Principal Product Manager, Firefly Graph

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The Project Graph team is looking for a Principal Product Manager to lead the vision strategy and execution of our Graph platform a core highly technical product used to design visualize execute and share complex workflows through graph-based systems. Project Graph powers both an advanced node-based editor and downstream simplified experiences built on top of those graphs.

This role sits at the intersection of UX systems design AI-enabled workflows and platform thinking and requires deep empathy for advanced users such as developers technical artists ML practitioners and designers.

As a principal-level PM you will define long-term direction tackle ambiguous problems and work closely with engineering design and leadership to scale a powerful performant and extensible graph authoring and execution platform.

What youll do

• Define the long-term vision and roadmap for the Graph platform including the editor execution model plugins APIs extensibility and interoperability across products and surfaces.
• Define what great looks like for graph-based authoring across beginner advanced and expert users including transitions between power-user tooling and simplified downstream experiences.
• Lead discovery efforts to deeply understand user workflows pain points and mental models in graph-based and automation-driven systems.
• Translate complex user needs into clear product requirements PRDs and success metrics across both authoring and execution.
• Collaborate with design to shape interaction patterns for node creation connections layouts debugging inspection and working at scale.
• Partner closely with engineering to break down large ambiguous problems into shippable increments without losing architectural coherence.
• Work with engineers on architecture-level decisions affecting performance data models rendering and execution to ensure the system performs well with large graphs and real-world workloads.
• Understand and influence systems such as graph execution models state management serialization versioning and reproducibility.
• Define platform primitives that enable reuse sharing and distribution of graph-based workflows in different contexts.
• Act as a bridge between user needs and technical realities setting clear outcomes while avoiding prescriptive implementation decisions.

What you need to succeed

• 812 years of product management experience with significant ownership of complex technical or platform products.
• Prior experience with node-based editors visual programming tools workflow builders automation systems or graph-based products direct or adjacent.
• Proven track record of shipping and iterating on sophisticated user interfaces used by expert or technical users.
• Strong systems thinking with the ability to reason about interconnected components constraints and emergent behavior.
• Deep empathy for power users and creators who rely on precision speed debuggability and flexibility.
• Comfort working closely with highly technical engineering teams on performance-critical architecture-heavy systems.
• Ability to operate independently at a principal level while influencing cross-functional partners.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills especially for complex and abstract concepts.

Bonus points

• Background in developer tools creative tools game engines VFX pipelines ML tooling data platforms or automation systems.
• Familiarity with graph concepts such as DAGs execution graphs dependency graphs and scheduling.
• Experience with extensible platforms plugin systems SDKs or scripting environments.
• Experience shipping products that combine authoring tools with runtime or execution environments.
• Exposure to AI-driven workflows generative systems or model orchestration tools.

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