• Act as the functional owner of the product, ensuring alignment between strategy, business needs and the team’s deliveries; • Define, maintain and prioritize the product backlog based on business value, customer impact, risks and technical dependencies; • Lead the design, evolution and optimization of digital payment journeys; • Translate business needs into clear user stories, objective acceptance criteria and measurable success metrics; • Conduct refinement sessions, alignments and agile ceremonies, promoting collaboration across multidisciplinary teams; • Support product decisions based on data, indicators and user feedback; • Ensure adherence to regulatory requirements, compliance policies and security best practices; • Participate in testing, validation and rollout strategies for new features; • Manage stakeholders, maintaining continuous alignment on priorities, risks and outcomes.

• Own and lead product initiatives across Clerkie’s platform, from discovery through release • Collaborate deeply with engineering and design to shape scalable product solutions • Translate complex partner and ecosystem needs into clear product requirements • Drive cross-functional alignment across technical and non-technical stakeholders • Work directly with enterprise partners to understand workflows and product opportunities • Define priorities, manage trade-offs, and help shape product roadmap decisions • Lead product discovery, experimentation, and iteration across multiple initiatives • Support the continued evolution of Clerkie’s product systems, rituals, and documentation • Contribute to building a strong product culture within a small, highly collaborative team

• Own strategic workstreams that span multiple teams and business domains • Define strategy for the 6-12 month horizon and shape product operating models and governance • Identify and validate new revenue opportunities from 0-to-1 propositions to upsell and retention loops • Embed rigorous experimentation (A/B testing, multivariate, rapid prototyping) into team culture • Develop reusable AI playbooks, workflows, and assets that multiply the team’s output • Design product metrics and dashboards used by the business for data-driven decision making • Own programmes that move core business metrics and be accountable for commercial outcomes • Partner with engineering, data science, design, marketing, legal, and compliance for strategy feasibility • Manage the product community of practice and instill a customer-first, experiment-first mindset • Present strategic recommendations and lead decision-making with the Leadership Team

• Define and drive the multi-year product strategy and roadmap for Apache Flink across cloud and on-prem products. • Establish structured processes to align product, engineering, GTM, and executive stakeholders. • Identify high-leverage, 0-to-1 product opportunities for Flink and in adjacent areas like AI, data engineering, data warehousing, and event-driven applications. • Define how Confluent Flink offerings will work across Confluent and IBM product portfolio.