Principal Product Manager

Decskill; Portugal; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Decskill is seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead the Runtime Data Model and core AI/data initiatives. You will own the data layer supporting ODC applications and agents, translating customer needs into clear milestones and driving delivery across multiple teams.

You will collaborate with engineering, design, GTM, and sales to improve product adoption, ensure safe releases, and define measurable outcomes across the product lifecycle.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Product Management, ideally within platform, PaaS, SaaS, data, or enterprise software environments.
• Experience leading product development for technical platforms or infrastructure, such as databases, runtimes, or developer tools.
• Experience guiding engineering teams and coordinating delivery across multiple teams, or managing other Product Managers.
• Proven track record of delivering impactful products based on customer insights and measurable outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Runtime Data Model and designated AI and data initiatives, aligned with company goals and customer needs.
• Define, scope, and manage Value Milestones and Initiatives end to end, including problem definition, expected outcomes, prioritization, tracking, and closure when no longer relevant.
• Coordinate delivery across multiple teams, including IDE, Data Fabric, Portal, Identity, Architecture, Quality, and Support.
• Lead the product side of a runtime engineering team, providing direction, clarifying scope and design decisions, removing blockers, and balancing customer value, risk, and effort.
• Manage customer risk associated with runtime changes, ensuring safe releases, appropriate rollout strategies, breaking-change reviews, and clear customer communication.

Skills

7+ years experience

Platform / SaaS

Cross-functional leadership

Strategic thinking

Communication skills

Tools

Jira

Productboard

APIs

Databases

Cloud platforms

AI concepts

Job description

We are growing. And we are looking for talented people.

At Decskill, we believe that technological excellence is driven by human talent.

We are an IT consulting company with more than 10 years of consolidated experience in the market, focused on building long-term relationships with both our clients and our people. Today, we are a community of over 800 professionals, working from Lisbon, Porto, and Madrid, contributing to impactful technology initiatives.

As part of the Astek Group, we combine a strong local culture with a global presence, being active in around 23 countries across 4 continents. This allows us to offer an international context, diverse challenges, and long-term career opportunities, while staying close to our teams.

We are looking for a Principal Product Manager!

As a Principal Product Manager, you will contribute to the roadmap and delivery of an agentic platform and core database capabilities. You will own the data layer that supports ODC applications and agents, helping define how agents, agent-enabled applications, context, and data sharing can simplify, automate, and accelerate software development.

You will work closely with engineering teams and cross-functional partners, translating customer and field needs into clear Value Milestones (VMs), prioritizing initiatives, securing commitments, and driving delivery through to customer adoption.

Responsibilities:

• Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Runtime Data Model and designated AI and data initiatives, aligned with company goals and customer needs.
• Define, scope, and manage Value Milestones and Initiatives end to end, including problem definition, expected outcomes, prioritization, tracking, and closure when no longer relevant.
• Coordinate delivery across multiple teams, including IDE, Data Fabric, Portal, Identity, Architecture, Quality, and Support.
• Prioritize initiatives using customer insights, incidents, engineering capacity, company priorities, and structured planning frameworks.
• Lead the product side of a runtime engineering team, providing direction, clarifying scope and design decisions, removing blockers, and balancing customer value, risk, and effort.
• Manage customer risk associated with runtime changes, ensuring safe releases, appropriate rollout strategies, breaking-change reviews, and clear customer communication.
• Partner with engineering, design, architecture, quality, and data teams to deliver usable and scalable platform and AI capabilities.
• Collaborate with Go-to-Market (GTM), Product Marketing, Support, Solution Architects, and Sales to improve product positioning, adoption, and enablement.
• Drive measurable outcomes and continuous improvement throughout the product lifecycle, from discovery to General Availability (GA) and adoption.
• Triage incoming requests and determine whether they should become Value Milestones, bugs, or require no action.
• Monitor dependencies, team capacity, and commitments, escalating risks to delivery timelines when necessary.
• Publish regular written status updates covering progress, achievements, next steps, and risks.
• Review customer feedback, Productboard insights, and incidents to inform product priorities and roadmap decisions.
• Align initiatives across the value stream to maintain clear scope, avoid duplication, and ensure effective collaboration between Product Managers.

Requirements:

Experience

• 7+ years of experience in Product Management, ideally within platform, PaaS, SaaS, data, or enterprise software environments.
• Experience leading product development for technical platforms or infrastructure, such as databases, runtimes, or developer tools.
• Experience guiding engineering teams and coordinating delivery across multiple teams, or managing other Product Managers.
• Proven track record of delivering impactful products based on customer insights and measurable outcomes.

Technical Skills

• Strong technical background or deep familiarity with APIs, databases, cloud platforms, and modern AI concepts.
• Experience with AI platforms is a plus.
• Experience with Jira and Productboard, or similar tools, for product planning, prioritization, and roadmap management.
• Ability to understand technical topics such as database behaviour, runtime changes, upgrades, performance, limitations, and permissions.
• Strong analytical skills, using customer insights, incidents, revenue metrics, engineering capacity, and other data to support product decisions.

Product Management Skills

• Ability to define product vision, strategy, roadmaps, initiatives, and measurable outcomes.
• Experience managing Value Milestones and coordinating end-to-end delivery.
• Strong prioritization skills, including the ability to challenge requests and make evidence-based trade-offs.
• Ability to translate complex customer and business needs into clear product requirements and actionable plans.
• Experience managing dependencies, capacity, delivery risks, and cross-functional commitments.
• Ability to drive product adoption and continuous improvement throughout the product lifecycle.

Soft Skills

• Strong accountability and ownership of the product area and roadmap.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to engineers, customers, and business stakeholders.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, including the ability to influence without direct authority.
• Excellent storytelling and presentation skills, including presenting to senior leaders and large audiences.
• Organized, transparent, and proactive in documenting decisions, communicating progress, and managing risks.
• Customer-focused, with strong empathy and the ability to translate customer feedback into product improvements.
• Flexible and comfortable switching between strategic planning and detailed technical discussions.
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work effectively across teams, time zones, and changing priorities.
• Data-driven mindset and critical thinking.
• Proactive approach to improving workflows and reducing manual work, including leveraging AI tools where appropriate.

Are you looking for an environment that values curiosity and commitment? Here, your contribution has real impact and individual growth is taken seriously.

Find with us the right opportunity to grow!

What you can expect from us

• Long-term projects with national and international context.
• Opportunities to grow technically and professionally.
• A people-first culture, focused on transparency and trust.
• Teams that value ownership, collaboration and stability.

Your next challenge might start here.

Decskill is committed to equality and non-discrimination with all our talents. We recruit and promote talent based on diversity and inclusion, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, race, nationality, or any other form of discrimination incompatible with the dignity of the human being.