Principal Product Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Define Roon’s product strategy and target market.

• Identify how serious listeners discover and engage with music, adapting Roon accordingly.

• Advocate for listeners through discussions, community forums, support tickets, reviews, and product analytics.

• Convert strategy into a prioritized list of features.

• Determine which initiatives are developed, shelved, or abandoned.

• Own and prioritize the roadmap over multiple quarters.

• Develop implementation plans and specifications in collaboration with engineering.

• Establish product metrics and define criteria for feature success.

• Create interactive prototypes utilizing AI tools.

• Uphold and protect the product's quality standards in collaboration with design.

• Examine the codebase, business rules, limitations, and edge cases before proposing changes.

• Construct research pipelines, internal tools, automation processes, and evaluation frameworks.

• Work closely with engineers and a designer in a proactive senior product role.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in product management.

• Managed strategy for an entire product or business rather than just a feature area.

• Conducted personal research instead of outsourcing it.

• Launched new initiatives and remained with a mature product long enough to reflect on earlier decisions.

• Deep and ongoing engagement with music.

• Daily utilization of AI for research synthesis, prototyping, and personal tools.

• Experience in transforming ideas into working prototypes using Claude Code, Cursor, Lovable, or v0.

• Capacity to validate AI-generated outputs and discern when to avoid using AI tools.

• Ability to uphold and justify positions with incomplete information.

• Proficient in working with minimal supervision within a small, remote, self-managing team.

• Strong written communication skills tailored for expert users and senior leadership.

• Developed measurement practices from the ground up.

• Proficient in querying product data using SQL or similar, conducting experiments, and analyzing results.

• Familiarity with subscription metrics such as trial-to-paid conversion, retention, churn, and lifetime value.

• Sufficient technical fluency to understand system behavior, limitations, and trade-offs.

• Willingness to travel up to 5%, both domestically and internationally.

• Capable of working virtually across any US time zone.

• Must successfully complete a background check and drug screening as a condition of employment.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible work environment, enabling full-time remote work worldwide for roles that can be performed outside a HARMAN or customer site.

• Employee discounts on top-tier Harman and Samsung products.

• Extensive training opportunities through HARMAN University.

• Competitive wellness benefits.

• Tuition reimbursement.

• “Be Brilliant” employee recognition and rewards program.

• Inclusive and diverse work environment promoting professional and personal growth.

• Paid vacation and holidays.

• Paid sick leave.

• Volunteer leave.

• Paid bonding and caregiver leave.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.

• Fertility support and adoption assistance.

• Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts.

• Retirement savings plan with employer matching.

• Short- and long-term disability coverage.

• Life insurance.