Principal Product Manager

Pie's mission is to empower small businesses to thrive by making commercial insurance affordable and as easy as pie. We leverage technology to transform how small businesses buy and experience commercial insurance.   Like our small business customers, we are a diverse team of builders, dreamers, and entrepreneurs who are driven by core values and operating principles that guide every decision we make.

A Principal Product Manager is a highly autonomous and empowered individual contributor. They have demonstrated mastery of product craft through an extensive track record of business impacts in which they led the end-to-end product lifecycle . They are capable of mentoring and/or directly managing up to one product manager, and are influential communicators who are seen as the face of their product by senior leaders. They are responsible for identifying, validating, and driving business impact for a high-complexity, high-impact business domain.  They internalize the company's strategy,  identify innovative product opportunities and solutions that can best support the company's goals, and drive high-quality execution to achieve business impacts. Key responsibilities for this position include building business plans using research and analysis that drive investment decisions, managing and developing junior product talent within or adjacent to their product area, and driving cross-functional alignment on prioritization and impact for their product initiatives.

How You’ll Do It

• Critical thinking & problem solving
• Develop 12+ month product strategy for their product domain (e.g., decision-making frameworks, systematic problem exploration, outcome definition and measurement) and coaches others on how to do the same
• Proactively recognizes when processes or goals are misaligned with the highest value outcomes, and takes corrective actions autonomously
• Understands technical fundamentals of how multiple product and/or business domains interact, anticipates potential conflicts or synergies, and takes action to mitigate risk or maximize value
• Defines and utilizes continuous systems for quantitative and qualitative feedback gathering, and regularly gets close to inspect user behavior and/or problems themselves
• Demonstrated track record of "first principles" thinking, and the ability to consistently distill complex decisions in terms of the underlying facts, assumptions, and logic.
• Driving execution and impact
• Optimizes speed-to-value by making complex product decisions with minimal oversight, acting as the primary product leader accountable for decision-making, quality-control, and results delivery for their product area.
• Identifies high-ROI product capabilities capable of significantly improving Pie's business performance through deep user understanding, domain expertise, and creativity.
• Develops systematic frameworks for exploring and validating product opportunities using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods
• Aligns their product roadmap with the highest-ROI business and end-user goals, and consistently delivers quantifiable impacts that are within projected value estimates
• Deep expertise and hands-on involvement in all levels of the agile software development lifecycle, including sprint ceremonies, story writing, backlog prioritization, roll-out and launch, continuous monitoring, and program management.
• People Management
• Participates in evaluating Product,  Engineering, and Design talent as part of hiring panels
• Regular meetings with up to one direct report, providing coaching, feedback, and guidance (1x1s, development meetings, problem-solving sessions, formal performance summaries)
• Influencing and Communication
• Builds high-trust relationships with senior leaders across the business and serves as a trusted advisor and thought partner
• Creates alignment around shared objectives and facilitates adoption of enabling work among other teams; monitors progress and proactively addresses misalignment
• Evangelizes a compelling vision for their product domain to educate and inspire buy-in across the organization
• Distills complex information across multiple domains into a synthesized, well-supported structure that informs and makes the case for action
• Facilitates or leads large cross-functional meetings with senior stakeholders up to Director-level with minimal guidance

The Right Stuff

• 10+ years overall professional experience working on complex business and/or technology problems
• 7+ years Product Management experience working in an agile software development lifecycle (SDLC) environment
• 2+ years Experience managing at least one direct reports