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Career Area: Engineering
Position Type: Salaried
48326, US
Date Posted: November 13, 2026
Brand: FCA Group
We are seeking a highly technical, customer-obsessed Product Manager to lead the strategy, roadmap, and evolution of our Enterprise Data & AI Platform. The platform enables engineering teams, data scientists, analysts, and developers to build and operate data products, analytics, machine learning solutions, and AI applications at enterprise scale.
This role owns the three-year platform vision and translates customer needs into technical capabilities, investment priorities, and executable roadmaps. The successful candidate will balance customer value, operational reliability, cost efficiency, and delivery speed.
We are looking for someone equally comfortable discussing strategy with executives and working directly with engineers to evaluate architectures, investigate technical challenges, and develop practical solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
Product Strategy and Roadmap
- Own the three-year vision, strategy, and roadmap across data engineering, analytics, compute, governance, developer experience, and AI infrastructure.
- Translate customer needs into annual goals, quarterly milestones, investment priorities, and measurable business outcomes.
- Evaluate build-versus-buy decisions, emerging technologies, platform consolidation, and architectural trade-offs.
- Develop investment proposals balancing customer value, scalability, operational complexity, execution risk, and total cost of ownership.
Customer Discovery and Product Development
- Build a deep understanding of customers, including data engineers, developers, data scientists, ML engineers, and business teams.
- Conduct customer interviews, workflow observations, technical discovery, and usage analysis to identify unmet needs.
- Translate insights into product requirements, working-backwards narratives, business cases, and prioritized roadmaps.
- Establish feedback mechanisms and measure adoption, customer satisfaction, developer productivity, and delivered value.
Technical Product Leadership
- Work directly with engineers and architects to evaluate technical designs, investigate problems, and make informed implementation trade-offs.
- Apply strong knowledge of Databricks, AWS, Apache Spark, lakehouse architectures, streaming, orchestration, and data governance.
- Understand AI/ML infrastructure, model serving, LLMs, AI gateways, agentic applications, and production AI operations.
- Evaluate performance, scalability, security, reliability, interoperability, and cost when making technology decisions.
Execution and Operational Excellence
- Translate product strategy into executable plans with clear priorities, milestones, dependencies, and accountability.
- Drive capabilities that improve reliability, automation, self-service, and developer productivity.
- Balance feature delivery with technical debt, operational stability, and platform maintenance.
- Establish success metrics for availability, incident recovery, onboarding time, adoption, and delivery efficiency.
Financial and Cross-Functional Leadership
- Develop business cases and TCO models covering cloud consumption, licensing, infrastructure, engineering, and operations.
- Partner with engineering and finance teams on consumption forecasting, cost attribution, optimization, and investment planning.
- Evaluate vendor capabilities, pricing, performance benchmarks, and commercial trade-offs.
- Influence engineering, security, architecture, finance, and business leaders to align priorities, resolve dependencies, and drive decisions.
EOE/Disability/Veteran
At Stellantis, we assess candidates based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. We welcome applications from all people without regard to sex, age, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or any characteristic protected by law. We believe that diverse teams reflect our identity as a global company, enabling us to better address the evolving needs of our customers and care for our future.
Our benefits reflects the STELLANTIS commitment to helping you reach your personal and professional goals. In addition to an environment that promotes career development, we offer benefits for a healthy lifestyle and a rewarding future, designed to take care of you and your family, in various stages of life.
As a global company, our employee packages will vary by country, customary norms and the legal entity into which you are hired.
We care about your privacy. For more information on how your personal data is processed, please read the specific Privacy Statement provided by the respective entities whose job offer you have selected.
Career Area: Engineering
Position Type: Salaried
48326, US
Date Posted: November 13, 2026
Brand: FCA Group
We are seeking a highly technical, customer-obsessed Product Manager to lead the strategy, roadmap, and evolution of our Enterprise Data & AI Platform. The platform enables engineering teams, data scientists, analysts, and developers to build and operate data products, analytics, machine learning solutions, and AI applications at enterprise scale.
This role owns the three-year platform vision and translates customer needs into technical capabilities, investment priorities, and executable roadmaps. The successful candidate will balance customer value, operational reliability, cost efficiency, and delivery speed.
We are looking for someone equally comfortable discussing strategy with executives and working directly with engineers to evaluate architectures, investigate technical challenges, and develop practical solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
Product Strategy and Roadmap
- Own the three-year vision, strategy, and roadmap across data engineering, analytics, compute, governance, developer experience, and AI infrastructure.
- Translate customer needs into annual goals, quarterly milestones, investment priorities, and measurable business outcomes.
- Evaluate build-versus-buy decisions, emerging technologies, platform consolidation, and architectural trade-offs.
- Develop investment proposals balancing customer value, scalability, operational complexity, execution risk, and total cost of ownership.
Customer Discovery and Product Development
- Build a deep understanding of customers, including data engineers, developers, data scientists, ML engineers, and business teams.
- Conduct customer interviews, workflow observations, technical discovery, and usage analysis to identify unmet needs.
- Translate insights into product requirements, working-backwards narratives, business cases, and prioritized roadmaps.
- Establish feedback mechanisms and measure adoption, customer satisfaction, developer productivity, and delivered value.
Technical Product Leadership
- Work directly with engineers and architects to evaluate technical designs, investigate problems, and make informed implementation trade-offs.
- Apply strong knowledge of Databricks, AWS, Apache Spark, lakehouse architectures, streaming, orchestration, and data governance.
- Understand AI/ML infrastructure, model serving, LLMs, AI gateways, agentic applications, and production AI operations.
- Evaluate performance, scalability, security, reliability, interoperability, and cost when making technology decisions.
Execution and Operational Excellence
- Translate product strategy into executable plans with clear priorities, milestones, dependencies, and accountability.
- Drive capabilities that improve reliability, automation, self-service, and developer productivity.
- Balance feature delivery with technical debt, operational stability, and platform maintenance.
- Establish success metrics for availability, incident recovery, onboarding time, adoption, and delivery efficiency.
Financial and Cross-Functional Leadership
- Develop business cases and TCO models covering cloud consumption, licensing, infrastructure, engineering, and operations.
- Partner with engineering and finance teams on consumption forecasting, cost attribution, optimization, and investment planning.
- Evaluate vendor capabilities, pricing, performance benchmarks, and commercial trade-offs.
- Influence engineering, security, architecture, finance, and business leaders to align priorities, resolve dependencies, and drive decisions.
EOE/Disability/Veteran
At Stellantis, we assess candidates based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. We welcome applications from all people without regard to sex, age, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or any characteristic protected by law. We believe that diverse teams reflect our identity as a global company, enabling us to better address the evolving needs of our customers and care for our future.
Our benefits reflects the STELLANTIS commitment to helping you reach your personal and professional goals. In addition to an environment that promotes career development, we offer benefits for a healthy lifestyle and a rewarding future, designed to take care of you and your family, in various stages of life.
As a global company, our employee packages will vary by country, customary norms and the legal entity into which you are hired.
We care about your privacy. For more information on how your personal data is processed, please read the specific Privacy Statement provided by the respective entities whose job offer you have selected.
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Find JobsPrincipal Product Engineer Job Market
Who's Hiring
- Amazon84
- Intuit53
- Microsoft36
- Amazon Web Services27
- Oracle22
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software58
- Electronics & Hardware8
- Retail6
- Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals5
- Banking & Financial Services4
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in principal product engineer jobs.
- 8 or more years of software engineering experience with demonstrated technical leadership
- Deep proficiency in at least one backend language such as Java, Go, Python, or Scala
- Experience defining and driving technical strategy across multiple product teams
- Ability to lead system design reviews and set architectural standards organization-wide
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for executive and cross-functional audiences
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a closely related field
Tips for Your Principal Product Engineer Job Search
Reframe your resume around systems impact
Principal product engineer roles reward candidates who show how their technical decisions shaped product direction. Rewrite bullets to surface the downstream effect on users, revenue, or engineering velocity, not just the technology you built or maintained.
Highlight cross-functional ownership on paper
Hiring managers at this level expect you to have driven alignment across product, design, and engineering. Callout specific examples where you owned the technical roadmap conversation with non-engineering stakeholders and moved a decision forward.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists principal product engineer openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Filter by platform maturity before you apply
Principal product engineer work differs sharply between early-stage companies and scaled platforms. Check job descriptions for signals like 'greenfield architecture' versus 'platform reliability at scale' and target the environment where your strongest work was done.
Prepare a system design narrative for interviews
Expect at least one deep system design session focused on trade-offs, not just correctness. Practice walking through a real architectural decision you owned, explaining why you chose one approach, what you deprioritized, and what you would change with more time.
Negotiate scope alongside compensation
At the principal level, the breadth of your technical charter matters as much as pay. During offer discussions, clarify which product areas you will influence, whether you have a seat in roadmap planning, and how your impact will be measured in the first year.
Principal Product Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most principal product engineers?
The most active employers for principal product engineers right now are Amazon, Intuit, and Microsoft, and the most openings are in California, Washington, and New York, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is concentrated at companies scaling their platform infrastructure or going through significant product expansion.
How many principal product engineer jobs are remote?
About 80% of principal product engineer openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the seniority and autonomy expected at this level. Platform engineering, developer tooling, and API infrastructure sub-specializations tend to have the highest share of fully remote roles compared to consumer-facing product work.
How do you become a principal product engineer?
Most principal product engineers get there by consistently taking ownership beyond their immediate team, driving architectural decisions, and demonstrating that their technical judgment improves product outcomes. Building a track of shipping systems at scale, mentoring other engineers, and leading cross-functional initiatives without being asked positions you for the principal title more reliably than tenure alone.
Can you get a principal product engineer role with limited senior experience?
It is uncommon but possible if you have deep expertise in a specific technical domain the company urgently needs. Startups and high-growth companies occasionally promote strong senior engineers into principal roles when the candidate has clear ownership of a critical system and has already been operating at that scope informally. A portfolio of concrete architectural decisions you drove strengthens the case.
What does the principal product engineer interview process look like?
The process typically includes a recruiter screen, a technical phone interview focused on system design or architecture, a full loop with four to six rounds covering system design, cross-functional leadership, and product thinking, and a final conversation with a VP or CTO. Many companies at this level also ask for a written design document or architectural review as part of the loop.
Where can I find and apply to principal product engineer jobs?
You can find and apply to principal product engineer jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the roles available, find the ones that match your background and the type of product environment you want, and apply directly to each listing that fits.
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