Confluent
Staff Product Manager, Cloud Networking
Remote, United States · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 67 days ago
ReactAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformKafkaAgentic AICybersecurityProduct ManagementProduct StrategyNegotiationDNSResearchLeadershipMentoring
About the role
- Confluent's Cloud Networking team is responsible for making connectivity to and from Confluent Cloud reliable, scalable, secure, cost-efficient, and simple to use - across Kafka, Flink, Connectors, Data Governance, and Tableflow, on AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Responsibilities
- Own the platform strategy for Confluent Cloud Networking across AWS, Azure, and GCP - defining the north star, multi-year roadmap, and sequencing of bets that balance customer connectivity needs, cost efficiency, security posture, and engineering leverage
- Drive architectural decisions in partnership with engineering leadership - weighing trade-offs between user experience, cost, and operational complexity
- Expand scope and create optionality - identify adjacencies the team should move into (network observability, cost transparency tooling, next-generation isolation models) and build the business case for them
- Develop the product team - mentor Senior PMs on the team, provide feedback on product documents and roadmap thinking, and raise the bar on how the team approaches customer research and decision-making
- Define and own success metrics at the platform level - connecting technical milestones to business outcomes including revenue, retention, attach rates, and infrastructure cost efficiency
- Proven ability to partner with engineering leadership as a co-decision-maker on architectural direction - not just translating engineering output
- Practices AI-native product management - uses AI tools as a genuine thought partner throughout the product lifecycle (research, prioritization, spec writing, analytics), with sound judgment on when to use, override, and validate AI output; and brings that same mindset to product design, building features and APIs that are composable, observable, and easy for AI agents and automation to consume
- Experience developing PMs and raising the bar on product thinking - through direct mentorship, feedback, or team processes
- Defines the playing field - identifies problems the team isn't yet working on and builds conviction for why they should be
- READY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT?
Nice to have
- Experience with Envoy, Service Mesh, DNS and Kubernetes Networking
- Familiarity with Terraform, API-first and infrastructure-as-code workflows, and how enterprise engineering teams operate networking automation
- Experience operating in a product-led growth or usage-based pricing environment
- An MBA degree is a plus
Skills
- Multiplies others - makes the PMs and engineers around them better through frameworks, feedback, and the way they structure problems
Benefits
- Strong analytical foundation: can model unit economics, build business cases with cost/risk sensitivity, and measure platform health through leading and lagging indicators
- Belonging isn't a perk here.
Company info
- Engage directly with strategic customers and prospects - represent the product roadmap with credibility in technical conversations with enterprise CTOs, architects, and network engineers
- Experience owning products that serve enterprise customers with complex compliance, security, and connectivity requirements
- At the Staff level, we expect more than excellent execution on a defined scope. We're looking for someone who:
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