Sr Product Manager, Redpanda Connect at Redpanda Data

Canada

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Not SpecifiedCompensation
Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Technology, Data StreamingIndustries

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in product management for enterprise software platforms, ideally in data infrastructure, with data storage and/or real-time streaming experience a plus
  • Experience with Cloud infrastructure products, e.g. for IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS platforms
  • Familiarity with event streaming, data integration tools (like Kafka Connect, Debezium), real-time pipeline platforms (FiveTran, Airbyte, Streamsets) and/or CDC-based applications
  • Experience working cross-functionally with technical and non-technical teams
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to concisely explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences (and vice-versa)
  • Strong project management skills, including the ability to guide and lead multiple complex projects simultaneously
  • Comfortable working with a 100% distributed / remote team, collaborating in GitHub/JIRA, Slack, Google docs and other modern productivity tools independently, in the open
  • Comfortable switching context frequently to address customer, engineering, and go-to-market issues and requests
  • Experience working closely with highly technical products and customers
  • Nice to Have
  • Shipped enterprise-grade feature sets for data infrastructure products and services (especially distributed systems)
  • Worked with public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and cloud-native in

Responsibilities

  • Meet with customers, analyze the competitive landscape, and identify market opportunities to shape our company's product strategy
  • Define requirements for new Redpanda Connect features such as new connectors, transformations, Agentic AI use cases, UI/UX workflows, observability, and integration points with Redpanda’s streaming platform
  • Communicate new features internally and externally and help define value propositions, messaging, and pricing
  • Analyze the data integration landscape and translate insights into a differentiated product strategy
  • Collaborate with multiple internal teams (including Engineering, Sales, Customer Success and Marketing) to ensure we ship the right features at the right time, with the right scope and user experience context
  • Own delivery of features end-to-end, picking up tasks wherever needed, reviewing documentation, and defining analytics required to measure success after rollout

Skills

Product Management
Streaming Data
Apache Kafka
Data Connectors
Data Transformations
Agentic AI
UI/UX
Observability
Market Analysis
Customer Research
Product Roadmap
Enterprise Infrastructure
Data Pipelines
Data Integration

Redpanda Data

Cost-effective streaming data platform

About Redpanda Data

Redpanda offers a data streaming platform that simplifies the use of Kafka APIs, making it easier for businesses to process real-time data. It can be accessed as a fully-managed cloud service or through self-hosting, providing flexibility for users. The platform significantly reduces infrastructure costs and improves performance, claiming to lower expenses by six times while enhancing latencies and throughput. Redpanda aims to be a cost-effective and user-friendly alternative to traditional data streaming solutions, with a focus on environmental sustainability and data security.

San Francisco, CaliforniaHeadquarters
2019Year Founded
$161MTotal Funding
SERIES_CCompany Stage
Data & Analytics, Enterprise SoftwareIndustries
51-200Employees

Benefits

Remote Work Options
Flexible Work Hours

Risks

Increased competition from new Kafka-compatible solutions could erode Redpanda's market share.
Integration challenges from the Benthos acquisition may disrupt service delivery.
Reliance on BYOC model exposes Redpanda to risks from varying cloud provider policies.

Differentiation

Redpanda offers a Kafka API-compatible platform with reduced complexity and cost.
The platform supports both fully-managed cloud service and self-hosted deployment options.
Redpanda's environmentally friendly design reduces compute, storage, and bandwidth consumption.

Upsides

Redpanda's acquisition of Benthos enhances its platform with advanced stream processing features.
The partnership with Ockam positions Redpanda as a leader in secure data streaming.
Redpanda Serverless offers a flexible, pay-as-you-go model appealing to startups and small businesses.

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