Product Manager Principal

With very limited supervision, this individual is responsible for: Driving development and execution of product/portfolio strategies and plans, taking into account product life cycle stage and the customer experience. Leading, development and implementation of marketing, sales and all other activities, as needed, to achieve the necessary business outcomes.

Independently lead needed market, economic and competitive evaluations that affect product performance. Independently performing fact-based data analysis and interpretation to identify critical business insights. Leading completion of needed advanced data models and analytics.

Independently identifying and prioritizing new features, including market analysis, business case development and driving prioritization. Leading/executing large, complex new-product development initiatives and other marketing/enterprise programs across large, cross-functional work teams. Actively coaches and mentors’ others in less senior positions.

• Working knowledge of API design principles and RESTful or event-driven architecture, sufficient to evaluate technical tradeoffs alongside engineering.
• Ability to read and interpret system architecture diagrams, data flow, and integration points across platform services.
• Familiarity with SaaS and PaaS integration patterns, including partner or vendor platform integrations.
• Accountable for the coherence of the end-to-end user experience across multiple product surfaces, pods, or teams. Ensures consistency where individual pod roadmaps intersect.
• Partners with engineering leadership to translate platform-level technical constraints into product sequencing decisions.
• Drives alignment across cross-functional pods and TPM/PM peers without direct reporting authority. Resolves competing priorities through influence and structured tradeoff discussions.
• Serves as an escalation point for cross-pod dependency conflicts. Partners with Product and Engineering leadership to unblock delivery.
• Demonstrated experience operating in a matrixed, pod-based, or platform organization with distributed ownership models.

Bachelor's degree or equivalency in Product Marketing, Economics, Business, or related field.

• Seven plus (7+) years’ work experience in functions focused on product management, market analysis or research, or equivalent. Superior knowledge of competitive, market and economic factors affecting product performance and ability to perform fact-based data analysis. Expert communication and presentation skills, quantitative, problem structuring & solving skills. Superior executive presence, human relations, networking and influencing skills.
• Strong project management and project management leadership experience.
• A directly related master’s degree is equivalent to two (2) years’ experience. More advanced degrees may offset experience requirements. Domicile Information This position is eligible for remote work and may be located anywhere within the United States excluding AK, HI and U.S. territories, however if you live within the 50 miles radius of a campus you will be required to work at a FedEx campus location several times per week.

USA: $9,063/month - $22,317/month, AR, AZ, FL, IA, IN, KS, KY, LA, MO, MS, NE, OH, OK, SC, TN, UT: $9,063/month - $17,854/month, HI, MD, MN, NV, OR, RI: $9,516/month - $18,746/month, AK: $9,969/month - $19,639/month, DC: $10,875/month - $21,425/month, AL, GA, MI, NC, WI: $9,063/month - $18,746/month, CO, IL, PA, TX: $9,063/month - $19,639/month, NY, VA: $9,063/month - $21425/month, CT, MA, WA: $9,516/month - $20,532/month, CA: $9,516/month - $22,317/month, NJ: $9,969/month - $21,425/month