Senior Product Manager

Applecart; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Applecart is hiring a Senior Product Manager to own the Decision Maker Networks platform—the rails, architecture, and tooling that Data Scientists build atop. You’ll own the scoring models, set quality standards, and ensure the platform meets client needs.

The role blends strong product judgment with fluency in algorithmic products, and requires shaping networks to fit strategic client contexts, with hybrid work from NYC office and remote days.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Product Management, with a track record designing and shipping data/ML products.
• Ability to trace modeling decisions to real client outcomes and prioritize platform work.
• Design-led thinking for expert users—data scientists and analysts.
• Algorithmic product intuition: value from models or scores, not just UI.
• Platform mindset: build self-service rails with quality standards and tests.

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap and requirements for the Decision Maker Networks platform.
• Lead an empowered team of data scientists and engineers with customer insight and business context.
• Raise the evaluation bar by refining and evolving platform standards and assessments.
• Spend time with users and clients to prototype and test tooling before engineering.
• Define how networks evolve and how the scoring platform leverages advancements.
• Design interfaces and levers that let data scientists tune networks with guardrails and extensibility.
• Own the business logic and testing harness used by Engineering and Data Science to build networks.
• Manage platform launches, track KPIs, and communicate releases to stakeholders.

Skills

PM experience

Outcome focus

Design-led thinking

Algorithmic product intuition

Platform mindset

Job description

About Us

Applecart is the leading technology company that C-suites rely on to reach business-critical decision makers. The most important decisions are made by the hardest people to reach and influence. Historically, C-suite leaders have lacked the tools to reach the stakeholders who matter most to their business. The C-suites of hundreds of Fortune 500 companies, major agencies, trade associations, nonprofits, and governments use Applecart to put their best content in front of business-critical decision makers and those they trust - from policymakers and investors to CEOs, key employees, members of the media and more. Decision makers are informed by what they read, learn from advisors, hear from colleagues, and discuss with family and friends. To break through to them, you must reach them through the only channel that really moves them: those they know and trust. Applecart’s platform uses publicly available data to map billions of social relationships between nearly every American adult and enable clients to deliver content directly to decision makers and those who matter most to them.

About The Role

Applecart's Decision Maker Networks are the foundation of everything we deliver and the value our platform drives. Our proprietary models and scoring algorithms map the relationships between Decision Makers and the people they trust, and the depth and differentiation of those networks determines the precision of every audience we deliver to Fortune 50 companies, major PE firms and leading trade associations.

We are hiring a Senior Product Manager to own the Decision Maker Networks platform - the harness, architecture and tooling that Data Scientists at Applecart build within. You will own the rails our scoring models run on, the bar they must clear, and the levers the rest of the company uses to tune them. The ideal candidate pairs strong product judgment with genuine fluency in algorithmic products, and is as comfortable defining how Networks should adapt to the unique strategic context of our clients.

What You'll Do

• Own the roadmap and requirements for the Decision Maker Networks platform.
• Lead an empowered team of data scientists and engineers. You bring the problems, customer insight and business context together to find solutions.
• Raise the evaluation bar by refining and evolving the standards and assessments built into the platform.
• Discover before you build. Spend real time with the people who build on the platform and the clients who rely on its output. Prototype and test tooling with them before committing engineering effort.
• Define how we evolve and shape networks, and how the scoring platform leverages these advancements.
• Design the tooling and interfaces that give data scientists, Research Operations and client-facing teams the right levers to tune Decision Maker Networks, with the right guardrails. Make the platform extensible enough that data scientists can experiment easily.
• Own the business logic and the testing and evaluation harness that Engineering and Data Science use to build networks.
• Manage platform launches, define and track the KPIs that measure success, and communicate releases regularly to stakeholders at every level of the company.

Experiences And Capabilities You Bring

• 5+ years of experience in Product Management, with a significant track record designing and shipping data, ML or algorithmic products.
• Outcome Fluency: Ability to trace a modeling decision all the way through to what a Fortune 50 C-suite or PE corporate affairs leader actually experiences, and to prioritize platform work against that impact.
• Design-Led Thinking for Expert Users: You refuse to accept that technical tooling is allowed to be confusing. You use design as the primary lens for building a platform whose users are data scientists and analysts working on genuinely hard problems.
• Algorithmic Product Intuition: You have partnered with Data Science to ship products where the core of the value is a model, a score or a ranking rather than a screen. You know how to deliver client value with a system whose output is probabilistic, and how to make its behavior legible to the people who depend on it.
• Platform Mindset: You measure yourself by what other teams ship on your rails, not by what routes through you. Faced with a request you could approve one at a time, you would rather build the lever that makes it self-service - and you hold a quality bar through standards and tests

This is a hybrid role. Work from home on Monday and Friday and in Applecart’s New York City office Tuesday through Thursday. Relocation assistance is not available for this position. Candidates must be based in or willing to relocate to the area independently.

Compensation

Our compensation package consists of three components: (i) a base salary, (ii) annual cash bonus, and (iii) generous equity compensation.

The base salary range for this role is between $160,000 - 190,000, based on the candidate's experience and skills relative to the requirements listed above. The salary range provided is exclusive of discretionary annual cash bonus and equity compensation. The salary range provided for this role is specific to candidates located in the New York City area.

A Few Facts About Us

• Applecart’s platform has been used by hundreds of industry-leading clients spanning Fortune 500 companies like Blackstone and Intuit, leading nonprofit organizations like the Environmental Defense Fund, and top-tier advertising and communications agencies like Teneo, FGS, Weber Shandwick, and OMD.
• Applecart is growing quickly - over the last 4 years, we’ve increased our revenue by 10X, grown our headcount by almost 5X, and we’re cashflow positive.
• Our senior leadership team includes two members of the Forbes 30 under 30 list for Marketing and Advertising, the former Head of Product at Moat, Oracle’s online ad measurement platform, a former senior White House advisor, early sales and talent leaders from Google and Twitter, two of the Democratic Party’s most successful pollsters and strategists, and alums of top-tier organizations like Bain & Company, Amazon and Simpson Thacher.
• Applecart raised a $100M Series C from Blackstone’s tech growth fund at the end of 2025. The company’s other investors include Bain & Company, global sports, entertainment and marketing giant Endeavor, KKR Co-Founder Henry Kravis, entrepreneur Chris Burch, a founder of Palantir, senior engineering leaders at Twitter and Yelp, former Fortune 50 and advertising agency CEOs, and a number of well-known venture capitalists. Ari Emanuel, CEO of TKO and Executive Chairman of WME, Wayne Berman, Blackstone’s Head of Global Government Affairs, and Risa Heller, CEO of HELLER, serve on our board.
• Our work has been featured on Morning Joe on MSNBC, BloombergTV, and The Colbert Report, and in Axios, Semafor, BusinessWeek, the Associated Press, Forbes, the Washington Post, and Politico, among many others.