Principal PM, Experimentation Platform (Remote)

Upstart; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 188,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity grants

ESPP

Health coverage

HSA contributions

Life insurance

Paid time off

Parental leave

ERGs

Wellness & development allowance

Productivity allowance

Onsite perks

Job summary

Upstart is seeking a Principal Product Manager for the Experimentation Platform. You will co-lead the platform, unify experimentation across teams, and expand deployment and experimentation capabilities to enable smarter decisions and faster learning.

You will partner with ML, Analytics, and Engineering to define standards, guardrails, and a center of excellence, shaping long-term strategy while delivering today’s priorities in a rapidly evolving tech-first lending platform.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field (or equivalent practical experience) with 7+ years PM experience.
• Experience owning strategy and roadmaps for technically complex software, platform, infrastructure, data, or developer-facing products.
• Experience partnering with engineering, data science, ML, or Analytics teams on technical product architecture, tradeoffs, and delivery.
• Experience applying quantitative methods, including statistics, experimentation, analytics, or data science, to product development and decision-making.
• Experience developing platforms that support ML or AI workflows, including deployment, measurement, or experimentation.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the strategy and roadmap for Upstart’s experimentation platform, balancing immediate business needs with a scalable, long-term platform vision.
• Collaborate with Machine Learning, Analytics, and Engineering to build shared experimentation capabilities, including randomized experiments, model deployments, feature flags, and other patterns.
• Create common abstractions and guardrails that reduce fragmentation and improve experimentation quality.
• Establish a center of excellence for experimentation by defining standards and enabling teams to adopt practices.
• Partner with stakeholder teams across Growth, Servicing, Capital, and the broader organization to drive adoption of shared capabilities.
• Guide Upstart’s approach to experimentation technology and vendor partnerships, evaluating external solutions vs. in-house capabilities.

Skills

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering/数学

7+ years PM experience

Strategy & roadmaps

Partnering with ML/DS teams

Quantitative methods

ML/AI platform delivery

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Job description

Upstart is seeking a Principal Product Manager for the Experimentation Platform. You will co-lead the platform, unify experimentation across teams, and expand deployment and experimentation capabilities to enable smarter decisions and faster learning.

You will partner with ML, Analytics, and Engineering to define standards, guardrails, and a center of excellence, shaping long-term strategy while delivering today’s priorities in a rapidly evolving tech-first lending platform.