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People Inc. · 3 days ago

Principal Product Manager, Machine Learning Platform

New York, NY

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$150K/yr - $175K/yr

7+ years exp

People Inc. is a company that powers content discovery and publishing experiences across its 30+ brands, reaching over 100M users monthly. They are seeking a Principal Product Manager to drive the evolution of their internal platforms, focusing on building scalable ML-enabling services that enhance development velocity and improve consistency across teams.

AdvertisingCommunitiesContentDigital MediaE-CommerceEducationInternetInternet of ThingsPublishing

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Define and maintain a platform roadmap aligned with company-wide goals and engineering priorities

Prioritize investments that reduce redundant work, improve developer satisfaction, and unlock new end-user capabilities

Make deliberate tradeoffs—focusing as much on what not to build as what to include to preserve platform coherence

Act now not later, move with urgency while staying aligned to the long-term vision

Champion the platform as a product, not just a set of tools—requiring careful, opinionated curation

Avoid the 'feature shop trap' by recognizing patterns in requests and designing extensible, self-service capabilities

Promote modularity, standardization, and reusability across services to reduce fragmentation and technical debt

Deliver with intention, by thoughtfully balancing user problems with platform coherence

Lead multi-team initiatives for search, recommendations, content enrichment, and LLM infrastructure

Serve as the connective tissue between platform engineering, infrastructure, data science, and consuming teams

Collaborate respectfully to align stakeholders around shared technical outcomes

Treat internal developers as primary customers—improving API usability, documentation, and onboarding

Build trusted, self-serve services with intuitive interfaces and strong feedback loops

Make it matter by solving real developer pain points with empathy and insight

Experience designing compelling migration paths and driving adoption of new platform capabilities

Ability to incentivize teams to adopt platform services through demonstrable value through efficiency, reliability, or new functionality

Support teams throughout the transition process to reduce total cost of ownership

Champion accountability in getting teams successfully onto future-proof platforms

Partner with engineering to ensure platform reliability, stability, and performance

Champion SLOs, observability, and self-healing capabilities as foundational product attributes

Avoid operational burden falling to users by proactively addressing edge cases and failure modes

Expect integrity in how we build, test and scale platform services

Define and track platform leverage metrics—e.g., engineering hours saved, duplicated work eliminated, system uptime

Balance platform health metrics with adoption, developer satisfaction, and impact to end-user outcomes

Build feedback loops to continuously iterate on platform capabilities

Identify and prioritize future-facing opportunities like vector search and LLM-ready APIs

Serve as a force multiplier by enabling faster, more innovative delivery across the org

Embrace change to grow–pioneer forward-thinking technical capabilities that empower teams

Qualification

Machine Learning platformsSearch systemsRecommendations systemsVector databasesProduct managementAgile developmentCross-functional collaborationEmpathyCommunication skillsStrategic thinking

Required

Bachelor's degree required in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related field and/or equivalent experience

7+ years in product management including experience delivering ML-powered platforms

Strong understanding of search and/or recommendations systems, vector databases, and LLM application patterns

Proven success leading technical products that span multiple teams or business units, ideally in media, content, or developer-focused domains

Experience designing and driving adoption of migration strategies and self-serve capabilities

Deep fluency in partnering with engineers on architecture, tradeoffs, and system design

Ability to balance strategic thinking with empathetic customer insight—translating stated needs and revealed preferences into impactful solutions

Track record of avoiding reactive build cycles by thoughtfully prioritizing platform focus and extensibility

Exceptional collaboration and communication skills—able to influence without authority and align cross-functional stakeholders

Familiar with Agile development processes and modern experimentation practices

Benefits

Medical

Dental

Vision

Prescription drug coverage

Unlimited paid time off (PTO)

Adoption or surrogate assistance

Donation matching

Tuition reimbursement

Basic life insurance

Basic accidental death & dismemberment

Supplemental life insurance

Supplemental accident insurance

Commuter benefits

Short term and long term disability

Health savings and flexible spending accounts

Family care benefits

A generous 401K savings plan with a company match program

10-12 paid holidays annually

Generous paid parental leave (birthing and non-birthing parents)

Pet insurance

Accident

Critical and hospital indemnity health insurance coverage

Life and disability insurance

Company

People Inc.

People Inc. is a digital media company that specializes in research, technology, finance, operations, and consumer services.

Founded in 1996

New York, New York, USA

1001-5000 employees

https://www.people.inc/

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