Principal Product Manager

Job Description

Lime is the world's largest shared electric vehicle company. We’re on a mission to build a future where transportation is shared, affordable and carbon-free. Our electric bikes and scooters have powered 700+ million rides in 250+ cities on 5 continents, replacing an estimated 150+ million car trips. Named a Time 100 Most Influential Company and Fast Company Brand That Matters, Lime continues to set the pace for shared micromobility globally.

Lime is hiring a Principal Product Manager to join our Vehicle PM team! In this role, you will report into the Senior Director of Product Management for our Hardware and Firmware.  

As a Principal Product Manager, you define the strategic vision, own the long-term roadmap, and drive teams to execute on that vision.  You are responsible for the end-to-end customer experience, working across a cross-functional team in support of our global customer base.  

We are a remote first company and for many roles, we welcome applications from anywhere we operate. It is preferred that this role is based within 60 minutes of a US city in which Lime operates.

What You'll Do:

• Define and own the product vision and roadmap, aligning with business objectives and customer needs.

• Lead cross-functional teams to bring new products to market, working closely with engineering, design, research, operations, finance, and policy teams.

• Use data and customer insights to define requirements, prioritize features, and drive decision-making.

• Write detailed product requirements and gain consensus among stakeholders.

• Oversee execution and delivery, ensuring high-quality implementation and successful product launches.

• Continuously improve products in the field, addressing key challenges for customers and internal teams.

• Engage in technical discussions, understanding trade-offs across hardware, software, firmware, and power systems.

• Identify broader business and organizational challenges and create durable solutions that drive efficiency and scalability.

• Location: This is a remote role, but the candidate is expected to travel at least 6 times per year to San Francisco or other US locations.  

About You:

• 10+ years experience as a technical leader and/or Product Manager with experience dealing directly with hardware or firmware product development.  (e.g. consumer electronics, vehicles, IoT devices, OS development, etc…)

• Passionate. Not only about Lime's mission and micromobility, but passionately focused on the vehicles and solutions that we build in our space

• Empathetic. Demonstrated ability to understand your customer, their experiences, and have a process for doing soIntellectually honest. You recognize that you can only solve problems you’re willing to call out

• Owner’s mindset. You're a self-starter and get things across the finish line.  You identify the most important challenges and tackle them. 

• Insight-led, and data optimized. You recognize great insights come from customer empathy. They’re then optimized and refined by looking at data. You’re comfortable with using data as a way of looking at a problem, and you’re confident in your ability to pull your own data to analyze a problem

• Drives Clarity.  You are comfortable with ambiguity and are able to bring Clarity and drive decisions. You are able to set direction, when we may not even know what the problem is before starting.  You look around corners and address challenges before they arise

• Operate at all levels.  You are able to drive decision making with our C-suite at one moment, and then dive deep with technical teams in the next to understand a root cause, or review a test plan.  

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If you want to make an impact, Lime is the place for you. Not sure if you meet all the qualifications? If this role excites you we encourage you to apply. Explore all opportunities on our career page.

Lime is an Equal Opportunity Employer, but that’s just the start. We believe different perspectives help us grow and achieve more. That’s why we’re dedicated to hiring and developing the most talented and globally diverse team – which includes individuals with different backgrounds, abilities, identities and experiences. Applicants who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process can email recruiting-operations@li.me for assistance. 

Use of artificial intelligence or an LLM such as ChatGPT during the interview process will be grounds for rejection of your application.