Principal Product Manager

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

📋 Description

• Develop Roon’s product strategy, identify target users, and establish differentiation.

• Formulate strategies to expand the audience while maintaining the loyalty of existing paying listeners.

• Conduct user research through direct discussions, community forums, support tickets, reviews, and product analytics.

• Convert strategy into a prioritized feature list.

• Manage and schedule the roadmap across several quarters.

• Create implementation plans and detailed specifications in collaboration with engineering teams.

• Track key product behaviors and set success metrics.

• Design interactive prototypes utilizing AI tools.

• Establish and uphold the product quality standards in collaboration with design teams.

• Examine the codebase to comprehend current functionalities, business rules, constraints, and edge cases.

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

• Work closely with engineers, a designer, and senior leadership as the principal product leader at Roon.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in product management, including having directed the strategy for an entire product or business instead of just a feature area.

• A deep personal connection to music through significant, long-term engagement as a collector, musician, producer, DJ, critic, or dedicated listener.

• Strong understanding of product quality and direction, with the ability to choose between competing options and articulate the rationale.

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

• Experience transforming concepts into functional prototypes using tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Lovable, or v0.

• Proficiency in validating AI-generated outputs and determining when to refrain from using AI tools.

• Ability to commit to and defend decisions even with incomplete information.

• Capability to operate with minimal guidance within a small, remote, self-managing team.

• Skilled in persuasive writing for expert public users and senior leadership.

• Experience in establishing a measurement practice from the ground up.

• Competence in querying product data with SQL or similar tools, conducting experiments, and interpreting results.

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

• Technical fluency adequate to understand system behaviors, constraints, and edge cases.

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

• Ability to work virtually across any US time zone.

• Successful completion of a background check and drug screening as a condition of employment.

🏝️ Benefits

• A flexible work environment that supports full-time remote work globally for roles that can be performed outside a HARMAN or client location.

• Access to employee discounts on premier Harman and Samsung products (JBL, HARMAN Kardon, AKG, and more).

• Comprehensive training opportunities through HARMAN University.

• Competitive wellness benefits.

• Tuition reimbursement program.

• "Be Brilliant" employee recognition and rewards initiative.

• An inclusive and diverse workplace that promotes and supports both professional and personal growth.