Confluent Product Designer

This is a remote, mid-career opportunity for candidates located in the United States. As part of the Kafka product team within Confluent Cloud, you will work on envisioning and evolving new features and usability improvements to our core Kafka user experience. You'll join the broader Confluent product design organization, collaborating with about 20 other designers tackling similarly complex and technical problem spaces Lead design initiatives for various features of the Confluent Cloud data streaming platform Translate complex conceptual ideas into interaction or service design solutions tailored to meet the needs of our unique customer base of developers and operators Drive product strategy by acting as the voice of the customer and aligning user needs with business and technical requirements Craft consistent, delightful, best-in-class user experiences and provide feedback to other designers to ensure design excellence Perform usability testing, gather feedback from end users, and share findings and recommendations with the broader team Collaborate with cross-functional teams and fellow designers to launch new product experiences, track performance, and iterate on enhancements

Confluent is a commercial company built on top of the open-source Apache Kafka project. Confluent and Kafka have developed a streaming data technology that processes massive amounts of information in real-time. The streaming database technology was developed at LinkedIn as a way of moving massive amounts of messages. The company decided to open-source that tech in 2011, and Confluent launched as the commercial arm in 2014. While the base open-source component remains available for free download, it doesn't include the additional tooling the company has built to make it easier for enterprises to use Kafka. Confluent's value add is in those additional tools, including a cloud version of the product and a marketplace for sharing extensions to the platform. Confluent expanded strategic partnerships with Microsoft and acquired Immerok, and in 2023 expanded its cloud platform. 2024 saw further product expansions with the launch of the Confluent Migration Accelerator, all exemplifying how the company is living up to its name by rocket-boosting the benefits of Apache Kafka integration for companies.