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The Team Lead, Global Scale is a pivotal leadership role responsible for maximizing customer value across the entire customer journey—from initial technical acquisition and enablement through to long-term retention and expansion. You will lead a team consisting of Solutions Engineers (SEs) and Customer Success ICs (CSMs). This role requires a unique blend of technical expertise, operational discipline, customer orientation and people leadership. You will be accountable for developing talent, shaping team strategy, driving operational excellence in service delivery, and ensuring our customers achieve sustained success with Confluent. This position is a critical driver in realizing Confluent’s opportunity by scaling our technical and customer-facing engagement models into the LATAM market.
Job Responsibility:
Recruit, onboard, and develop a high-performing team spanning both technical pre-sales (SE) and post-sales success (CSM) disciplines
Provide regular coaching, mentoring, and performance management to foster technical depth, consultative skills, customer-centric behaviors, and retention-focused mindset across the team
Champion a culture of learning, collaboration, technical excellence, and humility, ensuring alignment with Confluent’s core values
Set clear objectives and KPIs aligned with global business goals for both acquisition and retention
track and report on team and individual performance
Partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders (Sales, Product, Engineering, and Support) to drive aligned post-sales accountability, maximize customer impact, and advocate for customer needs internally
Identify, drive, and implement continuous improvement initiatives in internal processes, customer engagement practices, and service delivery to improve efficiency and scale
Develop and maintain technical expertise in Confluent technologies, Apache Kafka, Flink, cloud architectures, and distributed systems across the entire team
Support the team's ability to deliver advanced demos, workshops, and thought leadership content to prospective, new, and existing customers, ranging from developers to C-level executives
Player/coach: Deliver customer-facing engagements as needed across the lifecycle. Step in as the senior technical resource for complex, high-risk, or deals that require leadership attention
Requirements:
6+ years of relevant experience in Solutions Engineering, Software Development, Data/Cloud/Infrastructure Architecture, or Customer Success leadership
2+ years in a people management or technical leadership role, ideally managing diverse technical and customer-facing roles
Proven track record of hiring, developing, and leading technical teams in high-growth or matrixed organizations
Strong awareness of real-time streaming solutions with Apache Kafka, Flink, or similar technologies
Expertise in modern cloud architectures (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes), and CI/CD tooling
Strong customer-centric mindset with awareness of the customer journey framework and the ability to prescribe ideal outcomes and guide customers along the path
Exceptional ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth, dynamic environment, bringing a catalyst quality to shaping a "one team" collaborative atmosphere
Experience in contract negotiation and providing timely, mutually beneficial recommendations (a strong plus)
Fluency in English is a requisite
Nice to have:
Experience in contract negotiation and providing timely, mutually beneficial recommendations
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