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Software Resources has an immediate job opportunity for a Principal Product Manager with a major corporation in Glendale, CA. Onsite 4 days per week; subject to change. 6+ month contract. Pay Rate: $85 – $89/hr DOE. This role sits in the Consumer Products – Licensing Technology organization within Experiences. The Principal Product Manager will report to the Senior Manager, Technology. The Principal Product Manager serves as a strategic architect and visionary leader for the Licensing Financial and Artificial Intelligence ecosystems across the global Consumer Products segment. This role transcends day-to-day execution to orchestrate multi-year technical roadmaps, driving high-stakes alignment between global executive stakeholders and technology partners to unify business objectives under a singular enterprise vision. As a primary catalyst for innovation, you will lead comprehensive change management frameworks and ecosystem-wide transformations, ensuring the organization is structurally and culturally prepared to leverage next-generation AI platforms and automated financial workflows.
Job Responsibility
Architect Strategic Vision: Define and champion the multi-year strategic vision, overarching strategy, and long-term roadmap for key product portfolios or platform capabilities within Consumer Products – Licensing Technology. Influence organizational strategy and investment decisions across Experiences
Define Ecosystem Success: Define and champion comprehensive success metrics and KPIs for entire product ecosystems, driving a culture of data-driven strategic optimization, experimentation, and continuous improvement at a strategic level
End-to-End Product Ownership and Delivery: Directly lead the full-cycle development of mission-critical CP products, moving beyond oversight to personally manage ideation, technical requirements, and delivery for the most complex systems to drive business value
Lead Portfolio Prioritization: Lead portfolio-level prioritization efforts, navigating complex trade-offs, managing dependencies across multiple initiatives, and aligning diverse stakeholders to critical strategic outcomes
Cultivate Executive Relationships: Cultivate and leverage executive-level relationships with a broad spectrum of strategic partners including product, engineering, data, design, commercial, and customer support leadership, acting as a trusted advisor and consensus builder
Strategic Governance: Translate complex global finance, revenue accounting, and AI goals into a high-level technology roadmap. You will negotiate priorities among executive stakeholders to ensure a balance between innovation and fiscal integrity
Change Management & Adoption: Orchestrate the global launch and change management plans for next-generation features. You will oversee the creation of training programs to drive product adoption across all regions.
Requirements
10+ years of progressive Product Management experience, with at least 5+ years at a Senior or Lead Product Manager level driving the end-to-end delivery of complex, enterprise-grade software
Proven track record of leading the strategy, launch, and scaling of multiple complex products or large-scale platforms through multi-year strategic roadmaps that delivered significant business impact on a global scale
2+ years of direct experience developing and deploying custom AI solutions using LLMs to automate business processes or improve business outcomes in enterprise environments
Exceptional ability to translate ambiguous customer and business needs into well-defined, scalable product strategies and actionable documentation
Expert-level experience with highly integrated accounting and finance applications (revenue, forecasting, ERP)
Exceptional communication, presentation, and negotiation skills, capable of influencing executive stakeholders and technical leadership at all levels of the organization
Strong leadership presence with the proven ability to mentor, inspire, and lead product managers, influencing without direct authority
Expertise in driving a data-driven culture, utilizing analytics and experimentation to inform and validate strategic product decisions
Expert knowledge of Agile/Scrum
ability to lead cross-functional projects and teams in a rapidly changing environment
BS/BA in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field
Nice to have
Deep understanding of the Licensing and Consumer Products industry
Master's degree or relevant professional certifications are a strong plus