Senior Product Manager, Confluent
Security
$186.1-218.7k
+ Equity
Data streaming platform
Open for applications
Data streaming platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$186.1-218.7k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
Founded by the team that built Apache Kafka, their mission is to make managing Kafka easy.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in product management
- Experience developing security features for cloud-based products, including identity, authentication, authorization or secrets management
- Experience in building, writing, and defending a clear product roadmap and backlog supported by user stories and customer research
- Excellent communication skills and experience working in a collaborative and consensus-driven environment
- Ability to build relationships with co-workers and customers globally
- Proven ability to drive business outcomes through product changes
- Multi-cloud or hybrid experience
What the job involves
- Join the Confluent Cloud Security PM team and help secure the world's leading data streaming platform
- Our security features are essential for all interactions with our cloud platform, and you'll play a key role in shaping the future of these features, ensuring they can scale to support our rapidly growing cloud customer base
- This role offers the opportunity to drive innovation and deliver groundbreaking security initiatives
- You'll own a major product initiative, from initial concept and customer development to growth strategy
- You'll be the go-to expert for your product, ensuring that engineering, design, sales, and marketing teams have the necessary information to make informed decisions, build the right product, and successfully grow it in the market
- Set the strategy: Align security investments with Confluent’s long term vision to put a data streaming platform at the center of every organization
- Define the roadmap: Plot a course with your engineering counterparts that will realize the strategy
- Work across teams: Create shared understanding and direction across engineering, product, business development, support, sales, and marketing teams within Confluent and externally with our partners
- Be responsible for the whole lifecycle: Drive multi-company, cross-functional initiatives from conception through initial delivery, and ongoing iteration after launch
- Close the loop: Define quantitative and qualitative targets, measure performance against them, share results with stakeholders, and incorporate those learnings into the next development cycle
- Manage complexity: Deliver value while handling the surprises and challenges of a quickly evolving product, ambitious partnership targets, and a rapidly growing organization
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
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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