Pacvue

Principal Product Operations Manager

Pacvue

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $150,000 - $160,000 per year

Job Level

Tech Stack

About the role

  • Own and evolve the product operations strategy and roadmap, aligning operational investments with product and business priorities
  • Own and continuously improve the end-to-end product delivery process, with accountability for delivery predictability, quality, and cycle time across teams
  • Design and implement scalable operating models, intake frameworks, and prioritization processes that support a multi-team product organization
  • Identify systemic inefficiencies and drive cross-functional initiatives to improve operational performance at the organizational level
  • Serve as the primary bridge between customer-facing teams and product/engineering, leading the translation of complex business needs and customer feedback into clear, structured, and prioritized product requirements
  • Lead discovery sessions, workshops, and stakeholder interviews to surface both functional and non-functional requirements
  • Define and enforce standards for requirements quality, acceptance criteria, and success metrics across teams
  • Ensure alignment between customer needs, product strategy, and delivery execution
  • Own visibility into product delivery health, proactively identifying risks, dependencies, and trade-offs across teams
  • Drive accountability for delivery outcomes, including velocity, quality, predictability, and alignment to product and business goals
  • Lead cross-team coordination for high-impact and ambiguous initiatives, ensuring alignment and successful execution
  • Partner with product leadership to translate operational insights into roadmap and prioritization decisions
  • Partner closely with engineering and architecture teams to influence technical decisions, surfacing trade-offs, dependencies, and scalability considerations
  • Act as a bridge between technical and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring clarity and alignment across system design, API integrations, and data infrastructure
  • Review and validate technical approaches and documentation, ensuring alignment with product requirements and long-term scalability
  • Define and own product operations metrics, dashboards, and reporting frameworks to measure delivery performance and product outcomes
  • Use data to identify trends, diagnose systemic issues, and drive continuous improvement initiatives across teams
  • Establish and scale operational playbooks, governance models, and escalation frameworks
  • Ensure alignment between delivery execution and customer experience, product performance, and business impact
  • Champion and evolve agile best practices across a multi-team product organization, driving consistency, maturity, and continuous improvement
  • Coach teams on effective planning, backlog management, and execution strategies to improve throughput and delivery quality
  • Lead initiatives to reduce cycle time, improve predictability, and minimize defects across teams

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience in product operations, technical program management, or related roles within a technology-driven product organization
  • Proven track record of owning and scaling product operations processes across multiple teams or product areas
  • Deep experience in e-commerce and ad tech environments
  • Strong technical fluency — comfortable influencing discussions involving APIs, data models, system design, and platform architecture
  • Demonstrated ability to translate complex, ambiguous problems into structured frameworks and scalable solutions
  • Expertise in agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) and associated tooling (Jira, Confluence, Linear, etc.)
  • Strong analytical and systems-thinking mindset, with experience defining and using metrics to drive decision-making
  • Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence without authority at all levels of the organization.
Benefits
  • Flexible Paid Time Off
  • Paid Holidays and Floating Holidays
  • Medical, Dental, Vision, FSA, HSA with employer contribution, Life Insurance and Pet Insurance
  • 401k with Employer Match
  • Take up to 2 Days of Paid Time Off to Volunteer with a 501c Organization
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Company-subsidized membership to One Medical and Wellhub
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
product operationstechnical program managementagile methodologiesmetrics definitiondata analysissystem designAPI integrationsscalable solutionsbacklog managementdelivery performance
Soft Skills
communicationstakeholder managementanalytical mindsetsystems thinkinginfluence without authoritycoachingproblem-solvingcross-functional collaborationleadershipcontinuous improvement