Principal Product Manager, Platform

Bentley Systems; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Bentley Systems in Philadelphia is seeking a Principal Product Manager to drive the strategy and roadmap for iTwin.js and iModels within the Platform. You will align product goals with business objectives and coordinate with engineers, product teams, and customers to deliver domain-specific solutions.

The role requires strong collaboration with developers, market analysis, and the ability to translate feedback into executable plans. Travel is required 1-2x per month.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of product management experience on technical software projects.

Responsibilities

• Manage product strategy, roadmap, and execution for part of iTwin Platform.
• Coordinate product strategy, integrations, development, and go-to-market campaigns.
• Engage with first- and third-party customers to grow ecosystem and business.
• Derive market trends from feedback, forums, and market input.
• Research developer and user needs and industry trends to improve iTwin Platform.
• Define and prioritize a strategic cross-cutting product roadmap with multiple inputs.
• Travel 1-2x per month.

Skills

Product management

Developer collaboration

Technical acumen

Data analysis

Communication

Roadmapping

AEC/BIM domain

Job description

Bentley Systems

Location

Hybrid or office-based, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Position Summary

Bentley is creating an open platform for the built and natural environment to empower software developers to build digital twin experiences. We believe in advancing the platform for the collective success of the ecosystem and equipping the software developer community with open source and open standards. iTwin.js and iModels are at the heart of the iTwin Platform as the developer SDK and data format respectively. This software enables building infrastructure digital twin experiences—supporting Bentley’s digital twin strategy by strengthening the platform foundation that first- and third-party developers rely on to build, integrate, and scale solutions.

We’re looking for a Principal Product Manager to drive the strategy and product roadmap aligned to business objectives for iTwin.js and iModels within Platform at Bentley, serving both first- and third-party customers building domain-specific applications on our software.

Responsibilities

• Manage product strategy, roadmap, execution for a part of iTwin Platform, aligned to overall vision and business objectives.
• Be at the intersection of technology, people, and business - coordinating product strategy, integrations, development, and go-to-market campaigns.
• Coordinate with first- and third-party customers to create joint opportunities that help grow the ecosystem and business.
• Organize and derive market trends from customer feedback, community forum, and broad market input.
• Perform internal and external research to understand developer and user needs, along with industry trends to improve the iTwin Platform.
• Define and prioritize a strategic, large, cross-cutting product roadmap with inputs from a variety of Platform and first-party products. Ensure that the features are well specified, developed or adjusted at the right time, maintaining focus on their required priority and scope to drive maximum impact.
• Travel is required 1-2x per month.
• Requires sitting or standing at will while performing work on a computer (or any other physical requirements).

Qualifications

• 10+ years of product management experience, preferably working on highly technical software projects in developer platforms or infrastructure software. Background in AEC or BIM software is preferred.
• Strong experience collaborating with and delivering software for developers. Prior experience as a software developer is a plus.
• Credible to a world-class engineering team. You are tech savvy and understand the business impact of our technology.
• Ability to combine iTwin Platform’s overall product strategy, key customer input, and broad market and community feedback with a detailed, executable product plan.
• You are comfortable learning the infrastructure and AEC domain, and asking simple, direct, and fundamental questions to constantly test inputs and roadmap against strategy and desired business outcomes.
• You are great at analyzing user and customer data, business intelligence, and usage analytics for our products, and producing useful insights to improve products and features.
• Fantastic communication skills and interpersonal savvy. You can communicate with executive leadership as well as you can with engineers.

What We Offer

• A great Team and culture – please see our colleague video.
• An exciting career as an integral part of a world-leading software company providing solutions for architecture, engineering, and construction - watch this short documentary about how we got our start.
• An attractive salary and benefits package.
• A commitment to inclusion, belonging and colleague wellbeing through global initiatives and resource groups.
• A company committed to making a real difference by advancing the world’s infrastructure for better quality of life, where your contributions help build a more sustainable, connected, and resilient world. Discover our latest user success stories for an insight into our global impact.

About Bentley Systems

Around the world, infrastructure professionals rely on software from Bentley Systems to help them design, build, and operate better and more resilient infrastructure for transportation, water, energy, cities, and more. Founded in 1984 by engineers for engineers, Bentley is the partner of choice for engineering firms and owner-operators worldwide, with software that spans engineering disciplines, industry sectors, and all phases of the infrastructure lifecycle. Through our digital twin solutions, we help infrastructure professionals unlock the value of their data to transform project delivery and asset performance. www.bentley.com

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