Director of Product Management - Data Streaming

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. The Opportunity We’re seeking an exceptional Director of Product Management to lead HiveMQ’s Data Streaming portfolio — the connectivity and transport foundation that every other layer of our Industrial AI Platform depends on. The core product is our flagship offering: HiveMQ Enterprise Broker, the high-performance MQTT server running at the core of industrial operations at companies mentioned above and more. A critical and differentiating element of the Enterprise Broker is its extensibility system — the mechanism by which new functionality is built in the field, validated against real customer needs, and reviewed, generalized, and graduated into the core product. Managing this well requires two things in parallel: ensuring OT teams can easily build integrations with IT systems without friction, and maintaining a healthy process by which extensions are proposed, triaged, and absorbed into the roadmap rather than accumulating as one-off customizations. The Data Streaming layer faces a genuinely interesting strategic challenge: it is HiveMQ’s primary revenue engine today, but lighter brokers and free-tier strategies from competitors are beginning to pressure pricing in some segments. The response isn’t to double down on features — it’s to make HiveMQ the default substrate for operational agents, the only choice that compounds into Intelligence and Agentic AI in ways no alternative can match. Translating that thesis into a product roadmap is as much a PM job as a strategic one. You’ll start as an individual contributor, with the opportunity to build and lead a high-performing team as the portfolio scales. WHAT YOU’LL DO STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP & VISION - Define and drive product strategy for the Data Streaming layer of our platform with a clear thesis on how and where we should invest to drive our “expert product for experts” to be easier to deploy, easier to manage, easier to configure, etc. - Work with customers, our sales team, along with partners & alliances team to identify key integration opportunities to invest in as part of how the Data Streaming product fits within broader solutions that our customers are attempting to build - Own the product scope and sequencing for the next-generation Core Broker — evolving toward cloud-native, multi-tenancy, and Agent Experience (AX) — while holding near-term LTS and expansion commitments in parallel - Champion AX (Agent Experience) as a first-class design target alongside UX and DX: on-demand broker provisioning via API, OpenAPI specs across every capability, and the “ceremony elimination” heuristic — does this require the user or agent to reason about infrastructure, or does it just work? - Think cross-functionally and ahead: understand how Streaming connects to PLG, SLG, Expansion, and Partner motions, and make deliberate choices about where and how HiveMQ competes in the lower-end of the market - Establish clear, inspiring vision for your teams derived from company strategy, helping prioritize and reprioritize for organizational success BUSINESS IMPACT & ACCOUNTABILITY - Drive measurable business outcomes across adoption, usage, revenue, and customer satisfaction metrics for the Data Streaming portfolio - 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-…