资深产品经理，云网络
Staff Product Manager, Cloud Networking
我们不仅仅在打造更好的技术。我们在重新定义数据的流动方式，以及世界能通过它实现什么。在Confluent，数据不会停滞。我们的平台让信息动起来，以接近实时的方式进行流式传输，使公司能够更快地做出反应，更聪明地构建，并提供与周围世界一样动态的体验。
需要某种特定类型的人加入这个团队。那些会提出难题、给予诚实反馈并互相支持的人。没有自大，没有单打独斗。只有聪明、好奇的人一起朝着更大的目标前进。
一个Confluent。一个团队。一个数据流平台。
关于职位：
Confluent的云网络团队负责确保与Confluent Cloud之间的连接可靠、可扩展、安全、成本高效且易于使用——涵盖Kafka、Flink、Connectors、数据治理和Tableflow，在AWS、Azure和GCP上。
作为云网络资深产品经理，你将负责企业连接到Confluent Cloud的平台策略。这不是一个功能级别的职位——你将定义跨所有云和连接模型的网络产品架构，制定多年路线图，并与工程领导层共同决策平台的技术方向。你将涉及所有网络连接类型——PrivateLink、VNet对等、Transit Gateway、Private Service Connect和出站优化，并推动工程、现场和高管利益相关者在我们构建什么以及为什么构建上的共识。
你将负责：
- 在AWS、Azure和GCP上负责Confluent Cloud网络的平台策略——定义愿景、多年路线图和平衡客户连接需求、成本效率、安全态势和工程杠杆的优先级顺序
- 定义其他PM、设计师和工程师用来评估网络决策的框架和标准——连接模型选择标准、成本归因模型、安全控制框架和发布就绪标准
- 与工程领导层合作做出架构决策——权衡用户体验、成本和运营复杂性之间的取舍
- 拓展范围并创造可能性——识别团队应进入的相关领域（网络可观测性、成本透明工具、下一代隔离模型）并为它们建立商业案例
- 发展产品团队——指导团队中的高级PM，为他们提供产品方面的反馈
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We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.
It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.
One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.
ABOUT THE ROLE:
Confluent's Cloud Networking team is responsible for making connectivity to and from Confluent Cloud reliable, scalable, secure, cost-efficient, and simple to use — across Kafka, Flink, Connectors, Data Governance, and Tableflow, on AWS, Azure, and GCP.
As Staff PM for Cloud Networking, you will own the platform strategy for how enterprises connect to Confluent Cloud. 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.
WHAT YOU WILL DO:
- Own 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
- Define 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
- Drive architectural decisions in partnership with engineering leadership — weighing trade-offs between user experience, cost, and operational complexity
- Expand 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
- Develop 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
- Build 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
- Define and own success metrics at the platform level — connecting technical milestones to business outcomes including revenue, retention, attach rates, and infrastructure cost efficiency
- Engage directly with strategic customers and prospects — represent the product roadmap with credibility in technical conversations with enterprise CTOs, architects, and network engineers
WHAT YOU WILL BRING:
- 8+ years of product management experience, with at least 3 years owning a cloud infrastructure, platform, or networking product
- Demonstrated track record of setting product strategy and roadmap at platform or portfolio scope — not just feature-level delivery
- Deep 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
- Experience owning products that serve enterprise customers with complex compliance, security, and connectivity requirements
- Proven ability to partner with engineering leadership as a co-decision-maker on architectural direction — not just translating engineering output
- Strong analytical foundation: can model unit economics, build business cases with cost/risk sensitivity, and measure platform health through leading and lagging indicators
- Practices 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
- Experience developing PMs and raising the bar on product thinking — through direct mentorship, feedback, or team processes
PREFERRED
- Experience with Envoy, Service Mesh, DNS and Kubernetes Networking
- Familiarity with Terraform, API-first and infrastructure-as-code workflows, and how enterprise engineering teams operate networking automation
- Exposure 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
- Experience operating in a product-led growth or usage-based pricing environment
- An MBA degree is a plus
WHAT GIVES YOU AN EDGE:
- At the Staff level, we expect more than excellent execution on a defined scope. We're looking for someone who:
- Defines the playing field — identifies problems the team isn't yet working on and builds conviction for why they should be
- Multiplies others — makes the PMs and engineers around them better through frameworks, feedback, and the way they structure problems
- Operates 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
- Takes 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
READY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.
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