Senior Director of Marketing Strategy & Operations, Confluent
$217.5-261k
+ an annual bonus and a competitive equity package
Data streaming platform
Open for applications
Data streaming platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$217.5-261k
+ an annual bonus and a competitive equity package
1001+ employees
Company mission
Founded by the team that built Apache Kafka, their mission is to make managing Kafka easy.
Role
Who you are
- A Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, or a related field; advanced degree (MBA) preferred
- At least 10 years of experience in marketing operations, with a significant focus on leadership roles within the technology sector
- Expertise in marketing automation tools (e.g., Marketo), CRM systems (e.g., Salesforce), and analytics platforms (e.g., Tableau)
- Proven experience in scaling marketing operations in a SaaS or technology-driven environment
- Deep understanding of data strategy, analytics, and the application of data in strategic decision-making
- Exceptional skill in cross-functional collaboration, leading through influence
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a knack for data-driven marketing strategies including campaign attribution and pipeline management
- A record of successful program and project management, demonstrating the ability to meet deadlines and quality standards
What the job involves
- As the Sr. Director, Marketing Operations at Confluent, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing our global marketing organization's effectiveness and efficiency
- You will be at the helm of refining our marketing technology infrastructure, streamlining processes, and fostering strategic collaboration across Sales, Customer Success, Partners, Finance, and Product teams
- Managing a robust team of over 25 professionals, you'll oversee every aspect of our marketing technology stack, data strategy, reporting, strategic planning, and budgeting
- Your leadership will ensure our marketing operations are agile, scalable, and data-driven, ready to adapt to the rapidly evolving market
- Reporting directly to the CMO, this role is crucial for driving our marketing discipline to new heights
- Lead the strategic planning process, setting long-term goals and crafting an actionable roadmap aligned with the company's vision
- Drive operational excellence in marketing processes, ensuring scalability, efficiency, and alignment with growth ambitions
- Mentor and lead a team of marketing operations professionals, nurturing a culture of high performance and data-centricity
- Own and continually optimize the marketing technology stack for seamless execution of campaigns and programs
- Develop strategies leveraging automation, AI, and analytics to enhance lead management, campaign tracking, and customer engagement
- Establish robust analytics and data strategies for improved decision-making, targeting, and segmentation
- Collaborate with Finance and Sales to create predictive models and strategies for pipeline forecasting and progression analysis
- Manage cross-functional marketing initiatives from concept to execution, applying project management best practices to ensure success
Our take
Confluent is a commercial company built on top of the open-source Apache Kafka project. Confluent and Kafka have developed a streaming data technology that processes massive amounts of information in real-time.
The streaming database technology was developed at LinkedIn as a way of moving massive amounts of messages. The company decided to open-source that tech in 2011, and Confluent launched as the commercial arm in 2014.
While the base open-source component remains available for free download, it doesn’t include the additional tooling the company has built to make it easier for enterprises to use Kafka. Confluent's value add is in those additional tools, including a cloud version of the product and a marketplace for sharing extensions to the platform.
Confluent expanded strategic partnerships with Microsoft and acquired Immerok, and in 2023 expanded its cloud platform. 2024 saw further product expansions with the launch of the Confluent Migration Accelerator, all exemplifying how the company is living up to its name by rocket-boosting the benefits of Apache Kafka integration for companies.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
27% female employees
14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2020
$250m
SERIES E
Jan 2019
$125m
SERIES D
Total funding: $455.9m
Company values
- Earn Our Customers' Love - Our customers are the lifeblood of our business and our most important stakeholder. We strive to earn their love with everything we do
- To Build a Great Company, Build a Great Team - We believe that an important part of building a great company is making sure that our employees are the best they can be.
- Smart, Humble, and Empathetic - Our employees appreciate, benefit, and learn from working with other smart, humble, and empathetic people. We strive to hire those who care deeply about others and interact with empathy towards our customers, partners, and employees.
- Be Fired up and Get It Done - As much as we benefit from working with smart, humble, and empathetic employees, we also need to “get it done” to pursue our enormous market opportunity. We are in hyper-growth mode and are scaling to fill the demands of the market and our current and future customers.
- Tasteful not Wasteful - We want to invest in areas that matter the most -- in other words, spend “tastefully,” not wastefully. We believe that thoughtful spending is essential to building a high-quality business.
- One Team - It is critical that we act as and make decisions as a unified company, doing our best to optimize globally rather than locally. This means doing our best to avoid the misalignments that some companies can be prone to. It means recognizing that when employees and teams succeed, Confluent as a whole succeeds.
Company HQ
Mountain View, California
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Leadership
Jay Kreps
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously a Principal Engineer at LinkedIn.
Neha Narkhede
(Co-Founder & Board Member)Previously a Lead Engineer at LinkedIn and Oracle. They are an Investor/advisor for Gem, Block Party, Material Security, Abacus AI, Cortex Data, Yugabyte, Metaphor Data, Natalist, Common Room, and more.
Jun Rao
(Co-Founder)Previously a Senior Engineer at LinkedIn. Has a PhD in Computer Science from Columbia University.
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