Fractional Principal PM, AI-Driven Content Platform

Gofractional; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 132,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Arc XP is seeking a Principal Technical Product Manager to shape the future of content creation, structuring, and delivery in an AI-native world. This role spans multiple pods and focuses on AI-enabled workflows, APIs, and platform strategy for the Content Platform.

You will mentor PMs, drive a cohesive product thesis across pods, and own the strategic narrative for content platform evolution over years, not just quarters.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in product management, with at least 5 years working on content platforms, headless CMS, or digital experience platforms.
• Demonstrated experience defining and shipping AI-powered product capabilities (not just integrating third-party APIs, but thinking through how AI changes workflows, data models, and user expectations).
• Deep familiarity with headless/decoupled content architectures, content modeling, and API-first platform design.
• Experience setting product strategy at the principal or staff level, including mentoring other PMs and shaping how the broader product organization operates.
• Experience operating within an empowered product team model, partnering closely with engineering and design through continuous discovery and iterative delivery.
• Daily, hands‑on use of AI-powered tools (LLMs, coding assistants, research agents, etc.) to materially accelerate your own product work—PRDs, research synthesis, competitive analysis, data exploration, and rapid prototyping. You should be able to point to specific workflows you've reinvented around AI, not just tools you've tried.

Responsibilities

• Define the long-term vision and product strategy for Arc's Content Platform, establishing how AI transforms content creation, management, orchestration, and delivery.
• Lead the evolution of AI-native content capabilities by identifying opportunities to embed intelligent automation throughout the content lifecycle while balancing customer needs with long-term platform strategy.
• Drive the evolution of Arc's content architecture, APIs, and platform capabilities to support both human creators and AI-powered systems.
• Build and maintain a strategic product roadmap that sequences foundational platform investments, AI capabilities, and developer experience improvements to maximize customer value.
• Partner with engineering, design, and customer-facing teams to define requirements, evaluate technical approaches, prioritize investments, and deliver platform capabilities through iterative product development.
• Align product direction across multiple Content Platform, Cloud Infrastructure, and Developer Experience pods, ensuring initiatives reinforce a unified product vision and measurable customer outcomes.
• Champion AI-first ways of working by applying AI tools throughout product discovery, planning, research, analysis, and prototyping while helping establish best practices across the product organization.
• Represent Arc XP with customers, industry partners, and standards organizations to influence emerging content platform and AI standards while translating industry direction into product strategy.
• Build strong feedback loops with customers, developers, internal stakeholders, and go-to-market teams to continuously refine platform direction and strengthen customer outcomes.
• Define success metrics, monitor platform performance, identify strategic risks, and communicate product progress and investment priorities to executive leadership.

Skills

Product management

AI-powered product capabilities

Headless CMS / content platforms

Mentoring PMs

Lean product development

Cross-functional leadership

Communication skills

B2B/B2B2C platform products

Education

BA/BS or equivalent

Tools

LLMs

AI tooling

AWS

AI orchestration frameworks

Job description

Arc XP is seeking a Principal Technical Product Manager to shape the future of content creation, structuring, and delivery in an AI-native world. This role spans multiple pods and focuses on AI-enabled workflows, APIs, and platform strategy for the Content Platform.

You will mentor PMs, drive a cohesive product thesis across pods, and own the strategic narrative for content platform evolution over years, not just quarters.