Principal Product Manager - UX Foundations

The Role:

As the Principal Product Manager UX Foundations at Apollo.io you will lead the UX Foundations team in creating robust reusable components that power Apollo as a next-generation go-to-market platform. By establishing foundational architecture and common patterns we ensure every user interaction is streamlined and efficient across a diverse range of use cases. Our mission is to set the gold standard for an intuitive and delightful user experience making Apollo a benchmark for world class product design.

Responsibilities

• Vision and strategy: Building and leading the vision strategy and roadmap for a core Apollo platform ensuring alignment with the company's overall strategy of a world class user experience.

• Evidence based product development: Using both quantitative and qualitative analysis to make data informed product decisions that are based on unique customer or market insights.

• Customer obsession: Customer-obsessed mindset prioritizing the delivery of exceptional customer experience and outcomes.

• Metrics Optimization: You’ll establish and track key performance indicators for our products continuously optimizing them to ensure success.

• Team Collaboration: You’ll create a strong sense of shared ownership among engineers designers and researchers leading to the successful delivery of high-quality products.

• Strategic Initiatives: You’ll work closely with product and growth teams to plan and execute initiatives that improve acquisition activation and retention for the Apollo product as a whole.

• Drive sustainable product success by balancing short-term priorities with long-term vision ensuring focused and impactful execution. Maintain a sense of urgency in delivering immediate value while laying the groundwork for scalable durable solutions that support the platform’s growth and customer satisfaction over time.

Specific super powers:

• Exceptional design and product intuition : You have a deep understanding of what makes products intuitive delightful and effective with a strong sense of aesthetic and user-centered design principles. You have impeccable taste and judgment in making decisions that resonate with target audiences and reflect an unwavering commitment to quality.

• Systems thinker: Adept at understanding and optimizing the interplay between various components of the Apollo platform to enhance overall architecture functionality and drive exceptional UX

• Great simplifier: Ability to distill complex concepts into compelling and easy-to-understand narratives and user workflows

• Proactive mindset: Anticipating organizational needs and dependencies proactively to prioritize building product that drives Apollo to a global optimum.

• Cross functional leader: Creating a collaborative and productive culture while promoting both cross functional and technical excellence.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of SaaS or Consumer PM experience combined.

• Experience transforming complex user workflows into simple delightful user experiences

• Experience building platforms – former partners rave about your impact

• Experience building or working with Design Systems or having a Design background is a plus.

• Growth mindset for both product and personal ambitions

• Comfortable and motivated by ambiguity and turning it into real world value.

• A joy to work with & debate with comfortable pushing back speaking and acting courageously.

• Deep empathy for users obsessed with problems and not solutions

• Ability to rally multiple teams and build influence with leadership

• Inquisitive curious & user-centric - always trying to learn more about our market our users our capabilities and where there are opportunities for us.