Confluent

Staff Product Manager, Real Time Data Analytics Platform

Remote, United States · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 83 days ago

ReactDistributed SystemsKafkaMachine LearningData AnalysisAgentic AIProduct ManagementProduct StrategyLeadershipCommunication

About the role

Today, enterprises stitch together separate systems for streaming, analytics, and serving.
The next evolution of Confluent's platform collapses that complexity by continuously materializing streaming data into fast, queryable state that serves real-time analytics, operational applications, and downstream intelligent systems from a single foundation.
This is a foundational, high-leverage role.

Own the product strategy for Confluent's streaming analytics engine: storage, materialization, query serving, performance, and developer experience.
Develop competitive strategy against established real-time analytical databases, articulating Confluent's differentiated value as a streaming-native alternative.
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, to ensure the engine meets the needs of the products built on it.
Collaborate with Confluent's broader product and platform teams to ensure tight integration with Kafka, Flink, and Confluent Cloud.

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.
Experience defining and launching products in the data infrastructure, analytics database, or stream processing space.
Track record of leading cross-functional initiatives with executive-level visibility and communicating technical strategy to senior leadership.
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.
Prior experience with cloud-native infrastructure products and consumption-based pricing models.

As a Staff Product Manager, you'll own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the core streaming analytics engine underlying Confluent's real-time data platform.

Work with customers and design partners to validate use cases across real-time analytics, operational applications, and AI, shaping the developer experience and refining go-to-market positioning.

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