
Senior Manager, Product-Led Growth Strategy and Operations
Confluent
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: California • United States
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Salary
💰 $193,200 - $227,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
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.
Benefits
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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