Principal Product Manager: AI Platform & Reusable Components

Sierra Ventures; United States; On-site; USD 165,000 - 180,000; Full time

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Job summary

Phenom is seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead platform strategy and reusable components powering multiple talent lifecycle products. You will partner with engineering to build scalable, secure platform primitives and champion AI-powered solutions across the product suite.

The role requires hands-on leadership, strong judgment, and a track record shipping AI-powered products, with onsite work at our Horsham, PA location.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product management experience in SaaS, with meaningful time owning platform, infrastructure, or shared-component product areas.
• Demonstrated track record of building reusable platform capabilities adopted by other product teams.
• Experience with intelligence layers, workflow automation, or AI agents is a strong plus, but not required.
• Track record of building and shipping AI-powered products from prototypes through production scale.
• Deep comfort partnering with highly technical teams on backend or platform systems.
• Experience owning ambiguous, evolving scope in a fast-moving organization and defining structure where none existed.
• Habit of using AI tools in daily workflow, not just advocating for AI in product.
• Excellent judgment and communication to move fast across product, engineering, and customer-facing teams.

Responsibilities

• Identify opportunities across Phenom's product suite where building a shared, reusable capability creates more leverage than solving the problem locally.
• Own the strategy and roadmap for one or more core platform components, defining extensibility patterns, governance, and integration contracts that other teams rely on.
• Partner closely with engineering to deliver capabilities that are reliable, scalable, and secure enough to power multiple products simultaneously.
• Work across product teams company-wide to drive adoption of platform capabilities and resolve tension between platform consistency and individual product needs.
• Engage directly with enterprise customers and technical admin users to balance flexibility with the guardrails large organizations require.
• Prototype and validate new capabilities — particularly AI-driven ones — from early concept through production, with a bias toward fast, low-cost validation.
• Define success metrics that tie platform investment to measurable adoption and business impact.
• Establish governance standards that keep shared components trustworthy and consistent as usage scales.

Skills

SaaS experience

Platform strategy

Cross-functional collaboration

AI product leadership

Stakeholder management

Communication

Job description

Phenom is seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead platform strategy and reusable components powering multiple talent lifecycle products. You will partner with engineering to build scalable, secure platform primitives and champion AI-powered solutions across the product suite.

The role requires hands-on leadership, strong judgment, and a track record shipping AI-powered products, with onsite work at our Horsham, PA location.