Principal, Product Manager
ConfluentData Streaming company
United StatesLead
Benchmark
Index Ventures
Sequoia Capital
Coatue
Altimeter Capital
Franklin Templeton Investments
Product
About the role
TL;DR
Define and drive the multi-year product strategy and roadmap for Apache Flink.
- •This Principal Product Manager role is a high-leverage Individual Contributor position responsible for the complete product strategy and execution for Apache Flink across Confluent Cloud and Platform.
- •Key Responsibilities Define and drive the multi-year product strategy and roadmap for Apache Flink across cloud and on-prem products.
- •Establish structured processes to align product, engineering, GTM, and executive stakeholders.
- •Identify high-leverage, 0-to-1 product opportunities for Flink and in adjacent areas like AI, data engineering, data warehousing, and event-driven applications.
- •Define how Confluent Flink offerings will work across Confluent and IBM product portfolio.
- •Requirements Proven ability to own and deliver product strategy for complex cloud data products for customers ranging from data engineers to software developers.
- •Deep technical expertise in distributed systems, data engineering, and cloud.
- •Domain expertise in streaming technologies such as Kafka, Flink, or Spark is a plus but not required.
- •Experience leading product development across the entire lifecycle, scaling businesses from early product-market fit to substantial revenue. 10+ years of experience in product management for a technical software or cloud service product.
Required skills
Product StrategyGo-to-MarketFeature PrioritizationCustomer DiscoveryProduct AnalyticsCompetitive AnalysisProduct OperationsGrowth StrategyMonetization StrategyProduct-Led GrowthApache KafkaApache FlinkPythonJavaScala
Tech stack
Apache KafkaApache FlinkPythonJavaScalaSQLAirflowDatabricksSnowflake