Senior Specialist of Workplace, Confluent
EMEA
Data streaming platform
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Data streaming platform
1001+ employees
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1001+ employees
Company mission
Founded by the team that built Apache Kafka, their mission is to make managing Kafka easy.
Role
Who you are
- As a part of a rapidly growing company, you must be comfortable with change, managing day-to-day operations, working and negotiating with vendors and data management
- Attention to detail, organization, and good communication skills are essential
- 2-3 years of experience in workplace, EHS, employee experience, community building or related orgs
- Attentive to details, proactive and well organised
- An ownership mentality with the ability to execute
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Ability to work cross-culturally and cross-functionally
- High level of creativity and problem-solving
- Systems: GSuite, Excel/Google Sheets, Jira ticketing, Access management systems, Coworking platform portals
What the job involves
- The Real Estate and Workplace team is a high touch team with a charter of providing the best possible in office experience to Confluent employees
- Additionally, the team also manages virtual and in-person events and our global On-Demand space program
- Confluent is looking for a smart and personable EMEA workplace manager based out of our London office
- Own and manage the EMEA (London, Barcelona and Dubai currently) office operations including access & security, vendors, amenities stocking, events and perk management. The scope of EMEA offices might expand over time
- Function as administrative liaison to regional stakeholders with a focus on solutioning their needs around workspaces and adjacent issues
- Manage sheets, docs, systems and vendor portals
- Plan and execute company-wide or site-wide events aimed at boosting morale and fostering a positive work environment
- Liaising/partnering with the People team to coordinate the regional roll-out of HR programs and policies
- Manage Workplace and Employee safety by keeping up to date on local guidelines and regulations related to workplace safety and maintaining a safe and secure workplace
- Build relationships and be the go-to person for local stakeholders, employees and EMEA office vendors, landlord PoCs, etc
- Track and manage the budget for EMEA locations.Work with the larger team to ensure budgets are aligned
- Excellent track record of sourcing and establishing internal and vendor relationships
Salary benchmarks
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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