Staff Product Manager, Kafka Connect

What You Will Do

• You’ll be responsible for the success of a major product initiative, from initial conception and customer development to growth strategy.
• You’ll become the trusted resource for your product, making sure that the engineering, design, sales, and marketing have what they need to make the right trade-offs, build the right product, and grow it successfully in the market.

What You Will Bring

• 8+ years of experience as a software product manager, ideally for an Enterprise technical product
• Empathy for our enterprise customers, and a passion for solving their problems with the software, sometimes being hands-on.
• Ability to craft a product strategy and roadmap in concert with customers, engineering, design, and go-to-market teams
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to distill technical concepts to a non-technical audience
• Strong technical competency, especially with distributed data systems, public and private clouds, and stream processing
• Experience with a modern integration platform is a plus
• Experience with Enterprise software features like security, networking, observability is a plus
• MBA is a strong plus
• Bachelor's, Master’s, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related technical field

Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.

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