Confluent · 3 months ago
Director, Product Marketing — Data Streaming Platform & Events PMM
United States
Full-time
Remote
Director/Executive
$252K/yr - $285K/yr
10+ years expConfluent is a company focused on revolutionizing data movement with its Data Streaming Platform. The Director of Product Marketing for DSP & Events will shape the product narrative, lead a team of PMMs, and develop strategies for product launches and market positioning, ensuring a strong presence in key events and a unified vision for the platform.
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Responsibilities
Build the Core Product narrative: Develop and maintain the platform story that ties together Core Kafka, Flink, Tableflow, Connect, and Governance into a unified DSP vision
Translate roadmap into launches and GTM: Build launch strategies and GTM plans for DSP innovations, ensuring product market fit, crisp positioning and broad market impact
Drive marquee events: Shape and deliver the product marketing strategy for tier-1 events (e.g., Current), working with executives to create inspiring innovation keynotes
Lead and develop a team: Manage and grow a small but high-performing DSP PMM team, coaching them to deliver high-quality messaging, content, and execution
Collaborate cross-functionally: Align with Product, Technical Marketing, Field, and Sales teams to ensure consistency of DSP messaging across all channels
Monitor the market: Stay ahead of competitive moves, customer needs, and industry shifts to keep our DSP positioning sharp and differentiated
Qualification
Required
10+ years in Product Marketing (enterprise, developer, data, or infrastructure products strongly preferred)
3+ years leading PMM teams with a proven ability to coach, develop, and scale high-performing talent
Strong track record in platform-level positioning and narrative development, not just feature-level marketing
Deep experience with tier-1 event storytelling and working directly with executives on keynote content
Strong executive presence and communication skills; ability to create content and narratives for customers, analysts, and C-level audiences
Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally and influence at all levels of the organization
Preferred
Background in streaming, data infrastructure, or AI/ML
Track record of building compelling product launches
Experience building compelling content for keynotes, events
On-stage or public speaking experience at industry events
Ability to connect highly technical concepts with business outcomes in a clear, engaging way
Company
Confluent
Confluent offers a streaming platform based on Apache Kafka that enables companies to easily access data as real-time streams.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$459.6MKey Investors
CoatueSequoia CapitalIndex Ventures
2025-12-08Acquired
2021-06-24IPO
2021-06-10Secondary Market
Leadership Team
Jun Rao
Co-founder
Chad Verbowski
CTO
Recent News
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