Principal Product Manager
brightwheel · Remote · United States ·
COMPENSATION
$174k – $258k
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- Principal level role
- Fully remote (US)
- AI-native product focus
- Direct CEO partnership
- SaaS for early ed
As a Principal Product Manager at Brightwheel, you will own the vision and execution for critical product initiatives, starting with enrollment and retention tools for early education centers. You will operate as an individual contributor with broad scope, partnering closely with the CEO and executive team to define strategy and launch new capabilities.
This role requires a builder who leverages AI and modern tooling to prototype, learn, and ship quickly. You will balance improving existing high-traffic features with pursuing greenfield opportunities, ensuring every decision drives measurable customer and business impact.
What you'll do
- Own end-to-end vision, strategy, and execution for a high-impact product area
- Determine investment priorities using evidence and decide what to stop building
- Define scope and maintain high standards for speed, quality, and customer impact
- Shape pricing and go-to-market strategies for new product capabilities
- Integrate AI into products to genuinely improve outcomes for users
- Define success metrics and communicate progress and tradeoffs to leadership
- Partner with engineering and design to unblock teams and ship with urgency
- Elevate product culture by raising bars for quality and velocity
What you'll need
- Proven track record of building products that customers love and value
- Experience taking a product from zero to one with verified customer pull
- History of owning complex, cross-functional initiatives with measurable outcomes
- Strong judgment in prioritization, balancing speed, quality, and learning
- Ability to set vision, align executives, and inspire engineering and design teams
- Proficiency in using AI and modern tooling to accelerate work and deepen insights
- Comfortable making decisive calls in ambiguous situations without existing data
Nice to have
- Experience building and shipping AI-powered product features
- SaaS background, particularly with complex operational workflows
- Multidisciplinary skills across product, design, engineering, and data
Stack
- AI tools
- Modern prototyping tooling
How you'll work
- Fully remote position
- Team distributed across all US time zones
- Select offices available in US and internationally
What you get
- Backed by top investors including Bessemer and Emerson Collective
- Three-time Cloud 100 company recognition
- Diverse and inclusive work environment
- Equal opportunity employer