Principal Product Manager II, Horizons

About Life360

 

Life360’s mission is to keep people close to the ones they love. Our category-leading mobile app and Tile tracking devices empower members to protect the people, pets, and things they care about most with a range of services, including location sharing, safe driver reports, and crash detection with emergency dispatch. Life360 serves approximately 70 million monthly active users (MAU) across more than 150 countries. 

Life360 delivers peace of mind and enhances everyday family life with seamless coordination for all the moments that matter, big and small. By continuing to innovate and deliver for our customers, we have become a household name and the must-have mobile-based membership for families (and those friends that basically are family). 

Life360 has more than 500 (and growing!) remote-first employees. For more information, please visit life360.com.

Life360 is a Remote First company, which means a remote work environment will be the primary experience for all employees. All positions, unless otherwise specified, can be performed remotely (within the US) regardless of any specified location above. 

About The Team

The Horizons team at Life360 is responsible for building and scaling the core platform that powers the experience for millions of families worldwide. We focus on creating resilient, scalable systems and services that enable seamless coordination for everyday life. As a key part of this team, you’ll work on expanding and evolving our platform capabilities, ensuring Life360 continues to innovate while supporting the ever-growing number of users and devices. The Horizons team plays a critical role in driving the technical strategy behind new product offerings, platform infrastructure, and a comprehensive developer platform with both internal and external partners and developer ecosystems.

 

About the Job

We’re looking for a Technical Principal Product Manager, II,  Horizons with a strong technical background to join our Life360 Horizons team. In this high level IC role, you’ll contribute to the definition and implementation of the future vision of the Life360 platform. Your primary goal will be to ensure the Life360 platform is scalable, resilient, and optimized for developers, while driving the creation of platform services that deliver meaningful value for our 70 million members. You’ll define the technical strategy for the platform, focusing on critical systems such as identity management, infrastructure, integration capabilities and building a developer ecosystem, enabling innovative features and enhancing the overall developer experience.

 

The US based salary range for this position is $170,000 to $240,000. We take into consideration an individual's background and experience in determining final salary- therefore, base pay offered may vary considerably depending on geographic location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The compensation package includes a wide range of medical, dental, vision, financial, and other benefits, as well as equity.

What You’ll Do

 

• Customer-Centric Approach: Use a deep understanding of our customers wants and needs combined with extreme attention to detail to deliver a world-class platform that is adopted by developers and pushes the customer experience and the business forward. 
• Product Execution: Have extremely high agency and do what it takes to ensure product changes land in the hands of our members quickly and at high quality. 
• Technical Strategy: Influence and drive the product roadmap for platform services such as identity management and infrastructure, balancing immediate needs with long-term scalability and performance goals
• Engineering Partnership: Collaborate closely with embedded engineering teams working on platform initiatives to deliver scalable and reliable solutions that allow developers to meet user needs.
• Product Ownership: Work on a cross-functional team that’s responsible for creating a first-class platform experience. Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the team.
• Team Catalyst: Work with Engineering and Design and act as an accelerator to bring new experiences to customers faster and ensure we develop feature platforms that are easily extended and expanded to new use cases.

Systems Thinker: Think about and understand the systems that power complex software and see how a symphony of systems working together create the experience an end user will have. Additionally, think about features beyond user value and how they can be created as systems working in concert with what already exists today. 

• Data-Informed: Define the success criteria for initiatives, using opportunity sizing to prioritize initiatives and un