Mapbox · 5 months ago
Principal Product Manager, Navigation
Mapbox US
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$202K/yr - $274K/yr
10+ years expMapbox is the leading real-time location platform for location-aware businesses, providing tools for navigation across various sectors. As a Principal Product Manager, you will define and execute product roadmaps, engage with customers to understand their needs, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive business growth and product innovation.
Business IntelligenceFleet ManagementLogisticsMapping ServicesSaaS
Responsibilities
Define and execute a product roadmap that aligns with Mapbox’s overall business objectives by conducting analysis of industry trends and competitive landscape and identifying opportunities for innovation
Regularly engage our customers via video conversations, emails, and in person visits (15% travel) to understand their needs and pain points, as well as validate our proposed solutions
Identify areas for improvement, define & prioritize algorithm development initiatives aligned with business objectives and market trends
Analyze large datasets to identify trends and opportunities for improvement. Leverage data-driven insights to inform product decisions and optimize algorithm performance
Partner with engineering leads to balance feature development with technical debt and scalability. Work closely with marketing, sales, and customer success teams to optimize go-to-market strategies, product messaging, and client support
Lead and mentor a team of Machine Learning Engineers, Software Engineers, Data Engineers, and Product Managers and drive innovation
Drive consumer adoption, engagement, and retention through innovative product solutions. You’ll own the pricing and packaging of your product as a standalone SKU (including sales enablement, marketing, customer trials, partnership opportunities)
Qualification
Required
10+ years as a Product Manager: Extensive hands-on experience showcasing expertise and a strong track record in the field
Technical expertise: Our teams and customers are technical and value clinical analyses, critical thinking, and technical depth. You understand and can explain complex technical concepts to a non-technical audience
Data informed mindset: You believe in the value of data informed decision making and strive to measure things that are not straight forward but essential. You also have the right instincts to make speedy decisions in the absence of perfect & comprehensive data
Experience bringing products to market: You have a proven track record of shipping successful products. You have experience coordinating deadlines, setting pricing, developing a marketing strategy, and enabling support teams
Ownership & execution: Own the vision, lead the strategy, and guide the team to execute towards building the future of your product. Experience leading with empathy globally distributed product and engineering teams
Customer focus: You care deeply about your customers and their problems, and you work tirelessly to innovate on their behalf
Growth mindset: Have the humility to accept mistakes, learn and grow from them
Partnership: Experience collaborating across teams and domains including product, executives, design & key stakeholders to help drive key search decisions that influence the business
Strong written and vocal communication skills: You can talk and write about complex ideas concisely to a wide audience. You are able to lead and resolve company-wide technical discussions and are able to collaborate and include input from cross-functional teams (security, devops, data, compliance, and product)
High standards for work: You drive a culture of quality on the teams you work with and know how to drive healthy tension between quality and velocity
Preferred
Prior experience in Search, Maps, and/or Navigation. While domain expertise is valuable, at our core, we are individuals who are technical, customer-focused, genuinely curious, adaptive, and eager to transform customer experiences from what they are today
Prior experience in delivering B2B APIs, SDKs, and/or iOS/Android App products
Advanced degree (Masters and/or PhD) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
Prior experience in software engineering, data engineering, or related technical field
Benefits
Supportive health care
Parental leave
Flexibility for the things that come up in life
Company
Mapbox
Mapbox develops a location data platform for mobile and web applications.
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (15)
2024 (10)
2023 (17)
2022 (18)
2021 (12)
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$614.17MKey Investors
SoftBankPremji InvestSoftBank Vision Fund
2023-09-19Series E· $280M
2021-03-01Series Unknown
2020-05-01Series D· $107M
Leadership Team
Peter Sirota
Chief Executive Officer
Scott Hill
Chief Financial Officer
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