Principal Product Manager

Lets face it a company whose mission is human transformation better have some fresh thinking about the employer/employee relationship.

We do. We cant cram it all in here but youll start noticing it from the first interview.

Even our candidate experience is different. And when you get an offer from us (and accept it) you get way more than a paycheck. You get a personal BetterUp Coach a development plan a trained and coached manager the most amazing team youve ever met (yes each with their own personal BetterUp Coach) and most importantly work that matters.

This makes for a remarkably focused and fulfilling work experience. Frankly its not for everyone. But for people with fire in their belly its a game-changing career-defining soul-lifting move.

Join us and we promise you the most intense and fulfilling years of your career doing life-changing work in a fun inventive soulful culture.

If that sounds excitingand the job description below feels like a fitwe really should start talking.

We are a hybrid company with a focus on in-person collaboration when necessary. Employees are expected to be available to work from one of our office hubs at least two days per week or eight days per month. Our US hub locations include: Austin TX; New York City NY; San Francisco CA; and the Washington DC metro area. If this is a role based in Europe our Europe hub locations are London UK and Amsterdam NL. Please ensure you can realistically commit to this structure before applying.

The Opportunity

This role is a single-threaded Product Lead: you own a product area end-to-end drive product-market fit and operate as the Mini-Founder CEO of your domain. This is a builder-operator role for someone who thrives in ambiguity ships with urgency and treats AI as their primary tool.

What You Own

• Carry an opinionated 3-year product vision and translate it into a rolling 3-week execution plan. Own product-market fit if its not selling thats your problem to diagnose and fix.

• Spend 50% of your time external-facing: solution design sessions product demos and strategic conversations with enterprise buyers and end-users. Build trust and credibility with key executive stakeholders.

• Prototype working demos with AI tools (Claude Cursor Replit Figma Make) before engineering spends a sprint. Run hypothesis-driven experiments; kill what isnt working and redirect without drama.

• Decide and move with imperfect information. You dont wait for alignment permission or consensus you listen synthesize decide and act. When youre wrong you course-correct fast. You never stall.

• Lead a cross-functional pod (PM/GPM PMM Lead GTM Lead) with an embedded R&D team (Engineering Lead Design Lead Product Analyst TPM). Set the product direction; your partners execute against your vision with productive tension. You will ensure science-backed practices in the experience working with BetterUp Labs and deliver real outcomes aligned to our People Insights Consultants and Partner Value teams.

• Ensure your product fits into the broader portfolio leveraging shared platform capabilities aligning roadmaps with peer product leaders and driving synergies that enhance the value of the entire platform.

• Define and track product success metrics ensuring the product delivers measurable business value. Communicate progress against outcomes and facilitate risk discussions with leadership.

What Were Looking For

Experience

• 8 years in product management or related roles including at least 4 years leading product direction at the team or product-area level.

• Demonstrated ownership of product-market fit youve been the person responsible for diagnosing why something isnt landing changing course and making it work. Not just shipping features but finding the fit.

• Experience building products in B2B2C environments you understand how to sell to enterprise buyers while building for the end-users those buyers serve. Youve navigated the tension between buyer requirements and user experience.

• Direct sustained customer exposure in enterprise contexts youve been in the room with economic buyers built those relationships yourself and used that signal to drive product direction.

• Domain expertise in organizational transformation human transformation talent intelligence or related fields is a plus.

Skills & Competencies

• Relentless agency. You have an internal locus of control when something isnt working you own it and fix it rather than pointing to external factors or waiting for someone else to act. Humility to know what you dont know; relentlessness to figure it out anyway.

• Exceptional executive presence and storytelling ability with a knack for building trust and influencing stakeholders at all levels.

• Strong product vision and strategic thinking with a history of delivering impactful results in complex multi-stakeholder environments.

• Product taste. You have an instinct for what good looks like in the product experience in the positioning in how your product shows up in the market. You can guide the marketing and branding of your products not just the roadmap.

• Deep expertise in customer-centric product development with a focus on solution design and innovation.

• Outstanding cross-functional collaboration skills with the ability to align diverse teams (Engineering Design Sales Services) toward shared goals.

• Effective team leadership mentoring and people management skills.

• AI-native fluency. You build working prototypes and functional demos using AI tools (Claude Cursor Replit Figma Make) before engineering spends a sprint. You can modify prompts adjust UI flows and run data analyses without filing a ticket. This is your default operating method not a novelty.

Preferred Backgrounds

• Former founders or early employees at high-growth startups people who have lived the zero-to-one journey and thrived in the chaos.

• Builder PMs or Commercial PMs from B2B2C or enterprise SaaS environments people whose superpower is either vision build or deep customer intimacy.

• Expertise in organizational transformation human transformation talent intelligence or related fields.

• Solution design experience whether from consulting customer-facing product roles or implementation work where you were personally in the room shaping what gets built with the buyer.

Why This Role

• Youll own a product area inside a platform that enterprises are building their talent strategy on. The surface area for impact is enormous.

• Youll work directly with customers not behind layers of account management. If thats not appealing this isnt the right role.

• Youll operate with real autonomy. Were looking for people who want ownership and ambiguity not clearer lanes and more consensus.

• Youll build in an AI-native environment where prototyping with agents compressing cycle times and shipping fast are expected not exceptional.

• Our stakeholder complexity members coaches enterprise buyers alliances is a feature for the right person: more surface area more interesting problems more leverage.

AI at BetterUp

Our team thrives at the intersection of human expertise and AI capability. As an AI-forward company adaptation and continuous learning are part of our daily work. Were looking for teammates who are excited to evolve alongside technology people who experiment boldly share their discoveries openly and help define best practices for AI-augmented work. These professionals thoughtfully integrate AI into their work to deliver exceptional results while maintaining the human judgment and creativity that drives real innovation. During our interview process youll have opportunities to showcase how you harness AI to learn iterate and amplify your impact.

Benefits:

At BetterUp we are committed to living out our mission every day and that starts with providing benefits that allow our employees to care for themselves support their families and give back to their community.

• Access to BetterUp coaching; one for you and one for a friend or family member

• A competitive compensation plan with opportunity for advancement

• Medical dental and vision insurance

• Flexible paid time off

• Per year:

  • All federal/statutory holidays observed

  • 4 BetterUp Inner Workdays ( Volunteer Days to give back

  • Learning and Development stipend

  • Company wide Summer & Winter breaks

• Year-round charitable contribution of your choice on behalf of BetterUp

• 401(k) self contribution

We are dedicated to building diverse teams that fuel an authentic workplace and sense of belonging for each and every employee. We know applying for a job can be intimidating please dont hesitate to reach out we encourage everyone interested in joining us to apply.

BetterUp Inc. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability genetics gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran addition to federal law requirements BetterUp Inc. complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training.

At BetterUp we compensate our employees fairly for their work. Base salary is determined by job-related experience education/training residence location as well as market indicators. The range below is representative of base salary only and does not include equity sales bonus plans (when applicable) and benefits. This range may be modified in the future.

The base salary range for this role is as follows:

New York City and San Francisco: $236000 - $296000

Austin and Arlington: $213000 - $266000

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