Confluent · 3 months ago
Distinguished AI Strategist
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$322K/yr - $386K/yrConfluent is a company focused on transforming how data moves and is utilized in real-time. They are seeking a Distinguished AI Strategist who will investigate how data streaming can enhance AI-enabled applications, engage with customers, and shape industry thinking around data streaming in AI.
AnalyticsCloud Data ServicesEnterprise SoftwareOpen Source
Responsibilities
Research: The DAIS will spend a significant portion of their time on high-impact, long-term research investigations that take one quarter or more. They will examine how data streaming can integrate with existing AI technologies, patterns, and practices to deliver better outcomes and faster time-to-market for our customers using Confluent to build real-time applications. This will inform both R&D and GTM aspects of Confluent’s business
Engage with the Market. Represent Confluent with C-level executives at prospects and customers, media, and analysts to showcase data streaming’s role in enabling AI. Support our Customer and Product Advisory Boards to ensure that our products, marketing, and field enablement are of the highest quality and relevance to the market
Thought Leadership: Shape the industry thinking around Data Streaming applications in AI, focusing on Developers, Architects, CTOs, and Analysts through technical content and industry use cases demonstrating business value. Drive adoption of Confluent products by AI practitioners. Enable Confluent’s field to better connect with and serve our customers
Data Streaming Advocacy: Establish credibility for Confluent as an enabling capability for AI-enabled applications by collaborating with our solutions engineering team to develop and promote relevant technical patterns and reference architectures
Product Direction and Prototyping: Recommend notable changes in technology direction to Product/Engineering to integrate with existing AI technologies and workflows. Prototype early-stage ideas, explore the practicalities of different patterns, and formalize new implementation strategies. Contemplate new capabilities more than twelve months out from the current product roadmap
Competition and Technology Trends: Track AI-related technology trends affecting Confluent’s trajectory, analyze competitive threats from a technology perspective and look for opportunities
Qualification
Required
Industry experience as a leader in either R&D or GTM for enterprise SaaS companies, well-versed in commercializing AI-enabled technologies
Alternatively, come with strong experience as an AI researcher with a PhD in Computer Science (or similar) and relevant, top-tier peer-reviewed publications
Ability to extract the important concepts and details from a complex technical domain, summarize, and articulate clearly and succinctly
Know when to dig deep
Ability to confidently influence deals with Confluent's C-level and C-level customers
Experience creating novel content that reframes existing concepts in interesting ways
Excellent writing style with the ability to clearly explain complex concepts
Confident speaking style, spanning both technical and conceptual content
Experience in operating autonomously, delivering high-quality tasks on time and with minimal supervision
Proven software development or data science experience
Broad understanding of the technology space in general, distributed systems, and business
Data streaming experience is considered a huge plus
Company
Confluent
Confluent offers a streaming platform based on Apache Kafka that enables companies to easily access data as real-time streams.
Founded in 2014
1001-5000 employees
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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
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