Principal Product Manager, Graph

Workman Labs; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 148,000 - 282,000; Full time

Job summary

Workman Labs in the USA is seeking a Lead Product Manager to own the Firefly Graph ecosystem, guiding vision, strategy, and execution for a highly technical platform.

You will drive the development of an advanced node-based editor and streamlined downstream experiences, aligning product goals with engineering and design to deliver scalable, interoperable graph tooling.

Qualifications

• 8-12+ years of product management experience, with ownership of complex, technical, or platform products.
• Strong systems thinking with the ability to reason about interconnected components and constraints.
• Empathy for power users and creators who depend on accuracy, rapidity, and debugging.
• Experience working with highly technical engineering teams on performance-critical systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for complex concepts.
• Bonus: developer tools, extensible platforms, SDKs, or AI workflows.

Responsibilities

• Establish the long-term vision and strategy for the Graph platform — plugins, APIs, extensibility, and interoperability across products and surfaces for internal teams and customers.
• Define what great looks like for graph-based authoring across beginner, intermediate, and expert users.
• Lead discovery to understand user workflows, difficulties, and mental models in graph-based and agentic systems.
• Collaborate with design on interaction patterns for node creation, connections, layouts, debugging, and scaling.
• Collaborate with engineering to break down large problems into deliverable segments while maintaining architectural consistency.
• Bridge between user needs and technical realities, setting clear outcomes without prescribing implementation details.

Skills

PM leadership

Systems thinking

Empathy for power users

Engineering collaboration

Clear communication

SDKs / developer tools

Job description

Lead vision, strategy, and execution for the Firefly Graph ecosystem — a highly technical product for building, visualizing, implementing, and sharing complex workflows through graph-based systems, powering both an advanced node-based editor and simplified downstream experiences.

$148,100 – $282,100 / yr

Location

USA

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Seniority

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Responsibilities

• Establish the long-term vision and strategy for the Graph platform — plugins, APIs, extensibility, and interoperability across products and surfaces for internal teams and customers
• Define what great looks like for graph-based authoring across beginner, advanced, and expert users
• Lead discovery efforts to deeply understand user workflows, difficulties, and mental models in graph-based and agentic systems
• Collaborate with design on interaction patterns for node creation, connections, layouts, debugging, inspection, and working at scale
• Collaborate with engineering to divide large, unclear problems into deliverable segments while maintaining architectural consistency
• Act as a bridge between user needs and technical realities, setting clear outcomes while avoiding prescriptive implementation decisions

What you\'ll need

Experience

• 8-12+ years of product management experience, with significant ownership of complex, technical, or platform products
• Strong systems thinking with the ability to reason about interconnected components, constraints, and emergent behavior
• Empathy for power users and creators who depend on accuracy, rapidity, debuggability, and adaptability Unique
• Comfort working closely with highly technical engineering teams on performance-critical, architecture-heavy systems
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially for complex and abstract concepts
• Bonus: developer tools, creative tools, game engines, VFX pipelines, ML tooling, data platforms, or automation systems; extensible platforms, plugin systems, SDKs; AI-powered workflows, generative systems, or model orchestration Common