Senior Product Manager, Developer Experience

Confluent

Product Manager responsible for enhancing Confluent's AI-ready API platform for developers and operators. Collaborates across teams to drive product strategy with measurable business outcomes.

Posted 6/3/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Understand our users: Collect customers’ feedback, conduct interviews and analyze data to define user journeys, and key jobs to be done for developers, operators, and data scientists.
Drive the API Platform Strategy & Roadmap to drastically simplify the experience for developers, operators, and data scientists across all Confluent products with AI.
Define and prioritize key initiatives by linking them to measurable business outcomes (ROI) and validated customer demand.
Govern the API/CLI/TF interfaces across all Confluent products to offer consistent experiences while empowering product teams to move fast.
Execute on key initiatives across multiple teams through initial delivery and by driving adoption after launch.
Close the loop: Define quantitative and qualitative targets, measure performance against them, share results with stakeholders, and incorporate those learnings back into the strategy & product.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of experience as a product owner or product manager working on developer-focused products
Highly technical and deep understanding of how developers or tools interact with API/CLI/TF interfaces
Deep empathy and passion for solving customer problems and addressing end user needs
Experience in making an infrastructure product AI-ready
Experience building and supporting enterprise-grade products as an engineer, product manager, or solutions architect.
Experience building, writing, maintaining and defending a clear product roadmap and backlog backed by user stories and customer research.
Exceptional written and presentation skills. At Confluent we rely heavily on documents to explain the vision and facilitate concrete communication.
Demonstrated ability to drive business outcomes through product changes.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Belonging isn’t a perk here. It’s 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 what’s possible.
We’re 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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Hard Skills & Tools

APICLITF interfacesAI readinessproduct roadmapbacklog managementuser storiescustomer researchinfrastructure productsenterprise-grade products

Soft Skills

empathyproblem-solvingcommunicationpresentation skillsstakeholder engagementcollaborationanalytical thinkingcustomer focusstrategic thinkingadaptability