At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale.

Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape.

Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world. When a global bank architects zero-data-loss disaster recovery, when an enterprise migrates petabytes off open-source Kafka, or when a multinational replicates event streams across three continents, they're running on Cluster Linking.

This role will define the future of Cluster Linking: how we deliver seamless disaster recovery for Kafka workloads, how we build self-service migration paths into Confluent Cloud, and how we enable cross-organization data sharing to power real-time, operational data exchanges. Our largest customers depend on it, and because it cuts across Kafka, cloud infrastructure, networking, and security, your work will have visibility and influence across the company. Take disaster recovery from a manually configured capability to a seamless, productized experience that customers can adopt with confidence.

Define the future of real-time stream sharing across organizations, including its security model, networking, access controls, and how it scales across organizations and use cases. Power capabilities that let customers migrate to Confluent in a few clicks or API calls.



The product serves Disaster Recovery, migrations, data sharing, and cross-cloud replication, each with different customer needs and pricing dynamics.

Define how we package, price, and position each so the offering works for customers and drives growth. Work directly with customers. You'll be pulled in many directions, customers will ask a lot of you.

Confluent moves fast and people are ready to help. Required technical and professional expertise 5+ years of product management experience, ideally in infrastructure, data platforms, or cloud products. You've shipped technical products and driven measurable outcomes.

You don't need prior Kafka expertise, but you need to be energized by technical depth, not put off by it. You get people excited and aligned, across engineering, field, sales, finance, and leadership, often without formal authority. You think about segmentation, packaging, pricing, and market impact, not just features.

You can make technical topics understandable for executive audiences, write sharp product docs, and present confidently to customers and leadership. LLM or GenAI knowledge is a bonus, but not required Preferred technical and qualified experience Expertise in Market Analysis: Experience with analyzing market trends, customer needs, and competitor activity to inform product definition and stay ahead of competitors.

Product Roadmap Development: IBM is committed to creating a diverse setting and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status. #

📌 Confluent - Senior Product Manager, Cluster Linking (Vancouver)
🏢 IBM
📍 Vancouver