Group Product Manager (Optimization)

About the role

This Group Product Manager role involves leading Contentful's Optimization teams, managing a suite of products spanning analytics, personalization, and experimentation. You'll shape strategic thinking in customer experience optimization while leading and mentoring a team of product managers in a fast-evolving AI-driven market.

What you'll do

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of product managers with regular feedback and career development support
• Influence how Contentful evolves to support customer journey optimization and ROI measurement at scale
• Integrate AI and extensible platform capabilities into product strategy for automation and content performance optimization
• Drive product vision and execute roadmaps in cross-functional teams within an agile environment
• Partner with Engineering, UX, and Product Marketing to balance short-term priorities with long-term strategic needs
• Collaborate with stakeholders across Marketing, Customer Success, and Sales for customer journey alignment
• Champion agile methodologies, data-driven decision making, and experimentation best practices
• Conduct market research and customer collaboration to capture requirements and refine product vision
• Define scope and success criteria for initiatives while supporting Product Managers in high-impact decisions

What you'll need

• Experience as Group Product Manager or Principal PM leading multiple teams in B2B SaaS context
• Track record of setting product strategy, managing roadmaps, and delivering outcomes across platform layers
• Proven experience building and scaling data platforms and API-first products
• People leadership experience successfully managing and coaching Product Managers
• Strong collaboration and communication skills across product, design, engineering, marketing, and field teams
• Hands-on approach with grit and willingness to dive into details for problem-solving
• Ability to understand new technologies in depth and eagerness to learn integration technologies

Nice to have

• Background in AI/ML, CRO, analytics, personalization, or content management domains

What they offer

• Stock options for full-time employees
• Fertility and family building benefits with lifetime reimbursable wallet
• Generous paid time off including vacation, sick, education, compassion, and volunteer days
• Personal annual education budget for skills improvement and career growth
• Annual wellbeing stipend for physical, financial, or emotional health
• Monthly communication stipend and office equipment stipend for hybrid/distributed employees