Senior Product Manager

Summary

Join Redpanda, a fast-growing, well-funded startup building a streaming data platform, as a Senior Product Manager for Redpanda Connect. You will guide the evolution of Redpanda Connect, shaping new connectors and data transformation features, designing developer workflows, and defining data integration features for Agentic AI. This role involves meeting with customers, analyzing market opportunities, defining feature requirements, communicating with internal and external stakeholders, and collaborating with multiple teams. You will own feature delivery end-to-end and define analytics to measure success. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of product management experience in enterprise software platforms, particularly in data infrastructure and real-time streaming. This is a fully remote position.

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 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

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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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 infrastructure, including any of the following
• Deep knowledge of cloud provider infrastructure, architectures and deployment models
• Building features that integrate or leverage cloud ecosystem integrations (e.g. monitoring, logging, telemetry, metering, billing, etc.)

Benefits

U.S. base salary range for this role is $188,000 - $220,000 (CA, NY, WA) and $180,000 - $212,000 (other US locations). Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. As a remote-first company, we strive to consider each candidate's job-related skills, location, experience, relevant education or training to determine individual base salary. Your talent partner will share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process