Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. IBM Software develops AI-powered, cloud-native products that help transform client challenges into business solutions. The Staff Product Manager will own the platform strategy, architecture, and multi-year roadmap for Confluent Cloud Networking across AWS, Azure, and GCP, while driving technical decisions, stakeholder alignment, business cases, and platform-level success metrics.
Responsibilities
- Own the platform strategy for Confluent Cloud Networking across AWS, Azure, and GCP, defining the north star, multi-year roadmap, and sequencing of bets that balance customer connectivity needs, cost efficiency, security posture, and engineering leverage
- Define frameworks and standards that other PMs, designers, and engineers use to evaluate networking decisions, including connection model selection criteria, cost attribution models, security control frameworks, and launch readiness standards
- Drive architectural decisions in partnership with engineering leadership, weighing trade-offs between user experience, cost, and operational complexity
- Expand scope and create optionality by identifying adjacent areas the team should move into, such as network observability, cost transparency tooling, and next-generation isolation models, and building the business case for investment
- Develop the product team by mentoring Senior PMs, providing feedback on product documents and roadmap thinking, and raising the bar on customer research and decision-making
- Build senior stakeholder alignment across product, engineering, sales, field, legal, and security organizations, then present the platform vision to executive leadership to secure organizational investment. Develop compelling business cases, clearly communicate trade-offs, and earn commitment for multi-year platform bets
- Define and own success metrics at the platform level, connecting technical milestones to business outcomes including revenue, retention, attach rates, and infrastructure cost efficiency
- Engage directly with strategic customers and prospects, representing the product roadmap with credibility in technical conversations with enterprise CTOs, architects, and network engineers
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree
- 8+ years of product management experience, with at least 3 years owning a cloud infrastructure, platform, or networking product
- Demonstrated track record of setting product strategy and roadmap at a platform or portfolio level, not just feature-level delivery
- Deep fluency in cloud networking concepts, including PrivateLink, VNet peering, Transit Gateway, Private Service Connect, DNS, security groups, CIDR/IP management, and the trade-offs across AWS, Azure, and GCP
- Experience owning products that serve enterprise customers with complex compliance, security, and connectivity requirements
- Proven ability to partner with engineering leadership as a co-decision-maker on architectural direction, rather than simply translating engineering output
- Strong analytical foundation with the ability to model unit economics, build business cases with cost and risk sensitivity, and measure platform health through leading and lagging indicators
- Practices AI-native product management by using AI tools as a true thought partner throughout the product lifecycle, including research, prioritization, specification writing, and analytics. Demonstrates sound judgment on when to use, override, and validate AI-generated outputs, while also designing products, features, and APIs that are composable, observable, and easy for AI agents and automation to consume
- Experience developing Product Managers and raising the bar on product thinking through direct mentorship, feedback, and team processes
- Master's Degree
- Experience with Envoy, Service Mesh, DNS, and Kubernetes networking
- Familiarity with Terraform, API-first development, infrastructure-as-code workflows, and the networking automation practices used by enterprise engineering teams
- Exposure to network traffic metering, data transfer billing attribution, cost transparency tooling, or pricing and packaging strategy for cloud infrastructure products, including defining packaging tiers, price points, and commercial models for enterprise buyers
- Experience operating in a product-led growth (PLG) or usage-based pricing environment
- MBA degree is a plus
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement
- Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
- 401(k)
- Cash balance pension plan
- IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Financial counseling
- Life insurance
- Short- and long-term disability coverage
- Opportunities for performance-based salary incentive programs
- 12 paid holidays
- Minimum 56 hours sick time
- 120 hours vacation
- 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy
- Other Paid Care Leave programs
- Paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
- Training and educational resources on IBM's personalized, AI-driven learning platform
- Industry-recognized certifications
- Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups
- Giving and volunteer opportunities
- Discounts on retail products, services & experiences
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