Senior Product Manager, Cluster Linking

Description We werent just building better tech. We were rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesnt 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

Cluster Linking is how Kafka clusters are replicated and it sits at the very core of Confluent. When a global bank architects zero-data-loss disaster recovery, when an enterprise migrates petabytes off open-source Kafka, or when a multinational replicates event streams across three continents, theyre running on Cluster Linking.

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.

Cluster Linking is one of Confluents fastest-growing platform products, and youll own that growth. Our largest customers depend on it, and because it cuts across Kafka, cloud infrastructure, networking, and security, your work will have visibility and influence across the company.

What You Will Do

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. The product serves Disaster Recovery migrations, data sharing, and cross-cloud replication, each with different customer needs and pricing dynamics. 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. Use that partnership to understand tradeoffs, make decisions fast, and keep the product moving forward.

Work directly with customers. Youll be pulled in many directions, customers will ask a lot of you. Your job is to steer them toward the right architectures and models, get them excited about whats coming, listen to what they need next, and balance the present opportunity with where the product is headed.

Drive results. Run campaigns with sellers and solutions engineers, lead webinars, assemble teams of subject matter experts, and do what it takes to move your priorities forward.

Influence and energize the people around you. Confluent moves fast, and people are ready to help. Harness that, get teams excited, rally cross-functional support, and turn organizational momentum into product momentum.

What You Will Bring

5 years of product management experience, ideally in infrastructure, data platforms, or cloud products. Youve shipped technical products and driven measurable outcomes.

Genuine interest in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure. Kafka is not simple. You dont need prior Kafka expertise, but you need to be energized by technical depth, not put off by it.

A results-driven mindset. You dont wait for things to happen; you make them happen. You get on calls with sellers, you pull in the right people, and you keep pushing until the work is done.

Proven ability to influence. You get people excited and aligned across engineering, field sales, finance, and leadership, often without formal authority.

Strong ownership mentality. You take responsibility from day one. You drive ambiguous problems to clarity, remove blockers, and treat the product like your own business.

Business thinking beyond the backlog. You think about segmentation, packaging, pricing, and market impact, not just features. You understand that how a product is offered matters as much as what it does.

Clear communication. You can make technical topics understandable for executive audiences, write sharp product docs, and present confidently to customers and leadership.

LLM or GenAI knowledge is a bonus but not required.

Ready to build whats next? Lets get in motion.

Come As You Are

Belonging isnt a perk here. Its 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 whats possible.

Were 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.

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$163.9K - $192.6K

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