Principal Product Manager

Principal Product Manager

Summary

The Principal Product Manager is responsible for owning a core product area from strategy through outcomes. This is a senior individual contributor role responsible for hands-on product work, with a path to build and lead a team as the area grows. Reporting directly to the Chief Product Officer, this role operates with significant autonomy and serves as a senior technical leader across product, engineering, and design.

What You'll Do

• Sets the strategy and roadmap for the assigned product area, with a clear point of view on where it's headed and how it ties back to the business.
• Leads hands-on product work including discovery, specifications, and product decision-making.
• Delivers on committed deadlines, working closely with engineering to maintain quality standards.
• Instruments shipped products, tracks metrics, and owns post-launch results.
• Translates customer insights into product decisions, applying sound judgment on prioritization and execution.
• Maintains intuitive user experience in close partnership with design.
• Owns post-launch product outcomes including go-to-market narrative and enablement materials for Sales, Customer Experience, and Product Marketing teams.
• Builds strong cross-functional working relationships and communicates effectively at all levels.
• Presents product strategy, roadmap updates, and performance insights to executive leadership.
• Participates in a highly compliant environment while assisting to maintain company controls and security within your job role.
• Assists in maintaining applicable organizational security and compliance controls within your department and role.
• Other duties as assigned.

What'll Set You Up for Success

Required Skills:

• At least 10 years in product management, including significant time as a senior, lead, or principal PM who owned a product line end to end.
• Demonstrated track record of setting clear product direction, aligning teams, driving measurable business outcomes, and delivering complex products on time.
• Strong data fluency with ability to instrument products, interpret metrics, and own results.
• Proven experience shipping AI or LLM-powered products, with fluency in AI tools across discovery, prototyping, and analysis, and demonstrated ability to translate proprietary data assets into trusted product value.
• Enterprise B2B SaaS experience, a strong sense for user experience, and a reputation as a strong cross-functional collaborator across engineering, design, and go-to-market teams.

Preferred Skills:

• Domain experience in HR tech, leave and absence, benefits, or compliance.
• Experience in a high-growth scaling environment.

Key Skills & Behaviors:

• Strategic thinker who connects product decisions to measurable business outcomes.
• Highly autonomous with ability to own a product area end-to-end with minimal direction.
• Data-driven decision maker who instruments products and owns results after launch.
• Strong collaborator who builds effective working relationships across engineering, design, and business teams.
• Customer-obsessed with deep instincts for user experience and product quality.
• AI-forward practitioner who integrates AI tools into daily workflows and product development.
• Clear and confident communicator who presents effectively to executive leadership.
• Results-oriented with a bias toward shipping and learning.

What to Know Before You Apply

• We're located in beautiful Denver, Colorado.
• This is a full-time, salaried position + bonus.
• AbsenceSoft provides a wide variety of perks and benefits, including full medical, dental, vision, and life insurance. We offer a 401k and 401k match after your first year with AbsenceSoft.
• We support your professional growth including industry training and CLMS Certification, opportunities for additional industry and technology certifications, and continuing education.

Why join us

At AbsenceSoft, we LEAD with our values:

Lead with Innovation - We create meaningful change through intelligence, focus and passion.  We embrace curiosity, data, and insight to shape the future of our industry. Always innovating, learning and evolving.

Elevate Every Voice - Every perspective matters. We listen, learn, and build a culture where diversity of thought and experience drives better solutions and smarter decisions. 

Achieve Together - The customer fuels everything we do. We share knowledge, collaborate, celebrate wins, and face challenges as one team because success is always a collective achievement.

Drive Outcome - Every action we take delivers measurable value to our teams, our customers, and the employees they support. Accountability is non-negotiable. We honor our commitments, take responsibility for results, and see every success and setback as a chance to grow stronger.

We offer:

• Impact that matters. You’ll do work that shapes the future of the modern workplace
• Flexibility and trust. We’re remote-first and results driven. You’ll have the freedom and flexibility to do your best work, wherever you do it best.
• Growth and development. We believe the best work happens when people are growing. You’ll have access to learning resources, leadership programs, and real opportunities to take on new challenges and expand your impact.  
• Competitive rewards. We offer comprehensive benefits, a performance-based bonus program, and equity opportunities – because when we grow, you should too.
• Time for life. Recharge and reconnect with flexible time off, paid holidays, and flexible leave programs designed to support every season of life.
• Belonging and balance. We’re building an inclusive culture where every voice is valued, collaboration is celebrated, and success is shared.

We’re committed to building a team as diverse as the customers we serve. If your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification, we still encourage you to apply you might be exactly what we’re looking for. If this sounds like a fit, apply today, we’d love to meet you!

Final compensation is determined based on a candidate's relevant experience, skills, education, and geographic location. This position is also eligible for annual bonus.

Compensation: Base salary for this full-time position is $188,000 - $230,000 USD per year.