Confluent

Confluent

Staff Product Manager, Cloud Networking

Remote, United States · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 154 days ago
ReactAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformKafkaAgentic AICybersecurityProduct ManagementProduct StrategyNegotiationDNSResearchLeadershipMentoring

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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
  • Multiplies others - makes the PMs and engineers around them better through frameworks, feedback, and the way they structure problems
  • Operates without a ceiling - can go from a whiteboard architecture discussion to a customer negotiation to an executive strategy review, and adds value in all of them
  • Takes a position - has a clear point of view on where cloud networking is going and can defend it under scrutiny, while remaining open to updating when given new information

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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