Principal Product Manager

Make Your Mark:
Within Product Management at Black Line, you will take part in guiding products through the software development lifecycle by analyzing, positioning, promoting, and tailoring our solutions to both new and existing customers. You will work closely with creative and talented engineers, designers, and marketers to help develop solutions that improve companies' overall financial close process. As a Principal, Product Manager, you will work cross-functionally to guide products, from conception to launch, by connecting the business and technical worlds.

From leveraging new and existing technologies, to diving deep into feedback from some of the most recognized brands in the world, you will create buy-in for product vision for our internal and external stakeholders. The Principal, Product Manager is a customer-/market-oriented person with strong product and project management skills, a solid technical understanding, great personal skills and a track record for delivering exceptional business results.

You’ll Get To:
Within Product Management at Black Line, you will take part in guiding products through the software development lifecycle by analyzing, positioning, promoting, and tailoring our solutions to both new and existing customers. You will work closely with creative and talented engineers, designers, and marketers to help develop solutions that improve companies' overall financial close process. As a Principal, Product Manager, you will work cross-functionally to guide products, from conception to launch, by connecting the business and technical worlds.

From leveraging new and existing technologies, to diving deep into feedback from some of the most recognized brands in the world, you will create buy-in for product vision for our internal and external stakeholders. The Principal, Product Manager is a customer-/market-oriented person with strong product and project management skills, a solid technical understanding, great personal skills and a track record for delivering exceptional business results.

• 15+ years in product management, including major launches of highly scaled and/or 0-to-1 products.
• Proven ownership of multi-year strategy and business outcomes for a major product area or portfolio.
• Experience taking horizontal enterprise products into vertical, regional, or specialized markets is strongly preferred.
• Proficiency in Agile methodologies and modern product development tooling like Jira, Jira Product Discovery, Confluence, Pendo or other product usage analytics tools, etc.
• Strong proficiency using AI tools such as Claude, Gemini, or ChatGPT to accelerate and enhance the product development lifecycle.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience; working knowledge of accounting or finance is an advantage.

• Deep understanding of the financial close and record-to-report (R2R) landscape, and how industry, geography, and finance-specialization requirements (regulatory, statutory, tax, and accounting) shape product needs.
• Familiarity with enterprise SaaS go-to-market, pricing, and packaging across segments and regions.

• Comfort building product within an AI-native, agentic platform.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted or automated workflows, confidence thresholds, human-in-the-loop review, and the ability to partner effectively with Data Science teams to build machine learning-based capabilities is strongly preferred.

• Exceptional strategic and systems thinking; anticipates market shifts and emerging technologies, and uses data to challenge assumptions and drive direction.
• Executive presence with the ability to influence at the C-suite and board level, driving…