Manage a team of PMs working with multiple engineering teams
Understand what other Confluent product teams need, make high-leverage platform investments, and raise awareness and adoption of platform capabilities among Confluent teams
Determine areas of platform focus to inform roadmap and build vs buy decisions
Work with other internal teams to align on company strategy, and prioritize platform focus areas based on strategy and ROI. Align the platform area around the overall prioritization
Define, socialize, and improve internal measures of platform success
Partner with multiple feature teams to address customer needs in a consistent way across a large, deeply technical product surface
Collaborate with platform engineering partners to create a coherent strategy for the platform area which aligns with the overall company strategy
Build and improve common capabilities for provisioning, updates, scaling, managing capacity, observability, and troubleshooting for different products and services
Consistency in “nouns and verbs” across the platform (terminology, levels of abstraction, policies, and rules)
Lead and grow the India PM teams.
Further, refine the notion of a “Connect PM” at Confluent
Ensure visibility and growth opportunities for the Connect PM team, mentor and coach the team
Structure the organization to handle the next phase of Confluent’s growth
Raise the bar for the product management craft at Confluent
Partner and brainstorm with other PMs to create strategy documents, requirements documents, etc. with a clear focus on solving customer problems and measuring success
Encourage the team to uplevel their skills by attending courses, and conferences, or taking on assignments that stretch their capabilities
What We’re Looking For:
Overall 15+ years of experience of which 10+ years of product management experience, with 4+ years, managing a team of product managers
Deep understanding of and empathy for how developers build, operate, and consume SaaS products
Experience building and growing a team of PMs
Excellent communication skills - articulate the platform and cloud product vision and present to internal and external customers as needed (standard PM director stuff - communication, hiring, prioritization, complexity, etc)
