Senior Product Manager, Cluster Linking

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Your role and responsibilities:

• Cluster Linking is how Kafka clusters are replicated, and it sits at the very core of Confluent. This role will define the future of Cluster Linking: how we deliver seamless disaster recovery for Kafka workloads, how we build self-service migration paths into Confluent Cloud, and how we enable cross-organization data sharing to power real-time, operational data exchanges.
• Launch and drive adoption for our one-click DR initiative. Take disaster recovery from a manually configured capability to a seamless, productized experience that customers can adopt with confidence.
• Define the future of real-time stream sharing across organizations, including its security model, networking, access controls, and how it scales across organizations and use cases.
• Power capabilities that let customers migrate to Confluent in a few clicks or API calls. Define the art of the possible and make the migration path a reason to choose Confluent.
• Segment and re-package Cluster Linking. Define how we package, price, and position each offering to work for customers and drive growth.
• Partner closely with your engineering manager counterpart as a strategic partner to understand tradeoffs, make decisions fast, and keep the product moving forward.
• Work directly with customers to steer them toward the right architectures and models, listen to what they need next, and balance the present opportunity with where the product is headed.
• Drive results by running campaigns with sellers and solutions engineers, leading webinars, and assembling teams of subject matter experts.
• Influence and energize the people around you to harness organizational momentum into product momentum.

Required technical and professional expertise:

• 5+ years of product management experience, ideally in infrastructure, data platforms, or cloud products.
• Genuine interest in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure.
• A results-driven mindset.
• Proven ability to influence across various teams.
• Strong ownership mentality.
• Business thinking beyond the backlog.
• Clear communication skills.

Preferred technical and professional experience:

• Expertise in Market Analysis.
• Product Roadmap Development.
• Cross-Functional Team Collaboration.

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