Senior Product Manager

Senior Product Manager [Remote: UK, Germany]
Apache Flink®
Stream Processing Analytics Team

The Stream Processing & Analytics team at Confluent, which owns Kafka Streams and KSQL and our upcoming Apache Flink-based offering, is on a mission to build the first truly cloud-native, complete and secure stream processing platform. We enable our customers to derive valuable insights and take immediate actions from their data in motion.

We are looking for a seasoned Product Manager for our Apache Flink-based offering, who will help define a strategic roadmap for this area, maintain a tight feedback loop with our customers, and work closely with our engineering teams. Possible areas of focus include elasticity, autoscaling, multi-tenancy and observability.

Responsibilities:

• Develop a strategic vision of where to invest our effort to help our customers succeed.

• Think through a great end-to-end product experience with a focus on detailed user stories.

• Create a roadmap to deliver that experience to customers.

• Engage with customers, users and internal stakeholders to discover new product opportunities and to create a feedback loop throughout delivery

• Align with other teams to ensure our roadmap is unified and unblocked.

What We’re Looking For:

• Minimum 2+ years of experience as a software product manager, ideally for a developer product, and 4+ years of experience in overall technical roles.

• Experience defining product functional specifications including API, CLI and GUI.

• Strong written communication skills and experience working in a collaborative and remote environment.

• Strong technical competency, especially with distributed data systems, public and private clouds, and stream processing

• Experience liaising with cross-functional teams, communicating with both technical and non-technical audiences.

What Gives you an Edge:

• Experience as a Product Manager for a SaaS company is ideal

• Experience in working with Open Source communities is a plus

• Basic coding experience is great to have!