Sr Product Manager, Redpanda Connect United States, Canada

We are a team of doers, seasoned engineers, hackers and builders, working on the future of streaming data.

Funded by premier investors including GV and Lightspeed, Redpanda is building the streaming data platform for developers. We're evolving streaming beyond the Apache Kafka protocol into a unified "engine of record" that delivers a categorical reduction in complexity, wicked-fast performance, onboard Wasm transforms, and transparent tiered storage that gives consumers access to both real-time and historical data from a single API.

About the Role :

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager for Redpanda Connect, our high performance data integration platform. Redpanda Connect's open source roots created a rich ecosystem of hundreds of connectors and its efficient architecture and low-code DevEx makes it easy for developers to build and deploy real-time and agentic AI pipelines at scale. You will guide the evolution of Redpanda Connect—including shaping new connectors and data transformation features, designing how developers deploy and manage data pipelines, and defining data integration and orchestration features for Agentic AI workflows. Reporting to the Head of Product, you will work with customers, study the market to gather data, and drive the strategic roadmap for Redpanda Connect that makes working with streaming data approachable and powerful.

This is an opportunity to work closely with product and engineering leadership and teams at a fast-growing, well-funded startup. This role requires experience with enterprise infrastructure technology, working closely with customers, and collaborating cross-functionally across technical and non-technical teams.

You Will

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

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

Redpanda is used by Fortune 1000 enterprises pushing hundreds of terabytes a day, as well as by the solo dev prototyping a React application on her laptop. Think of it as a streaming data API platform that scales with you from the smallest projects to petabytes of data distributed across the globe.

Join Redpanda if you'd enjoy being part of a fast-moving, 100% remote organization with team members around the globe and a culture based on trust, transparency, communication, and kindness.

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