💼 About This Role

You'll define and drive Confluent's internal agentic AI capabilities to accelerate R&D productivity. You'll operationalize a vision where AI augments developers and automates routine tasks. You'll partner across Engineering, Security, and IT to scale AI usage across our platform.

🎯 What You'll Do

• Define and evangelize the AI and agentic flows strategy
• Partner with Engineering, Trust and Security to integrate AI capabilities
• Lead delivery of core agentic workflows to improve productivity
• Drive measurable adoption of AI tooling and flows internally

📋 Requirements

• 8+ years driving strategic productivity initiatives in SaaS/Cloud
• Considered an expert in distributed systems
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams without direct authority
• Hands-on experience with AI/ML and LLM integration

✨ Nice to Have

• Experience in cloud-native platforms or developer ecosystems
• Prior leadership in scaling internal AI platforms
• Background in real-time data or event-driven architecture

📨 Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 2-4 weeks · AI estimate

1. 1Recruiter Screen· 30 min
2. 2Hiring Manager Interview· 45 min
3. 3Technical Interview· 60 min
4. 4Panel Interview· 60 min