Senior Product Manager, Confluent
Growth
$186.1-218.7k
+ A competitive equity package
Data streaming platform
Open for applications
Data streaming platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$186.1-218.7k
+ 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
- 4+ years of product management experience (or equivalent combination of technical roles and advanced degree) with complex technical products in a B2B context
- Understanding of adoption patterns and the journey from proof-of-concept for a developer to wide-spread production deployment for an operator
- Experience bridging product decisions with go-to-market motions to drive meaningful business outcomes
- Demonstrated ability to influence and align diverse & senior stakeholders including engineering, design, marketing, sales, and executive leadership
- Strong quantitative decision-making skills, with proficiency in data analysis (e.g., SQL)
- Ability to build relationships with co-workers and customers located around the world
- Past experience in the data space (e.g., databases, data platforms, streaming) and/or working in Growth are a plus
What the job involves
- As a Senior Product Manager on the Growth team focusing on Production Acceleration, you'll drive how customers move from initial evaluation to production usage of Confluent's industry-leading data streaming platform
- 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 with a 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 requires deep technical empathy for developers and operators, combined with understanding of B2B enterprise buying patterns and adoption cycles
- You'll need executive presence to influence key stakeholders and drive organizational alignment around your production acceleration initiatives
- Your work will directly impact how organizations - from startups to Fortune 500 companies - scale their usage of our real-time data streaming products from proof-of-concept to mission-critical production systems
- Own product strategy & metrics for critical customer journeys post-activation; directly helping organizations go from initial evaluation to production
- Talk to hundreds of customers & coordinate among PMs & SEs to identify top technical friction points & barriers preventing customers from scaling their usage from proof-of-concept to production
- Partner with go-to-market leadership to build and optimize product-led sales motions that accelerate revenue growth, developing deep understanding of adoption cycles and technical buying patterns
- Build and validate growth loops that connect initial product success to expanded production usage
- Collaborate across engineering, design, solutions engineering, and sales to execute production acceleration 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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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2020
$250m
SERIES E
Jan 2019
$125m
SERIES D
Total funding: $455.9m
Company HQ
Mountain View, California
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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