote team, collaborating in GitHub/JIRA Slack, Google docs and other modern productivity tools independently and efficiently]
- Comfortable switching context frequently to address customer, engineering, and go-to-market issues and requests
- Experience working closely with highly technical products and customers
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field, or equivalent experience
What the job involves
- Reporting to the Head of Core Product, you will work with customers and study the market to gather data, drive the strategic roadmap for several of Redpanda’s core platform capabilities, and guide their inclusion into our self-hosted, SaaS and serverless cloud offerings
- You will also help drive the technological vision in these areas, following the latest trends and advising the team on new technologies, standards, approaches, and potential partners in order to stay on the leading edge
- This is an opportunity to work closely with product and engineering leadership and the respective teams at a fast-growing, well-funded startup, building and delivering category-leading products
- Meet with customers, analyze the competitive landscape, and identify market opportunities to shape the company's product strategy in your areas of responsibility
- Define requirements for new features through PRDs and prioritize them appropriately in the product roadmap. Some examples of major functional areas Platform PMs work on include new compute frameworks & SDKs (WebAssembly Data Transforms), storage engine features (Tiered Storage), security features (SSO/OIDC), new Kafka APIs, and performance/multi-tenancy features such as resource quotas
- Redpanda Console and our CLI RPK provide an approachable UX for these core features, and delivering features end-to-end often includes working with our design team to deliver the optimal UX through a mix of GUI, CLI, API and core function behaviors
- Communicate new features internally and externally and help articulate the value proposition, messaging, and pricing. This involves training GTM teams, sharing roadmap and product pitches with customers, writing public blogs, attending industry conferences, and potentially briefing industry analysts
- Collaborate with multiple internal teams (including Engineering, Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success) to ensure we ship the right features, at the right time, with the right user experience to match the expectations of our ICP and various user personas
- Own delivery of features end-to-end, picking up tasks wherever needed, reviewing documentation, and creating the telemetry required to measure the success of feature launches after rollout
Our take
When dealing with real-time data streaming workloads, the simpler the infrastructure the better. RedPanda was developed as an alternative to the complex industry standard, Apache Kafka (which needed to be used in tandem with ZooKeeper). RedPanda’s Kafka-compatible platform increases businesses’ operational efficiency by allowing them to switch to a single platform.
Formerly known as Vectorized, the company launched the RedPanda in 2021, eventually renaming the company after the product. Its platform is already running on hundreds of thousands of machines, reliably enabling enterprises to continue to run the software that they’ve already invested in while addressing and eliminating past pain points with the status quo of data streaming infrastructures.
With funding under its belt, the company is expanding its marketing, research, and development, increasing its speed, reducing latencies, and adding features such as its RedPanda Cloud service. It is also focusing on limitless data retention, capturing the attention of developers, and resulting in the company’s substantial growth.
Steph
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2025
$100m
SERIES D
Jun 2023
$100m
SERIES C
Total funding: $265.5m
Company benefits
- Remote first: We’re a remote-first company that puts humans first. We advocate for working wherever you're most productive
- Comprehensive healthcare: We’ve got you covered with a mix of plans ranging from fully-paid medical, dental and vision, to premium coverage
- 401(k) matching: Our 401(k) plans let you save for your future. And for our US and UK employees — we match
- Unlimited PTO: Take time to relax and recharge. Option to select region-specific holidays. Our vacation policy puts you in control
- Home office & education reimbursement: $1,000 to gear-up your home office, $50 towards each wifi bill, $500 to invest in your learning and development annually
- Redpanda swag: Hands down the coolest swag in our industry! Your family will steal it. Guaranteed
Company HQ
Inner Richmond, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Alexander Gallego
(Founder & CEO)Founder & previous CTO of Concord Systems, Inc. Previous Principal Software Engineer at Akamai Technologies, and was a Software Engineer at both YeildMo and FactSet Research Systems. Also worked as a REU - Student Researcher for the Polytechnic Institute of New York Univeristy.
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