Staff Product Manager, Real Time Data Analytics Platform

Responsibilities

• Own the product strategy for Confluent's streaming analytics engine: storage, materialization, query serving, performance, 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, latency, query performance, cost, 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, context delivery, 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, and AI, 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, Flink, and Confluent Cloud.
• Define success metrics, cost models, and pricing strategy for a new product area.
• Influence Confluent's company-wide platform strategy through executive-level communication and cross-functional leadership.

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