Distinguished AI Strategist

• Research: spend significant portion of time on high-impact, long-term research investigations examining how data streaming can integrate with existing AI technologies, patterns, and practices to deliver better outcomes and faster time-to-market for customers
• Engage with the Market: represent Confluent with C-level executives at prospects and customers, media, and analysts to showcase data streaming’s role in enabling AI
• support Customer and Product Advisory Boards
• Thought Leadership: shape industry thinking around Data Streaming applications in AI through technical content and industry use cases demonstrating business value
• drive adoption of Confluent products by AI practitioners
• enable Confluent’s field to better connect with and serve customers
• Data Streaming Advocacy: establish credibility for Confluent as an enabling capability for AI-enabled applications by collaborating with solutions engineering team to develop and promote relevant technical patterns and reference architectures
• Product Direction and Prototyping: recommend notable changes in technology direction to Product/Engineering
• prototype early-stage ideas, explore practicalities of different patterns, and formalize new implementation strategies
• contemplate new capabilities more than twelve months out from current product roadmap
• Competition and Technology Trends: track AI-related technology trends affecting Confluent’s trajectory, analyze competitive threats from technology perspective and look for opportunities

• Industry experience as a leader in either R&D or GTM for enterprise SaaS companies, well-versed in commercializing AI-enabled technologies
• Alternatively, strong experience as an AI researcher with a PhD in Computer Science (or similar) and relevant, top-tier peer-reviewed publications
• Ability to extract important concepts and details from a complex technical domain, summarize, and articulate clearly and succinctly
• Ability to confidently influence deals with Confluent’s C-level and C-level customers
• Experience creating novel content that reframes existing concepts in interesting ways
• Excellent writing style with ability to clearly explain complex concepts
• Confident speaking style, spanning both technical and conceptual content
• Experience in operating autonomously, delivering high-quality tasks on time and with minimal supervision
• Proven software development or data science experience
• Broad understanding of technology space in general, distributed systems, and business
• Data streaming experience is considered a huge plus

Data streaming experience

• Remote-First Work
• Robust Insurance Benefits
• Flexible Time Away
• The Best Teammates
• Experience Ambassadors
• Open and Honest Culture
• Well-Being and Growth
• Offers Equity
• Offers Bonus