Principal Product Manager

Mattermost provides secure, workflow-centric collaboration for technical and operational teams that need to meet nation-state-level security and trust requirements. We serve technology, public sector, national defense, and financial services industries with customers ranging from tech giants to the world’s largest banks, to the U.S. Department of Defense and governmental agencies around the world. 

Our self-hosted and cloud offerings provide integrated workflow automation, AI-acceleration, ChatOps with team messaging, audio calling and screen share on an open core platform vetted and deployed by the world’s most secure and mission critical organizations. 

We co-build the future of collaboration with over 4,000 open source project contributors who’ve provided over 30,000 code improvements towards our shared product vision, which is translated into 20 languages.

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Principal Product Manager

Intelligent Mission Environment - Collaborative Workflow

Reports to: VP of Product and Program Management

At Mattermost, we are building the #1 collaborative workflow solution tailored for defense, intelligence, security, and critical infrastructure organizations. We are a profitable, growing, venture-backed company serving some of the world's most important organizations including USAF Air Mobility Command, allied cybersecurity centers, global technology companies, and vital financial institutions. Our innovative Intelligent Mission Environment platform empowers these sectors to operate with cutting-edge efficiency and security. We seek a visionary Principal Product Manager to work closely with our co-founders, engineering leaders and key customers to shape the future of our products and drive fast, precise execution and iteration to meet customer needs and accelerate success.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Vision: Contribute to the strategic vision for our Intelligent Mission Environment in partnership with co-founders, key customers, and the product, design, and engineering teams. Collaborate closely with marketing and sales to ensure alignment and cohesive execution.

• Domain Expertise: Develop expertise in domains such as DoD, Mission Operations, critical infrastructure, JADC2, and Zero Trust architecture, while gaining new insights from meeting Mattermost prospects and customers. Understand market needs, competitive environment, and where Mattermost can add unique value. Train and develop internal staff members on customer domains around cyber and national security operations.

• Strategic Foresight: Deeply understand current and future market needs. Envision and build an adaptable platform that meets the needs of both legacy infrastructure and new cloud-based services and AI infrastructure for future national security investments.

• Revenue Growth: Develop and implement strategies for rapid revenue growth over time by connecting visionary product ideas with market demands.

• Collaboration: Work closely with co-founders, the executive team, sales, marketing, and a peer Principal Product Manager to deliver new value to defense, intelligence, security, and critical infrastructure organizations. Share segmented responsibilities across the core collaboration platform and verticalized use cases.

• Leadership: Lead engineering teams to implement and iterate on software systems rapidly, balancing speed and effectiveness with security and compliance requirements.

Qualifications:

• Experience: 7-10 years of product management experience, with at least 5 years in leadership roles within defense, intelligence, or cyber operations communities.

• Expertise: Proven track record in DoD, Mission Operations, critical infrastructure, JADC2, Zero Trust architecture, cyber operations, and/or the intelligence community. Eligibility for US security clearance is required.

• Visionary Thinking: Ability to foresee market trends and translate them into actionable product strategies.

• Strategic Alignment: Strong ability to align product roadmaps with business goals, driving significant revenue growth.

• Leadership: Exceptional leadership skills with a collaborative mindset, capable of guiding cross-functional teams towards a unified vision.

Why Join Us:

• Shape the future of collaborative workflow solutions for critical sectors.

• Work with a passionate and dedicated team committed to innovation and excellence.

• Drive substantial growth and make a significant impact in a rapidly evolving industry.

Mattermost co-founders and senior product and engineering leaders will be deeply involved in the interview process and participate early in the discussions.

$165,000 - $2,400,000 a year

Mattermost is an EEO Employer. We are a remote-first, open source company.

We are constantly working towards adding more countries/regions to this list, but first we need to make sure we are compliant with local laws and regulations, which takes time. 

Mattermost is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people from all walks of life. We don't discriminate against staff or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!