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This is not a feature-level role - you will define the architecture of our networking product surface across all clouds and connection models, set the multi-year roadmap, and operate as a co-decision-maker alongside engineering leadership on the technical direction of the platform. You will work across all networking connection types - PrivateLink, VNet peering, Transit Gateway, Private Service Connect, and egress optimization - and drive alignment across engineering, field, and executive stakeholders on what we build and why.\nWhat You Will Do:\nOwn 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\n\nDefine 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\n\nDrive architectural decisions in partnership with engineering leadership - weighing trade-offs between user experience, cost, and operational complexity\n\nExpand 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\n\nDevelop 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\n\nBuild 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\n\nDefine and own success metrics at the platform level - connecting technical milestones to business outcomes including revenue, retention, attach rates, and infrastructure cost efficiency\n\nEngage directly with strategic customers and prospects - represent the product roadmap with credibility in technical conversations with enterprise CTOs, architects, and network engineers\n\nWhat You Will Bring:\n8+ years of product management experience, with at least 3 years owning a cloud infrastructure, platform, or networking product\n\nDemonstrated track record of setting product strategy and roadmap at platform or portfolio scope - not just feature-level delivery\n\nDeep 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\n\nExperience owning products that serve enterprise customers with complex compliance, security, and connectivity requirements\n\nProven ability to partner with engineering leadership as a co-decision-maker on architectural direction - not just translating engineering output\n\nStrong analytical foundation: can model unit economics, build business cases with cost/risk sensitivity, and measure platform health through leading and lagging indicators\n\nPractices 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\n\nExperience developing PMs and raising the bar on product thinking - through direct mentorship, feedback, or team processes\n\nPreferred\nExperience with Envoy, Service Mesh, DNS and Kubernetes Networking\n\nFamiliarity with Terraform, API-first and infrastructure-as-code workflows, and how enterprise engineering teams operate networking automation\n\nExposure 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\n\nExperience operating in a product-led growth or usage-based pricing environment\n\nAn MBA degree is a plus\n\nWhat Gives You An Edge:\nAt the Staff level, we expect more than excellent execution on a defined scope. We're looking for someone who:\nDefines the playing field - identifies problems the team isn't yet working on and builds conviction for why they should be\n\nMultiplies others - makes the PMs and engineers around them better through frameworks, feedback, and the way they structure problems\n\nOperates 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\n\nTakes 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\n\nReady to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.\nCome As You Are\nBelonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.\nWe’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Employment decisions are based on job-related criteria, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other classification protected by law.\nPrivacy Statement\nConfluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. 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