Senior Principal Product Manager

Summary

Join Anaplan as a Principal Level Outbound Product Manager for Anaplan Data Orchestrator (ADO) and play a key role in driving product strategy and innovation. You will represent ADO to Anaplan's internal field organization, acting as a trusted technical advisor for strategic accounts. This role requires a strong product management background and extensive experience in data orchestration and data management. Based in the USA, you will collaborate with product and UX leaders, ensuring customer needs are met. You will also lead thought leadership initiatives, shaping go-to-market approaches and building trusted relationships with stakeholders. This position offers the opportunity to significantly impact the direction of the ADO platform and contribute to Anaplan's continued growth.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise data software technology
• 5+ years at senior level (Sr. Director)
• 10+ years of experience in database, data management, and/or data-lake environments, combined with a deep understanding of data architectures
• Deep domain knowledge of Planning & Analytics software technologies
• Strong understanding of product management lifecycle and product launch processes
• Extensive experience in working in/with product management & engineering teams
• Worked in the following roles: Senior IT leadership roles at a large enterprise in CPG, Retail, FSI, Manufacturing, Energy, Transportation
• Senior field advisory roles at large tech companies like Microsoft, AWS, SAP, Oracle, ServiceNow, Databricks, Snowflake
• Senior consultant or practice lead at a big consultancy firm
• Led high-impact data transformation projects at enterprise scale
• Proficiency in gathering and analysing market and customer insights
• Excellent leadership skills – understand how to balance inputs, lead teams, prioritise, and make data-driven decisions
• Experience in creating and managing product roadmaps
• Experience in creating enablement documentation, including technical & support style documents
• Excellent organizational skills and experience in managing projects with multiple stakeholders to ensure successful product delivery
• Highly analytical and able to troubleshoot issues quickly; candidates should be able to go from high level to low level very easily
• A passion for building communities and enabling people
• Team player with the ability to work autonomously

Responsibilities

• Co-drive the ADO product strategy & innovation
• Drive Adoption of your Anaplan focus area by evangelizing ADO
• Collaborate with Product and UX leaders to ensure the voice of the customer is always considered in product/feature development
• Thought Leadership: Represent product management for ADO towards prospects and customers, at industry events, and through social media
• Co-lead the Anaplan Data Orchestrator product strategy and innovation
• Understand data market trends, evolutions, and customer requirements, and translate these into value-driven product capabilities
• Co-drive the Anaplan Data Orchestration roadmap and investment areas
• Build trusted technical advisor relationships with key stakeholders in the Anaplan field, prospects, and customers
• Highly senior communications in-person, on stage, and in writing