Principal Product Manager

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

📋 Description

• Take the lead on PTC Modeler, overseeing its product strategy, roadmap, priorities, and measurable results.

• Balance immediate customer commitments with product quality, platform development, competitive differentiation, and long-term strategic opportunities.

• Convert strategy and customer challenges into prioritized product outcomes, investment proposals, and requirements for R&D and UX.

• Collaborate with R&D and UX throughout both the discovery and delivery phases.

• Establish success metrics and utilize product telemetry, adoption data, customer feedback, and commercial outcomes to assess results.

• Shape PTC's overarching vision for Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and systems engineering alongside product and technology leaders.

• Investigate AI, agentic experiences, interconnected engineering information, open standards, and innovative user experiences.

• Spot opportunities that link systems engineering with requirements, software development, product architecture, PLM, simulation, and the broader digital thread.

• Create and test product hypotheses with customers, partners, and systems-engineering practitioners.

• Foster relationships with strategic customers, users, partners, and industry practitioners.

• Spearhead ongoing product discovery and translate findings into product opportunities.

• Keep track of the MBSE and digital-engineering market, customer purchasing criteria, competitors, standards, and emerging technologies.

• Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Services, and Support to enhance positioning, enablement, adoption, retention, and customer success.

• Contribute to product packaging, positioning, launches, and go-to-market strategies.

• Develop data-driven business cases and articulate customer and commercial impacts.

• Assist with strategic opportunities, competitive engagements, executive customer discussions, demonstrations, and roadmap conversations.

• Represent PTC to customers, partners, industry organizations, analysts, and the systems-engineering community.

• Foster alignment across Product Management, Engineering, UX, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Services, and Support.

• Communicate product direction, priorities, decisions, trade-offs, and progress to executive, technical, commercial, and customer audiences.

• Collaborate across PTC's broader portfolio to uncover cross-product customer value.

• Effectively influence within a global, matrixed organization without direct authority.

• Uphold product management principles for planning, refinement, validation, release readiness, and lifecycle management.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of product management experience in enterprise software, engineering software, SaaS, or a closely related field.

• Demonstrated ability to formulate product strategy, make evidence-based prioritization decisions, and execute on roadmaps.

• Experience addressing complex engineering, systems development, or lifecycle management challenges.

• Strong skills in customer discovery, problem framing, requirements gathering, and product validation.

• Experience working with Agile software development and UX teams from discovery through to delivery.

• Ability to connect technical capabilities to customer value, adoption, differentiation, and business outcomes.

• Exceptional written, verbal, presentation, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.

• Strong analytical judgment with the ability to navigate ambiguity, competing priorities, and consequential trade-offs.

• Capability to influence and align global cross-functional teams without direct authority.

• A Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Practical experience with model-based systems engineering, systems engineering, digital engineering, or engineering software products.

• Knowledge of SysML and UML.

• Familiarity with relevant modeling, requirements, ALM, PLM, product-line engineering, simulation, or digital-thread ecosystems.

• Understanding of traceability, configuration management, model governance, interoperability, engineering change, and reuse throughout the product lifecycle.

• Familiarity with OSLC, REST APIs, and model interchange.

• Experience in bringing technically complex enterprise products to market and driving adoption across various customer personas and industries.

• Experience with cloud platforms, enterprise software architectures, AI-enabled product experiences, or agentic software concepts.

• Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without requiring current or future sponsorship from PTC.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligibility for performance-based bonuses.

• Employee share purchase program (ESPP) offering discounted PTC stock.

• Potential eligibility for equity programs.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• Paid time off and sick leave.

• Tuition reimbursement available.

• 401(k) contributions with employer matching.

• Flexible spending accounts.

• Life insurance coverage.

• Disability coverage.

• Generous commuter subsidy for employees assigned to the office.