Confluent

Senior Manager, Product-Led Growth Strategy and Operations

Confluent

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: CaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $193,200 - $227,000 per year

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About the role

  • Own PLG Strategy and Planning
  • Lead inputs into annual and quarterly planning, including target setting, scenario analysis, and operating tradeoffs.
  • Partner with senior PLG leadership to drive prioritization, investment decisions, and alignment across initiatives.
  • Drive Executive Decision Support and Communications
  • Own preparation for PLG executive reviews and retrospectives, including synthesis of insights, storyline development, and rigorous, executive-ready slide materials.
  • Translate complex analysis into clear, decision-oriented narratives that inform leadership direction and resource allocation.
  • Act as a thought partner to senior stakeholders, shaping both problem framing and solution direction.
  • Inform Product and GTM Strategy
  • Partner closely with Product to inform roadmap priorities based on growth insights, customer behavior, and activation patterns.
  • Work with Marketing and Sales to shape go-to-market strategy, campaign focus, and execution plans that support PLG objectives.
  • Lead Funnel Performance and Growth Diagnostics
  • Diagnose end-to-end performance across acquisition and activation funnels, identifying root causes and sizing opportunities for improvement.
  • Orchestrate Cross-Functional Execution
  • Drive progress across Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Sales by managing dependencies, sequencing, and timelines.

Requirements

  • Experience owning strategy, growth, or operating initiatives with accountability for business outcomes, ideally in a high-growth SaaS or technology environment.
  • Demonstrated ability to structure ambiguous problems and drive work forward in complex, cross-functional settings.
  • Strong analytical foundation, including comfort working directly with data, designing analyses, and evaluating experiments.
  • Fluency in core analytical and communication tools, including SQL for data exploration, spreadsheet-based modeling, and structured slide development for executive audiences.
  • Executive-level communication skills, including the ability to produce clear, rigorous, and detail-oriented slide materials.
  • Comfort influencing without authority and operating with a high degree of ownership and autonomy.
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Hard Skills & Tools
strategy ownershipgrowth initiativesoperating initiativesdata analysisproblem structuringperformance diagnosticsfunnel analysiscampaign executionroadmap prioritizationresource allocation
Soft Skills
executive communicationinfluencing without authoritycross-functional collaborationanalytical thinkingproblem framingsolution directionownershipautonomystoryline developmentinsight synthesis