Senior Talent Management and Enablement Manager

Salary: $182.8K - $214.7K Location Type: Remote Employment Type: FullTime

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Position Overview

Confluent is revolutionizing data movement and empowering businesses with real-time data streaming. We are seeking a Senior Talent Management and Enablement Manager to lead our programs and systems for assessing, retaining, and developing top-tier talent. This is a critical role for the first dedicated leader in Talent Management, working across People function centers of excellence and cross-functional stakeholders to implement growth-enabling processes and practices. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of launching and managing talent programs that drive individual and team performance and growth. This role requires a deep understanding of talent management practices, the ability to integrate business and talent priorities, and a passion for impacting all employees and fostering a high-performance culture. This is a senior, high-impact individual contributor role with potential for future team growth, reporting to the Head of Talent Management & Development.

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Responsibilities

• Foster a culture of continuous feedback and growth by owning, operating, and driving strategy for key programs such as promotions, talent calibration, and career frameworks.
• Partner with People Business Partners, Employee Relations, and business leaders to integrate and align talent management with broader organizational priorities.
• Lead the design and implementation of new programs to enhance talent mobility, succession planning, career development, and more.
• Partner with People Leadership and Executive teams to assess and improve employee engagement.
• Collaborate with the L&D team to create transparent pathways for employee growth.
• Engage regularly with leaders across the business to assess needs and identify opportunities to improve our talent management strategy.

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Requirements

• Proven experience designing, implementing, and improving talent management programs, including promotions, performance management, talent calibration, and career frameworks.
• Ability to transition between strategizing and executing to lead multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong program management skills and ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives from inception through deployment, including defining scope and execution milestones.
• Demonstrable experience aligning HR and business priorities.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills to influentially drive alignment among stakeholders of all levels.
• Deductive problem-solving for moderate to highly complex problems; some limited data analysis may be required.
• 6+ years of experience in HR and talent management.

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What Gives You an Edge

• Experience with Workday.
• SHRM-SCP or HRCI certifications.
• Experience working in a high-growth public company setting.

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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.

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Application Instructions

Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.

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Company Culture

Come As You Are

Belonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Employment decisions are based on job-related criteria, without regard to race, color, religion,