Confluent is looking to solve the problem of building better tech and rewriting how data moves, by putting information in motion and streaming it in near real-time, enabling companies to react faster, build smarter, and deliver dynamic experiences.
Requirements
- Experience with the domain area of Generative AI, LLMs, and agents.
- Experience in data streaming and stream processing, particularly with Kafka and Flink
- Hands-on AI experience, building applications that use models or training models
- Prior experience working on open source projects
- Experience in software development or engineering
Responsibilities
- Shape the vision and roadmap for how Confluent delivers real-time, context-rich data to AI systems.
- Work with engineering and design to create new primitives for streaming-native AI, covering agents, inference, retrieval, and good ol’ fashion machine learning.
- Partner with customers to understand how they’re applying AI to live operational data and turn those insights into clear product direction.
- Prototype and iterate quickly, validating ideas through small, high-impact releases.
- Validate market size and opportunity (e.g., user-based, opportunity, business).
Other
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of experience in product management or related technical roles.
- 3 years of experience taking technical products from conception to launch (e.g., ideation to execution, end-to-end, 0 to 1, etc).
- 4 years of experience in a role preparing and delivering technical presentations to executive leadership
- Travel and work across time zones and backgrounds
