Principal Product Manager
Guild
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $161,300 - $236,600 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Principal Product Manager for Guild Grow, serving as a strategic and influential product leader for Guild’s premier product line.
- Orchestrate highly cross-functional initiatives, manage complex dependencies across multiple teams, and shape how employers and employees engage with education benefits globally.
- Report to a member of Guild’s product leadership team; craft vision, align stakeholders, and ensure flawless execution at scale.
- Shape organizational strategy by establishing trusted relationships with executives, senior leaders, and key external partners; synthesize insights to inform strategic direction and build alignment.
- Define and articulate long-term vision for the Professional Grow product; lead quarterly product roadmaps; drive complex discovery and solution design; use experimentation and data insights to sharpen product-market fit.
- Orchestrate execution across multiple product teams and initiatives; implement systems for tracking dependencies, risks, and progress; oversee strategic resource allocation and resolve critical execution challenges.
- Engage in technical architecture discussions; apply advanced data analysis techniques; identify areas for technical optimization.
- Mentor and coach product managers and cross-functional leaders; empower teams to take ownership of learning and encourage experimentation.
Requirements
- 10+ years of product management experience, including 3+ years in a Principal, Group, or equivalent senior-level role.
- Demonstrated success leading complex, cross-functional, global initiatives.
- Deep expertise in platform product management, payments, benefits, or enterprise SaaS strongly preferred.
- Proven ability to define strategy and translate into executable roadmaps.
- Exceptional communication, negotiation, and influence skills with executives and external partners.
- Track record of building scalable, compliant, customer-centric products.
- Strong technical fluency with ability to guide architectural discussions, data-driven decision-making, and trade-offs.
Benefits
- Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Cigna and Kaiser (due to coverage limitations, Kaiser is currently only available in CA & CO)
- Access to a 401k to help save for the future
- Vacation policy to rest and recharge
- 8 days of fully-paid sick leave, to take the time to heal and or recover
- Family-friendly benefits, including 12 weeks of parental leave for non-birthing parents and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents; 4-week ramp-up period for when employees return from a leave of 6 weeks or more; as well as employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, fertility and caregiving benefits.
- Well-rounded wellness benefits including free and low cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services
- Education benefits and tuition assistance to help your future development and growth
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
product managementdata analysistechnical architectureproduct roadmapssolution designproduct-market fitstrategic resource allocationrisk managementpaymentsenterprise SaaS
Soft skills
communicationnegotiationinfluencementoringcoachingrelationship buildingstrategic thinkingcross-functional leadershipproblem-solvingteam empowerment