Senior Product Manager - Data Streaming

About the Position

Senior Product Manager - Data Streaming

HiveMQ GmbH is the Industrial AI Platform helping enterprises move from connected devices to intelligent operations. We are seeking an exceptional Senior Product Manager to lead our Data Streaming portfolio - the connectivity and transport foundation that every other layer of our Industrial AI Platform depends on.

Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Vision

• Define and drive product strategy for the Data Streaming layer of our platform.
• Work with customers, our sales team, along with partners & alliances team to identify key integration opportunities.
• Own the product scope and sequencing for the next-generation Core Broker.
• Champion Agent Experience (AX) as a first-class design target.
• Think cross-functionally and ahead: understand how Streaming connects to PLG, SLG, Expansion, and Partner motions.
• Establish clear, inspiring vision for your teams derived from company strategy.

Business Impact & Accountability

• Drive measurable business outcomes across adoption, usage, revenue, and customer satisfaction metrics.
• Own the data story: work with product data analysts to instrument products effectively, measure impact, and report progress toward business objectives.
• Communicate value effectively through data-backed storytelling to executives, customers, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Identify and address organizational bottlenecks, proposing process improvements as business scale demands.
• Make hard calls: determine when products or features should be terminated if they don’t deliver desired outcomes.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner deeply with engineering leadership to ensure technical feasibility and delivery excellence.
• Collaborate with GTM organizations including Sales, Customer Success/Support, Alliances, and Product Marketing.
• Manage strategic customer relationships and handle escalations with appropriate oversight.
• Build consensus across departments on complex, cross-functional initiatives.
• Develop and present roadmaps and proposals to senior leadership, occasionally engaging with C-suite executives.

Customer-Centricity

• Maintain intimate customer knowledge through ongoing strategic customer relationships.
• Advocate for customer needs by framing capabilities in terms of customer outcomes and business priorities.
• Validate product-market fit through continuous discovery and customer feedback loops.
• Drive customer intimacy beyond strategic accounts to understand broader market needs.

Requirements

Required Experience & Track Record

• 8–15 years total work experience, with significant portion in product management or consulting.
• Track record with established enterprise infrastructure products at a meaningful stage of maturity.
• Data-driven product development: demonstrated success using quantitative and qualitative methods to drive product decisions.
• Budget and resource management: experience allocating resources across teams and managing to budget.
• Ideally located in the Eastern Time zone of the United States.

Domain Expertise

Core - the non-negotiables:

• Message-oriented middleware and event-driven architectures: deep familiarity with MQTT and/or platforms like Kafka, Solace, RabbitMQ, or similar distributed messaging and streaming technologies.
• OT/IT convergence: meaningful experience with operational technology environments - PLC communication, OPC-UA, Modbus, SCADA, MES.
• Smart manufacturing / Industry 4.0: understanding of how manufacturers instrument facilities, manage device fleets, and move operational data from edge to cloud.

Highly valued:

• IoT, robotics, or adjacent industrial domains: broader device connectivity experience that translates to credibility in industrial contexts.
• Self-managed enterprise software: experience with products that deploy on-premises or at the edge.
• PLG for infrastructure or developer products: track record with product-led growth motions for technical products.
• Distributed systems: genuine appreciation for reliability, scalability, clustering, and operational observability at scale.

Leadership & Management Capabilities

• Strategic thinking: ability to set vision, define strategy, and execute across multiple product lines.
• Influence without authority: proven ability to drive alignment across senior stakeholders through data and compelling narratives.
• Effective communication: creates clear executive-level communications; teams and stakeholders understand priorities and how work connects to company mission.
• Decision-making under uncertainty: comfortable making and defending tough calls, saying “no” thoughtfully, and adjusting course based on data.
• Empathetic leadership: delivers challenging feedback and news with honesty, empathy, and understanding.
• Cultural steward: demonstrates and champions product management best practices and company values.

Technical & Product Skills

• Product instrumentation: ensures products are measured effectively to monitor impact and progress toward goals.
• Outcome-focused mindset: cares about achieving business goals, not just shipping features.
• Risk identification: thinks ahead to identify risks and mitigation strategies.
• Process design: identifies inefficiencies and proposes scalable solutions as business grows.
• Stakeholder management: builds and maintains relationships across R&D, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Support, and executive teams.

We Offer

• Competitive salary: €120K – €154K
• Remote work options
• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge Industrial AI Platform technology

About the Company

HiveMQ is the Industrial AI Platform helping enterprises move from connected devices to intelligent operations. Built on the MQTT standard and a distributed edge-to-cloud architecture, HiveMQ connects and governs industrial data in real time, enabling global leaders like Audi, BMW, Eli Lilly, and Siemens to operationalize AI and drive innovation at scale.

At HiveMQ, our culture is Effortless → Empowered → Relentless. We make the complex simple, act with confidence and ownership, and never stop pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. Join us to power the future of intelligent industry.