Staff Product Manager, Flink Cloud Platform

Requirements and responsibilities

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What You Will Do:

Own the Flink Cloud Platform roadmap: Define and drive the product strategy and roadmap for enterprise-grade Flink capabilities including data-at-rest encryption (BYOK), client-side field-level encryption, managed disaster recovery, access controls, and audit logging notably.
Own the Flink Cloud Platform roadmap: Drive platform-level capabilities such as Flink compute pool management, workspace catalog design, and integration with Confluent Cloud's broader infrastructure (networking, identity, encryption platforms)
Drive enterprise customer adoption: Partner closely with field teams and strategic customers (including top-tier financial services and regulated industries) to understand requirements, close product gaps, and accelerate enterprise Flink adoption
Write product specifications: Author clear, precise PRD documents that translate complex customer and business requirements into well-scoped engineering deliverables
Collaborate cross-functionally: Work across security, identity, networking, and storage teams to ensure Flink integrates seamlessly with Confluent Cloud's enterprise capabilities.
Influence product strategy: Contribute to the overall Confluent Cloud Flink and DSP product strategy, identifying external market trends, competitive dynamics, and new opportunities
Measure success: Define and track key metrics for enterprise Flink adoption, working with data and analytics to inform prioritization decisions
Educate and enable: Partner with PMM, docs, and field enablement to ensure Confluent's sales and customer success teams can effectively position and support Flink enterprise capabilities

What You Will Bring:

8+ years of product management experience, with significant experience in cloud infrastructure, data platforms, or distributed systems
Deep understanding of enterprise security and compliance requirements, including encryption, key management (BYOK/CMK),
Experience with stream processing or real-time data systems — familiarity with Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, or similar technologies is strongly preferred
Strong technical acumen, ability to engage deeply with engineering on system design, understand distributed systems trade-offs, and write precise technical specifications
Track record of shipping enterprise-grade cloud products in partnership with engineering teams, ideally in a fully managed / SaaS environment
Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills, demonstrated ability to align and drive outcomes across multiple engineering teams, security, field, and go-to-market functions
Customer empathy and field engagement experience, comfortable engaging directly with enterprise customers, understanding their technical and business needs, and translating feedback into product direction
Strong written and verbal communication — ability to author compelling strategy documents, PRDs, and presentations for technical and non-technical audiences
Data-driven decision making, uses quantitative metrics and analytics to prioritize, measure success, and build consensus

What Gives You an Edge:

Experience with cloud service providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their security/encryption ecosystems
Familiarity with Apache Flink internals (state management, checkpointing, SQL, etc.)
Experience in regulated industries (financial services, healthcare, government)
Background in open-source communities or developer platforms
Experience with pricing and packaging for cloud-native products

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