Staff Product Manager, PDLC Planning and Execution

Intuit; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 255,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuit is seeking a Staff Product Manager to own end-to-end PDLC/SDLC transformation for the Intuit Platform and Development Xcceleration group in Mountain View. You will drive an outcome-focused roadmap, connect executive goals to day-to-day delivery, and lead cross-functional initiatives across product and engineering with a strong emphasis on AI tooling and rapid prototyping.

The role requires a high-agency leader with 10+ years of product management experience in developer platforms, plus

Qualifications

• 10+ years in technical product management focusing on developer platforms.
• End-to-End PDLC/SDLC expertise with detailed execution structures.
• Data-driven discovery with qualitative validation for roadmaps.
• Experience driving organizational adoption of new tooling and processes.
• Technical fluency with tool integrations and system interoperability.
• Hands-on AI tooling for rapid prototyping to accelerate alignment.
• Certifications: PMP and/or CSPO highly preferred for execution framework.
• Undergraduate CS/Engineering degree; MBA highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Formulate and drive an outcome-focused roadmap aligned to success metrics.
• Bridge company strategy to execution-level tracking under a single plan-of-record.
• Dynamic reprioritization of backlogs and platform capabilities as needed.
• Lead user discovery, empathy interviews and friction point analysis.
• Manage complex stakeholder relationships across product and engineering.
• Provide independent, objective POV and avoid excessive leadership appeasement.
• Communicate strategy to executives and translate depth to developer communities.
• Operate as a self-directed leader on large cross-functional programs.
• Establish and scale best practices for integrating AI into PM lifecycle.

Skills

Developer platforms

PDLC/SDLC expertise

Data-driven discovery

Stakeholder management

AI tooling prototyping

Executive communication

Education

B.S. in Computer Science or related

MBA preferred

Tools

AI prototyping tools

Prototyping tools

Job description

Overview

Join the Intuit Platform and Development Xcceleration (PDX) group as a Staff Product Manager. The Intuit PDX group builds foundational capabilities that developers across Intuit rely on to build and run flagship applications using cloud native technologies in a highly scalable, reliable, and secure manner. Ease of use, scale, and reliability are core attributes of the platforms owned by this organization.

We are seeking a high-agency, results-oriented Staff Product Manager with a strong technical foundation and deep expertise spanning both the Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC) and Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). The ideal candidate is a self-driven leader who operates with minimal oversight, demonstrates unwavering user empathy, and uses rigorous data-driven insight to shape a clear, independent point of view. You must be adept at establishing outcome-focused roadmaps while maintaining the agility to rapidly reprioritize based on shifting organizational demands.

As a Staff Product Manager for PDLC Transformation, you will own the end-to-end alignment of Intuit's technical operating system—bridging the gap from top-level company goals down to day-to-day software delivery at the execution level. This high-impact role requires navigating tough cross-organizational stakeholder landscapes, defending clear boundary lines with leadership when necessary, and demonstrating best-in-class judgment when embedding AI tools directly into the product management craft to accelerate enterprise execution velocity.

Responsibilities

• Outcome-Focused Roadmapping & Execution: Formulate and drive a comprehensive,outcome-focused roadmap mapped directly to explicit success metrics.


• Seamlessly connect high-level company strategy down to execution-level tracking to ensure a single, canonical plan-of-record.


• Agile Reprioritization & Capacity Triage: Dynamically adapt and rapidly reprioritize product backlogs and platform capabilities based on real-time business demands, engineering constraints, and capacity gaps without losing momentum.


• Deep User Discovery & Empathy: Consistently demonstrate customer and developer empathy. Lead structured research, deep user interviews, and \"Follow-Me-Home\" discovery sessions to uncover friction points and translate them into data-driven requirements.


• Stakeholder Alignment & Boundary Management: Manage complex, demanding stakeholder relationships across product and engineering lines.


• Effectively de-escalate friction, align contributors who feed into the platform, and bring an independent, objective point of view that challenges assumptions rather than defaulting to being a \"yes person\" for leadership.


• Dual-Audience Communication & Influence: Command room presence and convey complex platform product strategies with equal clarity when presenting high-level vision to senior executives or technical implementation depth to developer communities.


• Autonomous Execution: Operate as a fully self-directed leader with high agency, managing large-scale cross-functional initiatives and product tracks with minimal management oversight.


• Advanced AI Product Tooling: Establish and scale best practices for safely incorporating generative AI tools into the product management lifecycle to synthesize user discovery, run automated scenario modeling, and accelerate documentation.

Qualifications

• 10 or more years of technical product management experience with a dedicated focus on developer platforms, shared enterprise services, work portfolio tooling, or complex enterprise PDLC/SDLC ecosystems.


• End-to-End PDLC/SDLC Expertise: Proven capability managing the full lifecycle of product development, showing explicit expertise in translating high-level enterprise business goals down to highly detailed execution structures (including software delivery tracking systems at the user story level).


• Data-Driven Discovery & Validation: A proven track record of using quantitative data (e.g., system velocity, throughput, usage friction metrics) combined with qualitative research to drive high-integrity functional documentation, decision logs, and roadmaps.


• Enterprise Change Management & Influence: Experience driving internal organizational adoption of tools or operating models across massive, resistant user bases, with a demonstrated ability to negotiate trade-offs and handle challenging stakeholder pushback.


• Technical Fluency & Prototyping: Strong technical background with an understanding of tool integrations, database schemas, and system interoperability.


• Hands-on experience utilizing modern AI tools for rapid prototyping and mockups to accelerate alignment is preferred.


• Certifications: Project Management Professional (PMP) certification and/or Agile SCRUM Product Owner (CSPO) certification is highly preferred to ensure strong foundational alignment on execution frameworks.


• Education: Undergraduate degree in computer science, computer/software engineering, or a related technical/operational discipline required. Master of Business Administration (MBA) is highly preferred.

Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position may be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.

The Expected Base Pay Range For This Position Is

Mountain View $188,500 - $255,000