Senior Product Manager, Developer Experience
ConfluentData Streaming company
United StatesSenior
Benchmark
Index Ventures
Sequoia Capital
Coatue
Altimeter Capital
Franklin Templeton Investments
Product
About the role
TL;DR
Empower developers and operators by evolving Confluent's API platform and making it AI-ready.
- •As a product manager on the Platform team, you will be responsible for empowering developers and operators of all Confluent customers to automate their operations by evolving Confluent's API platform and making it AI-ready.
- •Key Responsibilities Understand our users: Collect customers’ feedback, conduct interviews and analyze data to define user journeys, and key jobs to be done for developers, operators, and data scientists.
- •Drive the API Platform Strategy & Roadmap to drastically simplify the experience for developers, operators, and data scientists across all Confluent products with AI.
- •Define and prioritize key initiatives by linking them to measurable business outcomes (ROI) and validated customer demand.
- •Govern the API/CLI/TF interfaces across all Confluent products to offer consistent experiences while empowering product teams to move fast.
- •Execute on key initiatives across multiple teams through initial delivery and by driving adoption after launch.
- •Close the loop: Define quantitative and qualitative targets, measure performance against them, share results with stakeholders, and incorporate those learnings back into the strategy & product.
- •Requirements 5+ years of experience as a product owner or product manager working on developer-focused products Highly technical and deep understanding of how developers or tools interact with API/CLI/TF interfaces Deep empathy and passion for solving customer problems and addressing end user needs Experience in making an infrastructure product AI-ready Experience building and supporting enterprise-grade products as an engineer, product manager, or solutions architect.
- •Experience building, writing, maintaining and defending a clear product roadmap and backlog backed by user stories and customer research.
- •Exceptional written and presentation skills.
- •At Confluent we rely heavily on documents to explain the vision and facilitate concrete communication.
- •Demonstrated ability to drive business outcomes through product changes
Required skills
Product ManagementTerraformLLMsProduct StrategyGo-to-MarketFeature PrioritizationCustomer DiscoveryProduct AnalyticsCompetitive AnalysisProduct OperationsGrowth StrategyMonetization StrategyJobs to Be DoneProduct-Led Growth
Nice-to-have skills
Engineering ManagementTechnical LeadershipStrategic PlanningOrganizational DesignCoachingMentoringChange ManagementCross-functional LeadershipExecutive PresenceVision Setting
Domain expertise
developer-toolsai
Benefits & perks
Remote
Tech stack
TerraformLLMs