About the Opportunity
Contentful is looking for a Principal Product Manager - Content Platform. This role will guide the evolution of the core of the Contentful’s platform into the platform to support generative AI workloads. This role will be central in shifting the content platform concept from static data to dynamic data concept and drive the future strategy that is at the core of Contentful Content Management capabilities, notably including:
- Managed serverless content and data workloads
- Native content primitives and third-party data orchestration
- Content APIs and core content management concepts
- Platform AI capabilities and generative AI workloads and pipelines
Contentful is committed to being the category-leading platform for AI-driven content management, allowing customers to manage content across brands, markets, channels, and specific audiences at unprecedented levels of granularity and consistency. Drawing from its API-first structured content legacy, Contentful is the best-positioned player to set the standard for how global brands can leverage AI to execute complex global marketing strategies. Contentful’s Principal PM - Content Platform is an experienced professional who previously managed platforms running flexible API first data transformation workloads. In this position the candidate will also engage in the domain of information management topics like search and retrieval, knowledge graphs, and ontologies, including their relations with AI capabilities like RAG. This role works closely with product leadership, Founders and C-level. This role might have 1-2 PM reporting into it.
Contentful works following an agile - cross-functional approach to product development so the candidate should be familiar with and effective in this sort of environment.
What to expect?
- Develop and evolve a market strategy for a dynamic content platform through discovery and customer interactions
- In partnership with Engineering Merge market and technological strategy into a cohesive product roadmap
- Be an active party in build/buy decision making
- Drive thought leadership initiatives in the area of content platform and workload automation
- Lead and mentor other members of the product team..
- Develop relationships with key partners to co-engineer product strategy
- Engage and communicate effectively with enterprise customers, creating strong feedback cycles in the product development process and establishing a customer-centric culture in the product organization, enabling the team to deliver both world-class enterprise software solutions and consumer-grade user experiences.
What you need to be successful
- Proven experience as a seasoned PM in a technical API first data workload or search product.
- Proven experience in developing product market strategy and launching new products on the market.
- Motivated to become a market and technology expert of the designated area
- Comfortable being hands-on in driving change and getting into the engineering aspects when required.
- Proven ability to work in a highly collaborative working environment with internal and external stakeholder.
- A holistic thinker who can translate the vision into strategy and execution.
What’s in it for you?
- Join an ambitious tech company reshaping the way people build digital experiences
- Full-time employees receive Stock Options for the opportunity to share in the success of our company
- Fertility and family building benefits, including a lifetime reimbursable wallet to support your growing family.
- We value Work-Life balance and You Time! A generous amount of paid time off, including vacation days, sick days, education days, compassion days for loss, and volunteer days
- Use your personal annual education budget to improve your skills and grow in your career
- Enjoy a full range of virtual and in-person events, including workshops, guest speakers, and fun team activities, supporting learning and networking exchange beyond the usual work duties
- An annual wellbeing stipend to care for your physical, financial, or emotional health
- A monthly communication phone/internet stipend and phone hardware upgrade reimbursement.
- New hire office equipment stipend for hybrid or distributed employees. Get the gear you need to work at your best.
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Contentful is the intelligent composable content platform that unlocks all of an organization’s digital content to deliver impactful customer experiences, making content a strategic business asset. The Contentful Platform, Contentful Studio, and the Contentful Ecosystem combine the flexibility of composable content with the intelligence of AI, empowering digital teams to drive business momentum through collaboration, speed, and scale. Contentful powers innovative content experiences across brands, regions, and channels for organizations around the world, including nearly 30% of the Fortune 500. Nearly 800 people from more than 70 nations contribute their energy and creativity to Contentful, working from hubs in Berlin, Denver and distributed around the world.
Everyone is welcome here!
“Everyone is welcome here” is a celebrated component of our culture. At Contentful, we strive to create an inclusive environment that empowers our employees. We believe that our products and services benefit from our diverse backgrounds and experiences and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical [dis]ability, or length of time spent unemployed. We invite you to apply and join us!
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Contentful is a leading composable content platform that unlocks all of an organization’s digital content to deliver impactful customer experiences, making content a strategic business asset. The Contentful Platform, Contentful Studio, Ninetailed by Contentful and the Contentful Ecosystem combine the flexibility of composable content with the intelligence of AI, empowering digital teams to drive business momentum through collaboration, speed, and scale. Contentful powers innovative content experiences across brands, regions, and channels for organizations of all sizes around the world, including nearly 30% of the Fortune 500.
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Nearly 800 people from more than 70 nations contribute their energy and creativity to Contentful, working from hubs in Berlin, Denver and distributed around the world.
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