Confluent
Tech / AI / Software
StaffProductManager,RealTimeDataAnalyticsPlatform
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“Staff Product Manager, Real Time Data Analytics Platform at Confluent. Skills: vision, strategy, roadmap, core streaming analytics engine, stream processing, real-time analytical databases, modern serving infrastructure, data in motion, low-latency, queryable materialized views, AI agents, dashboards, operational queries, event-driven applications. Own the product strategy for Confluent's streaming analytics engine: storage, materialization, query serving, performance, and developer experience. ”
What You'll Achieve.
continuously materializing streaming data into fast, queryable state that serves real-time analytics, operational applications, and downstream intelligent systems from a single foundation; define a new product category that brings together concepts from streaming analytics, real-time OLAP, materialized views, and modern database systems into a cloud-native, streaming-first architecture; bring this to market and position Confluent as a compelling alternative to standalone real-time analytical databases; ensure the engine meets the needs of the products built on it; validate use cases across real-time analytics, operational applications, and AI, shaping the developer experience and refining go-to-market positioning; 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
Industry & Context.
asking hard questions; navigating tradeoffs in distributed systems, storage engines, query performance, and cost optimization
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
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, either through product management or hands-on engineering, Experience defining and launching products in the data infrastructure, analytics database, or stream processing space, technical judgment, comfortable navigating tradeoffs in distributed systems, storage engines, query performance, and cost optimization, Track record of leading cross-functional initiatives with executive-level visibility and communicating technical strategy to senior leadership
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
What You'll Do.
Own the product strategy for Confluent's streaming analytics engine: storage
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
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
and application integration
to ensure the engine meets the needs of the products built on it
Work with customers and design partners to validate use cases across real-time analytics
operational applications
shaping the developer experience and refining go-to-market positioning
Collaborate with Confluent's broader product and platform teams to ensure tight integration with Kafka
Define success metrics
and pricing strategy for a new product area
Influence Confluent's company-wide platform strategy through executive-level communication and cross-functional leadership
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
partnering with peer product managers; Partner deeply with engineering; Collaborate with peer product managers; Collaborate with Confluent's broader product and platform teams; leading cross-functional initiatives; communicating technical strategy to senior leadership
Communication Scope
giving honest feedback; executive-level communication
Full Job Description
We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them. It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together. One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform. ABOUT THE ROLE: Today, enterprises stitch together separate systems for streaming, analytics, and serving. Each of these systems come with its own latency, cost, and operational overhead. 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. 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. This system sits at the intersection of stream processing, real-time analytical databases, and modern serving infrastructure, continuously transforming data in motion into low-latency, queryable materialized views that power AI agents, dashboards, operational queries, and event-driven applications. You'll own the engine: the storage, materialization, query layer, and performance, while partnering with peer product managers who own the downstream product experiences built on top of it. This is a foundational, high-leverage role. You'll define a new product category that brings together concepts from streaming analytics, real-time OLAP, materialized views, and modern database systems into a cloud-native, streaming-first architecture. You'll partner directly with engineering, design,
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