Staff Product Manager at Confluent driving the Kafka Operator experience strategy and execution. Leading product initiatives to enhance the event streaming platform.
Responsibilities
Contribute to the mission of building the world’s best event streaming platform
Lead the vision, strategy, and execution for our Kafka Operator experience
Define and own the product strategy and vision for the Cloud Kafka Operator
Conduct market research and competitive analysis
Translate strategic objectives into comprehensive product and user experience requirements
Collaborate with Engineering, UX/UI Design, Documentation, Support, and Field teams throughout the product lifecycle
Work with Product marketing to define and execute go-to-market strategies
Requirements
Minimum 8 years of experience as a software product manager, ideally for a developer product
Empathy for our enterprise customers, and a passion for solving their problems with the software
Ability to craft a product strategy and roadmap in concert with customers, engineering, design, and go-to-market teams
Excellent communication skills, including the ability to distill technical concepts to a non-technical audience
Strong technical competency, especially with distributed data systems, public and private clouds, and stream processing
Experience with data sharing technologies is a plus
Experience engaging with an open-source community is a plus
Bachelor's, Master’s, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related technical field
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