Senior Product Leader, Forward Deployment

BetterUp; United States; Hybrid; USD 213,000 - 355,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Access to BetterUp coaching

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Flexible paid time off

4 BetterUp Inner Workdays

5 Volunteer Days

Job summary

BetterUp seeks a Principal Product Manager for Forward Deployment to own the most challenging enterprise accounts, write charters, and set the gates that define technical success. You’ll work with a two-to-three person squad inside customers’ environments, guiding deployments while handling organizational blockers and ensuring disciplined decision-making.

You will partner with executives across product, engineering, and customer teams, shaping strategic outcomes without a quota, and translating

Qualifications

• Nine or more years in product management, solutions architecture, or forward deployed roles with enterprise account experience.

Responsibilities

• Define what technical success means on the hardest accounts and write a charter with named gates.
• Decide whether to deploy and identify blockers such as pricing, sponsorship, or organizational issues.
• Lead a squad of two to three forward deployed engineers; write charters, run discovery cadences, and close engagements in writing.

Skills

Relentless agency

Executive communication

Judgment

AI-native fluency

Comfort with incomplete information

Ownership mentality

Job description

BetterUp seeks a Principal Product Manager for Forward Deployment to own the most challenging enterprise accounts, write charters, and set the gates that define technical success. You’ll work with a two-to-three person squad inside customers’ environments, guiding deployments while handling organizational blockers and ensuring disciplined decision-making.

You will partner with executives across product, engineering, and customer teams, shaping strategic outcomes without a quota, and translating