Confluent
Staff Product Manager, Cloud Networking
Rol remoto de Product con fit claro de ubicación del candidato.
Publicado15 may 2026
Países elegibles1 país aceptado
Señal de seniorityLead
Modelo de trabajoRemoto
Ubicaciones aceptadas para candidatos
Estados Unidos
Resumen del rol
Staff Product Manager, Cloud Networking
Requisitos y responsabilidades
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What You Will Do:
- 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
- Define frameworks and standards that other PMs, designers, and engineers use to evaluate networking decisions — connection model selection criteria, cost attribution models, security control frameworks, and launch readiness standards
- 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
- Build senior stakeholder alignment across product, engineering, sales, field, legal, and security, then present the platform vision to executive leadership to secure organizational investment — develop the business case, communicate trade-offs clearly, and earn commitment for multi-year platform bets
- Define and own success metrics at the platform level — connecting technical milestones to business outcomes including revenue, retention, attach rates, and infrastructure cost efficiency
- Engage directly with strategic customers and prospects — represent the product roadmap with credibility in technical conversations with enterprise CTOs, architects, and network engineers
What You Will Bring:
- 8+ years of product management experience, with at least 3 years owning a cloud infrastructure, platform, or networking product
- Demonstrated track record of setting product strategy and roadmap at platform or portfolio scope — not just feature-level delivery
- Deep fluency in cloud networking concepts: PrivateLink, VNet peering, Transit Gateway, Private Service Connect, DNS, security groups, CIDR/IP management, and their trade-offs across AWS, Azure, and GCP
- Experience owning products that serve enterprise customers with complex compliance, security, and connectivity requirements
- Proven ability to partner with engineering leadership as a co-decision-maker on architectural direction — not just translating engineering output
- Strong analytical foundation: can model unit economics, build business cases with cost/risk sensitivity, and measure platform health through leading and lagging indicators
- 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
Preferred
- 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
- Exposure to network traffic metering, data transfer billing attribution, cost transparency tooling, or pricing and packaging strategy for cloud infrastructure products — defining packaging tiers, price points, and commercial model for enterprise buyers
- Experience operating in a product-led growth or usage-based pricing environment
- An MBA degree is a plus
What Gives You An Edge:
- At the Staff level, we expect more than excellent execution on a defined scope. We're looking for someone who:Defines the playing field — identifies problems the team isn't yet working on and builds conviction for why they should beMultiplies others — makes the PMs and engineers around them better through frameworks, feedback, and the way they structure problemsOperates 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 themTakes 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
- Defines the playing field — identifies problems the team isn't yet working on and builds conviction for why they should be
- 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
Details
- Defines the playing field — identifies problems the team isn't yet working on and builds conviction for why they should be
- 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
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