Technical Program Manager
Confluent, United States

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 actiongiving 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.
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 growwhether you’re just starting out or managing a large team, you’ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.
As a Technical Program Manager in the engineering organization you will play a critical role in fulfilling the engineering vision to build, deliver, and operate highly scalable streaming infrastructure and the surrounding product ecosystem. You should be comfortable and experienced in driving and delivering highly complex projects on time. These projects will span across multiple teams, functions and geographies.
Who You Are:

• Smart, humble, and empathetic
• Have a strong sense of teamwork and put team’s and company’s interests first
• Driven and excited about the challenges of a fast-paced, innovative software startup environment and get shit done!

Responsibilities:

• Work with stakeholders to drive cross cutting and/or critical initiatives for the company.
• Ensure that we are able to deliver projects on time.
• Proactively identify and resolve roadblocks/challenges affecting projects.
• Train and help other leaders to become better in program management.
• Make technical decisions to keep projects running on time.
• Explain technical architecture, decisions and tradeoffs to both engineering and other functions.
• Work with Engineering, Product and Security leadership to streamline and drive our projects on a predictable schedule
• Run cross-functional meetings and drive decision making around schedule adjustments, bug triage and internal and external partner/customer delivery.

What We’re Looking For:

• Experience driving complex and massive projects across the organizations.
• Experience in areas such as release management, cost modeling, capacity planning a plus.
• Strong communication, interpersonal and leadership skills to work with both engineering and other non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience managing end-to-end lifecycle of technical projects.
• Strong technical skills.
• Experience in actual design and development of software projects is a plus.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field or equivalent practical experience.

Come As You Are
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.
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