Staff Product Manager, Real Time Data Analytics Platform

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Responsibilities

• ▹Own the product strategy for the streaming analytics engine: storage, materialization, query serving, performance, and developer experience
• ▹Develop competitive strategy against established real-time analytical databases, articulating Confluent's differentiated streaming-native value
• ▹Drive key architectural and product tradeoffs across consistency, latency, query performance, cost, and developer ergonomics
• ▹Partner deeply with engineering to navigate the technical complexity of building a new cloud-native data system at scale
• ▹Collaborate with peer product managers who own downstream experiences including AI, context delivery, and application integration
• ▹Work with customers and design partners to validate use cases across real-time analytics, operational applications, and AI
• ▹Collaborate with Confluent's broader product and platform teams to ensure tight integration with Kafka, Flink, and Confluent Cloud
• ▹Define success metrics, cost models, and pricing strategy for a new product area
• ▹Influence Confluent's company-wide platform strategy through executive-level communication

Requirements

• ▹Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
• ▹8+ years of experience in product management or related technical roles
• ▹5+ years of experience taking technical infrastructure or data products from conception to launch
• ▹Deep familiarity with real-time analytics, database internals, or streaming data platform architecture
• ▹Experience defining and launching products in the data infrastructure, analytics database, or stream processing space
• ▹Strong technical judgment navigating tradeoffs in distributed systems, storage engines, query performance, and cost optimization
• ▹Track record of leading cross-functional initiatives with executive-level visibility

Nice to have

• ▹Engineering background in analytical databases, stream processing, or distributed storage systems
• ▹Experience with real-time OLAP engines (e.g. ClickHouse, Apache Druid, StarRocks, Apache Pinot) as a builder, product manager, or power user
• ▹Familiarity with Kafka, Flink, or similar streaming infrastructure
• ▹Experience building products that serve AI/ML workloads for retrieval, feature serving, or context delivery
• ▹Prior experience with cloud-native infrastructure products and consumption-based pricing models
• ▹Experience working on open-source data infrastructure projects

Soft skills

About the company

Confluent is a data streaming platform company (founded by the creators of Kafka), an IBM subsidiary, that puts data in motion for enterprises in near real time.