Confluent

<div>Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That’s the power of data in motion in action—giving organizations instant access to the massive amounts of data that is constantly flowing throughout their business. At Confluent, we’re building the foundational platform for this new paradigm of data infrastructure. Our cloud-native offering is designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, organizations can create a central nervous system to innovate and win in a digital-first world.</div><div><br></div><div>We’re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent’s enormous potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks as we solve big problems together. We value having diverse teams and want you to grow as we grow—whether you’re just starting out in your career or managing a large team, you’ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.</div><div><br></div><div>The Senior Sales Enablement Manager is responsible for working closely with the Director of Sales Enablement and Head of Global Performance to assist in the development and execution of strategic enablement programs for the Sales organization.</div><div><br></div><div>Key objectives of sales enablement include the rapid on-boarding of new hires to drive down ramp time, increase overall sales productivity, and improve competitive win rates.</div><div><br></div><div>LOCATION - SF/Bay Area preferred but remote work will be fine with flexibility to travel to Bay Area</div><h3>Responsibilities:</h3><div><ul><li>Design, implement, and sustain the successful execution of sales enablement programs to ensure the internal GTM sellers are equipped with content, resources, tools and training to effectively differentiate and sell our Confluent solution.</li><li>Collaborate with SMEs to identify and develop core sales training and enablement curriculum, customized regionally as needed, for various internal audiences.</li><li>Ensure alignment of sales enablement activities with key internal events, such as new product releases, campaigns, and global training events (Sales Kick Off, etc.)</li><li>Accurately create field-specific deliverables, leveraging internal experts and incorporating feedback</li><li>Leverage and create content within Seismic, SalesHood and Salesforce.com CRM infrastructure and other tools for delivering formal and informal/social learning.</li><li>Collaborate with SMEs to develop content resources and training that can scale for both Confluent and Partner sellers</li><li>Measure and report on the effectiveness of sales enablement investments and the programs conducted.</li><li>Determine opportunities for improving the sales learning experience and identify innovative techniques for delivery.</li><li>Successfully accomplish responsibilities with minimal direction or oversight</li><li>Measure the impact of sales training on sales productivity and take action to optimize</li><li>Assist in developing reinforcement solutions to help drive long term customer success</li></ul></div><h3>Requirements:</h3><div><ul><li>Solid understanding of enterprise sales processes, and how to evangelize and roll them out effectively across a Global Sales organization.</li><li>Demonstrated capability in working with various departments such as Sales, Product Marketing and Product ManagementSoftware sales or sales enablement experience, preferably with expertise in Cloud/ SaaS and Open Source.</li><li>Relevant experience preparing, developing, and executing sales effectiveness strategies, tactics and action plans.</li><li>Ability to quickly understand technical concepts and explain them to audiences of varying technical expertise (sales team, customers, channel partners, and internal stakeholders).</li><li>Thrives in a dynamic work environment and is able to manage competing priorities</li><li>Strong analytical and quantitative skills.&nbsp; Ability to intuitively understand operational challenges and provide timely recommendations in order to drive business decisions</li><li>Proven project management/operational skills</li><li>Outstanding communication skills and ability to clearly articulate information tailored to the audience across organizations including the executive team</li><li>Results oriented and comfortable working with leveraging data from multiple sources to make informed decisions</li><li>Able to drive alignment across stakeholders and influence outcomes and decisions related to key initiatives</li><li>Collaborate and effectively work across multiple levels, roles, and functions internally&nbsp;</li><li>Experience as a quota carrying Sales role - Inside or Field - a plus.</li><li>Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience</li></ul></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><i>California Candidate Privacy Notice</i></a>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div><div><br></div><div><i>#LI-Remote</i></div>

Senior/Sales Enablement Program Manager

<div>Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Have you ever found a new favourite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That’s the power of data in motion in action—giving organisations instant access to the massive amounts of data that is constantly flowing throughout their business. At Confluent, we’re building the foundational platform for this new paradigm of data infrastructure. Our cloud-native offering is designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organisation. With Confluent, organisations can create a central nervous system to innovate and win in a digital-first world.</div><div><br></div><div>We’re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energised to roll up their sleeves and help realise Confluent’s enormous potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks as we solve big problems together. We value having diverse teams and want you to grow as we grow—whether you’re just starting out in your career or managing a large team, you’ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Are you an engineer who loves to make things that just work better? Do you love to look at cutting edge technologies and think about how can this run faster, be deployed quicker or fail less?&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Do you want to be part of a team that is building a PaaS enabling customers around the globe to deliver killer streaming applications?&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Do you already have an understanding of building and running distributed systems but would now love to take this to the next level?&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The Confluent Cloud Platform based on Apache Kafka is the leading Cloud Native Platform as a Service for streaming data infrastructure, but this is just the beginning. </div><h3>What you will do:</h3><div><ul><li>Design, implement and maintain Golang infrastructure services (typically implemented as Kubernetes operators) to deliver the Confluent cloud foundations to the wider engineering organisation</li><li>Terraform, Datadog, Prometheus and a strong command of Linux, public cloud and networking should come as standard - though Golang software engineering will be your primary focus</li><li>You will have to bring both your engineering and operational mindset to the role</li><li>As a Confluent Cloud Infrastructure Software Engineer, you will be working alongside the rest of the Confluent engineers to build our PaaS product</li><li>You, and the rest of the team, will be responsible for the availability, performance, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning of the Confluent cloud</li><li>If you love the hum of big data systems covering 10,000’s of instances, thinking about how to make them run as smoothly and securely as possible, and want to have a big influence on the architecture plus operational design points of this new product, then you will fit right in</li><li>You will need technical skills of course but more important is who you are as a person - smart, humble, and empathetic</li><li>Have a strong sense of teamwork and put team’s / company’s interests first</li><li>Driven and excited about challenges of a fast-paced, innovative software start-up environment.</li><div><br></div></ul></div><h3>Technically speaking:</h3><div><ul><li>As you will be building and running a distributed system across public clouds you will need strong fundamentals in this area plus experience of at least one of the main public cloud providers - AWS/GCP/Azure</li><li>In order to scale, automation is essential so you will use your existing knowledge and experience to automate large scale data systems</li><li>Bachelor's degree in Computer Science is not essential but you will be expected to deliver high quality, clean code. Experience with Golang is advantageous</li><li>Experience using Apache Kafka is a big plus.</li></ul></div><div>Culture is a huge part of Confluent, we’re searching for the best people who not only excel at their role, but also contribute to the health, happiness and growth of the company. Inclusivity and openness are important traits, with regular company wide and team events. Here are some of the personal qualities we’re looking for:&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Smart, humble and empathetic</div><div>Hard working, you get things done</div><div>Hungry to learn in a field which is ever evolving</div><div>Adaptable to the myriad of challenges each day can present</div><div>Inquisitive and not afraid to ask all the questions, no matter how basic</div><div>Ready to roll up your sleeves and help others, getting involved in projects where you feel you can add value</div><div>Strive for excellence in your work, your team and the company&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Come and build with us. We are one of the fastest growing software companies in the market. A company built on the tenets of transparency, direct communication and inclusivity. Come meet the streams dream team and have a direct impact on how we shape Confluent.</div><div><br></div><div>#LI-DS1</div><div>#LI-Remote</div><div><br></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><i>California Candidate Privacy Notice</i></a>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div><div><br></div><div><i>#LI-Remote</i></div>

Cloud Infrastructure Software Engineer

<div>Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That’s the power of data in motion in action—giving organizations instant access to the massive amounts of data that is constantly flowing throughout their business. At Confluent, we’re building the foundational platform for this new paradigm of data infrastructure. Our cloud-native offering is designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, organizations can create a central nervous system to innovate and win in a digital-first world.</div><div><br></div><div>We’re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent’s enormous potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks as we solve big problems together. We value having diverse teams and want you to grow as we grow—whether you’re just starting out in your career or managing a large team, you’ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.</div><div><br></div><div><b>About the Role</b></div><div><br></div><div>The Enterprise Account Executive will play a fundamental role in driving Confluent’s sales activities into new customers within your region. This role includes activities developing and executing on the go-to-market strategy for your territory. The ideal candidate needs to have experience selling complex SaaS into large corporate and multinational Companies with a proven ability of acquiring new logos. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>#LI-ECIRKER</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><h3>Responsibilities: </h3><div><ul><li>Articulate and manage a Complex Sales Cycle with responsibility for demonstrating the value of Confluent </li><li>Focus on <b>new logo acquisition</b> to help Confluent expand its customer base</li><li>Strategically prospect to C-Level, IT Leaders and Technical End-Users</li><li>Build awareness for Kafka and Confluent within large enterprises and establish trusting relationships and credibility with partners and end-users</li><li>Build strong Champions within the account to work across Business Units and Subsidiaries&nbsp;</li><li>Aggressively prospect, identify, qualify and develop sales pipeline</li><li>Create and execute go to market plans that are based on viral methods and organic growth</li><li>Close business to exceed monthly, quarterly, and annual bookings objectives</li><li>Align closely with our Solutions Engineering team on technical wins, Professional Services to deliver world-class customer experience, and Customer Success Management to identify and close expansion opportunities and renewals, all while earning our customers love</li><li>Forecasting sales activities with a metrics-driven approach</li></ul></div><h3>What We're Looking For:</h3><div><ul><li>Mindset = Driven, curious, empathetic, coachable</li><li>At least 2+ years of quota (New Business) carrying experience in a complex, solution sales environment&nbsp;&amp; regionally within the Mid-Atlantic region. Ideal location = DC, MD, VA, NJ, PA</li><li>An ability to articulate, educate and sell the business value to businesses of all sizes</li><li>Experience selling to developers and C-Levels</li><li>Significant experience in a Sales and/or Business Development role within a high growth organization</li><li>A record of overachieving against your quota</li><li>Rigorous Sales Methodology and Sales Process, proven by accurate forecasts and clear communication throughout the deal cycle&nbsp;</li><li>Previous experience selling open-source or Cloud platform offerings preferred</li></ul></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><i>California Candidate Privacy Notice</i></a>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div><div><br></div><div><i>#LI-Remote</i></div>

Enterprise Account Executive

<div>Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That’s the power of data in motion in action—giving organizations instant access to the massive amounts of data that is constantly flowing throughout their business. At Confluent, we’re building the foundational platform for this new paradigm of data infrastructure. Our cloud-native offering is designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, organizations can create a central nervous system to innovate and win in a digital-first world.</div><div><br></div><div>We’re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent’s enormous potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks as we solve big problems together. We value having diverse teams and want you to grow as we grow—whether you’re just starting out in your career or managing a large team, you’ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Confluent is looking for a Software Engineering Intern to join our Kafka Global team this fall (October through December). The Kafka Global team's mission is to build simple and comprehensive solutions for Kafka clusters that are disaster-resilient, highly available, and will easily migrate across multi-cloud/hybrid and on-premise environments, which is a critical to setting data in motion. If you're interested in building large scale distributed systems in the cloud and are excited to make an impact, then this opportunity is for you! </div><h3>Who You Are:</h3><div><ul><li>Pursuing a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Math, or a related technical field </li><li>Established strong data structures and algorithms knowledge in at least one of these languages: Java/Scala, C, C++, Go </li><li>Smart, humble, and empathetic</li><li>Have a strong sense of teamwork and put team’s and company’s interests first</li><li>Driven and excited about challenges of a fast-paced, innovative software startup environment</li></ul></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><i>California Candidate Privacy Notice</i></a>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div><div><br></div><div><i>#LI-Remote</i></div>

Software Engineering Intern

<div>Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That’s the power of data in motion in action—giving organizations instant access to the massive amounts of data that is constantly flowing throughout their business. At Confluent, we’re building the foundational platform for this new paradigm of data infrastructure. Our cloud-native offering is designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, organizations can create a central nervous system to innovate and win in a digital-first world.</div><div><br></div><div>We’re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent’s enormous potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks as we solve big problems together. We value having diverse teams and want you to grow as we grow—whether you’re just starting out in your career or managing a large team, you’ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.</div><div><br></div><div><b>About the Role</b></div><div>Given our aspiration to make event streaming the central nervous system of the modern digital business, a robust cloud partner ecosystem is not only essential to our success but represents an x-factor opportunity as we create this new event-streaming category.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>We are seeking an experienced, high-impact leader to join our Ecosystems and Business Development team. In this role, you will build relationships with Global Systems Integrator (GSI) partners, and scale relationships and business value across one or multiple GSIs. You will have an impressive track record in developing joint business plans, value propositions, campaigns, and GTM with GSIs, as well as delivering against highly ambitious, mutually beneficial multi-year financial and strategic goals.&nbsp;	</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Our ideal candidate will have significant experience and success working with Accenture, Deloitte, and other advisory firms in the GSI portfolio.. You have an understanding and appreciation of their global organization and operational structure, GTM, and transformational solutions. Additional experience with other GSIs is preferred, but not required.</div><h3>What you’ll do:</h3><div><ul><li>You will develop and manage day-to-day relationships with one or more GSIs</li><li>You will also use your strong understanding of GSI priorities and business models to define how Confluent can best partner with the GSIs in a mutually beneficial manner&nbsp;</li><li>Together with the GSIs, inspire definition and development of the right solutions, prioritize verticals and use cases, prioritize target accounts, create customized joint value propositions for customers and sellers, and own accountability for delivering financial and business results</li><li>Partner with the Ecosystems leadership team, define multi-year GSI objectives and metrics (financial and strategic)</li><li>Actively scout and execute on opportunities to triangulate joint GTM opportunities with Cloud partners to activate ecosystem plays in the market&nbsp;</li><li>Nurture relationships at multiple levels at partner organizations to drive success&nbsp;</li></ul></div><h3>What we’re looking for:</h3><div><ul><li>5+ years experience in the software industry, with 3+ years of leading GSI alliances</li><li>Excellent communication and presentation capabilities combined with the ability to clearly articulate complex business proposals and to influence both internal and external stakeholders&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>Excellent collaboration skills that can quickly bring together Product, Marketing, Sales/Field to execute against partnerships&nbsp;</li><li>Strong market knowledge and ability to create successful growth strategies as well as own and execute on a long-term strategic plan&nbsp;</li><li>Demonstrated success at applying analytical skills to long-term business planning that results in tangible business outcomes</li><li>Demonstrated success in sales operations, strategy, and business development skills to help GSI leader manage overall portfolio</li><li>Agility in a fast-paced, high growth environment&nbsp;</li><li>Someone not afraid to roll up their sleeves </li></ul></div><h3>Why you’ll enjoy working here:</h3><div><ul><li>Culture is a huge part of Confluent, we’re searching for the best people who not only excel at their role but also contribute to the health, happiness, and growth of the company. Inclusivity and openness are important traits, with regular company-wide and team events. Here are some of the personal qualities we’re looking for:&nbsp;</li><li>Smart, humble, and empathetic&nbsp;</li><li>Hard-working, you get things done&nbsp;</li><li>Hungry to learn in a field that is ever-evolving&nbsp;</li><li>Adaptable to the myriad of challenges each day can present&nbsp;</li><li>Inquisitive and not afraid to ask all the questions, no matter how basic&nbsp;</li><li>Ready to roll up your sleeves and help others, getting involved in projects where you feel you can add value&nbsp;</li><li>Strive for excellence in your work, your team, and the company&nbsp;</li><li>Come and build with us. We are one of the fastest-growing software companies in the market. A company built on the tenets of transparency, direct communication, and inclusivity. Come meet the streams dream team and have a direct impact on how we shape Confluent.</li></ul></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><i>California Candidate Privacy Notice</i></a>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div><div><br></div><div><i>#LI-Remote</i></div>

Sr. Manager, Global System Integrators

<div>Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That’s the power of data in motion in action—giving organizations instant access to the massive amounts of data that is constantly flowing throughout their business. At Confluent, we’re building the foundational platform for this new paradigm of data infrastructure. Our cloud-native offering is designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, organizations can create a central nervous system to innovate and win in a digital-first world.</div><div><br></div><div>We’re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent’s enormous potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks as we solve big problems together. We value having diverse teams and want you to grow as we grow—whether you’re just starting out in your career or managing a large team, you’ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.</div><div><br></div><div>In this role, you will drive our charter to build a Data Governance initiative for Data in Motion. The Data Governance product portfolio is crucial to bring Confluent’s mission to put event streaming at the heart of every organization to fruition. It includes existing offerings such as Confluent Schema Registry and new offerings corresponding to various Data Governance pillars such as Data Quality, Data Catalog, Data Lineage and Data Security.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Here are are some of the things you will focus on: </div><div>-Guide the vision, recruit, and enable a high performing engineering team that solves complex distributed data processing challenges at scale&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div>-Build a product that will leverage the scale of resources available in the cloud and on-prem environments</div><div>-Conceive innovative new solutions for our customers, at the intersection of multiple fields: stream processing, Big Data and analytics</div><div>-Collaborate with others in engineering and product leadership to create the long-term roadmap and quarterly deliverables for your team</div><h3>Who You Are</h3><div><ul><li>Smart, humble, and empathetic</li><li>Have a strong sense of teamwork and put team’s and company’s interests first</li><li>Driven and excited about challenges of a fast-paced, innovative software startup environment</li></ul></div><h3>What We're Looking For</h3><div><ul><li>At least 8 years of relevant experience </li><li>Proven track record of providing technical leadership to teams building large stateful data systems and production services in the cloud</li><li>Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development</li><li>A great track record of shipping features and hitting deadlines consistently</li><li>Ability to move fast, build in increments, and iterate. A sense of urgency, a mindset towards achieving results, and excellent prioritization skills</li><li>Ability to anticipate future technical needs for the product and craft plans to realize them</li><li>Focus on building and maintaining a culture of collaboration within the team</li><li>BS Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience. An advanced degree in computer science is preferred</li></ul></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><i>California Candidate Privacy Notice</i></a>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div><div><br></div><div><i>#LI-Remote</i></div>

Software Engineer - Data Governance

<div>Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That’s the power of data in motion in action—giving organizations instant access to the massive amounts of data that is constantly flowing throughout their business. At Confluent, we’re building the foundational platform for this new paradigm of data infrastructure. Our cloud-native offering is designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, organizations can create a central nervous system to innovate and win in a digital-first world.</div><div><br></div><div>We’re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent’s enormous potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks as we solve big problems together. We value having diverse teams and want you to grow as we grow—whether you’re just starting out in your career or managing a large team, you’ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.</div><div><br></div><div>The next big goal for Confluent is to make it as easy as possible for anyone to use Confluent’s products including Kafka to build their next killer streaming application. To do that, we are building the Confluent Cloud, which provides our products as a service in all the major public clouds. We are at the beginning of this engineering journey and are looking for great engineers to come join the world-class team of engineers that are passionate about building and running large scale, multi-tenant distributed data systems for customers that expect a very high level of availability.</div><h3>Who You Are: </h3><div><ul><li>Smart, humble, and empathetic</li><li>Have a strong sense of teamwork and put team’s and company’s interests first</li><li>Driven and excited about challenges of a fast-paced, innovative software startup environment</li></ul></div><h3>What We're Looking For:</h3><div><ul><li>5 years of experience in software/application development, design &amp; architecture</li><li>Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development</li><li>Familiarity with Kafka or similar high-scale distributed event streaming platforms</li><li>Solid experience working with large private or public clouds</li><li>Proficiency in Java, Go, or C/ C++ and experience working with Kubernetes and similar cloud native technologies</li><li>Solid understanding of basic systems operations (disk, network, operating systems, etc)</li><li>A self starter with the ability to work effectively in team with excellent spoken / written communication</li><li>Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar field or equivalent</li></ul></div><h3>What Gives You An Edge:</h3><div><ul><li>Experience in open-source development</li><li>Experience using Apache Kafka</li></ul></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><i>California Candidate Privacy Notice</i></a>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div><div><br></div><div><i>#LI-Remote</i></div>

Software Engineer - Connect

<div>Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That’s the power of data in motion in action—giving organizations instant access to the massive amounts of data that is constantly flowing throughout their business. At Confluent, we’re building the foundational platform for this new paradigm of data infrastructure. Our cloud-native offering is designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, organizations can create a central nervous system to innovate and win in a digital-first world.</div><div><br></div><div>We’re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent’s enormous potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks as we solve big problems together. We value having diverse teams and want you to grow as we grow—whether you’re just starting out in your career or managing a large team, you’ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.</div><div><br></div><div>The Cloud Native Connect team is a part of the Connect Engineering organization. The team is responsible for the underlying infrastructure and framework for Confluent Cloud managed Kafka Connectors. As an engineer, you will be working closely with key stakeholders across the engineering organization to design, architect and build out our Cloud Infrastructure to scale our platform to 10x and beyond. You are not confined to the status quo and you leverage your expertise in large-scale distributed systems and big data to help take our platform to the next level. You worry about key operational aspects (availability, reliability, performance, monitoring, emergency response, capacity planning, disaster recovery, security) of our infrastructure, and you make sure that we have a highly-available, resilient and secure offering that some of the world’s largest businesses can rely on. If you love the hum of big data systems, thinking about how to make them run as smoothly as possible, and want to make a big impact on the trajectory of this fast-growing business, then you will fit right in.</div><h3>Who You Are:</h3><div><ul><li>Smart, humble, and empathetic</li><li>Have a strong sense of teamwork and put team’s and company’s interests first</li><li>Driven and excited about the challenges of a fast-paced, innovative software startup environment</li></ul></div><h3>What We're Looking For:</h3><div><ul><li>5+ years of engineering experience working on large scale cloud infrastructure</li><li>A great track record of shipping features and hitting deadlines consistently; should be able to move fast, build in increments and iterate; have a sense of urgency, aggressive mindset towards achieving results and excellent prioritization skills; able to anticipate future technical needs for the product and craft plans to realize them.</li><li>Ability to influence the team, peers, and upper management using effective communication and collaborative techniques; focused on building and maintaining a culture of collaboration within the team</li><li>Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and operations</li><li>Familiarity with Kafka or similar high-scale distributed event streaming platforms&nbsp;</li><li>Solid experience working with large private or public clouds</li><li>A self starter with the ability to work effectively in teams</li><li>Excellent communication skills</li></ul></div><h3>What Gives You An Edge:</h3><div><ul><li>Experience with open-source development, experience using Kafka Connect a plus</li><li>Experience working with stream processing technologies such as Flink, Spark, Beam, or Flume.</li><li>Experience with Kubernetes a plus</li><li>Experience with Java/JVM a plus</li><li>Preferred proficiency with one or more of C/C++, Go or Rust</li></ul></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><i>California Candidate Privacy Notice</i></a>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div><div><br></div><div><i>#LI-Remote</i></div>

Software Engineer - Cloud Native Connect

<div>Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Have you ever found a new favourite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That’s the power of data in motion in action—giving organisations instant access to the massive amounts of data that is constantly flowing throughout their business. At Confluent, we’re building the foundational platform for this new paradigm of data infrastructure. Our cloud-native offering is designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organisation. With Confluent, organisations can create a central nervous system to innovate and win in a digital-first world.</div><div><br></div><div>We’re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energised to roll up their sleeves and help realise Confluent’s enormous potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks as we solve big problems together. We value having diverse teams and want you to grow as we grow—whether you’re just starting out in your career or managing a large team, you’ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Responsibilities</div><div><br></div><div>The Legal Counsel – EMEA is responsible primarily for supporting Confluent´s EMEA Sales organization in structuring, drafting and negotiating commercial agreements, and may have additional responsibilities as needed in support of Confluent’s business. The position will report into the Regional Counsel EMEA. Limited travel may be required (when suitable for travel to resume). The successful candidate will be fluent in both Spanish and English.</div><div><br></div><div>In the legal department, we are passionate about enabling customer success, while building a strong foundation for the future. We strive to provide thoughtful and pragmatic counsel and to minimize risks as we pursue business opportunities. We thrive by working together to solve complex challenges, supporting and learning from each other, and having fun!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><h3>What We’re Looking For - </h3><div><ul><li>Experience in an in-house legal department in the Software / Technology industry</li><li>Significant experience negotiating technology subscription agreements, license &amp; support agreements and cloud services agreements with large enterprise customers</li><li>Experience with open source licensing and business model</li><li>Experience with EU data protection laws</li><li>Experience and aptitude working cross-functionally with internal organizations to resolve questions and concerns&nbsp;</li><li>Strong written and oral communication skills, including the ability to explain concepts clearly to non-lawyers&nbsp;</li><li>Business level English and at least one other European language essential, other languages are a plus</li><li>Excellent legal and business judgement with the ability to assess and communicate risks to business partners in a clear and actionable way </li><li>Ability to maintain strong working relationships with demanding internal clients</li><li>Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and to navigate complex, sensitive issues,&nbsp;</li><li>Ability to working a fast-paced, high output environment and to prioritize and manage tasks efficiently</li><li>High level of integrity, team orientation, and treating others with respect</li><li>People who are smart, humble and empathetic, and who enjoy working as one team to get things done!</li><li>The candidate would be expected to work remotely and/or from our local office in Sweden.</li><div><br></div></ul></div><div>#LI-SO1</div><div>#LI-remote</div><div><br></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><i>California Candidate Privacy Notice</i></a>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div><div><br></div><div><i>#LI-Remote</i></div>

Legal Counsel, EMEA

<div>Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That’s the power of data in motion in action—giving organizations instant access to the massive amounts of data that is constantly flowing throughout their business. At Confluent, we’re building the foundational platform for this new paradigm of data infrastructure. Our cloud-native offering is designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, organizations can create a central nervous system to innovate and win in a digital-first world.</div><div><br></div><div>We’re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent’s enormous potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks as we solve big problems together. We value having diverse teams and want you to grow as we grow—whether you’re just starting out in your career or managing a large team, you’ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.</div><div><br></div><div><b>About the Role</b></div><div><br></div><div>The Enterprise Account Executive&nbsp;will play a key role in driving Confluent’s sales activities in region. This role includes activities developing and executing on the go-to-market strategy for named accounts within the Bay Area. The ideal candidate needs to have experience selling complex Database, Messaging, Big Data, Open Source and/or SaaS into large corporate and multinational companies. </div><div><br></div><h3>Responsibilities: </h3><div><ul><li>Build awareness for Kafka and Confluent within large enterprises</li><li>Aggressively prospect, identify, qualify and develop sales pipeline</li><li>Close business to exceed monthly, quarterly and annual bookings objectives</li><li>Build strong and effective relationships, resulting in growth opportunities</li><li>Build and maintain relationships with new and existing Confluent partners</li><li>Create and execute go to market plans that are based on viral methods and organic growth</li></ul></div><h3>What We're Looking For:</h3><div><ul><li>At least 5+ years of sales experience</li><li>Deep experience selling within the Database, <b>Open Source</b>, <b>Messaging or Big Data</b> space. </li><li>Significant experience in a Sales and/or Business Development role within a similar <b>start-up and high growth organization</b></li><li>An ability to articulate and sell the business value of big data and the big impact on businesses of all sizes</li><li>Experience selling to developers and C levels</li><div><br></div></ul></div><div>#LI-CM1</div><div><br></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><i>California Candidate Privacy Notice</i></a>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div><div><br></div><div><i>#LI-Remote</i></div>

<div>Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That’s the power of data in motion in action—giving organizations instant access to the massive amounts of data that is constantly flowing throughout their business. At Confluent, we’re building&nbsp;the&nbsp;foundational platform for this new paradigm of data infrastructure. Our cloud-native offering is designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, organizations can create a central nervous system to innovate and win in a digital-first world.</div><div><br></div><div>We’re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent’s enormous potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks as we solve big problems together. We value having diverse teams and want you to grow as we grow—whether you’re just starting out in your career or managing a large team, you’ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.</div><div><br></div><div>The SDR Global Program Manager will join the Sales Development Leadership team to help bring a programmatic approach to enablement and pipeline generation efforts. Working closely with SDRs, marketing, operations and leadership teams you’ll help bring programs that scale and fill gaps in the organization.</div><div><br></div><div>Confluent is a dynamic, fast-paced sales environment that requires excellent communication skills and the ability to multitask on tight deadlines. The ideal candidate will thrive in this environment, possess superior organizational skills and the ability to work well as part of a team. </div><h3>What You'll Do:</h3><div><ul><li>Lead efforts to design, implement and execute SDR programs across all geographies and GTM motions&nbsp;</li><li>Partner with Sales Productivity and SDR Leadership to create a drumbeat of enablement tied to marketing campaigns, prospecting programs and&nbsp;organizational initiatives&nbsp;</li><li>Key contributor to build and execute SDR OKRs&nbsp;Key contributor to quarterly strategy, training and enablement calendar </li><li>Work cross-functionally to balance asks of SDRs&nbsp;</li><li>Help take SDR messaging to the next level</li><li>Adapt messaging for target personas to meet global SDR needs for inbound and outbound SDR teams </li><li>Localize key content </li><li>Audit current programs; update and scale high performing programs</li><li>Undertake cross functional strategic projects to improve career development and onboarding programs&nbsp; </li></ul></div><h3>What We're Looking For:</h3><div><ul><li>4+ years related experience in B2B sales, marketing, campaigns, program management and/or product marketing</li><li>Proven track record of cross functional collaboration and successful internal relationships&nbsp;</li><li>Understanding of SDR or BDR programs and strategies</li><li>Comfortable using data to tell a story and make decisions</li><li>Strong communication, writing, and presentation skills with ability to present complex technical ideas in a simple, straightforward manner</li><li>Experience presenting to large groups to drive actions</li><li>Excellent organizational skills and a track record of improving efficiencies</li><li>Self-motivated, innovative, and creative with strong project management</li><li>Experience with Outreach, Salesforce, Asana and/or other productivity tools</li><li>Ability to motivate and communicate to a global audience of SDRs and leadership</li></ul></div><h3>Additional Desirable Skills:</h3><div><ul><li>Global experience or additional languages</li><li>Worked in a startup!</li></ul></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><i>California Candidate Privacy Notice</i></a>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div>

Sales Development Global Program Manager

<div>Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That’s the power of data in motion in action—giving organizations instant access to the massive amounts of data that is constantly flowing throughout their business. At Confluent, we’re building&nbsp;the&nbsp;foundational platform for this new paradigm of data infrastructure. Our cloud-native offering is designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, organizations can create a central nervous system to innovate and win in a digital-first world.</div><div><br></div><div>We’re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent’s enormous potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks as we solve big problems together. We value having diverse teams and want you to grow as we grow—whether you’re just starting out in your career or managing a large team, you’ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.</div><div><br></div><div>The Sales Development Operations Business Partner will work closely with the Sales Development Leadership team to help strategize and manage the team's go-to-market efforts. The Sales Ops Business Partner’s primary responsibilities will be to provide data and analytical support to manage and improve Confluent’s sales processes and cycle, as well as utilizing pipeline data to help report, analyze and forecast the company’s current quarter’s <a href="http://business.Confluent" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">business.Confluent</a> is a dynamic, fast-paced sales environment that requires excellent communication skills and the ability to multitask on tight deadlines. The ideal candidate will thrive in this environment, possess superior analytical skills and the ability to work well as part of a team.</div><h3>The Sales Development Operations Business Partner will:</h3><div><ul><li>Work with the (A)VP of Sales, RSD's and Finance to refine go-to-market models and sales methodology, including identifying and solving pain points within the organization and sales process</li><li>Drive strategic experimentation to improve productivity and unique regional approaches</li><li>Proactively identify issues and solutions to improve the efficiency of the sales development efforts</li><li>Support bi-weekly forecast and pipeline cadences</li><li>Provide ad hoc reporting to sales leadership</li><li>Participate in weekly, quarterly and annual sales planning by preparing and supporting the delivery of specific sales coverage and forecasting analytics</li><li>Lead efforts to build SDR Center of Excellence, standardize processes and systems (e.g. <a href="http://salesforce.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Salesforce.com</a>) to enable accurate and efficient data collection and management of the company’s sales efforts</li><li>Partner with the Sales leaders to facilitate our global sales territory planning, by creating and allocating territories as the sales team grows</li><li>Own communication to the field and maintain calendar of communications from a global to subregion standpoint as well as sales process adoptionManage all daily ad hoc requests from all business units (Finance, Compensation, AE’s, Data Science, etc.)</li><li>Work closely with other Sales Operations Managers to share knowledge, best practices and facilitate standardization across the whole sales organization</li></ul></div><h3>Requirements:</h3><div><ul><li>BA/BS degree&nbsp;3-5 years of Sales Operations experience preferably in a SaaS/cloud companyAdvanced excel skills required</li><li>Deep understanding of Salesforce best-practices and functionality&nbsp;</li><li>Comfortable engaging at all levels in an organization to deliver results</li><li>Excellent communicator with proven ability to clearly convey ideas and information in written and verbal form to a variety of audiences</li><li>Endless curiosity and a need to dive deeper for understanding</li><li>Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships and display diplomatic and remarkable interpersonal skills with colleagues and other partners</li><li>Knowledge of Tableau and Anaplan is a plus</li></ul></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><i>California Candidate Privacy Notice</i></a>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div>

Sales Development Operations Business Partner

<div>Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That’s the power of data in motion in action—giving organizations instant access to the massive amounts of data that is constantly flowing throughout their business. At Confluent, we’re building the foundational platform for this new paradigm of data infrastructure. Our cloud-native offering is designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, organizations can create a central nervous system to innovate and win in a digital-first world.</div><div><br></div><div>We’re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent’s enormous potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks as we solve big problems together. We value having diverse teams and want you to grow as we grow—whether you’re just starting out in your career or managing a large team, you’ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.</div><div><br></div><div><b>About the Opportunity:</b></div><div>&nbsp;We are seeking a Business Development Manager to join Confluent's Education Services team, to develop and execute our Go-To-Market strategy for Education Services. The BDM will drive the business development activities across all regions. This individual will be tasked with developing relationships and partnerships with Confluent's sales team, strategic partners, customers and prospects to increase the market share and hit Education Services bookings goals, which are based on offerings sold to end users. Doing this successfully requires you to have strong relationship building and communication skills, an ability to spot strategic opportunities and demonstrate the value of our offerings, be comfortable handling multiple projects simultaneously, and show passion to drive toward expansion and growth of our education footprint.&nbsp;&nbsp;This position reports to the Head of Education Services.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div><b>What you’ll achieve:</b></div><div>Establish yourself as the Education Services expert in the field, and become the go-to Education Services person within Confluent. Achieve pipeline goals by generating qualified leads from inbound marketing leads and outbound account-based prospecting. Align with Partner Managers, Sales AEs, Customer Success Managers, and Professional Services Practice Directors to conduct regular account reviews of strategic or tactically important accounts to identify Education opportunities.&nbsp;Accurately forecast quarterly sales achievement.</div><div><br></div><div>Collaborate closely with customers, sales, curriculum developers and technical instructors to assess field feedback, define education requirements that might lead to new offerings, and adapt supporting materials to ensure a GTM strategy that aligns with customers' needs.</div><div><br></div><div>Collaborate with PS&amp;E Marketing on sales enablement, market research, customer, and field feedback.</div><div><br></div><div>Analyze markets and develop and implement new programs that grow training revenue</div><div><br></div><div>Own and manage inbound requests, including the Request for Proposal (RFP) process, ensuring timely responses</div><div><br></div><div>Define and manage a process that will measure regional education bookings attainment based on historical and market analysis.</div><div><br></div><div>Present Education offerings, new products, forecast and attainments at regional Quarterly Business Reviews </div><div><br></div><div>Develop and deliver Education presentations at new hire orientation, Executive Briefings, and customer calls.&nbsp;</div><h3></h3><div><ul><li><b>Measures of Success</b></li><div><br></div><li>Trusted advisor and one-stop-shop for all Education products and offerings</li><li>Pervasive air of collaboration, partnership and trust exists cross functionally</li><li>High quality, aligned business plan exists between Education and stakeholders</li><li>Reporting against key business metrics (e. g. pipeline, revenue, etc) is defined, produced and is single source of truth</li><li>Channels and vehicles for consistent, homogenized feedback from field to Education</li><li>Coordination with Education marketing to develop success stories</li><div><br></div><li>&nbsp;<b>What We’re Looking For</b></li><li>Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience 2+ years prior education sales experience in a high tech environment in an indirect sales environment, with demonstrated track record of success in driving customer adoption of technology</li><li>Strong knowledge of sales techniques and processes including the ability to understand customer needs, overcoming objections, return on investment analysis, and closing the sale</li><li>Exceptional, demonstrable, track record of program management, program execution, change management and cross-functional stakeholder engagement to deliver results.</li><li>Open, growth mindset and high degrees of self-motivation, fostered in a face-paced, high growth, dynamic environment</li><li>Strong executive presence, communication (verbal, written, presentation), and facilitation skills with experience engaging and partnering at all levels internally and with key external stakeholders</li><li>Ability to work in a fast and highly ambiguous environment</li><li>Experience with hosted public cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCE) a plus</li><li>Experience with event streaming or log management a plus</li></ul></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><i>California Candidate Privacy Notice</i></a>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div><div><br></div><div><i>#LI-Remote</i></div>

Business Development Manager, Education Services

<div>Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That’s the power of data in motion in action—giving organizations instant access to the massive amounts of data that is constantly flowing throughout their business. At Confluent, we’re building the foundational platform for this new paradigm of data infrastructure. Our cloud-native offering is designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, organizations can create a central nervous system to innovate and win in a digital-first world.</div><div><br></div><div>We’re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent’s enormous potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks as we solve big problems together. We value having diverse teams and want you to grow as we grow—whether you’re just starting out in your career or managing a large team, you’ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Confluent Systems Engineers drive the technical evaluation stage of the overall sales process, making them critical drivers of customer success as realtime data streams become more and more important in the modern enterprise. In this role you will be the key technical advisor to the sales team, work very closely with the product management and engineering teams, and serve as a vital product advocate in front of prospects, customers, and the wider Kafka and Big Data communities. </div><div><br></div><div>You will be a key technical advisor to Confluent customers as they undertake technical design and development of their end-to-end solution, be conversant with the current state and future roadmap of Kafka in open source, and be able to identify known issues and inform them of upcoming fixes or workarounds. You’ll also be responsible for clear articulation of Confluent’s technical and product positioning to a wide variety of business and technical stakeholders, and for forging strong relationships with them throughout the sales cycle and beyond.</div><div><br></div><div>#LI-ECIRKER</div><h3>What we're looking for:</h3><div><ul><li>Experience with technical sales of distributed systems, infrastructure software like databases, message queues, SaaS, or Big Data products</li><li>Exceptional presentation and communications capabilities. Confidence presenting to a highly skilled and experienced audience, including enterprise architects and C-level executives</li><li>Clear, consistent demonstration of self-starter behavior and a desire to tackle hard technical problems&nbsp;</li><li>Bachelor’s level degree in Computer Science or relevant experience</li><li>Proficiency in Java or Python with experience developing ETL applications</li><div><br></div></ul></div><h3>What gives you an edge:</h3><div><ul><li>Previous experience building solutions with Apache Kafka</li><li>Recent (past 3-5 years) track record closing complex Enterprise deals within the NY/NJ area</li><li>Understanding of systems operations concepts  (disk, network, operating systems, etc)</li><li>Experience building and operating large-scale systems</li></ul></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><i>California Candidate Privacy Notice</i></a>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div><div><br></div><div><i>#LI-Remote</i></div>

Senior Pre-Sales Engineer

<div>Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That’s the power of data in motion in action—giving organizations instant access to the massive amounts of data that is constantly flowing throughout their business. At Confluent, we’re building the foundational platform for this new paradigm of data infrastructure. Our cloud-native offering is designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, organizations can create a central nervous system to innovate and win in a digital-first world.</div><div><br></div><div>We’re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent’s enormous potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks as we solve big problems together. We value having diverse teams and want you to grow as we grow—whether you’re just starting out in your career or managing a large team, you’ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Dubbed an "open-source unicorn" by Forbes, Confluent is one of the fastest-growing enterprise subscription companies our investors have ever seen. And how are we growing so fast? By pioneering a new technology category with an event streaming platform, which enables companies to leverage their data as a continually updating stream of events, not as static snapshots. This innovation has led Coatue Management, Altimeter Capital and Franklin Templeton to join earlier investors Sequoia Capital, Benchmark, and Index Ventures in the recent Series E financing of a combined $250 million at a $<a href="http://4.5B" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">4.5B</a> valuation. Our product has been adopted by Fortune 100 customers across all industries, and we’re being led by the best in the space—our founders were the original creators of Apache Kafka®. We’re looking for talented and amazing team players who want to accelerate our growth, while doing some of the best work of their careers. Join us as we build the next transformative technology platform!</div><div><br></div><div>The Clients Team is on a mission to make it as easy as possible to use Apache Kafka with any programming language. We develop <a href="https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka/blob/master/INTRODUCTION.md" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">high performance client libraries</a> and APIs targeting various languages, and our passions range from squeezing an extra percent point of performance out of some low level networking code to designing APIs that are a joy to use. The software we make defines how users interact with Kafka - so it's high impact and very close to users. When we're not writing code, you'll find us out in the open source community (much of what we work on is open source), or helping our customers with some of their toughest problems.</div><div>You will be part of the team which enables Kafka to be used on any platform and on any language using standard interfaces and responsible for building critical features where stability and performance are of the highest concern. We are at the beginning of this engineering journey and are looking for great engineers to join our world class team who are passionate about building and running large scale, multi-tenant distributed data systems for customers that expect a high level of availability.</div><h3>Who You Are</h3><div><ul><li>Smart, humble, and empathetic</li><li>Have a strong sense of teamwork and put team’s and company’s interests first</li><li>Driven and excited about challenges of a fast-paced, innovative software startup environment</li></ul></div><h3>What We're Looking For</h3><div><ul><li>Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development</li><li>Proficiency in more than one programming language and ability to pick up new languages and concepts. We write code in: Java, C, C++, Python, Go, .NET, for Linux, MacOS X, Windows on multiple hardware architectures.</li><li>Strong testing background and takes compatibility very seriously</li><li>Solid understanding of concurrency, sockets, networking, operating systems, memory management, runtimes, portability, etc.</li><li>A self starter with excellent spoken and written communication</li><li>Ability to effectively work in and collaborate on a distributed team and with the open-source community&nbsp;</li><li>Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar field and 4+ years of equivalent work experience</li></ul></div><h3>What Gives You An Edge</h3><div><ul><li>Experience in open-source development</li><li>Experience using Apache Kafka</li><li>Expertise in C/C++ to make contributions to librdkafka</li><li>Experience operating large-scale data systems</li></ul></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><i>California Candidate Privacy Notice</i></a>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div><div><br></div><div><i>#LI-Remote</i></div>

Software Engineer - Infrastructure, Clients Team

<div>Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That’s the power of data in motion in action—giving organizations instant access to the massive amounts of data that is constantly flowing throughout their business. At Confluent, we’re building the foundational platform for this new paradigm of data infrastructure. Our cloud-native offering is designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, organizations can create a central nervous system to innovate and win in a digital-first world.</div><div><br></div><div>We’re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent’s enormous potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks as we solve big problems together. We value having diverse teams and want you to grow as we grow—whether you’re just starting out in your career or managing a large team, you’ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.</div><div><br></div><div>About the Role</div><div><br></div><div>Confluent’s Global Technical Support Team is a critical part of why our customers love us.&nbsp; Our team of Technical Support Engineers work directly with our customers to help them successfully leverage Confluent’s self-managed and hosted Kafka offerings.&nbsp; We’re looking for an experienced support leader to manage and grow a distributed team of Support Managers and Technical Support Engineers and to play a critical role in scaling our internal processes for supporting Confluent Cloud customers across the Americas region.&nbsp; Strong empathy and communication skills are a must.&nbsp; You should have a passion for making customers successful and be willing to contribute to the development of processes needed for scaling a fast growing team. &nbsp; We’re a fast growing company, so the qualified candidate will be the type of person who is always looking to raise the bar and improve our customer support <a href="http://experience.What" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">experience.</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><h3>What you’ll do</h3><div><ul><li>Lead a large team of support personnel with the aim of providing exemplary service to the Americas customer base while also ensuring the team continues to operate smoothly as part of the global “follow-the-sun” support team fabric.</li><li>Regularly work with the rest of our Global Support leadership team to identify and implement support processes and procedures aimed at minimizing errors, maximizing efficiency, and ensuring that our global support team can maintain level of service while our customer base scales exponentially.</li><li>Create and foster an environment that leads to a highly engaged and productive support workforce that lives our values of Customer Love, #Oneteam, and “Smart, Humble, Empathetic”. </li><li>Conduct management functions such as interview/hire qualified candidates, conduct performance reviews, and actively participate in employee career planning to help them achieve their long-term goals, reduce churn, increase employee satisfaction, and manage underperformance.</li><li>Collaborating with sales, customer success and other field teams on addressing issues which may be impeding customers’ success with Confluent products and expansion of use within an account.</li><li>Communicating directly with the product management and engineering teams to address issues which necessitate attention from those teams (including advocating for feature requests, where appropriate).</li><li>Manage, grow, and guide managers and senior managers tasked with ensuring Support quality, SLA, and CSAT requirements are met or exceeded.</li></ul></div><h3>What we’re looking for</h3><div><ul><li>10+ years experience in a technical support environment, handling highly complex issues for IaaS, PaaS or SaaS product offerings.</li><li>5+ years managing director / senior manager levels in addition to individual contributors, providing support to large enterprise customers.</li><li>Experience with Infrastructure products such as Middleware, Databases, Microservices, and legacy system modernization.</li><li>Deep knowledge of both public cloud and on-prem software support.</li><li>Strong understanding of operational infrastructure, metrics, processes, systems and tools for running a Worldwide Support organization.</li><li>Demonstrated success at influencing and dealing confidently and professionally with internal &amp; external executive level stakeholders.</li><li>Ability to respond to high-profile, high-impact customer/product escalations in a way that drives customer satisfaction and earns trust.</li><li>Exceptional presentation and communications capabilities. Confidence presenting to a highly skilled and experienced audience, including enterprise architects and C-level executives.</li><li>Clear, consistent demonstration of self-starter behavior and autonomous work with a desire to tackle hard problems. </li><li>Ability to participate in management escalation on call rotations, including occasionally on holidays and weekends when required.</li></ul></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><i>California Candidate Privacy Notice</i></a>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div><div><br></div><div><i>#LI-Remote</i></div>

Sr. Director, Americas Support

<div>Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That’s the power of data in motion in action—giving organizations instant access to the massive amounts of data that is constantly flowing throughout their business. At Confluent, we’re building the foundational platform for this new paradigm of data infrastructure. Our cloud-native offering is designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, organizations can create a central nervous system to innovate and win in a digital-first world.</div><div><br></div><div>We’re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent’s enormous potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks as we solve big problems together. We value having diverse teams and want you to grow as we grow—whether you’re just starting out in your career or managing a large team, you’ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.</div><div><br></div><div><b>About the Opportunity:</b></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>This role will be a senior role within our Professional Services and Education (PS&amp;E) Operations team. The role will reside in the PS&amp;E Strategy &amp; Operations team and act as a trusted partner to our PS&amp;E organization. They will oversee delivered revenue, PS policy, and process, month/quarter-end close and lead many of the PS Operations automation initiatives. Working closely with PS&amp;E Field Teams, PS&amp;E Delivery &amp; Resourcing, and Operations leadership, the PS Operations Manager drives and governs accurate and predictable revenue delivery.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>This position reports to the Manager, Professional Services Operations.</div><h3>What you’ll achieve:</h3><div><ul><li><i>Design &amp; Manage cadence, and drive compliance to all Operations processes to support the PS business of the assigned region(s) including but not limited to:&nbsp;</i></li><li>o&nbsp;&nbsp; Create and enable Operational processes</li><li>o&nbsp;&nbsp; Timesheet submission and approvals, managing corrections as needed</li><li>o&nbsp;&nbsp; Invoices and revenue transactions tied to delivered services</li><li>o&nbsp;&nbsp; Perform regular audits to ensure data quality across numerous functions</li><li>o&nbsp;&nbsp; Deliver Operations onboarding to new team members&nbsp;</li><div><br></div><li><i>Partner proactively with regional PS practice leaders and engagement managers</i></li><li>o&nbsp;&nbsp; Provide data driven recommendations</li><li>o&nbsp;&nbsp; Understand changes to business and corresponding financials</li><li>o&nbsp;&nbsp; Monitor scheduled assignments and corresponding forecasts</li><li>o&nbsp;&nbsp; Monitor project burn down and expirations</li><div><br></div><li><i>Partner with PS&amp;E Delivery &amp; Resourcing org&nbsp;</i></li><li>o&nbsp;&nbsp; Oversee contracts and procurement for PS subcontractors</li><li>o&nbsp;&nbsp; Track subcontractor budgets</li><li>o&nbsp;&nbsp; Validate subcontractor invoices against historical reporting</li><div><br></div><li><i>Oversee and monitor project financials including planned hours, budgets vs actuals, acceptances on milestones/deliverables, backlog, overages, non-billable hours.</i></li><li>o&nbsp;&nbsp; Manage project setup, close, and extension processes</li><li>o&nbsp;&nbsp; Lead milestone reviews to ensure forecast integrity&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>o&nbsp;&nbsp; Assist teams with customer-specific reporting and timecard requirements</li><li>o&nbsp;&nbsp; Enablement on corresponding process and policy</li><div><br></div><li><i>Monthly and quarterly close</i></li><li>o&nbsp;&nbsp; Participate in regular audits of PS records to prevent inaccurate or incomplete financial reporting&nbsp;</li><li>o&nbsp;&nbsp; Own monthly invoicing and adjustments in assigned regions, and drive resolution of invoice/collections issues</li><li>o&nbsp;&nbsp; Partner with Revenue, Finance, and Sales Operations as needed</li><div><br></div><li><i>Drive select PS automation initiatives</i></li><li>o&nbsp;&nbsp; Partner with Manager PS Operations and Business Systems to drive continuous PSA improvement&nbsp;</li><li>o&nbsp;&nbsp; Program management&nbsp;</li><li>o&nbsp;&nbsp; Define use cases</li><li>o&nbsp;&nbsp; Drive UAT</li><li>o&nbsp;&nbsp; Lead enablement and communications</li></ul></div><h3>Skills</h3><div><ul><li>Demonstrated ability to influence across several functions to achieve results</li><li>Ability to foster and create an environment of collaboration&nbsp;</li><li>Ability to drive data-based decisions and business justifications</li><li>Outstanding written and verbal communication skills</li><li>Strong presentation skills and presence in front of executive stakeholders</li><li>Expert PSA knowledge and hands-on approach</li><li>Experience in documenting PSA systems requirements and use cases</li><li>Program management</li><li>Ability and desire to quickly learn new technology and products</li><li>Experience and knowledge of operational and high-level revenue requirements and challenges</li></ul></div><h3>Measures of Success</h3><div><ul><li>On-time monthly/quarterly fiscal close</li><li>Accurate revenue and utilization reporting&nbsp;</li><li>Governance over operational practices</li><li>Increased process automation quarter over quarter</li><li>A trusted partner to PS managers&nbsp;</li><li>The first line of support for all PS PSA escalations</li><li>Pervasive air of collaboration, partnership, and trust exists cross-functionally</li><li>Reporting against key business metrics</li></ul></div><h3>What We’re Looking For:</h3><div><ul><li>BS degree, preferably in Information Technology, Computing, Business, or Operations</li><li>Extensive experience working with SFDC and PSA tooling. The ideal candidate has experience with FinancialForce.</li><li>5+ years of relevant experience in professional services operations environments</li><li>Working knowledge of general accounting principles and SOX standards as they relate to professional services</li><li>Exceptional attention to detail</li><li>Strong qualitative and quantitative analysis skills</li><li>Entrepreneurial spirit, sense of ownership, and sense of urgency</li><li>Excellent written/verbal communication skills, organizational skills</li><li>Ability to collaborate cross-functionally with other teams such as Sales Operations, Finance, Business Systems</li><li>Ability to prioritize work and meet internal/external customer expectations in a dynamic, deadline-driven environment</li><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>#LI-Remote</div><div>#LI-DO2</div></ul></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><i>California Candidate Privacy Notice</i></a>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div><div><br></div><div><i>#LI-Remote</i></div>

Professional Services - Operations Manager

<div>Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That’s the power of data in motion in action—giving organizations instant access to the massive amounts of data that is constantly flowing throughout their business. At Confluent, we’re building the foundational platform for this new paradigm of data infrastructure. Our cloud-native offering is designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, organizations can create a central nervous system to innovate and win in a digital-first world.</div><div><br></div><div>We’re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent’s enormous potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks as we solve big problems together. We value having diverse teams and want you to grow as we grow—whether you’re just starting out in your career or managing a large team, you’ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The Confluent <b>Public Cloud Engagement Manager</b> is part of the team assigned to AWS on a global basis.&nbsp; This position is responsible for providing leadership, management, and strategy for the sell with/go-to-market engagement and all joint activities with AWS.&nbsp; The Engagement Manager will have a myriad of different responsibilities to ensure leverage and consistent engagement with AWS to drive customer engagements, qualified pipeline, and cloud bookings that meet and exceed quota and expectations.&nbsp; The Engagement Manager will be part of the team that coordinates Confluent sales activities and will be a central conduit for engagement management between the Confluent’s sales organization and AWS.&nbsp; The Public Cloud Engagement Manager will report to the Director of AWS Alliance but will have several dotted line coordination requirements for consistent communication and engagement with Business Development, Marketing, Channels, Inside Sales, and Product Marketing/Development.&nbsp; You will be a knowledge expert on all aspects of AWS and will be asked to present at QBRs, executive meetings, training, and events.</div><div><br></div><div>The <b>Public Cloud Engagement Manager</b> role is highly strategic to the company and the Public Cloud initiative in regards to strategy, influence, and execution.&nbsp; The Engagement Manager is required to contribute to the larger Confluent’s Public Cloud strategy outside of their day-to-day activities and will be called upon for their subject matter expertise in training, QBRs, enablement, and other engagement activities.&nbsp; It is expected that the Cloud Engagement manager has consistent interaction and engagement with customers, strategic vendors, channel partners and other third parties in support of the “sell with” activities with AWS.&nbsp; The Engagement Manager will demonstrate a deep understanding of AWS go-to-market strategies including but not limited to co-selling, strategic planning and goal setting, channel programs, marketing campaigns and programs, strategic events, and funnel management.&nbsp; Since this is a global role, the Public Cloud Engagement manager must be able to manage activities on a worldwide scale with sufficient attention to all four theaters.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>#LI-Remote</div><div>#LI-DO2</div><h3>Your Impact</h3><div><ul><li>Manage all joint sell with and go to market activities with AWS</li><li>Maintain awareness and track all opportunities, pipeline, and bookings and provide forecasts and funnel management reports</li><li>Facilitate co-selling opportunities, account mapping, and other sales engagements between Confluent’s field sales and the AWS sales teams</li><li>Support and engage Confluent’s field sales organization on engagement management with AWS.</li><li>Provide content for Public Cloud training curriculum and sales enablement</li><li>Coordinate activities and have involvement with the Public Cloud virtual team of Business Development, Marketing, Product Management, Channels, and Sales as part of cloud strategy</li><li>Develop annual strategic plan and performance goals for assigned Cloud Provider</li><li>Provide support and coordination for channel activity with assigned Cloud Provider</li><li>Understand and articulate the Public Cloud provider’s strategic initiatives and gain a deep understanding of the activities, roadmap, and vision of the Cloud Provider</li><li>Provide an escalation point for pre-sales and post-sales issues for any activity with the Public Cloud provider</li><li>Build and maintain relationships with key personnel in the Public Cloud provider to solidify Confluent’s standing and awareness within the provider and to assist in the development of key relationships with the extended Confluent’s cloud team and executives</li><li>Direct engagement and partner relationships are a critical part of this role</li><li>Help provide insight into the support of Public Cloud events and attend/participate in the events</li><li>Provide support in the form of expertise and training for Confluent’s field sales enablement</li></ul></div><h3>Qualifications</h3><div><ul><li>BA, BS (or equivalent work experience), MBA preferred</li><li>10+ Years experience in Sales Leadership – Account or Channel Management</li><li>Proven experience in the management of large global accounts</li><li>3+ years of proven worldwide experience is preferred</li><li>Public Cloud experience preferred</li><li>Channel experience including selling with or managing channel partners is preferred</li><li>Channel Program experience is a plus</li><li>Demonstrated history of managing quota bearing sales or channel teams</li><li>Current ability to deliver comprehensive security solutions to Confluent’s customer base, and maintains a general understanding of competitive selling strategies.</li><li>Demonstrated ability to work in a virtual and matrix environment</li><li>Proven ability to manage a myriad of different disciplines and tasks in a high pressure, time-sensitive environment</li><li>40%-50% Travel with ability to travel internationally</li><li>Strong communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills</li><li>Whatever it takes" attitude and motivation to do whatever necessary to assist in winning business</li></ul></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><i>California Candidate Privacy Notice</i></a>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div><div><br></div><div><i>#LI-Remote</i></div>

Public Cloud Engagement Manager

<div>Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That’s the power of data in motion in action—giving organizations instant access to the massive amounts of data that is constantly flowing throughout their business. At Confluent, we’re building the foundational platform for this new paradigm of data infrastructure. Our cloud-native offering is designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, organizations can create a central nervous system to innovate and win in a digital-first world.</div><div><br></div><div>We’re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent’s enormous potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks as we solve big problems together. We value having diverse teams and want you to grow as we grow—whether you’re just starting out in your career or managing a large team, you’ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.</div><div><br></div><div>We are seeking a Certification Program Manager to join Confluent's Education Services team, to drive the strategy and execution of our end user certification program. Through formal proctored exams, this certification program serves to verify and acknowledge acquired skills and technical capabilities of Confluent solution users. This individual will be responsible for comprehensive oversight of Confluent's technical professional certification program, using industry leading best practices to build a coveted and defensible certification brand. </div><div><br></div><div>The Certification Program Manager will work closely with Confluent's Education leaders to define and continuously evolve the certification program to better support users, Partners, and the Customer Success team at Confluent. You will manage and oversee all exam development activities, working with technical subject matter experts across Confluent in the development of exam questions and other certification assets, and ensure timely publication and rollout of new and revised exams.&nbsp; As the face of Confluent's Certification Program, you will work with Customer Success to ensure certification is a key pillar to customers' Center of Excellence, central to our Partners' enablement, and a sought-after credential by all technical Kafka users.</div><h3>Responsibilities: </h3><div><ul><li>Managing the Technical Certification Program</li><li>Work with Education and Customer Success stakeholders to define and evolve the certification strategy, defining certification paths that become highly desirable for Kafka and Confluent users</li><li>Establish repeatable exam development processes, including subject matter expert recruitment, job task analysis, exam blueprinting, item writing workshops, public alpha/beta testing and technical reviews</li><li>Establish certification as a central component to Partner enablement and our customers' Center of Excellence</li><li>Define, develop and continuously evolve a mature Certifications Reward Program</li><li>Play a central role in creating a community of users, developing advocates/champions of the Certification Program</li><li>Partner with curriculum development to develop a comprehensive training program that supports certification exams</li><li>Driving Adoption of the Confluent's Certification</li><li>Ensure the Certification Program is always promoted through all new training materials, e-learning materials and educational support materials</li><li>Develop integrated marketing communication deliverables to promote Certification (press releases, newsletters, ads, etc) as well as internal awareness initiatives</li><li>Ensure Certification plays a central role at Summits, conferences and meetups</li><li>Build and manage performance and adoption reports that provide insights into the success of the certification program</li><li>Managing creation, administration and maintenance of Certification Assets</li><li>Define exam audiences and blueprints, skills to verify, relative progression, and exam preparation/pre-requisites</li><li>Conduct item writing workshops that maximize SME technical input</li><li>Build and maintain certification assets according to blueprints</li><li>Work closely with vendors that support our exam creation, exam delivery and asset management</li><li>Triage exam escalations, review and revise exams, act on user feedback</li></ul></div><h3>Required Qualifications include: </h3><div><ul><li>At least 5 years building and managing technical certification programs, including exam development, production, rollout, promotion, adoption, and bookings growth.</li><li>Experience conducting job-task analyses, item creation workshops, question writing training</li><li>Knowledge of modern proctoring tools, badging systems, and certification best practices</li><li>Capability to logically plan and set priorities, take initiative, identify and resolve problems to produce measurable results</li><li>Demonstrated ability to work independently and as part of a team</li><li>Exceptional planning, time management and organizational skills are required</li><li>Exceptional written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills</li><li>Positive, proactive and able to always exercise great judgment</li><li>Ability to work in a fast and highly ambiguous environment</li><li>Experience with badging strategies and gamification a plus</li><li>Experience with hosted public cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCE) a plus</li><li>Experience with event streaming or log management a plus</li></ul></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><i>California Candidate Privacy Notice</i></a>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div><div><br></div><div><i>#LI-Remote</i></div>

Certification Program Manager

<div>Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That’s the power of data in motion in action—giving organizations instant access to the massive amounts of data that is constantly flowing throughout their business. At Confluent, we’re building the foundational platform for this new paradigm of data infrastructure. Our cloud-native offering is designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, organizations can create a central nervous system to innovate and win in a digital-first world.</div><div><br></div><div>We’re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent’s enormous potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks as we solve big problems together. We value having diverse teams and want you to grow as we grow—whether you’re just starting out in your career or managing a large team, you’ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.</div><div><br></div><div>About the Team</div><div>The Clients Team is on a mission to make it as easy as possible to use Apache Kafka with any programming language. We develop high performance client libraries and APIs targeting various languages, and our passions range from squeezing an extra percent point of performance out of some low level networking code to designing APIs that are a joy to use. The software we make defines how users interact with Kafka - so it's high impact and very close to users. When we're not writing code, you'll find us out in the open source community (much of what we work on is open source), or helping our customers with some of their toughest problems.</div><div><br></div><div>You will be part of the team which enables Kafka to be used on any platform and on any language using standard interfaces and responsible for building critical features where stability and performance are of the highest concern. We are at the beginning of this engineering journey and are looking for great engineers to join our world class team who are passionate about building and running large scale, multi-tenant distributed data systems for customers that expect a high level of availability.</div><div><br></div><h3>Who You Are</h3><div><ul><li>Smart, humble, and empathetic</li><li>Have a strong sense of teamwork and put team’s and company’s interests first</li><li>Driven and excited about challenges of a fast-paced, innovative software start-up environment</li></ul></div><h3>What We're Looking For</h3><div><ul><li>Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development</li><li>Proficiency in more than one programming language and ability to pick up new languages and concepts. We write code in: Java, C, C++, Python, Go, .NET, for Linux, MacOS X, Windows on multiple hardware architectures</li><li>Strong testing background and takes compatibility very seriously</li><li>Solid understanding of concurrency, sockets, networking, operating systems, memory management, runtimes, portability, etc</li><li>A self starter with excellent spoken and written communication</li><li>Ability to effectively work in and collaborate on a distributed team and with the open source community&nbsp;</li><li>Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar field and 4+ years of equivalent work experience</li></ul></div><h3>What Gives You An Edge</h3><div><ul><li>Experience in open-source development</li><li>Experience using Apache Kafka</li><li>Expertise in C/C++ to make contributions to librdkafka</li><li>Experience operating large-scale data systems</li><div><br></div><li>#LI-Remote</li><li>#LI-DS1</li></ul></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><i>California Candidate Privacy Notice</i></a>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div><div><br></div><div><i>#LI-Remote</i></div>

Backend Software Engineer

<div>Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That’s the power of data in motion in action—giving organizations instant access to the massive amounts of data that is constantly flowing throughout their business. At Confluent, we’re building&nbsp;the&nbsp;foundational platform for this new paradigm of data infrastructure. Our cloud-native offering is designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, organizations can create a central nervous system to innovate and win in a digital-first world.</div><div><br></div><div>We’re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent’s enormous potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks as we solve big problems together. We value having diverse teams and want you to grow as we grow—whether you’re just starting out in your career or managing a large team, you’ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.</div><div><br></div><div>We are looking for a Solutions Architect to join our Customer Success team. As a Solutions Architect (SA), you will help customers leverage streaming architectures and applications to achieve their business results. In this role, you will interact directly with customers to provide software architecture, design, and operations expertise that leverages your deep knowledge of and experience in Apache Kafka, the Confluent platform, and complementary systems such as Hadoop, Spark, Storm, relational and NoSQL databases. You will develop and advocate best practices, gather and validate critical product feedback, and help customers overcome their operational challenges. </div><div><br></div><div>Throughout all these interactions, you will build a strong relationship with your customer in a very short space of time, ensuring exemplary delivery standards. You will also have the opportunity to help customers build state-of-the-art streaming data infrastructure, in partnership with colleagues who are widely recognized as industry leaders, as well as optimizing and debugging customers existing deployments.</div><div><br></div><div>Location:</div><div>Anywhere in West Coast, USA</div><div>You will be based in LOCATION, with 60-75% travel expected.</div><h3>Responsibilities </h3><div><ul><li>Helping a customer determine his/her platform and/or application strategy for moving to a more real-time, event-based business. Such engagements often involve remote preparation; presenting an onsite or remote workshop for      the customer’s architects, developers, and operations teams; investigating (with Engineering and other coworkers) solutions to difficult challenges; and writing a recommendations summary doc. </li><li>Providing feedback to the Confluent Product and Engineering groups</li><li>Building tooling for another team or the wider company to help us push our technical boundaries and improve our ability to deliver consistently with high quality</li><li>Testing performance and functionality of new components developed by Engineering</li><li>Writing or editing documentation and knowledge base articles, including reference architecture materials and design patterns based on customer experiencesHoning your skills, building applications, or trying out new product featuresParticipating in community and industry events </li><li>Participating in community and industry events </li></ul></div><h3>Requirements </h3><div><ul><li>Deep experience designing, building, and operating in-production Big Data, stream processing, and/or enterprise data integration solutions, ideally using Apache Kafka</li><li>Demonstrated experience successfully managing multiple B2B infrastructure software development projects, including driving expansion, customer satisfaction, feature adoption, and retention</li><li>Experience operating Linux (configure, tune, and troubleshoot both RedHat and Debian-based distributions)</li><li>Experience using cloud providers (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure) for running high-throughput systems</li><li>Experience with Java Virtual Machine (JVM) tuning and troubleshooting</li><li>Experience with distributed systems (Kafka, Hadoop, Cassandra, etc.)</li><li>Proficiency in Java</li><li>Strong desire to tackle hard technical problems, and proven ability to do so with little or no direct daily supervision</li><li>Excellent communication skills, with an ability to clearly and concisely explain tricky issues and complex solutions</li><li>Ability to quickly learn new technologies</li><li>Ability and willingness to travel up to 50% of the time to meet with customers</li></ul></div><h3>Bonus Points</h3><div><ul><li>Experience helping customers build Apache Kafka solutions alongside Hadoop technologies, relational and NoSQL databases, message queues, and related products</li><li>Experience with Scala, Python, or Go</li><li>Experience working with a commercial team and demonstrated business acumen</li><li>Experience working in a fast-paced technology start-up</li><li>Experience managing projects, using any known methodology to scope, manage, and deliver on plan no matter the complexity</li><li>Bachelor-level degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or another quantitative field</li></ul></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&nbsp;<i><a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">California Candidate Privacy Notice</a></i>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div><div><br></div><div><i>#LI-Remote</i></div>

Solutions Architect - West Coast

<div>Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That’s the power of data in motion in action—giving organizations instant access to the massive amounts of data that is constantly flowing throughout their business. At Confluent, we’re building&nbsp;the&nbsp;foundational platform for this new paradigm of data infrastructure. Our cloud-native offering is designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, organizations can create a central nervous system to innovate and win in a digital-first world.</div><div><br></div><div>We’re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent’s enormous potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks as we solve big problems together. We value having diverse teams and want you to grow as we grow—whether you’re just starting out in your career or managing a large team, you’ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>* Lead cross-functional teams and subject matter experts in the scoping, development, planning, and implementation of new routes to market with channel training partners</div><div>* Work closely with internal stakeholders such as sales enablement, product management, finance, marketing and sales to assess global training partner coverage, identify target partners for recruitment (as necessary), segmentation, capacity planning, budgeting and financial modelling</div><div>* Train and enable partner sales managers and business development teams to achieve and exceed planned results</div><div>* Provide partner teams with the required selling tools, planning templates, scorecards and pitches for training partner recruitment.</div><div>* Balance long-term strategic goals with short-term agility to maximise resource ROI for various routes to markets.</div><div>* Work with training partners to define annual revenue targets and/or student counts. Maintain ongoing communication and provide support with training partners to meet those goals</div><div>* Help develop, expand, and refine ongoing training partner programs.</div><div>* Ensure a healthy global partner pipeline and lead generation activities/program with partners to hit global targets for partner business</div><div>* Deliver regular and quarterly progress and/or results presentations to management</div><div>* Proactively identify and drive efficiency and productivity of training partners and their success in building capabilities to serve and expand customer accounts</div><div>* Measure and report on the effectiveness of training initiatives</div><div>* Develop new or re-engineer existing processes to optimise the business </div><div><br></div><div>#LI-NF1</div><div><br></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&nbsp;<i><a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">California Candidate Privacy Notice</a></i>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div><div><br></div><div><i>#LI-Remote</i></div>

Education Partner Programme Manager

<div>Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That’s the power of data in motion in action—giving organizations instant access to the massive amounts of data that is constantly flowing throughout their business. At Confluent, we’re building&nbsp;the&nbsp;foundational platform for this new paradigm of data infrastructure. Our cloud-native offering is designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, organizations can create a central nervous system to innovate and win in a digital-first world.</div><div><br></div><div>We’re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent’s enormous potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks as we solve big problems together. We value having diverse teams and want you to grow as we grow—whether you’re just starting out in your career or managing a large team, you’ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.</div><div><br></div><div>We are looking for a seasoned engineering leader to build and grow the Security engineering team within Trust and Security Org. The Security Engineering team works on high impact security aspects of cloud and on-premise Confluent products. You will work closely with broader engineering teams to show thought leadership in building a platform for mission critical features around access controls and authorization.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Trust and Security Org is one of the leading innovation groups at Confluent that defines the security product roadmap for both cloud and on-premise Confluent products. This team designs a set of distributed applications and compliance platforms with ease of use in mind to manage application and product security, data governance and infrastructure assurance and operations.</div><h3>Who You Are:</h3><div><ul><li>Smart, humble, and empathetic</li><li>Passionate about technology and delivering delightful customer-oriented products</li><li>Have a strong sense of teamwork and put team’s and company’s interests first</li><li>Driven and excited about challenges of a fast-paced, innovative software startup environment</li></ul></div><h3>What We're Looking For:</h3><div><ul><li>5+ years of engineering management experience leading productive, high-functioning teams in a matrix style organization</li><li>Ability to hire while ensuring a high hiring bar, keep engineers motivated, coach/mentor, and handle performance management</li><li>Prior experience of leading teams, and delivering software,&nbsp; in authorization or identity management space</li><li>Experience with running large stateful production data systems in public clouds</li><li>Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development</li><li>A great track record of shipping features and hitting deadlines consistently; should be able to move fast, build in increments and iterate; have a sense of urgency, aggressive mindset towards achieving results and excellent prioritization skills; able to anticipate future technical needs for the product and craft plans to realize them.</li><li>Ability to influence the team, peers, and upper management using effective communication and collaborative techniques; focused on building and maintaining a culture of collaboration within the team</li><li>Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science</li></ul></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&nbsp;<i><a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">California Candidate Privacy Notice</a></i>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div><div><br></div><div><i>#LI-Remote</i></div>

Engineering Manager, Authorization

<div>Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That’s the power of data in motion in action—giving organizations instant access to the massive amounts of data that is constantly flowing throughout their business. At Confluent, we’re building&nbsp;the&nbsp;foundational platform for this new paradigm of data infrastructure. Our cloud-native offering is designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, organizations can create a central nervous system to innovate and win in a digital-first world.</div><div><br></div><div>We’re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent’s enormous potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks as we solve big problems together. We value having diverse teams and want you to grow as we grow—whether you’re just starting out in your career or managing a large team, you’ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.</div><div><br></div><div><b>About the role:</b></div><div><br></div><div>As the lead Security Technical Program Manager in the Trust &amp; Security organization you will play a critical role in fulfilling the vision to secure Confluent’s platform and cloud offerings through a combination of technical expertise, security experience, and excellent program management skills. You should be comfortable and experienced in driving and delivering highly complex projects on time, running significant security programs that span the entire company, and participating in operational security exercises, such as incident response and vulnerability management.</div><h3>Who you are:</h3><div><ul><li>Smart, humble, and empathetic</li><li>Have a strong sense of teamwork and put team’s and company’s interests first</li><li>Driven and excited about challenges of a fast-paced, innovative software startup environment</li></ul></div><h3> Responsibilities:</h3><div><ul><li>Lead the Trust &amp; Security Technical Program Management Pillar, including setting the roadmap for all security programs at Confluent</li><li>Mentor other Security Program Managers on execution and delivery, both from a security subject matter expert perspective as well as program management&nbsp;</li><li>Work with stakeholders to drive cross cutting and/or critical security initiatives for the company.</li><li>Manage and scale security programs by defining milestones and success criteria, resource allocation, and successful on-time delivery.</li><li>Proactively identify and resolve roadblocks/challenges affecting projects.</li><li>Drive automation and process improvements for security programs</li><li>Explain technical architecture, decisions and tradeoffs to both engineering and other functions.</li><li>Work with Engineering, Product and Security leadership to streamline and drive our projects on a predictable schedule</li><li>Participate in operational security work, including incident response and vulnerability management</li></ul></div><h3>What we're looking for:</h3><div><ul><li>Experience in running long-term security programs that deliver iterative improvements and risk reduction over time</li><li>Experience in operational security work, such as incident response and vulnerability management</li><li>Experience driving complex and massive projects across the organizations.</li><li>Experience in areas such as release management, cost modeling, capacity planning a plus.</li><li>Strong communication, interpersonal and leadership skills to work with both engineering and other non-technical stakeholders.</li><li>Experience managing end-to-end lifecycle of technical projects.</li><li>Strong technical skills.&nbsp;</li><li>Experience in actual design and development of software projects is a plus.</li><li>Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field or equivalent practical experience.</li></ul></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&nbsp;<i><a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">California Candidate Privacy Notice</a></i>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div>

Security Technical Program Management Lead

<div>Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That’s the power of data in motion in action—giving organizations instant access to the massive amounts of data that is constantly flowing throughout their business. At Confluent, we’re building&nbsp;the&nbsp;foundational platform for this new paradigm of data infrastructure. Our cloud-native offering is designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, organizations can create a central nervous system to innovate and win in a digital-first world.</div><div><br></div><div>We’re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent’s enormous potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks as we solve big problems together. We value having diverse teams and want you to grow as we grow—whether you’re just starting out in your career or managing a large team, you’ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.</div><div><br></div><div><b>About the role:</b></div><div><br></div><div>We are looking for a security engineer that likes working in a rapidly evolving cloud-first </div><div>environment. The responsibilities include all aspects of corporate security and coordination with </div><div>Business Systems and IT.  Responsibilities also include designing models for modern identity </div><div>management, authorization, and data access.  The candidate we are looking for can define and </div><div>implement a clear vision for appropriately managing scalable models that enable just-in-time </div><div>access, reduce exposure of compromised credentials, minimize session windows, and provide for </div><div>auditability and investigation.  In this role, you will work with key partners in our IT and </div><div>Business Systems teams as well as our engineering teams, our release engineering team, and all </div><div>other engineering groups building out products for the cloud. The ideal candidate has deep </div><div>technical security knowledge and expertise and will help define and implement robust security </div><div>architecture strategies, frameworks and governance processes.</div><div><br></div><h3>Who you are:</h3><div><ul><li>Smart, humble, and empathetic</li><li>Have a strong sense of teamwork and put team’s and company’s interests first</li><li>Driven and excited about challenges of a fast-paced, innovative software startup environment</li></ul></div><h3>Responsibilities</h3><div><ul><li>Drive and influence corporate security across the organization by partnering with key stakeholders throughout Confluent including IT and Business Systems</li><li>Propose, design, build and deploy security solutions, frameworks, automation and orchestration to secure our corporate infrastructure</li><li>Act as a technical lead for corporate security and for identity and authorization programs within Confluent</li><li>Contribute to strategy, risk management and prioritization for all efforts around both corporate security and identity and authorization.</li><li>Design identity and authorization models for production, cloud, corporate, service-to-service, and non-production environments</li><li>Define key performance indicators for measurement of programs under your care</li><li>Contribute to Confluent’s security posture as a subject matter expert</li></ul></div><h3>What we're looking for:</h3><div><ul><li>Strong security engineering fundamentals background, especially in the field of corporate security and in Identity and Authorization.</li><li>Proven experience in a cloud-first environment</li><li>The knowledge, experience and perspective necessary to own outcomes, influence stakeholders, and provide effective leadership when it comes to keeping our corporate data, our product, and our customer data safe.</li><li>Decision-maker with the ability to operate with freedom and autonomy</li><li>Ability to own and oversee numerous initiatives, while working collaboratively with a variety of stakeholders, and adjust priorities upon evolving business needs</li><li>A data-driven, decision-making mindset</li><li>Experience working with distributed teams and other cross-functional stakeholders</li><li>Ability to manage competing priorities and workload</li><li>Ability to script or code fluently in an interpreted language</li></ul></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&nbsp;<i><a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">California Candidate Privacy Notice</a></i>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div>

Information Security Engineer - Infrastructure Assurance and Operations

<div>Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That’s the power of data in motion in action—giving organizations instant access to the massive amounts of data that is constantly flowing throughout their business. At Confluent, we’re building&nbsp;the&nbsp;foundational platform for this new paradigm of data infrastructure. Our cloud-native offering is designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, organizations can create a central nervous system to innovate and win in a digital-first world.</div><div><br></div><div>We’re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent’s enormous potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks as we solve big problems together. We value having diverse teams and want you to grow as we grow—whether you’re just starting out in your career or managing a large team, you’ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Confluent is looking for a Technical Curriculum Developer. Working with subject matter experts and trainers—and eventually becoming a subject matter expert yourself—you will be responsible for creating, updating, and maintaining our curriculum of instructor-led and e-learning training courses covering Apache Kafka and the Confluent Platform. Training is a core part of Confluent’s Customer Success strategy, and you will be a key member of the team.</div><div><br></div><h3>Responsibilities:</h3><div><ul><li>Work cross-functionally with SMEs and other teams (engineering, support, professional services, etc.) to develop effective learning content in multiple delivery styles (includes online, classroom, virtual instructor-led training and blended learning content).</li><li>Design and develop learning solutions and programs to apply adult learning principles and systematic instructional design to enable learners to rapidly absorb the technical content.</li><li>Develop exercises, illustrations, tutorials, job aids, assessments, and other methods of learning to improve course materials and multimedia based assets.</li><li>Use project management tools and skills to manage medium to large scale content development projects.</li><li>Maintain and update current courses, keeping material in sync with new releases of Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform.</li><li>Liaise with stakeholders to perform needs-assessments and analysis to determine training needs based on customer requirements.</li></ul></div><h3>What We're Looking For:</h3><div><ul><li>Three or more years of experience in a curriculum development role (or similar).</li><li>An undergraduate degree in communication, education, design, or technical field.</li><li>Professional experience using e-learning software (Articulate, Captivate, or similar)</li><li>Experienced using video editing tools (Final Cut, Adobe Premier, After Effects, Camtasia, or similar)</li><li>Working understanding of web and media design tools (Adobe Creative Cloud, HTML, CSS)</li><li>Experience designing and developing training materials and content to include creating instructor-led materials, online/e-learning modules, job aids, online tutorials, multimedia products (video, graphic, audio), and other training materials.</li><li>Demonstrated ability to manage medium to large scale programs while working cross-functionally with multiple teams and stakeholders in IT environment.&nbsp;Familiarity with online learning, learning technology, instructional, graphic, and/or web design or development skills.</li><li>Experience developing and supporting training for technical/IT related positions</li><li>Some travel required (&lt;10%).</li><li>Excellent in spoken and written English</li><li>Portfolio and/or eLearning sample are required at interview.</li></ul></div><h3>What Gives You An Edge:</h3><div><ul><li>Knowledge of Apache Kafka and/or the Confluent Platform</li><li>A background in large scale distributed systems</li><li>Experience in the use of Markdown, AsciiDoc, and PDF</li><li>Basic Linux admin skills</li><li>Proficient in at least one programming language, preferably Java, Scala, or C# (.NET)</li><li>Hands-on experience with Docker</li><li>Experience with Git and GitHub</li></ul></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&nbsp;<i><a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">California Candidate Privacy Notice</a></i>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div>

Curriculum Developer

<div>At Confluent, we’re creating a category that transforms how every company manages and streams data. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That’s Confluent in action—giving our customers instant access to massive amounts of real-time data, enabling them to thrive in an ever-changing digital world. As one of the fastest-growing enterprise companies in history, and with Fortune 100 customers across major industries, we have a tremendous opportunity in front of us. We also have experience on our side. Our leaders have taken companies of our size to major success before and include some of the original creators of Apache Kafka®.</div><div><br></div><div>We’re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent’s unlimited potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks with the backing and support of our #OneTeam culture. Be part of inclusive initiatives like Employee Resource Groups and development programs, and take advantage of benefits that support our diverse global teams. Grow as we grow—whether you’re just starting out or managing a large team, you’ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.</div><div><br></div><div><b>About the team:</b></div><div>Love technology and care about customers? &nbsp;We do!&nbsp; The Customer Success team is comprised of smart people who are passionate about helping our customers use Confluent's software, from helping customers architect the right solution, to making sure they understand the technology and also supporting them if there are issues. &nbsp;We're geeks with heart who get to work with very cool software and some of the biggest and most innovative companies around the world.</div><div><br></div><div><b>About the Role: </b></div><div>Confluent technical trainers are often the first point of contact customers have with the company. As a member of this team, you are the sort of person who is comfortable explaining highly complex subjects to people with clarity, patience, and empathy. You are just as passionate about teaching open-source and proprietary products to your students. You have experience teaching courses to groups large and small, in public venues and on-site with clients. </div><div><br></div><div>Nothing makes you happier than connecting with a room full of people and creating an environment in which they are able to learn and master exciting new things. You are US-based, and okay traveling up to 75% of the time.</div><h3>Responsibilities:</h3><div><ul><li>Deliver classroom and virtual training to a variety of technical audiences</li><li>Provide support for course development efforts, including product research, providing subject matter expertise, and training content review</li><li>Create, update and maintain slide decks and lab exercises for customer facing training</li><li>Assist with updates for all curricula as required</li><li>Assist with updates for course descriptions, syllabi, and other collateral pertaining to external education</li></ul></div><h3>What We're Looking For:</h3><div><ul><li>Strong Linux Admin Skills and/or Java programming</li><li>Background in large scale distributed systems</li><li>5+ years' experience as a technical trainer / sales engineer / professional services consultant or equivalent technical position</li><li>Proven experience successfully delivering ILT and VILT courses on open source technologies to highly technical audiences</li><li>Experienced with virtual classroom training tools such as WebEx, Zoom, etc.</li><li>Experience creating training materials</li><li>Continuous desire to learn and help other understand deeply technical concepts</li><li>Knowledge of Apache Kafka is a plus</li></ul></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><i>California Candidate Privacy Notice</i></a>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div>

Technical Trainer

<div>At Confluent, we’re creating a category that transforms how every company manages and streams data. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That’s Confluent in action—giving our customers instant access to massive amounts of real-time data, enabling them to thrive in an ever-changing digital world. As one of the fastest-growing enterprise companies in history, and with Fortune 100 customers across major industries, we have a tremendous opportunity in front of us. We also have experience on our side. Our leaders have taken companies of our size to major success before and include some of the original creators of Apache Kafka®.</div><div><br></div><div>We’re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent’s unlimited potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks with the backing and support of our #OneTeam culture. Be part of inclusive initiatives like Employee Resource Groups and development programs, and take advantage of benefits that support our diverse global teams. Grow as we grow—whether you’re just starting out or managing a large team, you’ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.</div><div><br></div><div>The Commercial Sales Operations Business Partner will own Confluent’s sales processes and work closely with the leadership of the Commercial sales team to help manage the team's selling efforts.&nbsp; The Sales Ops Business Partner’s primary responsibilities will be to provide data and analytical support to manage and improve Confluent’s sales processes and cycle, as well as utilizing pipeline data to help report, analyze and forecast the company’s current quarter’s business.</div><div>Confluent is a dynamic, fast-paced sales environment that requires excellent communication skills and the ability to multitask on tight deadlines. The ideal candidate will thrive in this environment, possess superior analytical skills and the ability to work well as part of a team.</div><h3>The Commercial Sales Operations Business Partner will:</h3><div><ul><li>Support weekly forecast and pipeline cadences</li><li>Provide ad hoc reporting to sales leadership</li><li>Work with the (A)VP of Sales, RSD's and Finance to refine go-to-market models and sales methodology, including identifying and solving pain points within the organization and sales process</li><li>Proactively identify issues and solutions to improve the efficiency of the sales force</li><li>Participate in weekly, quarterly and annual sales planning by preparing and supporting the delivery of specific sales coverage and forecasting analytics</li><li>Lead efforts to standardize processes and systems (e.g. <a href="http://salesforce.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Salesforce.com</a>) to enable accurate and efficient data collection and management of the company’s sales efforts</li><li>Partner with the Sales leaders to facilitate our global sales territory planning, by creating and allocating territories as the sales team grows</li><li>Own communication to the field and maintain calendar of communications from a global to subregion standpoint as well as sales process adoption</li><li>Manage all daily ad hoc requests from all business units (Finance, Compensation, AE’s, Data Science, etc.)</li><li>Work closely with other Sales Operations Managers to share knowledge, best practices and facilitate standardization across the whole sales organization</li></ul></div><h3>Requirements:</h3><div><ul><li>BA/BS degree preferred</li><li>3-5 years of Sales Operations experience preferably in a SaaS/cloud company</li><li>Advanced excel skills required</li><li>Experienced working with a Partner Channel Team is a plus</li><li>Deep understanding of Salesforce best-practices and functionality&nbsp;</li><li>Comfortable engaging at all levels in an organization to deliver results</li><li>Excellent communicator with proven ability to clearly convey ideas and information in written and verbal form to a variety of audiences</li><li>Endless curiosity and a need to dive deeper for understanding</li><li>Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships and display diplomatic and remarkable interpersonal skills with colleagues and other partners</li><li>Knowledge of Tableau and Anaplan is a plus</li></ul></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><i>California Candidate Privacy Notice</i></a>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div>

Commercial Sales Operations Business Partner

<div>At Confluent, we’re creating a category that transforms how every company manages and streams data. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That’s Confluent in action—giving our customers instant access to massive amounts of real-time data, enabling them to thrive in an ever-changing digital world. As one of the fastest-growing enterprise companies in history, and with Fortune 100 customers across major industries, we have a tremendous opportunity in front of us. We also have experience on our side. Our leaders have taken companies of our size to major success before and include some of the original creators of Apache Kafka®.</div><div><br></div><div>We’re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent’s unlimited potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks with the backing and support of our #OneTeam culture. Be part of inclusive initiatives like Employee Resource Groups and development programs, and take advantage of benefits that support our diverse global teams. Grow as we grow—whether you’re just starting out or managing a large team, you’ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.</div><div><br></div><div>We are looking for a Full Stack Software Engineer interested in building engaging and insightful products for managing and visualizing large scale distributed real-time data streams. Data flow is central to how companies operate and we aim to make that experience intuitive and attractive. As a Full Stack Software Engineer, you will be responsible for creating new visualizations and interfaces that can scale with Apache Kafka.</div><h3>Who You Are:</h3><div><ul><li>Smart, humble, and empathetic</li><li>Have a strong sense of teamwork and put team’s and company’s interests first</li><li>Driven and excited about challenges of a fast-paced, innovative software startup environment</li></ul></div><h3>What We're Looking For:</h3><div><ul><li>Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar field or equivalent </li><li>Distributed system fundamentals</li><li>Experience designing, building, and operating stateful applications (eg. search, newsfeed/ timelines, metrics pipeline)</li><li>Self starter with the ability to work effectively in teams, including frontend engineers and product designers</li><li>Experience building and operating multi-tier web applications, including REST APIs</li><li>Proficiency in Java</li><div><br></div></ul></div><h3>What Gives You An Edge:</h3><div><ul><li>Javascript and React experience</li><li>Kafka experience</li></ul></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><i>California Candidate Privacy Notice</i></a>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div>

Full Stack Software Engineer

<div>At Confluent, we’re creating a category that transforms how every company manages and streams data. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That’s Confluent in action—giving our customers instant access to massive amounts of real-time data, enabling them to thrive in an ever-changing digital world. As one of the fastest-growing enterprise companies in history, and with Fortune 100 customers across major industries, we have a tremendous opportunity in front of us. We also have experience on our side. Our leaders have taken companies of our size to major success before and include some of the original creators of Apache Kafka®.</div><div><br></div><div>We’re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent’s unlimited potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks with the backing and support of our #OneTeam culture. Be part of inclusive initiatives like Employee Resource Groups and development programs, and take advantage of benefits that support our diverse global teams. Grow as we grow—whether you’re just starting out or managing a large team, you’ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Are you at home, solving deep technical challenges using the most cutting edge real time data solutions, and presenting complex use cases to a varied business audience?</div><div><br></div><div>Would you enjoy guiding enterprises as they embark on projects that utilise the power of real time data, with the support of&nbsp; your colleagues in a hyper-growth product company, as it redefines the way the world uses its data.</div><div><br></div><div>If the answer to these questions is yes, then the Confluent Professional Services organisation could be your perfect next home.</div><div><br></div><div>Confluent’s Professional Services organisation is far from a traditional vendor outfit, we are not defined by utilisation rate and margins, we are defined by customer success. The strategic significance of the team cannot be overstated, our Technical Engagement Managers (TEM) play an essential role in enabling our customers to successfully deploy the Confluent Platform, either on-prem, in the cloud, or in hybrid solutions.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><h3>The TEM role is specific to Europe, you will work with defined accounts to develop our relationship and grow the reach of both our product and services offerings. You will:</h3><div><ul><li>Deliver real technical value to projects through your deep knowledge of distributed data infrastructure. You will have the ability to design, architect and deploy a real time event driven platform at scale.</li><li>Scope, plan, and define project deliverables&nbsp;</li><li>Lead the engagement as primary point of contact&nbsp;</li><li>Drive revenue growth in your accounts</li><li>Prepare Professional Services project proposals&nbsp;</li><div><br></div></ul></div><div>On top of the customer engagements, you will interact right across our organisation, from sales to , support, to represent a one team approach to our customers.&nbsp; To ensure that we build products that deliver beyond customer expectations, communication with our Product, Engineering, R&amp;D teams, and the wider Confluent Community is essential. To really succeed, you will build relationships and engage throughout the company.</div><div><br></div><div>As we are growing quickly, you will have opportunities to grow your role at speed. You will need energy and focus, but also the ability to think on your feet and operate in a fluid team environment to ensure we have the right people working on the right projects.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>In order to hit the ground running when the ground is already moving fast you will need to bring your experience of building complex distributed solutions for Enterprises. Whilst experience delivering Kafka solutions is desirable,&nbsp; we also recognise experience with complex databases, messaging, stream processing, databases, cloud services and enterprise data integration. You will also need to know your way around datacentre and hyperscaler infrastructure without a map, we don’t expect you to dive into the Linux Kernel but you need to know where it is.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Culture is a huge part of Confluent, we’re searching for the best people who not only excel at their role, but also contribute to the health, happiness and growth of the company. Inclusivity and openness are important traits, with regular company wide and team events. Here are some of the personal qualities we’re looking for:&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>#LI-Remote</div><div>#LI-S01</div><div><br></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><i>California Candidate Privacy Notice</i></a>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div>

Technical Engagement Manager

<div>At Confluent, we’re creating a category that transforms how every company manages and streams data. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That’s Confluent in action—giving our customers instant access to massive amounts of real-time data, enabling them to thrive in an ever-changing digital world. As one of the fastest-growing enterprise companies in history, and with Fortune 100 customers across major industries, we have a tremendous opportunity in front of us. We also have experience on our side. Our leaders have taken companies of our size to major success before and include some of the original creators of Apache Kafka®.</div><div><br></div><div>We’re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent’s unlimited potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks with the backing and support of our #OneTeam culture. Be part of inclusive initiatives like Employee Resource Groups and development programs, and take advantage of benefits that support our diverse global teams. Grow as we grow—whether you’re just starting out or managing a large team, you’ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.</div><div><br></div><div>As a <b>Community Associate</b> at Confluent, you are a driven and well-organized person ready to help cultivate the global Kafka community and help it thrive. You are friendly, outgoing, and want to help make an already-successful developer community even better. You are good at keeping track of details (which you’ll need when you’re coordinating meetups and other events worldwide), and great at maintaining relationships with a large number of people (which you’ll need when you’re getting to know community leaders, meetup organizers, and speakers). You have experience working in a marketing or developer relations team.</div><div><br></div><div>Reporting to the Global Community Manager and working remotely or in the office in an APAC region, preferably Singapore. We would be open to candidates in the UK as well.&nbsp; You will help the team advance its mission: <b>to help earn the love of developers, admins, and architects who are adopting Apache Kafka®, Confluent Cloud, and the Confluent Platform.</b></div><h3>What you’ll be doing</h3><div><ul><li>Assist in community marketing events and community meetups</li><li>Attend events in the area of residence to assist with event setup and execution on the day of the event and manage all your respective online events.</li><li>Assist with sourcing speakers for the community marketing events</li><li>Support the Global Community Manager in keeping track of various metrics required by members of the team and stakeholders (eg: Meetup memberships, meetups per city, RSVPs, etc.)</li><li>Order and distribute merchandise to specific events.</li><li>Build strong relationships with developers, partners, and key community members both inside and outside the company</li><li>Provide a friendly and customer oriented experience</li><li>Conduct post-event follow-up by publishing content to appropriate community channels</li><li>Support the team with the monitoring of the Digital platforms (Slack, Discourse, Twitter, Github, Stack overflow) and be the first and last point of contact for unhappy community members.</li></ul></div><h3>What We Are Looking For:</h3><div><ul><li>Excellent ability to communicate with colleagues and external figures</li><li>Ability to work remotely and excel in an independent way</li><li>Good interpersonal skills</li><li>Understanding of marketing as a business function</li><li>A very organised and reliable individual</li><li>Strong skills with word processing, spreadsheets, email, social media platform</li><li>Unremittingly positive attitude.</li><li>Ideal but not required: experience with hosting Zoom events and Airtable management.</li></ul></div><div>Culture is a huge part of Confluent, we’re searching for the best people who not only excel at their role, but also contribute to the health, happiness and growth of the company. Inclusivity and openness are important traits, with regular company wide and team events. Here are some of the personal qualities we’re looking for:</div><div><br></div><div>Smart, humble and empathetic</div><div>Hard working, you get things done</div><div>Hungry to learn in a field which is ever evolving</div><div>Adaptable to the myriad of challenges each day can present</div><div>Inquisitive and not afraid to ask all the questions, no matter how basic</div><div>Ready to roll up your sleeves and help others, getting involved in projects where you feel you can add value</div><div>Strive for excellence in your work, your team and the company</div><div><br></div><div>Come and build with us. We are one of the fastest growing software companies in the market. A company built on the tenets of transparency, direct communication and inclusivity. Come meet the streams dream team and have a direct impact on how we shape Confluent.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><i>California Candidate Privacy Notice</i></a>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div>

Community Associate, Japan

Community Associate, Singapore

<div>At Confluent, we’re creating a category that transforms how every company manages and streams data. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That’s Confluent in action—giving our customers instant access to massive amounts of real-time data, enabling them to thrive in an ever-changing digital world. As one of the fastest-growing enterprise companies in history, and with Fortune 100 customers across major industries, we have a tremendous opportunity in front of us. We also have experience on our side. Our leaders have taken companies of our size to major success before and include some of the original creators of Apache Kafka®.</div><div><br></div><div>We’re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent’s unlimited potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks with the backing and support of our #OneTeam culture. Be part of inclusive initiatives like Employee Resource Groups and development programs, and take advantage of benefits that support our diverse global teams. Grow as we grow—whether you’re just starting out or managing a large team, you’ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Responsibilities</div><div><br></div><div>The Legal Counsel – EMEA is responsible primarily for supporting Confluent´s EMEA Sales organization in structuring, drafting and negotiating commercial agreements, and may have additional responsibilities as needed in support of Confluent’s business. The position will be based in Madrid or Barcelona, Spain and will report into the Regional Counsel EMEA. Limited travel may be required. The successful candidate will be fluent in both Spanish and English.</div><div><br></div><h3>What We’re Looking For - </h3><div><ul><li>At least 3 years’ experience in an in-house legal department in the IT industry</li><li>Significant experience negotiating technology subscription agreements, license and support agreements, and cloud services agreements with large enterprise customers</li><li>Experience with open source licensing and business models</li><li>Experience with EU data protection laws</li><li>Experience and aptitude working cross-functionally with internal organizations to resolve questions and concerns&nbsp;</li><li>Excellent written and verbal communication skills;&nbsp;</li><li>Business level English and Spanish. Other languages are a plus.</li><li>Ability to use sound judgment to address complex issues while maintaining an appropriate balance between legal and business requirements</li><li>Ability to communicate complex contract issues in clear business terms to enable efficient resolution</li><li>Ability to maintain strong working relationships with demanding internal clients</li><li>Ability to work independently with minimal supervision,&nbsp;</li><li>Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced start-up environment</li><li>Excellent team player</li><li>Technology in-house legal experience, especially in a start-up environment, is a plus</li><li>The candidate would be expected to work remotely and/or from our local office in Spain.</li></ul></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><i>California Candidate Privacy Notice</i></a>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div>

<div>At Confluent, we’re creating a category that transforms how every company manages and streams data. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That’s Confluent in action—giving our customers instant access to massive amounts of real-time data, enabling them to thrive in an ever-changing digital world. As one of the fastest-growing enterprise companies in history, and with Fortune 100 customers across major industries, we have a tremendous opportunity in front of us. We also have experience on our side. Our leaders have taken companies of our size to major success before and include some of the original creators of Apache Kafka®.</div><div><br></div><div>We’re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent’s unlimited potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks with the backing and support of our #OneTeam culture. Be part of inclusive initiatives like Employee Resource Groups and development programs, and take advantage of benefits that support our diverse global teams. Grow as we grow—whether you’re just starting out or managing a large team, you’ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.</div><div><br></div><div>As part of our rapid growth, we’re looking to expand our Customer Success leadership team. The Senior Manager, Customer Success will help lead, develop and grow a team focused on the health of customers within Confluent’s West/Central region. Successful candidates will drive a high performance, high accountability culture to meet and exceed adoption and retention goals. We are seeking candidates who have a passion for using data and creative thinking to drive constant improvement to Confluent’s processes and customer engagements. An ideal candidate will be an advocate for their teammates and their customers alike.</div><h3>Responsibilities:</h3><div><ul><li>Directly oversee a team of Customer Success Managers. Engage in weekly 1:1’s to coach, mentor, and assist CSMs to measure, promote, and maintain high levels of customer health and adoption.&nbsp;</li><li>Accountable for success metrics and retention of a defined account base across the West/Central USA region.</li><li>Tracking and consistently reducing time to value for new customers with Confluent products.&nbsp;</li><li>Identifying and driving constant improvement in Confluent’s internal processes for managing critical customer concerns. Advocating for customers internally.&nbsp;</li><li>Forecasting renewal metrics to the Director, Customer Success and Regional Sales leadership.&nbsp;</li><li>Ensuring a team of CSMs have all resources needed to be successful in their daily workflow.&nbsp;</li><li>Collaborating with sales, support, marketing, and other field teams on addressing issues which may be impeding customers’ success with Confluent products and expansion of use within an account.</li><li>Continuously work to improve and scale the Global Customer Success organization by sharing process frameworks, tools, and best practices that can be easily adopted to increase organizational development and efficiency.</li><li>Partnering with leaders in the Customer Solutions group to ensure aligned post-sales accountability.</li></ul></div><h3>What We're Looking for:</h3><div><ul><li>Strong people manager and mentor. Thrives in motivating a distributed team.&nbsp;</li><li>Must believe cultivating in a “one team” collaborative atmosphere.&nbsp;10+ years’ relevant experience in Account Management, Sales, Customer Success. 5+ years in leadership.</li><li>Open, growth mindset and high degrees of self accountability, fostered in a face-paced, high growth, dynamic environment.</li><li>Strong executive presence, communication (verbal, written, presentation) and facilitation skills with experience engaging and partnering at all levels internally and with key external stakeholders.</li><li>Strong customer centric mindset. Awareness of customer journey framework with the ability to prescribe ideal outcomes and guide customers along the path.&nbsp;</li><li>Experience identifying risk and running mitigation plays against customer churn. In tandem, proactively crafting structures to ensure risk does not become a pattern across a base of accounts.&nbsp;</li><li>Contract negotiation experience with ability to provide timely recommendations and drive decisions for mutually beneficial outcomes.</li><li>Enterprise technology aptitude.</li></ul></div><h3>Extra Credit:</h3><div><ul><li>Prior experience working at a company with SaaS product offerings.</li><li>Experience producing management dashboards and scorecards using BI solutions such as Metabase or Tableau.</li><li>Fantastic sense of humor</li></ul></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><i>California Candidate Privacy Notice</i></a>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div>

Senior Manager, Customer Success

<div>At Confluent, we’re creating a category that transforms how every company manages and streams data. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That’s Confluent in action—giving our customers instant access to massive amounts of real-time data, enabling them to thrive in an ever-changing digital world. As one of the fastest-growing enterprise companies in history, and with Fortune 100 customers across major industries, we have a tremendous opportunity in front of us. We also have experience on our side. Our leaders have taken companies of our size to major success before and include some of the original creators of Apache Kafka®.</div><div><br></div><div>We’re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent’s unlimited potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks with the backing and support of our #OneTeam culture. Be part of inclusive initiatives like Employee Resource Groups and development programs, and take advantage of benefits that support our diverse global teams. Grow as we grow—whether you’re just starting out or managing a large team, you’ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.</div><div><br></div><div>We are looking for a highly motivated, accomplished partner marketing leader to join Confluent’s Ecosystems and Business Development leadership team. In this role, you will lead the visioning, strategy development, and execution of marketing efforts across our rapidly scaling ecosystem of cloud partners, system integrators, and ISV partners. Your efforts will shape our strategic campaigns and events, drive our success in telling the ‘better together’ stories,&nbsp; effectively communicate joint value propositions to the market, and elevate the Confluent brand across our partner ecosystem.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><b>What you’ll do</b></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Create a vision and strategy to implement marketing plans to support and scale Confluent’s partner GTM activities, solutions, and pipeline</div><div>Drive marketing to, with, and through our global partner ecosystem, which includes Cloud partners, Global System Integrators, Regional System Integrators, and ISVs.&nbsp;</div><div>Understand partners’ business objectives, go-to-market approach, and channels, and use this insight to build and execute joint partner marketing strategy focused on lead generation and opportunity pipeline.</div><div>Create and deploy scalable marketing programs, with appropriate customization for type of partner (Cloud vs. SI vs. ISV), industry focus, target geographies, level/role/buying personas of target audiences, etc.</div><div>Lead our high-performing partner marketing team as a player-coach and build a world-class team as we grow by hiring and developing top talent</div><div>Own the partner marketing budget and direct investments based on strategic priorities.</div><div>Work in a highly collaborative manner with Confluent’s Revenue Marketing, Product Marketing, Finance, Product, Solution Engineering, and PR teams to promote joint solutions, develop marketing materials and tools, and ensure a consistent brand message</div><div>Engage and educate partners and partners on Confluent’s value proposition through events and campaigns. Extend the power of our brand by developing correlations between technical outcomes, business outcomes, and business value for partners and end customers</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div><b>What we’re looking for</b></div><div><br></div><div>10+ years partner management experience with Cloud partners (AWS, MSFT, GCP) as well as SIs and/or ISVs.</div><div>5+ years of experience at high-growth enterprise software/infrastructure organizations, ideally with expertise in data platforms, cloud, and open-source.&nbsp;</div><div>Strong track record of success with partner engagement, particularly in relationship building, lead flow, demand generation, and attribution</div><div>Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to present complex technical ideas in a simple, straightforward manner</div><div>Proven ability to write persuasively with strong editing and proofreading skills.&nbsp;</div><div>Proven ability to engage with technical audiences as well as translate technical products and solutions for audiences that are less technical</div><div>Proven ability to develop collaborative relationships with and work cross-functionally with multiple stakeholders internally and externally.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>#LI-DO2</div><div><br></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><i>California Candidate Privacy Notice</i></a>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div>

Director of Global Partner Marketing

<div>At Confluent, we’re creating a category that transforms how every company manages and streams data. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That’s Confluent in action—giving our customers instant access to massive amounts of real-time data, enabling them to thrive in an ever-changing digital world. As one of the fastest-growing enterprise companies in history, and with Fortune 100 customers across major industries, we have a tremendous opportunity in front of us. We also have experience on our side. Our leaders have taken companies of our size to major success before and include some of the original creators of Apache Kafka®.</div><div><br></div><div>We’re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent’s unlimited potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks with the backing and support of our #OneTeam culture. Be part of inclusive initiatives like Employee Resource Groups and development programs, and take advantage of benefits that support our diverse global teams. Grow as we grow—whether you’re just starting out or managing a large team, you’ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.</div><div><br></div><div>This is a program manager role to support the current Business Value Consulting (BVC) team and help this team scale via the use of new tooling and methodologies in coordination and collaboration with functions such as; Product Marketing, Revenue Marketing, Field Marketing, Sales, Customer Solutions Group (CSG), including Solution Engineers, Professional Services, and Training.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The Confluent BVC function is primarily a customer facing team, that collaborates with prospects and customers to define, forecast and communicate the business value of partnering with Confluent.&nbsp; The team also works with the internal Confluent teams to provide customer feedback and infuse business value and solution selling in our go-to-market approach, aiming to improve the productivity of our sales teams and Go To Market operation.&nbsp;</div><h3>Here is what you will get to do in this role.</h3><div><ul><li>Implement a business value platform, like DecisionLink’s ValueCloud® , The EcoSystem Platform, or MediaFly’s Alinean Value Selling &amp; ROI Tool,&nbsp; to scale the number of business value and value realization assessments conducted each year by Business Value Consultants, Account Executives, Solution Engineers, &amp; Customer Success</li><li>Manage the process to maintain all financial models and keep current with new product introductions</li><li>Drive the development of a value messaging framework to enable sellers to focus on value selling vs product/technical selling.&nbsp; This will include messaging for Confluent as a platform, Confluent solutions,&nbsp; and industry use cases</li><li>Own the process to develop and standardize best in class content to be leveraged in all value assessments and value realization engagements aligned to various sales plays</li><li>Drive the process to create insights based on customer usage and financial metrics to assist with building and operationalizing our customer’s journey&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>Contribute to the enablement process to scale value selling across the organization</li><li>Project manage various workstreams as we continue to build out the Business Value practice&nbsp;</li></ul></div><h3>Experience required</h3><div><ul><li>Program management, working with similar teams within the software industry&nbsp;</li><li>Software selection processes&nbsp;</li><li>Understanding business value / solution messaging materials around technical / product propositions&nbsp;</li><li>Experience in software, management consulting / strategic advisory, ideally with a peer software company or top-tier management consultancy.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>Quantitative: deep financial analysis and modelling of ROI and TCO concepts to craft business cases / business value propositions&nbsp;</li><li>Project Management experience including proven experience of implementation and ensuring on-going success of a transformation.</li><li>Executive presence while collaborating with and successfully influencing budget holders to invest (Proven experience helping teams collaborate through facilitation)</li><li>Strong verbal and written communication skills with strong facilitation skills, for clear articulation of business issues and recommendations&nbsp;</li><li>Ideally a background in the enterprise sw / data sector, with experience of Enterprise cloud solutions.</li><li>Ability to work cross functionally and lead complex programs</li></ul></div><h3>Personal Traits</h3><div><ul><li>Smart, Humble, Empathetic, proven track record of getting things done outside of day-to-day responsibilities, e.g. writing white papers, publishing blogs,&nbsp;</li><li>Acts with integrity and passion for the Customer</li><li>Relevant degree / MBA from a leading university preferred</li></ul></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><i>California Candidate Privacy Notice</i></a>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div>

Business Value Consulting Program Manager

<div>At Confluent, we&#x2019;re creating a category that transforms how every company manages and streams data. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That&#x2019;s Confluent in action&#x2014;giving our customers instant access to massive amounts of real-time data, enabling them to thrive in an ever-changing digital world. As one of the fastest-growing enterprise companies in history, and with Fortune 100 customers across major industries, we have a tremendous opportunity in front of us. We also have experience on our side. Our leaders have taken companies of our size to major success before and include some of the original creators of Apache Kafka&#xAE;.</div><div><br></div><div>We&#x2019;re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent&#x2019;s unlimited potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks with the backing and support of our #OneTeam culture. Be part of inclusive initiatives like Employee Resource Groups and development programs, and take advantage of benefits that support our diverse global teams. Grow as we grow&#x2014;whether you&#x2019;re just starting out or managing a large team, you&#x2019;ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.</div><div><br></div><div><b>About The Team:</b>The Information Technology team&#x2019;s mission is to keep us efficient &amp; secure by ensuring the systems and technology that we use everyday are always up and running.&#xA0; The team is responsible for managing Confluent&#x2019;s enterprise-wide systems &amp; infrastructure and providing end user support.&#xA0; The IT group oversees a cloud first environment with a mixture of on premises &amp; public cloud infrastructure as well as a large number of best of breed SaaS applications.&#xA0;&#xA0;</div><div><br></div><div><b>About The Role:</b>The Manager, Systems &amp; Infrastructure, will oversee a globally distributed team of employees &amp; contractors that manage Confluent&#x2019;s enterprise-wide employee facing technology platforms.&#xA0; The incumbent will be responsible for architecture, design, planning and implementation for infrastructure and SaaS applications across the organization.</div><h3>What You&#x2019;ll Do:</h3><div><ul><li>Provide mentorship, coaching, and professional development to a small team of direct reports</li><li>Working in conjunction with the Head of IT develop strategy &amp; roadmaps for Confluent employee systems</li><li>Accountable for stability of network &amp; server infrastructure in Confluent facilities globally</li><li>Develop scripting or low-code solutions for automation &amp; integration&#xA0;</li><li>Administration of enterprise wide applications used for productivity &amp; collaboration (GSuite, Zoom, Slack, Atlassian, Okta)</li><li>Responsible for endpoint management systems (JAMF, Intune, Munki, etc)</li><li>Responsible for implementing processes to support 3rd party audit controls</li><li>Lead projects through ideation, design, development, implementation, and support</li><li>Maintain documentation, system roadmaps, and internal process runbooks</li><li>Manage multi-cloud corporate environments including a combination of compute, networking, storage, and PaaS solutions</li><li>Develop dashboard, reports, and KPIs for performance &amp; productivity reporting for systems and personnel</li><li>Partner with stakeholders in engineering, infosec, and other groups&#xA0;</li><li>Participate in a recurring on call rotation</li></ul></div><h3>What We&#x2019;re Looking For:</h3><div><ul><li>4+ years experience as an IT Manager with direct reports in addition to 8+ years of experience as a Systems Administrator or Systems Engineer with progressively increasing responsibilities in a rapidly growing mid-size enterprise&#xA0;</li><li>Expertise with traditional infrastructure technologies; Virtualization, Storage, Networking, Firewalls, &amp; Wireless, and various server operating systems</li><li>Expertise with advanced networking concepts&#xA0;</li><li>Deep experience with AWS, Azure, and GCP</li><li>Experience managing Atlassian products including administration, projects, and workflows</li><li>Hands on experience with a variety of security technologies including SASE, CASB, IPS/IDS, IAM &amp; SSO</li><li>Experience working with and integrating SaaS solutions covering a combination of productivity, collaboration, communication, and security tools</li><li>Understanding of variety compliance frameworks such as SOC2, ISO270001, SOX, etc</li><li>Experience writing scripts using bash, python, or other languages</li><li>Formal Project Management Experience; Understanding of waterfall vs. agile methodologies&#xA0;</li><li>Familiarity with open source platforms and tools</li><li>Strong communication, presentation, and documentation skills</li><li>Ability to engage with stakeholders at all levels of the organization</li><li>Self-starter who can take projects from ideation to completion with minimal guidance</li><li>Ability to work on multiple complex projects simultaneously</li></ul></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&#xA0;<i><a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">California Candidate Privacy Notice</a></i>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div>

Manager, Systems & Infrastructure

<div>At Confluent, we&#x2019;re creating a category that transforms how every company manages and streams data. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That&#x2019;s Confluent in action&#x2014;giving our customers instant access to massive amounts of real-time data, enabling them to thrive in an ever-changing digital world. As one of the fastest-growing enterprise companies in history, and with Fortune 100 customers across major industries, we have a tremendous opportunity in front of us. We also have experience on our side. Our leaders have taken companies of our size to major success before and include some of the original creators of Apache Kafka&#xAE;.</div><div><br></div><div>We&#x2019;re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent&#x2019;s unlimited potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks with the backing and support of our #OneTeam culture. Be part of inclusive initiatives like Employee Resource Groups and development programs, and take advantage of benefits that support our diverse global teams. Grow as we grow&#x2014;whether you&#x2019;re just starting out or managing a large team, you&#x2019;ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.</div><div><br></div><div>We are looking for a Senior Cloud Networking Solutions Architect to join our Customer Success team. As an architect you will help customers leverage streaming architectures and applications to achieve their business results. In this role, you will interact directly with customers to provide software architecture, design, and operations expertise that leverages your deep knowledge of and experience in Apache Kafka, the Confluent platform, and complementary systems such as Hadoop, Spark, Storm, relational, NoSQL databases and cloud networking. You will develop and advocate best practices, gather and validate critical product feedback, and help customers overcome their operational challenges.&#xA0;Throughout all these interactions, you will build a strong relationship with your customer in a very short space of time, ensuring exemplary delivery standards. You will also have the opportunity to help customers build state-of-the-art streaming data infrastructure, cloud infrastructure in partnership with colleagues who are widely recognized as industry leaders, as well as optimizing and debugging customers existing deployments.</div><div><br></div><div>Location: West Coast, USA (Remote) with 60% travel requirement </div><h3>Responsibilities:</h3><div><ul><li>Helping a customer determine his/her platform and/or application strategy for moving to a more real-time, event-based business. </li><li>Such engagements often involve remote preparation; presenting an onsite or remote workshop for the customer&#x2019;s architects, developers, and operations teams; investigating (with Engineering and other coworkers) solutions to difficult challenges; and writing a recommendations summary doc.</li><li>Providing feedback to the Confluent Product and Engineering groups</li><li>Building tooling for another team or the wider company to help us push our technical boundaries and improve our ability to deliver consistently with high quality</li><li>Testing performance and functionality of new components developed by Engineering</li><li>Writing or editing documentation and knowledge base articles, including reference architecture materials and design patterns based on customer experiences</li><li>Honing your skills, building applications, or trying out new product features</li><li>Participating in community and industry eventsParticipating in community and industry events</li></ul></div><h3>Requirements:</h3><div><ul><li>Deep experience designing, building, and operating in-production Big Data, stream processing, and/or enterprise data integration solutions, ideally using Apache Kafka</li><li>Experience operating Linux (configure, tune, and troubleshoot both RedHat and Debian-based distributions)Experience with distributed systems (Kafka, Hadoop, Cassandra, etc.)</li><li>Following the best cloud computing practice by utilizing (Amazon, GCP, Azure) Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) and other advanced technical cloud features - VPC Peering, Private Linking.</li><li>Investigate and provide technical options for selecting effective computing solutions based on requirements.</li><li>Hands-on systems administration/engineering experience with Linux</li><li>Experience in Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud <a href="http://computing.Comprehensive" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">computing.Comprehensive</a> knowledge of security compliance and security control.&#xA0;</li><li>Knowledge on VPN (site to site, remote access client, SSL/clientless/AnyConnect, Tunnels between Firewalls, Routers)</li><li>Proficiency in Java, Shell Scripting</li><li>Strong desire to tackle hard technical problems, and proven ability to do so with little or no direct daily supervision</li><li>Excellent communication skills, with an ability to clearly and concisely explain tricky issues and complex solutions</li><li>Bachelor-level degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or another quantitative field</li></ul></div><h3>Bonus Points:</h3><div><ul><li>Experience helping customers build Apache Kafka solutions alongside Hadoop technologies, relational and NoSQL databases, message queues, and related products</li><li>Experience with Scala, Python, or GoComprehensive knowledge in Configuration Management (CM) process and software development tools such as Git, GitLab, Nexus, Jenkins, Maven or JIRA.</li><li>AWS certification at Associate level.</li><li>NAT, ACL configuration, IPSec and SSL VPN, HA configurations, multi-context, Multi-tenant, Firewalls</li><li>Experience with observability of systems using Prometheus / Grafana, DataDog, AppDynamics.</li><li>Configuration and deployment in complex small to large environments including Internet Edge architectures.</li></ul></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&#xA0;<i><a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">California Candidate Privacy Notice</a></i>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div>

Senior Cloud Networking Solutions Architect

<div>At Confluent, we&#x2019;re creating a category that transforms how every company manages and streams data. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That&#x2019;s Confluent in action&#x2014;giving our customers instant access to massive amounts of real-time data, enabling them to thrive in an ever-changing digital world. As one of the fastest-growing enterprise companies in history, and with Fortune 100 customers across major industries, we have a tremendous opportunity in front of us. We also have experience on our side. Our leaders have taken companies of our size to major success before and include some of the original creators of Apache Kafka&#xAE;.</div><div><br></div><div>We&#x2019;re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent&#x2019;s unlimited potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks with the backing and support of our #OneTeam culture. Be part of inclusive initiatives like Employee Resource Groups and development programs, and take advantage of benefits that support our diverse global teams. Grow as we grow&#x2014;whether you&#x2019;re just starting out or managing a large team, you&#x2019;ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Confluent is searching for a Customer Success Architect (CSA) to join a growing team in its early stages. This individual will serve as the technical champion for many of our enterprise customers. &#xA0;In this role, you will function as the primary point of contact for all technical, product and support questions on a day-to-day basis and will coordinate with the various Confluent teams to ensure that Confluent team resources are leveraged efficiently to make your customers successful.</div><div><br></div><div>In this role, you will have the opportunity to build broad experience with Kafka, the Confluent Platform and work with a variety of organizations ranging from new start-ups to large enterprise customers. Throughout all of these interactions, you will build strong relationships with customers, ensure exemplary delivery standards, and have a lot of fun helping our customers build state-of-the-art streaming data infrastructure alongside colleagues who are widely recognized as leaders in this space.</div><h3>A typical week at Confluent, in this role, may involve:</h3><div><ul><li>Champion and advocate for the customer within Confluent - you will be the voice of the customer and will have to coordinate between Confluent&#x2019;s Sales, Product, Services, Support and Training teams to drive customer success</li><li>Developing and presenting periodical customer reviews to Confluent senior management</li><li>When necessary, roll up your sleeves and dig in to help address customer issues alongside Confluent Support Engineers and Core Engineering</li><li>Leverage knowledge of your customers&#x2019; environments to assist Support Engineers and Professional Services teams in better serving your customers</li><li>Leverage knowledge of your customers&#x2019; environments and use cases to influence the roadmap of Confluent products</li><li>Complete analysis and present periodic reviews of operational performance to customer leadership</li><li>Provide detailed reviews of service disruptions, metrics, detailed pre-launch planningHelp to educate your accounts on best practices for using Confluent platform</li><li>When necessary, recommend proactive measures to help customers avoid issues and to ensure customer success (e.g. professional services engagements, training sessions, on-site visits, etc.)</li></ul></div><h3>What we are looking for: </h3><div><ul><li>Demonstrated success in Customer Success, Customer Support or Professional Services function for a product / SAAS company with enterprise customers</li><li>Strong desire to tackle hard technical problems and proven ability do so with little or no direct daily supervision</li><li>Ability to learn new technology quickly, as well as a strong interest in doing so!</li><li>Excellent communication skills and an ability to concisely explain tricky issues and complex solutions</li><li>Experience with Java Virtual Machine (JVM) tuning and troubleshooting</li><li>Experience with operating Linux, you know how to configure, tune and troubleshoot both RedHat &amp; Debian based distributions</li><li>Exceptional interpersonal communications capabilities demonstrated through a history of successful B2B infrastructure software development projects</li><li>Project management experience, as you&#x2019;ll need to be able to coordinate across various Confluent teams to ensure success for your accounts</li><li>Bachelor&#x2019;s level degree in Computer Science or an engineering, mathematics, or another quantitative field</li><li>Ability to thrive in ambiguity in a fast-paced, deadline oriented startup environment</li><li>Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects at a time while paying strict attention to detail and deliver results across multiple initiatives such as driving expansion, customer satisfaction, feature adoption, and retention</li><li>Ability to travel up to 25% of the time to meet with your accounts</li><div><br></div><li>Previous experience helping customers build solutions that use Apache Kafka alongside Hadoop, relational and NoSQL databases, message queues, and related products (plus)</li><li>Prior experience working for a technology startup (plus)</li><li>Proficiency in Java (plus)</li></ul></div><h3>Preferred Qualifications:</h3><div><ul><li>Confluent Certified Developer or Confluent Certified Administrator (<a href="https://www.confluent.io/certification/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.confluent.io/certification/</a>)</li></ul></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&#xA0;<i><a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">California Candidate Privacy Notice</a></i>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div>

Customer Success Architect

<div>At Confluent, we&#x2019;re creating a category that transforms how every company manages and streams data. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That&#x2019;s Confluent in action&#x2014;giving our customers instant access to massive amounts of real-time data, enabling them to thrive in an ever-changing digital world. As one of the fastest-growing enterprise companies in history, and with Fortune 100 customers across major industries, we have a tremendous opportunity in front of us. We also have experience on our side. Our leaders have taken companies of our size to major success before and include some of the original creators of Apache Kafka&#xAE;.</div><div><br></div><div>We&#x2019;re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent&#x2019;s unlimited potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks with the backing and support of our #OneTeam culture. Be part of inclusive initiatives like Employee Resource Groups and development programs, and take advantage of benefits that support our diverse global teams. Grow as we grow&#x2014;whether you&#x2019;re just starting out or managing a large team, you&#x2019;ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Overview</b></div><div><br></div><div>Confluent is searching for an experienced technical leader to manage a global team of rockstar Customer Success Engineers (CSEs).&#xA0; Our CSEs team serves as proactive and deeply technical guides to our customers as they adopt Confluent&#x2019;s Stream Data Platform.&#xA0; Many of these customers use Confluent&#x2019;s products for strategic and mission critical use cases and your goal will be to help your team apply deep technical expertise to reduce time to value during Onboarding, and to help them achieve their business objectives and get full value from Confluent&#x2019;s suite of products. &#xA0; In this role you will focus on driving post-sales customer value and project success while supporting business goals for renewal, expansion and strategic growth.</div><h3>A typical week at Confluent in this role may involve</h3><div><ul><li>Managing Customer Success Engineers, and acting as a mentor and coach to help them grow in their careers</li><li>Support ongoing growth and development of the CSE team by owning staffing and hiring&#xA0;</li><li>Acting as a point of escalation for customers, and coming up with creative solutions to leverage cross-functional resources to accelerate </li><li>Onboarding and remove roadblocks to customer value</li><li>Maturing a robust technical onboarding program aimed at decreasing the &#x201C;time to value&#x201D; for new Confluent customers</li><li>Developing and improving our customer service offerings and engagement playbooks that align to our understanding of the customer journey</li><li>Implementing tracking and reporting to ensure high quality delivery by CSE team resources&#xA0;Investing in a culture of cross-team collaboration and knowledge sharing</li><li>Identify product and technology gaps with customers and present a point of view to product and leadership teams</li></ul></div><h3>Required skills and experience:</h3><div><ul><li>Prior experience managing technical teams - the ideal candidate will have experience managing a remote team</li><li>Prior experience working as a CSE or in another related customer-facing technical role (e.g. professional services, solutions engineering, etc.) that will enable you to coach CSEs who report to you and develop programs/process to guide them</li><li>A passion for process development and data driven decision making</li><li>Strong experience handling both customer-facing and internally escalated issues</li><li>Excellent written and communication skills as well as customer-facing relationship development skills</li><li>Demonstrated analytical and problem solving skills, and an ability to apply those to Confluent&#x2019;s business</li><li>Ability to handle ambiguity and adapt to new, fast-changing situations</li><div><br></div><div><b>Other Nice-to-Haves:</b></div><li>Experience with major cloud providers such as GCP, AWS and Azure</li><li>Prior experience with Big Data technologies (e.g. Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, etc.)</li><div><b>Preferred Qualifications:</b></div><li>Confluent Certified Developer or Confluent Certified Administrator (<a href="https://www.confluent.io/certification/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.confluent.io/certification/</a>)</li></ul></div><h3>Culture</h3><div><ul><li>Culture is a huge part of Confluent, we&#x2019;re searching for the best people who not only excel at their role, but also contribute to the health, happiness and growth of the company. Inclusivity and openness are important traits, with regular company wide and team events. Here are some of the personal qualities we&#x2019;re looking for:&#xA0;</li><li>Smart, humble and empatheticHard working, you get things done</li><li>Hungry to learn in a field which is ever evolving</li><li>Adaptable to the myriad of challenges each day can presentInquisitive and not afraid to ask all the questions, no matter how basic</li><li>Ready to roll up your sleeves and help others, getting involved in projects where you feel you can add value</li><li>Strive for excellence in your work, your team and the company&#xA0;</li><div><br></div></ul></div><div><br></div><div>Come and build with us. We are one of the fastest growing software companies in the market. A company built on the tenets of transparency, direct communication and inclusivity. Come meet the streams dream team and have a direct impact on how we shape Confluent.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&#xA0;<i><a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">California Candidate Privacy Notice</a></i>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div>

Manager, Global Customer Success Engineering

<div>At Confluent, we&#x2019;re creating a category that transforms how every company manages and streams data. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That&#x2019;s Confluent in action&#x2014;giving our customers instant access to massive amounts of real-time data, enabling them to thrive in an ever-changing digital world. As one of the fastest-growing enterprise companies in history, and with Fortune 100 customers across major industries, we have a tremendous opportunity in front of us. We also have experience on our side. Our leaders have taken companies of our size to major success before and include some of the original creators of Apache Kafka&#xAE;.</div><div><br></div><div>We&#x2019;re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent&#x2019;s unlimited potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks with the backing and support of our #OneTeam culture. Be part of inclusive initiatives like Employee Resource Groups and development programs, and take advantage of benefits that support our diverse global teams. Grow as we grow&#x2014;whether you&#x2019;re just starting out or managing a large team, you&#x2019;ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Confluent is looking for a Customer Success Architect in Europe who will serve as the technical champion for our enterprise customers. &#xA0;In this role, you will function as the primary point of contact for all technical, product and support questions on a day-to-day basis and will coordinate with the various Confluent teams to ensure that Confluent team resources are leveraged efficiently to make your customers successful.</div><div><br></div><div>In this role, you will have the opportunity to build broad experience with Kafka, the Confluent Platform and work with a variety of organisations ranging from new start-ups to large enterprise customers. Throughout all of these interactions, you will build strong relationships with customers, ensure exemplary delivery standards, and have a lot of fun helping our customers build state-of-the-art streaming data infrastructure alongside colleagues who are widely recognised as leaders in this space.</div><div><br></div><div>To do this role you will need to be based in France but it does not matter where as it can be mostly managed remotely. </div><h3>A typical week at Confluent, in this role, may involve:</h3><div><ul><li>Champion and advocate for the customer within Confluent - you will be the voice of the customer and will have to coordinate between Confluent&#x2019;s Sales, Product, Services, Support and Training teams to drive customer success</li><li>Developing and presenting periodical customer reviews to Confluent senior management</li><li>When necessary, roll up your sleeves and dig in to help address customer issues alongside Confluent Support Engineers and Core Engineering</li><li>Leverage knowledge of your customers&#x2019; environments to assist Support Engineers and Professional Services teams in better serving your customers</li><li>Leverage knowledge of your customers&#x2019; environments and use cases to influence the roadmap of Confluent products</li><li>Complete analysis and present periodic reviews of operational performance to customer leadership</li><li>Provide detailed reviews of service disruptions, metrics, detailed pre-launch planningHelp to educate your accounts on best practices for using Confluent platform</li><li>When necessary, recommend proactive measures to help customers avoid issues and to ensure customer success (e.g. professional services engagements, training sessions, on-site visits, etc.)</li></ul></div><h3>What we are looking for: </h3><div><ul><li>Demonstrated success in Customer Success, Customer Support or Professional Services function for a product / SAAS company with enterprise customers</li><li>Strong desire to tackle hard technical problems and proven ability do so with little or no direct daily supervision</li><li>Ability to learn new technology quickly, as well as a strong interest in doing so!</li><li>Excellent communication skills and an ability to concisely explain tricky issues and complex solutions</li><li>Experience with Java Virtual Machine (JVM) tuning and troubleshooting</li><li>Experience with operating Linux, you know how to configure, tune and troubleshoot both RedHat &amp; Debian based distributions</li><li>Exceptional interpersonal communications capabilities demonstrated through a history of successful B2B infrastructure software development projects</li><li>Project management experience, as you&#x2019;ll need to be able to coordinate across various Confluent teams to ensure success for your accounts</li><li>Bachelor&#x2019;s level degree in Computer Science or an engineering, mathematics, or another quantitative field</li><li>Ability to thrive in ambiguity in a fast-paced, deadline oriented startup environment</li><li>Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects at a time while paying strict attention to detail and deliver results across multiple initiatives such as driving expansion, customer satisfaction, feature adoption, and retention</li><li>Ability to travel up to 25% of the time to meet with your accounts</li><li>Previous experience helping customers build solutions that use Apache Kafka alongside Hadoop, relational and NoSQL databases, message queues, and related products (plus)</li><li>Prior experience working for a technology startup (plus)</li><li>Proficiency in Java (plus)</li><div><br></div></ul></div><div>Culture is a huge part of Confluent, we&#x2019;re searching for the best people who not only excel at their role, but also contribute to the health, happiness and growth of the company. Inclusivity and openness are important traits, with regular company wide and team events. Here are some of the personal qualities we&#x2019;re looking for:&#xA0;</div><div><br></div><div>Smart, humble and empathetic</div><div>Hard working, you get things done</div><div>Hungry to learn in a field which is ever evolving</div><div>Adaptable to the myriad of challenges each day can present</div><div>Inquisitive and not afraid to ask all the questions, no matter how basic</div><div>Ready to roll up your sleeves and help others, getting involved in projects where you feel you can add value</div><div>Strive for excellence in your work, your team and the company&#xA0;</div><div><br></div><div>Come and build with us. We are one of the fastest growing software companies in the market. A company built on the tenets of transparency, direct communication and inclusivity. Come meet the streams dream team and have a direct impact on how we shape Confluent.</div><div><br></div><div>#LI-S01</div><div>#LI-Remote</div><div><br></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&#xA0;<i><a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">California Candidate Privacy Notice</a></i>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div>

<div>At Confluent, we&#x2019;re creating a category that transforms how every company manages and streams data. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That&#x2019;s Confluent in action&#x2014;giving our customers instant access to massive amounts of real-time data, enabling them to thrive in an ever-changing digital world. As one of the fastest-growing enterprise companies in history, and with Fortune 100 customers across major industries, we have a tremendous opportunity in front of us. We also have experience on our side. Our leaders have taken companies of our size to major success before and include some of the original creators of Apache Kafka&#xAE;.</div><div><br></div><div>We&#x2019;re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent&#x2019;s unlimited potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks with the backing and support of our #OneTeam culture. Be part of inclusive initiatives like Employee Resource Groups and development programs, and take advantage of benefits that support our diverse global teams. Grow as we grow&#x2014;whether you&#x2019;re just starting out or managing a large team, you&#x2019;ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.</div><div><br></div><div>As part of our rapid growth, we&#x2019;re looking to expand our Customer Success leadership team. The Manager, Customer Success will help lead, develop and grow a team focused on the health of customers within Confluent&#x2019;s West/Central region. Successful candidates will drive a high performance, high accountability culture to meet and exceed adoption and retention goals. We are seeking candidates who have a passion for using data and creative thinking to drive constant improvement to Confluent&#x2019;s processes and customer engagements. An ideal candidate will be an advocate for their teammates and their customers alike. </div><h3>Responsibilities:</h3><div><ul><li>Directly oversee a team of Customer Success Managers. Engage in weekly 1:1&#x2019;s to coach, mentor, and assist CSMs to measure, promote, and maintain high levels of customer health and adoption.&#xA0;</li><li>Accountable for success metrics and retention of a defined account base across the West/Central USA region.</li><li>Tracking and consistently reducing time to value for new customers with Confluent products.&#xA0;</li><li>Identifying and driving constant improvement in Confluent&#x2019;s internal processes for managing critical customer concerns. Advocating for customers internally.&#xA0;</li><li>Forecasting renewal metrics to the Director, Customer Success and Regional Sales leadership.&#xA0;</li><li>Ensuring a team of CSMs have all resources needed to be successful in their daily workflow.&#xA0;</li><li>Collaborating with sales, support, marketing, and other field teams on addressing issues which may be impeding customers&#x2019; success with Confluent products and expansion of use within an account.</li><li>Continuously work to improve and scale the Global Customer Success organization by sharing process frameworks, tools, and best practices that can be easily adopted to increase organizational development and efficiency.</li><li>Partnering with leaders in the Customer Solutions group to ensure aligned post-sales accountability. </li></ul></div><h3>What We&apos;re Looking for:</h3><div><ul><li>Strong people manager and mentor. Thrives in motivating a distributed team.&#xA0;</li><li>Must believe cultivating in a &#x201C;one team&#x201D; collaborative atmosphere.&#xA0;10+ years&#x2019; relevant experience in Account Management, Sales, Customer Success. 5+ years in leadership.</li><li>Open, growth mindset and high degrees of self accountability, fostered in a face-paced, high growth, dynamic environment.</li><li>Strong executive presence, communication (verbal, written, presentation) and facilitation skills with experience engaging and partnering at all levels internally and with key external stakeholders.</li><li>Strong customer centric mindset. Awareness of customer journey framework with the ability to prescribe ideal outcomes and guide customers along the path.&#xA0;</li><li>Experience identifying risk and running mitigation plays against customer churn. In tandem, proactively crafting structures to ensure risk does not become a pattern across a base of accounts.&#xA0;</li><li>Contract negotiation experience with ability to provide timely recommendations and drive decisions for mutually beneficial outcomes.</li><li>Enterprise technology aptitude.</li></ul></div><h3>Extra Credit:</h3><div><ul><li>Prior experience working at a company with SaaS product offerings.</li><li>Experience producing management dashboards and scorecards using BI solutions such as Metabase or Tableau.</li><li>Fantastic sense of humor</li></ul></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&#xA0;<i><a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">California Candidate Privacy Notice</a></i>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div>

Manager, Customer Success

<div>At Confluent, we&#x2019;re creating a category that transforms how every company manages and streams data. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That&#x2019;s Confluent in action&#x2014;giving our customers instant access to massive amounts of real-time data, enabling them to thrive in an ever-changing digital world. As one of the fastest-growing enterprise companies in history, and with Fortune 100 customers across major industries, we have a tremendous opportunity in front of us. We also have experience on our side. Our leaders have taken companies of our size to major success before and include some of the original creators of Apache Kafka&#xAE;.</div><div><br></div><div>We&#x2019;re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent&#x2019;s unlimited potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks with the backing and support of our #OneTeam culture. Be part of inclusive initiatives like Employee Resource Groups and development programs, and take advantage of benefits that support our diverse global teams. Grow as we grow&#x2014;whether you&#x2019;re just starting out or managing a large team, you&#x2019;ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.</div><div><br></div><div><b>About the team:</b></div><div><br></div><div>Confluent is growing at an incredible rate with a large amount of our growth taking place working with</div><div>our Marketplace Cloud Providers. We are looking for a Business Manager to join our team to support</div><div>Marketplace opportunities and processes within Sales Operations. Reporting to the Deals Desk Director,</div><div>you will have an opportunity to work cross-functionally throughout our organization on a variety of</div><div>projects that support the marketplace deal processes. For this role, an analytical, problem-solving</div><div>mindset with attention to detail are imperative, along with strong communications skills.</div><h3>Responsibilities: </h3><div><ul><li>Work with cross functional teams:&#xA0; act as a liaison among Finance, Business Development, Sales, Engineering and Cloud Providers to facilitate the deal process for &#x201C;non-standard&#x201D; Marketplace opportunities, including the eligibility requirements, implementation and documentation.&#xA0; Work at both the strategic and tactical levels.</li><li>Engage with Engineering and Finance teams to optimize the processes between Confluent and the Cloud Provider and expand Marketplace functionality.</li><li>Responsible for updating and maintaining the full quote to cash process and requirements for each of three primary Cloud Providers.</li><li>Manage the development of customer relationships through the Marketplace.&#xA0; Directly engage with customers, external third parties and internal stakeholders to ensure a successful on-boarding process to the Confluent cloud on each Marketplace platform.&#xA0;&#xA0;</li><li>Drill into Marketplace transactions that require customer-specific activities or changes, including engaging internal teams to find solutions and coordinating with external Cloud providers to effect the required changes.</li><li>Manage Marketplace transactions throughout their life-cycle including mid-term expansions, multi-year commitments and cancellations.</li><li>Assist in overseeing the Marketplace strategy, management, forecasts and results.&#xA0; These include developing reports for short and long term objectives, customer metrics, and overall performance of each Solution Providers.&#xA0;&#xA0;</li><li>Provide on-going strategic insights and recommendations via monthly reports of each Solution Providers.&#xA0; Putting into place action items to ensure efficiency of the overall Marketplace channel.</li></ul></div><h3>What we are looking for:</h3><div><ul><li>5-10 years experience in project management, business analysis and customer engagement</li><li>Strong analytical skills in process documentation and process improvement</li><li>Strong communications skills, experience in customer facing role required</li><li>Self-motivated and able to work independently as well as part of a team in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities; able to show entrepreneurial initiative</li><li>Able to take leadership role in handling potentially challenging and politically important customer situations, use all available resources appropriately and communicate effectively with both internal and external stakeholders on complex issues</li></ul></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&#xA0;<i><a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">California Candidate Privacy Notice</a></i>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div>

Marketplace Business Manager

<div>At Confluent, we&#x2019;re creating a category that transforms how every company manages and streams data. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That&#x2019;s Confluent in action&#x2014;giving our customers instant access to massive amounts of real-time data, enabling them to thrive in an ever-changing digital world. As one of the fastest-growing enterprise companies in history, and with Fortune 100 customers across major industries, we have a tremendous opportunity in front of us. We also have experience on our side. Our leaders have taken companies of our size to major success before and include some of the original creators of Apache Kafka&#xAE;.</div><div><br></div><div>We&#x2019;re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent&#x2019;s unlimited potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks with the backing and support of our #OneTeam culture. Be part of inclusive initiatives like Employee Resource Groups and development programs, and take advantage of benefits that support our diverse global teams. Grow as we grow&#x2014;whether you&#x2019;re just starting out or managing a large team, you&#x2019;ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.</div><div><br></div><div><b>About the Role:</b></div><div>The<b>&#xA0;</b>Enterprise Account Executive&#xA0;will play a key role in driving Confluent&#x2019;s sales activities in Japan. This role includes activities developing and executing on the go-to-market strategy for the assigned territory. The ideal candidate needs to have experience selling complex Database, Messaging, Big Data, Open Source and/or SaaS into large corporate and multi national companies. </div><div><br></div><h3>Responsibilities: </h3><div><ul><li>Build awareness for Kafka and Confluent within large enterprises</li><li>Aggressively prospect, identify, qualify and develop sales pipeline</li><li>Close business to exceed monthly, quarterly and annual bookings objectives</li><li>Build strong and effective relationships, resulting in growth opportunities</li><li>Build and maintain relationships with new and existing Confluent partners</li><li>Create and execute go to market plans that are based on viral methods and organic growth</li></ul></div><h3>What We&apos;re Looking For: </h3><div><ul><li>At least 5+ years of outside sales experience </li><li>Deep experience selling within the Database, Open Source, Messaging or Big Data space. </li><li>An ability to articulate and sell the business value of big data and the big impact on businesses of all sizes</li><li>Experience selling to developers and C levels</li><li>Significant experience in a Sales and/or Business Development role within a similar start up and high growth organization</li></ul></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&#xA0;<i><a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">California Candidate Privacy Notice</a></i>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div>

Enterprise Account Executive, Japan

<div>At Confluent, we&#x2019;re creating a category that transforms how every company manages and streams data. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That&#x2019;s Confluent in action&#x2014;giving our customers instant access to massive amounts of real-time data, enabling them to thrive in an ever-changing digital world. As one of the fastest-growing enterprise companies in history, and with Fortune 100 customers across major industries, we have a tremendous opportunity in front of us. We also have experience on our side. Our leaders have taken companies of our size to major success before and include some of the original creators of Apache Kafka&#xAE;.</div><div><br></div><div>We&#x2019;re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent&#x2019;s unlimited potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks with the backing and support of our #OneTeam culture. Be part of inclusive initiatives like Employee Resource Groups and development programs, and take advantage of benefits that support our diverse global teams. Grow as we grow&#x2014;whether you&#x2019;re just starting out or managing a large team, you&#x2019;ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.</div><div><br></div><div>The Confluent Global Revenue Marketing team is chartered to build and scale efficient go-to-market strategies, partnering with sales and engaging customers / prospects with targeted campaigns and high touch field marketing activities that build pipeline and drive predictable revenue.</div><h3>Responsibilities:</h3><div><ul><li>Lead the East &amp; Public Sector field marketing teams</li><li>Support a cross-functional team consisting of sales leaders, account executives, sales development reps, and business development (partner)</li><li>Act as a trusted, strategic partner to sales leadership, understanding unique East &amp; Public Sector goals and needs</li><li>Build and execute the regional marketing strategy and plan aligned to sales priorities, pipeline and revenue goals&#xA0;</li><li>Be hyper-focused on flawless execution of field marketing plans, delivering a superior end-user experience&#xA0;</li><li>Work closely with business development and partner marketing to develop and execute partner activities aligned to regional marketing strategy and plan</li><li>Work closely with the Global Campaigns team to leverage campaign strategy &amp; messaging in regional field marketing programs</li><li>Review, analyze, and communicate East &amp; Public Sector performance using a data-driven approach</li><li>Manage East &amp; Public Sector regional budget, pipeline targets and reporting</li><li>Ability to travel up to 50% (when it is again safe to do so).</li></ul></div><h3>What We&apos;re Looking For:</h3><div><ul><li>Requires bachelor&#x2019;s degree or equivalent plus 7+ years related experience in field marketing supporting a enterprise sales team&#xA0;</li><li>Data-driven mindset with a focus on quantifiable outcomes derived from field marketing</li><li>Experience with Public Sector marketing (Fed/SLED/EDU)</li><li>Proven track record of generating pipeline in net new logos and expanding customer accounts</li><li>Proven ability to work cross-functionally across sales, business development, partner marketing, campaigns, customer marketing and marketing operations</li><li>Experience with tracking key metrics for field marketing with outstanding results</li><li>Strong communication, writing, and presentation skills with ability to present ideas in a simple, straightforward manner</li><li>Self-motivated, innovative, with the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously and deliver flawless execution with strong project management skills</li><li>Ability to collaborate as part of a cross functional team and also work independently</li><li>Experience in account-based marketing strategy &amp; execution</li><li>Experience with Salesforce a plus</li><li>Worked in a startup environment, bonus points if it&#x2019;s within the data and analytics space (preferred)</li><li>Experience with marketing in LATAM or emerging markets&#xA0;(preferred)</li><li>Spanish or Portuguese language skills (preferred)</li></ul></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&#xA0;<i><a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">California Candidate Privacy Notice</a></i>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div>

Sr. Manager, Field Marketing - East & Public Sector

<div>Dubbed an &quot;open-source unicorn&quot; by Forbes, Confluent is the fastest-growing enterprise subscription company our investors have ever seen. And how are we growing so fast? By pioneering a new technology category with an event streaming platform, which enables companies to leverage their data as a continually updating stream of events, not as static snapshots. This innovation has led Coatue Management, Altimeter Capital and Franklin Templeton to join earlier investors Sequoia Capital, Benchmark, and Index Ventures in the recent Series E financing of a combined $250 million at a $4.5B valuation. Our product has been adopted by Fortune 100 customers across all industries, and we&#x2019;re being led by the best in the space&#x2014;our founders were the original creators of Apache Kafka&#xAE;. We&#x2019;re looking for talented and amazing team players who want to accelerate our growth, while doing some of the best work of their careers. Join us as we build the next transformative technology platform!</div><div><br></div><div><b>About the Role</b></div><div>Given our aspiration to make event streaming the central nervous system of the modern digital business, a robust partner ecosystem is not only essential to our success but represents an x-factor opportunity as we create this new event-streaming category.&#xA0;&#xA0;</div><div><br></div><div>The Director of Global Partner Ecosystems Strategy and Operations will serve as the &#x201C;right hand&#x201D; to Confluent&#x2019;s VP and global head of Ecosystems and Business Development, participating in all aspects of the development and execution of Confluent&#x2019;s partner ecosystem strategy. This person will be a thought partner, trusted advisor, and operations leader to help Confluent scale Go-to-Market initiatives across a wide variety of global partnerships in order to drive multi-channel bookings growth and to maximize customer value.&#xA0;&#xA0;</div><div><br></div><div>In this role, you will analyze key trends in routes to market and leverage your analytical ability, problem solving skills, leadership, business acumen and creativity to drive insights, manage performance and help shape the design of Confluent&#x2019;s Go-to-Market with partners.&#xA0; Your efforts will help scope strategic initiatives, influence Confluent&#x2019;s partner program, and drive cross-functional alignment that will direct future investments, scale current partnerships and set up success for Confluent&#x2019;s future partners.</div><h3>What you&apos;ll do</h3><div><ul><li>Act as a trusted advisor to drive our global partner ecosystem strategy and manage the performance of partners against key performance indicators</li><li>Help prioritize target verticals, geos, solutions, metrics, and financials, and manage coverage of priority segments across cloud, GSI, and ISV partners</li><li>Be a key business partner in finding solutions to complex problems to drive operational excellence across the partner organization</li><li>Manage the annual and quarterly planning processes, including the development of business plans, routes-to-market, operating models, resource allocation, geographic coverage models, and pipeline and bookings mix</li><li>Develop consistent, reliable, data-driven &#x2018;state of the business&#x2019; analytics and dashboards. Work closely with the global ecosystems team to ensure accuracy and relevance of the information</li><li>Structure and execute operational and strategic initiatives by developing work plans, gathering and synthesizing relevant data, leading analyses, driving cross-functional solution development, and developing final recommendations</li><li>Identify areas for proactive improvement in internal and external processes, providing recommendations and supporting the implementation of initiatives (regional and global)</li><li>Interface with other internal Confluent operations teams (Sales, Marketing, Customer Success) to develop and automate key processes and to ensure that the ecosystem team has the metrics and instrumentation it needs to manage team performance&#xA0;</li><li>Serve as a key liaison between the Confluent Ecosystem team and other functions across Confluent</li><li>Represent the Ecosystem team in internal key meetings and cross-functional initiatives</li></ul></div><h3>What we&apos;re looking for</h3><div><ul><li>10+ years of experience working with senior leaders in partner operations, GTM, and/or sales in the tech sector, with significant experience in enterprise SaaS and demonstrable success in driving growth and profitability with partners</li><li>Self-motivated and able to work in ambiguous, fast-paced environments</li><li>Ability to understand high-level growth and expansion strategies, translate them into people, process, and tools requirements, and drive global execution</li><li>Demonstrated experience developing strategic advisory relationships with senior business leaders as well as driving hands-on execution at all levels in the organization</li><li>Proven track record of navigating competing priorities and managing expectations with a variety of stakeholders</li><li>Familiarity with&#xA0; sales automation and CRM systems (SFDC SFA, PRM and CPQ highly desired)</li><li>Cloud sales and Usage-Based Billing experience preferred</li><li>Management Consulting experience is a plus</li><li>Experience working with the Global Cloud Providers (Google/GCP, Microsoft/Azure, Amazon/AWS) a plus</li></ul></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&#xA0;<a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><i>California Candidate Privacy Notice</i></a>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div>

Director, Global Ecosystem Strategy & Operations

<div>Dubbed an &quot;open-source unicorn&quot; by Forbes, Confluent is the fastest-growing enterprise subscription company our investors have ever seen. And how are we growing so fast? By pioneering a new technology category with an event streaming platform, which enables companies to leverage their data as a continually updating stream of events, not as static snapshots. This innovation has led Coatue Management, Altimeter Capital and Franklin Templeton to join earlier investors Sequoia Capital, Benchmark, and Index Ventures in the recent Series E financing of a combined $250 million at a $4.5B valuation. Our product has been adopted by Fortune 100 customers across all industries, and we&#x2019;re being led by the best in the space&#x2014;our founders were the original creators of Apache Kafka&#xAE;. We&#x2019;re looking for talented and amazing team players who want to accelerate our growth, while doing some of the best work of their careers. Join us as we build the next transformative technology platform!</div><div><br></div><div>We&#x2019;re looking for a strong technologist who will grow and lead the technical relationship with Google Cloud. &#xA0; You&#x2019;ll jointly build enterprise streaming solutions that highlight Confluent&#x2019;s unique features, enable cloud technical sellers and be the technical face of Confluent to Google Cloud.</div><div><br></div><div>Successful Cloud Partner Solutions Engineers typically have backgrounds as developers, systems engineers or product specialists, but they all share a passion for expanding Confluent&#x2019;s partner ecosystem and delivering the best of that world to our customers.</div><h3>What you&apos;ll do:</h3><div><ul><li>Work with Google Cloud&#xA0; to build differentiated solutions and offerings that include Confluent Technology</li><li>Build and manager relationships with key technical leaders at Google Cloud</li><li>Provide architecture guidance and recommendations across solutions, offerings and customer opportunities</li><li>Educate and enable Cloud partner architects on Kafka, Confluent and Event Streaming architecture</li><li>Serve as a subject matter expert to guide technology strategy and influence product direction by working across Product Management, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, etc</li><li>Be a public advocate for Confluent, leading webinars and speak at conferences</li><li>Author whitepapers, technical articles and blog posts</li><li>Create content, organize and deliver&#xA0; technical workshops to enable and educate partners</li></ul></div><h3>What we are looking for:</h3><div><ul><li>Deep knowledge of Google Cloud strategy, products, organizational and operating models</li><li>Demonstrated experience architecting enterprise solutions for customers and/or partners on GCP</li><li>Experience with messaging, streaming and ETL products commonly used in the enterprise</li><li>Experience authoring, presenting and delivering technical material</li><li>Experience operating within and across cross-functional teams including product managements, engineering, sales, marketing, etc</li><li>Excellent verbal and written communication skill, with focus on identifying shared business value around complex software solutions</li><li>Ability to quickly learn, understand and work with new and emerging technologies, methodologies and solutions</li><li>Passion for the role and strong commitment to excellence</li></ul></div><h3>What give you an edge:</h3><div><ul><li>Knowledge of Apache Kafka and/or other streaming technologies</li><li>Experience serving as Technical Sales/Systems Engineer in a cloud environment or equivalent experience in a customer and/or partner-facing role</li><li>Experience designing and building big data, stream processing and/or other distributed systems for Fortune 1000 companies</li><li>Experience working with global teams</li></ul></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&#xA0;<a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><i>California Candidate Privacy Notice</i></a>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div>

WW Partner Solutions Engineer/Evangelist - Google Cloud

<div>Dubbed an &quot;open-source unicorn&quot; by Forbes, Confluent is the fastest-growing enterprise subscription company our investors have ever seen. And how are we growing so fast? By pioneering a new technology category with an event streaming platform, which enables companies to leverage their data as a continually updating stream of events, not as static snapshots. This innovation has led Coatue Management, Altimeter Capital and Franklin Templeton to join earlier investors Sequoia Capital, Benchmark, and Index Ventures in the recent Series E financing of a combined $250 million at a $4.5B valuation. Our product has been adopted by Fortune 100 customers across all industries, and we&#x2019;re being led by the best in the space&#x2014;our founders were the original creators of Apache Kafka&#xAE;. We&#x2019;re looking for talented and amazing team players who want to accelerate our growth, while doing some of the best work of their careers. Join us as we build the next transformative technology platform!</div><div><br></div><div><b>About the team:&#xA0;</b></div><div><br></div><div>Confluent is growing at an incredible rate with a large amount of our growth taking place within our sales organization. We are looking for a Business Process Analyst to join our team in Mountain View to support the Deals Desk team within Sales Operations. Reporting to the Deals Desk Director, you will have an opportunity to work cross-functionally throughout our organization on a variety of projects that support the deal processes.&#xA0; For this role, an analytical, problem-solving mindset with attention to detail are imperative.</div><h3>Responsibilities: </h3><div><ul><li>Help drive process improvement initiatives for around deal management and quoting</li><li>Improve upon the operating model to support velocity in the deal management process, including&#xA0;implementation of best practices for Deals Desk</li><li>Collaborate with internal end-users and cross-functional teams to incubate new programs and land new initiatives</li><li>Continually look for and suggest ways to improve sales productivity, efficiency and effectiveness within the quoting and deal process</li><li>Proactively identify problems and opportunities and perform root cause analysis/diagnosis leading to significant business impact as it relates to the deal management process and SFDC</li><li>Work with Salesforce administrators on implementing CPQ enhancements, improvements and SFDC clean up</li><li>Coordinating end-to-end UAT testing for CPQ</li><li>Documenting release notes for SFDC related changes</li><li>Work with Sales Enablement on communicating and educating the sales org</li></ul></div><h3>What We&apos;re looking for:</h3><div><ul><li>3+ years of Sales Operations experience, including experience with SFDC and CPQ</li><li>Strong project management and cross-functional collaboration skills</li><li>Positive work style, focus on getting things done and a strong desire to learn and group</li></ul></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&#xA0;<a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><i>California Candidate Privacy Notice</i></a>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div>

Deals Desk Business Process Analyst

<div>Dubbed an &quot;open-source unicorn&quot; by Forbes, Confluent is the fastest-growing enterprise subscription company our investors have ever seen. And how are we growing so fast? By pioneering a new technology category with an event streaming platform, which enables companies to leverage their data as a continually updating stream of events, not as static snapshots. This innovation has led Coatue Management, Altimeter Capital and Franklin Templeton to join earlier investors Sequoia Capital, Benchmark, and Index Ventures in the recent Series E financing of a combined $250 million at a $4.5B valuation. Our product has been adopted by Fortune 100 customers across all industries, and we&#x2019;re being led by the best in the space&#x2014;our founders were the original creators of Apache Kafka&#xAE;. We&#x2019;re looking for talented and amazing team players who want to accelerate our growth, while doing some of the best work of their careers. Join us as we build the next transformative technology platform!</div><div><br></div><div>Confluent Systems Engineers drive the technical evaluation stage of the overall sales process, making them critical drivers of customer success as realtime data streams become more and more important in the modern enterprise. In this role you will be the key technical advisor to the sales team, work very closely with the product management and engineering teams, and serve as a vital product advocate in front of prospects, customers, and the wider Kafka and Big Data communities. </div><div><br></div><div>You will be a key technical advisor to Confluent customers as they undertake technical design and development of their end-to-end solution, be conversant with the current state and future roadmap of Kafka in open source, and be able to identify known issues and inform them of upcoming fixes or workarounds. You&#x2019;ll also be responsible for clear articulation of Confluent&#x2019;s technical and product positioning to a wide variety of business and technical stakeholders, and for forging strong relationships with them throughout the sales cycle and beyond.</div><h3>What we&apos;re looking for:</h3><div><ul><li>Experience with technical sales of distributed systems, infrastructure software like databases, message queues, SaaS, or Big Data products</li><li>Exceptional presentation and communications capabilities. Confidence presenting to a highly skilled and experienced audience, including enterprise architects and C-level executives</li><li>Clear, consistent demonstration of self-starter behavior and a desire to tackle hard technical problems&#xA0;</li><li>Bachelor&#x2019;s level degree in Computer Science or relevant experience</li><li>Proficiency in Java or Python with experience developing ETL applications</li><li>Confluent Certified Developer or Confluent Certified Administrator (<a href="https://www.confluent.io/certification/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.confluent.io/certification/</a>)</li></ul></div><h3>What gives you an edge:</h3><div><ul><li>Previous experience building solutions with Apache Kafka</li><li>Understanding of systems operations concepts  (disk, network, operating systems, etc)</li><li>Experience building and operating large-scale systems</li></ul></div><div><b>Come As You Are</b></div><div><br></div><div>At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Click here to review our&#xA0;<a href="https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><i>California Candidate Privacy Notice</i></a>, which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.</div>

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