Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Confluent is a company focused on transforming how data moves and is utilized. They are seeking a strategic and hands-on technical leader to enhance their internal AI capabilities and automate decision-making systems to improve R&D productivity.
Responsibilities
- Define and evangelize the AI and agentic flows strategy — aligning business metrics, engineering needs, and platform opportunities
- Build a roadmap for introducing agentic automation features, smart assistants, and AI-driven workflows across all aspects of engineering
- Identify and resolve bottlenecks across the entire product and software development life cycle
- Partner with Engineering, Trust and Security to integrate AI capabilities responsibly and at scale
- Operationalize AI adoption internally and share use cases externally
- Drive complex cross-team projects requiring multi-stakeholder alignment
- Continuously raise the bar for code/architectural quality across engineering
- Lead the delivery of core agentic workflows that improves productivity across engineering
- Balance of hands-on contributions with effective delegation to others. Expect 60% execution and 40% strategy setting
- Drive measurable adoption of AI tooling and flows with internal teams
- Ability to adopt industry standards, ethical frameworks, guardrails, and quality metrics for AI behavior and automated flows
- Define success metrics and KPIs (e.g., AI-driven usage lift, automation ROI, reduction in manual workflows)
- Participate in external forums — conferences, podcasts, customer briefings on occasion
- Evolve as the technology landscape shifts
- Write internal playbooks for building and scaling agentic outcomes
Skills
- 8+ years driving strategic productivity initiatives, ideally in SaaS/Cloud platforms or developer tools with some proven experience in AI initiatives
- Considered an expert in building distributed systems and/or the infrastructure and tools to support it
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence senior stakeholders without direct authority
- Strong communicator who can translate complex technical strategies into impact-oriented outcomes
- Demonstrated track record delivering products or features that generated measurable business value
- Comfortable defining success criteria, metrics, and ROI for ambiguous, future-facing domains
- Hands-on experience with AI or adjacent AI/ML platform experience with LLM integration and workflow automation, with demonstrated appetite to build toward agentic patterns
- Deep understanding of responsible AI practices and governance
- Passion for solving real customer problems with elegant, scalable solutions
- Ability to tie technical efforts directly to business KPIs (adoption, retention, revenue impact)
- Experience working in cloud-native platforms or developer ecosystems
- Prior leadership in scaling internal AI platforms or driving AI adoption across large organizations
- Background in real-time data, event-driven architecture, or platform engineering
Benefits
- Offers Equity
- REMOTE work model
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