Principal Product Manager

Role Description

As a Principal Product Manager, you are the foremost product expert for a portfolio or strategically critical initiative spanning multiple teams, surfaces, and customer segments. Without direct management authority, you are a de facto product leader — setting and continuously refining strategy, driving key decisions, and remaining deeply involved in the most complex product challenges.

• Shape the direction and roadmaps of teams across the organization through expertise, credibility, and cross-functional partnership.
• Your work is anchored in data, from defining portfolio-level success metrics to deep investigation of customer needs and market dynamics.
• Own end-to-end discovery for the highest-stakes, zero-to-one initiatives, using experimentation and staged investment to de-risk complex bets.
• Mentor and elevate other product managers, serving as a key voice in leadership forums on priorities, trade-offs, and long-term product direction.

Qualifications

• Requires a Bachelor’s degree, and a minimum of 15 years of related experience; or a Master’s degree with a minimum of 12 years of experience; or a PhD with 8 years experience.
• Demonstrated mastery across multiple product areas, platforms, or customer segments — with the ability to recognize patterns, risks, and opportunities not visible at a team or feature level.
• Track record of setting and executing product strategy for complex portfolios or initiatives without direct management authority, driving outcomes through expertise, credibility, and collaboration.
• Excellent analytical foundation with demonstrated experience defining success metrics, building measurement frameworks, and using data and experimentation to evaluate portfolio health and guide investment decisions.
• Proven ability to own end-to-end discovery for zero-to-one product initiatives, including identifying emerging market trends and aligning discovery efforts to long-term strategic direction.
• Experience designing how multiple products and platforms work together, with the ability to identify and build shared capabilities that create leverage across teams.
• Ability to align cross-functional partners and senior leadership on strategy, priorities, and trade-offs — and to present complex product strategy and results clearly to executive audiences.
• Experience mentoring and elevating product managers at multiple levels, improving discovery, delivery, and measurement practices across a team or function.

Benefits

• Quarterly bonuses.
• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
• Paid Time Off policy.
• Many region-specific benefits.

Company Description

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