Principal Product Manager

Summary

Join Paired, a leading couples app with 12M+ downloads, as a Principal Product Manager to lead the strategy and execution of the Connection pillar, the app's core experience. You will work with engineers, designers, and analysts to solve complex product challenges and improve the user experience for millions of couples. This role requires strategic thinking and deep execution, shaping product direction in a rapidly growing market. You will champion personalization, define product systems, and act as a company-wide thought partner. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in high-growth consumer companies, a proven track record of driving complex initiatives, and a passion for improving relationships. Paired offers a fully remote position with opportunities for in-person collaboration, along with competitive compensation and benefits.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in individual contributor roles at high-growth consumer companies, with a proven track record of driving complex initiatives across multiple teams
• Demonstrated success in setting and executing product strategy at scale, particularly in environments where personalisation and retention are key
• Deep commitment to understanding customer needs and using that empathy to shape product strategy
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, with a talent for influencing and aligning cross-functional teams. You excel at bringing people together to get things done
• Track record of building products in fast-moving environments
• Skilled at navigating ambiguity, prioritising high-impact opportunities, and aligning stakeholders around critical trade-offs
• Keen eye for design and a passion for crafting experiences that users love
• Strong analytical mindset with a data-driven approach to decision-making
• Passionate about our mission to expand the reach of relationship care to more people
• Must reside in one of the six countries we recruit from and have the legal right to work there (no visa sponsorship available; we hire in GB, ES, DE, IE, DK, NL)

Responsibilities

• Drive product vision and strategy: Lead the strategic direction for Connection and intersecting experiences, aligning cross-team efforts to amplify retention and deepen relationship impact for users
• Elevate personalisation at scale: Champion the use of advanced technologies and systems to deliver deeply personalised, adaptive experiences for every couple journey
• Create clarity from ambiguity: Frame complex, open-ended challenges into clear product bets and architectural decisions that scale and endure
• Be data-informed: Conduct user research and analysis to generate insightful user-centric hypotheses for testing, aimed at improving engagement and long-term retention
• Define and evolve product systems: Set the foundation for scalable experimentation and learning culture, shaping frameworks and tools that help the team learn fast and iterate intelligently
• Act as a company-wide thought partner : Influence product direction beyond your domain, working with senior leadership to drive cross-org priorities and long-term innovation

Benefits

• Yearly salary of £100-110K (UK) / €100-125K (country-dependent)
• Significant stock options
• 25 days annual leave (+public holidays)
• Fully remote with optional access to our London office or a subsidised co-working space
• Yearly learning budget of £1,000 / €1,150 / DKK 8,700
• Three annual in-person events across Europe: two focused coworking weeks and one team-building retreat
• 3 months paid maternity and 1 month paid paternity leave (same-sex and adoptive parents included) - with local enhancements where applicable
• Comprehensive health insurance
• Opportunity to help millions of people with their relationships