Confluent
Principal, Product Manager
Remote Product role with clear candidate location fit.
PostedJul 1, 2026
Eligible countries1 accepted country
Seniority signalLead
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
USA
Role overview
Principal, Product Manager
Requirements and responsibilities
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What You Will Do:
- Define and drive the multi-year product strategy and roadmap for Apache Flink across cloud and on-prem products.
- Establish structured processes to align product, engineering, GTM, and executive stakeholders.
- Identify high-leverage, 0-to-1 product opportunities for Flink and in adjacent areas like AI, data engineering, data warehousing, and event-driven applications.
- Define how Confluent Flink offerings will work across Confluent and IBM product portfolio.
What You Will Bring:
- Proven ability to own and deliver product strategy for complex cloud data products for customers ranging from data engineers to software developers.
- Deep technical expertise in distributed systems, data engineering, and cloud. Domain expertise in streaming technologies such as Kafka, Flink, or Spark is a plus but not required.
- Experience leading product development across the entire lifecycle, scaling businesses from early product-market fit to substantial revenue.
- 10+ years of experience in product management for a technical software or cloud service product.
What Gives You an Edge:
- Hands-on engineering or technical background, including comfort with systems design, API design, and several languages (e.g., Python, Java, Scala, SQL, etc.).
- Experience with open-source software and determining commercialization strategy while building the community.
- Track record in data infrastructure, analytics, AI/ML platforms, real-time systems, or streaming systems, especially where the product serves customers with a diversity of technical depth.
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