Senior Product Manager, Cluster Linking in Ottawa

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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.
• Segment and re-package Cluster Linking. Define how we package, price, and position each so the offering works for customers and drives growth.
• Partner closely with your engineering manager counterpart as a strategic partner.
• 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 rally cross-functional support and turn 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 engineering, field, sales, finance, and leadership.
• 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.

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics.