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The next evolution of Confluent's platform collapses that complexity by continuously materializing streaming data into fast, queryable state that serves real-time analytics, operational applications, and downstream intelligent systems from a single foundation.\nAs a Staff Product Manager, you'll own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the core streaming analytics engine underlying Confluent's real-time data platform. This system sits at the intersection of stream processing, real-time analytical databases, and modern serving infrastructure, continuously transforming data in motion into low-latency, queryable materialized views that power AI agents, dashboards, operational queries, and event-driven applications. You'll own the engine: the storage, materialization, query layer, and performance, while partnering with peer product managers who own the downstream product experiences built on top of it.\nThis is a foundational, high-leverage role. You'll define a new product category that brings together concepts from streaming analytics, real-time OLAP, materialized views, and modern database systems into a cloud-native, streaming-first architecture. You'll partner directly with engineering, design, and senior leadership to bring this to market and position Confluent as a compelling alternative to standalone real-time analytical databases.\nWhat You Will Do:\nOwn the product strategy for Confluent's streaming analytics engine: storage, materialization, query serving, performance, and developer experience.\n\nDevelop competitive strategy against established real-time analytical databases, articulating Confluent's differentiated value as a streaming-native alternative.\n\nDrive key architectural and product tradeoffs across consistency, latency, query performance, cost, and developer ergonomics.\n\nPartner deeply with engineering to navigate the technical complexity of building a new cloud-native data system at scale.\n\nCollaborate 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.\n\nWork 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.\n\nCollaborate with Confluent's broader product and platform teams to ensure tight integration with Kafka, Flink, and Confluent Cloud.\n\nDefine success metrics, cost models, and pricing strategy for a new product area.\n\nInfluence Confluent's company-wide platform strategy through executive-level communication and cross-functional leadership.\n\nWhat You Will Bring:\nBachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.\n\n8+ years of experience in product management or related technical roles.\n\n5+ years of experience taking technical infrastructure or data products from conception to launch.\n\nDeep familiarity with real-time analytics, database internals, or streaming data platform architecture, either through product management or hands-on engineering.\n\nExperience defining and launching products in the data infrastructure, analytics database, or stream processing space.\n\nStrong technical judgment, comfortable navigating tradeoffs in distributed systems, storage engines, query performance, and cost optimization.\n\nTrack record of leading cross-functional initiatives with executive-level visibility and communicating technical strategy to senior leadership.\n\nWhat Gives You an Edge:\nEngineering background in analytical databases, stream processing, or distributed storage systems.\n\nExperience with real-time OLAP engines (e.g., ClickHouse, Apache Druid, StarRocks, Apache Pinot) as a builder, product manager, or power user.\n\nFamiliarity with Kafka, Flink, or similar streaming infrastructure.\n\nExperience building products that serve AI/ML workloads for retrieval, feature serving, or context delivery.\n\nPrior experience with cloud-native infrastructure products and consumption-based pricing models.\n\nExperience working on open source data infrastructure projects.\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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