Sales Operations Specialist, Confluent
GTM Strategy & Analytics Skillbridge Internship
Data streaming platform
Open for applications
Data streaming platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help every organization harness data in motion so they can compete and thrive in the modern world.
Role
Who you are
- The role requires that you have a strong technical knowledge of database and business intelligence design, and how to transform data into insight so we can utilize world class functional dashboards, reporting, and analysis to ensure data-driven decisions are a daily part of how we work
- A background in Tableau, SQL, complex modeling through Excel, or experiences supporting a pre-sales and/or a post-sales customer business is strongly encouraged
- Experience in an analytical and strategic role across analytics, consulting, business operations, finance or high-tech growth environment
- Proficiency in Excel, Tableau or other data visualization software, Salesforce, SQL (large data sets/data warehousing)
- The ability to analyze data with strong attention to detail and accuracy, and passionate about telling the story behind the numbers while completing complex tasks
- Critical thinking skills to assess different perspectives and anticipate potential obstacles
- The ability to communicate cross-functionally, derive requirements, set and meet deadlines, and deliver insightful analysis and/or models
- Open, growth mindset and high degrees of self motivation, fostered in a fast-paced, high growth, dynamic environment
What the job involves
- This role will be part of the Go to Market Strategy + Analytics team and will work across Sales, Sales Operations and Finance to utilize our business systems data to analyze and provide insight into the organization's performance
- Additionally, this role will apply creativity and analytical thinking to design and implement operational dashboards and ad hoc reporting
- This position reports into the GTM Strategy team within the Sales organization
- Gather requirements, design, and build ad hoc strategic reports based on stakeholders & leadership needs to help monitor performance for all key indicators
- Build and define new metrics to measure sales performance in rapidly changing business environments
- Deep dive into key performance metrics to solve complex sales challenges using data, analytics, and insights
- Develop complex Excel models to monitor business initiatives and deliver insights to leadership
- Create reports in business systems such as Salesforce or Tableau that allow us to measure and effectively execute strategies that guide actions and investment
- Own core activities for small analytic projects of moderate to high complexity
- Work with team members to define and maintain a set of data definitions and available measures across the sales organization
- Write queries to access, retrieve and manipulate data for it to be used and leveraged in executive level reporting
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.
Now, it looks like IBM is eyeing the company for acquisition and Confluent looks to be a natural fit. Long positioned as the real-time backbone behind modern application, Confluent would gain global scale and an even deeper enterprise reach under iBM, while cementing its role at the center of AI-driven architectures. For COnfluent, the deal would marka shift from fast-growing independent disruptor to foundational infrastructure player powering the next wave of enterprise AI.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2020
$250m
SERIES E
Jan 2019
$125m
SERIES D
Total funding: $455.9m
Company HQ
Old Mountain View, Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Jay Kreps
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to co-founding Confluent in 2014, Jay spent 7 years at LinkedIn, holding various roles including Principal Engineer and Principal Staff Engineer.
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