Principal Product Manager

Principal Product Manager Summary

The Principal Product Manager is responsible for owning a core product area from strategy through outcomes. This is a senior individual contributor role responsible for hands‑on product work, with a path to build and lead a team as the area grows. Reporting directly to the Chief Product Officer, this role operates with significant autonomy and serves as a senior technical leader across product, engineering, and design.

• Sets the strategy and roadmap for the assigned product area, with a clear point of view on where it’s headed and how it ties back to the business.
• Leads hands‑on product work including discovery, specifications, and product decision‑making.
• Delivers on committed deadlines, working closely with engineering to maintain quality standards.
• Instruments shipped products, tracks metrics, and owns post‑launch results.
• Translates customer insights into product decisions, applying sound judgment on prioritization and execution.
• Maintains intuitive user experience in close partnership with design.
• Owns post‑launch product outcomes including go‑to‑market narrative and enablement materials for Sales, Customer Experience, and Product Marketing teams.
• Builds strong cross‑functional working relationships and communicates effectively at all levels.
• Presents product strategy, roadmap updates, and performance insights to executive leadership.
• Participates in a highly compliant environment while assisting to maintain company controls and security within your job role.
• Assists in maintaining applicable organizational security and compliance controls within your department and role.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Skills:

• At least 10 years in product management, including significant time as a senior, lead, or principal PM who owned a product line end to end.
• Demonstrated track record of setting clear product direction, aligning teams, driving measurable business outcomes, and delivering complex products on time.
• Strong data fluency with ability to instrument products, interpret metrics, and own results.
• Proven experience shipping AI or LLM‑powered products, with fluency in AI tools across discovery, prototyping, and analysis, and demonstrated ability to translate proprietary data assets into trusted product value.
• Enterprise B2B SaaS experience, a strong sense for user experience, and a reputation as a strong cross‑functional collaborator across engineering, design, and go‑to‑market teams.

Preferred

Skills:

• Domain experience in HR tech, leave and absence, benefits, or compliance.
• Experience in a high‑growth scaling environment.

Key Skills & Behaviors:

• Strategic thinker who connects product decisions to measurable business outcomes.
• Highly autonomous with ability to own a product area end‑to‑end with minimal direction.
• Data‑driven decision maker who instruments products and owns results after launch.
• Strong collaborator who builds effective working relationships across engineering, design, and business teams.
• Customer‑obsessed with deep instincts for user experience and product quality.
• AI‑forward practitioner who integrates AI tools into daily workflows and product development.
• Clear and confident communicator who presents effectively to executive leadership.
• Results‑oriented with a bias toward shipping and learning.

• We’re located in beautiful Denver, Colorado.
• This is a full‑time, salaried position + bonus.
• Absence Soft provides a wide variety of perks and benefits, including full medical, dental, vision, and life insurance. We offer a 401k and 401k match after your first year with Absence Soft.
• We support your professional growth including industry training and CLMS Certification, opportunities for additional…