
Principal Product Manager
Pearl
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $180,000 - $205,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Drive coordination and execution across multiple concurrent product initiatives.
- Partner with Engineering leadership to ensure initiatives move efficiently from discovery through delivery.
- Act as initiative lead or embedded senior PM on high-priority projects as needed.
- Help translate product strategy into actionable plans, requirements, and delivery milestones.
- Identify risks, dependencies, and resource gaps early and help teams resolve them.
- Strengthen product operating rhythms including roadmap planning, initiative tracking, and delivery accountability.
- Help maintain clarity across teams during periods of rapid change or evolving direction.
- Support prioritization decisions by balancing strategic goals, customer needs, and delivery realities.
- Contribute to product strategy and roadmap development in partnership with the SVP Product.
- Lead or support customer research, problem discovery, and validation of new opportunities.
- Help shape Pearl SCORE experiences and related platform capabilities across consumer and partner workflows.
- Serve as a primary coordination partner between Product and Engineering teams.
- Collaborate closely with Data Science and Standards teams to translate complex modeling and scoring concepts into clear user experiences.
- Partner with BD and Marketing teams to ensure product initiatives support commercial and partner outcomes.
- Help align stakeholders around priorities, timelines, and product direction.
- Provide coaching and mentorship to product managers and designers.
- Help strengthen product craft, documentation quality, and discovery practices.
- Foster a culture of ownership, clarity, and collaborative problem solving.
- Identify and lead opportunities to integrate AI and machine learning into Pearl’s consumer and partner experiences.
- Leverage modern AI tools to accelerate product discovery, documentation, analysis, and delivery workflows.
- Ensure Pearl remains competitive and forward-looking in how intelligence is embedded into the platform.
Requirements
- 8-10+ years of product management experience, including leadership or senior individual contributor roles
- Prior experience as Principal Product Manager, Head of Product, Director of Product, Principal PM, or equivalent senior product role is preferred
- Proven track record leading complex, cross-functional product initiatives in SaaS, proptech, fintech, marketplace, or data platform environments
- Strong ability to operate both strategically and hands-on in execution
- Demonstrated ability to drive clarity and delivery in environments with evolving processes and priorities
- Experience working closely with engineering, data science, and design teams
- Strong product discovery and customer insight skills
- Excellent communication and stakeholder alignment capabilities
- Comfortable operating with influence rather than formal authority
- Experience operating in data-rich environments where probabilistic models or scoring systems inform user experiences
- Fluency in modern AI capabilities (LLMs, automation tools, data-driven personalization) and demonstrated ability to apply them in product strategy or execution
- Alignment with Pearl’s mission and values.
Benefits
- Medical, vision and dental coverage provided at no cost for employees and their families (with an option to purchase upgraded coverage at a minimal cost to employee)
- FSA, HSA, and dependent care accounts
- Life insurance coverage
- Employer paid cell phone service
- 401(k) with employer match up to 4%
- Stock options
- 15 vacation days during the calendar year, plus holidays (including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day), a floating holiday for your birthday, sick days, and paid parental leave
- Flexible work environment: work remotely from anywhere within the U.S.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
product managementcross-functional product initiativesproduct strategyproduct discoverycustomer insightAI capabilitiesmachine learningdata-driven personalizationSaaSdata platform
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationstakeholder alignmentcollaborative problem solvingmentorshipstrategic thinkinghands-on executionclarity in evolving processesinfluence without authorityownership