Principal Product Manager, Search

Mapbox is the leading real-time location platform for a new generation of location-aware businesses. Mapbox is the only platform that equips organizations with the full set of tools to power the navigation of people, packages, and vehicles everywhere. More than 4 million registered developers have chosen Mapbox because of the platform’s flexibility, security and privacy compliance. Organizations use Mapbox applications, data, SDKs and APIs to create customized and immersive experiences that delight their customers. 

What We Do

Mapbox is looking to hire a motivated, curious, and innovative Principal Product Manager for our Search organization. Mapbox Search empowers developers and businesses to explore, access, and use rich location data – including addresses, places, and boundaries – to build smart, relevant, dynamic, and user-focused geospatial products. Mapbox Search also powers in-vehicle search for automotive partners including Toyota, Porsche, and Zeekr, bringing the best aspects of mobile app development into the car.

• Mapbox Blog: Mapbox Search Box API: Expanded POI coverage & smarter search

• Mapbox Blog: Mapbox delivers precise reverse geocodes for asset tracking

• Mapbox Blog: Geospatial storytelling with Tableau and Mapbox Boundaries

• Mapbox Customer showcase: Picnic

What You'll Do

As a Principal Product Manager for Search, you will partner with a passionate group of globally distributed engineers, external customers, and internal stakeholders like Sales, Product Marketing, Business Development, Legal, Marketing, and Finance to make customers wildly successful in pursuit of outsized business growth.

In this role, you can expect to:

• Define and execute end-to-end vision and strategy for your product.

• Conduct analysis to inform your product roadmap and prioritize product backlog.

• Develop and refine key metrics and mechanisms to build the right product and continuously validate your strategic direction.

• Explore and implement new use cases for your product that address customer pain points and unlock new revenue opportunities in partnership with your engineering team(s) and the broader organization.

• Own pricing and packaging of your product as a standalone SKU (including sales enablement, marketing, customer trials, and partnership opportunities).

• Regularly engage our customers via video conversations, emails, and in-person visits (10% travel) to understand their needs, as well as validate our proposed solutions.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align product goals and delivery phases with overall business objectives.

• Become the expert and point of contact of your product for internal and external questions, feedback, and requests.

What’s Important for this Role:

• Over 10 years of product leadership experience guiding API, SDK, and data products through full discovery, development, launch, and adoption in the B2B space.

• Demonstrated technical depth with the ability to break down complex concepts and communicate them clearly to both technical and nontechnical audiences.
  Strong customer orientation with a focus on understanding user problems and delivering thoughtful, intuitive product experiences.

• Data-driven decision maker with advanced analytical skills and a track record of using evidence to evaluate product quality and inform next steps.

• Skilled at prioritizing tradeoffs and driving teams toward delivering meaningful and immediate value for customers.

• Strong written and verbal communicator with the ability to convey complex ideas concisely across broad audiences, including FAQs, roadmaps, and business cases.

• Proven ownership mindset with the ability to independently build, execute, and iterate on product strategies with minimal direction.

• Ability to simplify complex challenges and identify the most efficient, high-impact solutions for customers.

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