Principal Product Manager, UX Foundations

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.

Besides the great compensation package and culture that thrives in openness and excellence, we invest tremendous effort into developing our remote employees’ careers. The team embraces that we have a sole purpose: to help customers maximize their full revenue potential on the Apollo platform. This mindset opens us up to a lot of creative approaches to making customers successful at scale. You’ll be a significant part of a lean, remote team, empowered to really own your role as a proactive educator. We’re very collaborative at Apollo, so you’ll be able to lean on your teammates, even in adjacent departments, to help you achieve lofty goals. You’ll be supported and encouraged to experiment and take educated risks that lead to big wins. And, you’ll have a whole team remotely by your side to help you do it!