Confluent

Director of Product Management, Pricing & Monetization

United States

$277,200 – $332,600Compensation
Expert & Leadership (9+ years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Data Streaming, Cloud Computing, SoftwareIndustries

About the Role

As the Director of Product Management leading Pricing and Monetization, you will play a key role in designing and optimizing Confluent's pricing models to drive growth. You will collaborate closely across product, engineering, finance, and revenue teams to devise pricing & packaging strategies across our product portfolio that align customer value and differentiation with technical specifications and costs. By building product adoption and growth assumptions, you will also be responsible for informing financial projections while enabling data-driven decision-making. Your expertise will be critical to how we go to market, including our product strategy, positioning & messaging, sales activation, discount strategy & governance, and more.

What You Will Do

  • Drive pricing strategy: Work closely across product, engineering, finance, and sales teams to understand our value proposition and differentiation, technical specifications, and cost implications, and translate them into optimized pricing and monetization strategies.
  • Build compelling offers: Leverage pricing & packaging best practices to accelerate growth and new product areas while aligning with customer preferences & buying motions across target segments. This includes both Product-Led Growth (PLG) and Enterprise sales motions.
  • Oversee billing platform foundations: Work with Engineering and Finance to implement scalable and flexible billing models and capabilities, overseeing billing platform foundations (e.g., Metronome) to support pricing and monetization across the product suite.
  • Collaborate on Product GTM: Lead product pricing and monetization initiatives for product and solution launches, ensuring enablement for GTM teams and stakeholders. Build go-to-market strategies and drive execution of cross-functional efforts based on in-depth analysis of market drivers, target audiences, and competitive landscape.
  • Craft compelling messaging: Connect technical products and features to customer pain points and articulate their business value, including TCO comparisons. Develop messaging and positioning that effectively conveys our value and differentiation, specifically around pricing and monetization. Lead content strategy to ensure pricing-related materials—web, docs, and sales enablement—are compelling and current.
  • Build financial projections: Establish product adoption and growth assumptions to inform financial planning, including revenue growth, margins, TAM forecasts, and more.
  • Gather insights & assess impact: Present at internal and external events, interact with customers and partners, and gather both qualitative and quantitative insights to refine strategy. Measure, analyze, and evaluate the effectiveness of pricing and monetization strategies against key business metrics.
  • Support deal strategy: Develop and implement deal and discounting strategies as part of the overall pricing strategy. Maintain internal and external documentation related to pricing best practices and governance.
  • Collaborate on competitive benchmarking: Work across internal teams and conduct external research to plan and execute enablement around competitive positioning and new product launches, with a focus on pricing and monetization.
  • Manage and lead a team: Lead a team of ~4-5 PMs to plan and execute across the above roles & responsibilities.

About You

  • Salary: $277.2K - $332.6K
  • Location Type: Remote
  • Employment Type: FullTime

About Confluent

We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them. It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together. One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.

Skills

Product Management
Pricing Strategy
Monetization
Go-to-Market Strategy
Product Strategy
Financial Projections
Data-Driven Decision-Making
Cross-functional Collaboration
Product-Led Growth (PLG)
Enterprise Sales

Confluent

Data streaming solutions for real-time processing

About Confluent

Confluent specializes in data streaming solutions, focusing on helping businesses manage and process real-time data streams. Its main product is built on Apache Kafka, an open-source platform that allows users to create real-time data pipelines and streaming applications. Clients, including large enterprises and financial institutions, utilize Confluent's tools to collect, process, and analyze data streams, which helps them make quicker and more informed decisions. Unlike many competitors, Confluent offers a subscription-based model for its cloud platform, Confluent Cloud, and its on-premises software, Confluent Platform, ensuring a steady revenue stream. The company also provides professional services like training and consulting to assist clients in optimizing their data streaming solutions. Confluent's goal is to be a leader in the data streaming market, enabling organizations to leverage real-time data for improved operational efficiency.

Mountain View, CaliforniaHeadquarters
2014Year Founded
$443.5MTotal Funding
IPOCompany Stage
Data & Analytics, Enterprise SoftwareIndustries
1,001-5,000Employees

Benefits

Best Teammates on Planet Earth - Loving your job has a lot to do with the people around you. Luckily at Confluent, you will find some of the most genuine people who make you excited to come to work each day.
Adjustable Working Arrangements - While most of our employees work typical business hours, we encourage everyone to partner with their manager to make a schedule that works best for them and Confluent.
Robust Benefits - Health and wellness is important and Confluent is proud to offer a total benefits program that ranks in the top percentile of companies similar in size to our industry in our established geographies.
Rest and Recharge Days - Personal time off is great but it is even better when your whole team has the day. Each quarter, teams have three recharge days where the entire team logs off and refreshes before coming back to work.
Weekly Lunch Spend - At Confluent, we have a weekly lunch program called “No Pay Thursday.” On Thursdays, lunch is provided by Confluent at local restaurants and grocery stores, taxes may apply for some countries.
Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) - Confluent employees work really hard to meet the needs of our growing and scaling business. To make sure that we don’t burn out, we encourage everyone to balance their PTO in an adequate way.

Risks

CTO Chad Verbowski's retirement may lead to a temporary leadership vacuum.
WarpStream acquisition may present integration challenges, disrupting operations.
Participation in MongoDB AI Program exposes Confluent to competitive pressures.

Differentiation

Confluent's platform is based on Apache Kafka, a leading open-source data streaming technology.
The company offers a subscription-based model, ensuring steady recurring revenue streams.
Confluent's solutions cater to diverse industries, enhancing real-time data processing capabilities.

Upsides

Increased adoption of Apache Flink complements Confluent's existing Apache Kafka-based solutions.
Integration with MongoDB's AI Applications Program enhances AI-driven data processing capabilities.
The OEM Program launch can drive new partnerships and expand market presence.

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