Senior Product Manager, Confluent
Growth
$166.2-195.3k
+ An annual bonus and a competitive equity package
Data streaming platform
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Data streaming platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$166.2-195.3k
+ 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
- You're energized by using quantitative analysis and customer insights to identify opportunities, run experiments, and drive business outcomes
- 4+ years of product management experience (or equivalent combination of technical roles and advanced degree), delivering meaningful business outcomes in a B2B context
- Ability to understand complex technical products and translate them into clear value propositions
- Demonstrated ability to influence and align diverse stakeholders including marketing and sales, with experience bridging product decisions with go-to-market motions to drive growth outcomes
- Experience working directly with engineering and design leadership in a fast-paced setting
- Strong experimentation and quantitative decision-making skills, with proficiency in product analysis using data tools (e.g., SQL, Amplitude)
- Ability to build relationships with co-workers and customers located around the world
- Direct B2B Growth or advanced data analysis experience are a plus
What the job involves
- As a Product Manager on the Growth team, you'll drive how customers discover, adopt, and expand their usage of Confluent's industry-leading data streaming platform
- Our mission is to help technical users easily evaluate our products, enable enterprises to solve their biggest data challenges, and remove friction in the journey from initial adoption to organization-wide deployment
- You'll be joining a world-class B2B Growth team led by veterans who built the PLG playbook, including our CPO who established one of the industry's first B2B Growth practices
- You'll work directly with a dedicated team of Growth engineers, designers, and data scientists to identify, build, and optimize features that remove friction in evaluation and accelerate revenue growth
- Success in this role combines deep empathy for technical users with understanding of B2B enterprise buying patterns
- Your work will directly impact how organizations - from startups to Fortune 500 companies - adopt and scale their usage of our real-time data streaming products
- Own growth metrics and product strategy for key parts of the customer journey that connect product usage to business outcomes
- Partner with go-to-market leadership to build and optimize product-led sales motions that accelerate revenue growth
- Drive experimentation and optimization across the product to improve conversion and expansion
- Develop deep understanding of customer segments, their journey, and buying patterns
- Build and validate growth loops that combine product, pricing, and go-to-market motions
- Collaborate with engineering, design, marketing, sales, and data science to execute growth initiatives
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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