Principal Product Manager, Applications - Remote Eligible

Principal Product Manager, Applications

This is a senior leadership role responsible for driving the vision, strategy, and execution for Onebrief's core application. You will oversee and coordinate our persona-based teams (Commander, Collaborator, and Creator), as well as any emerging front-end focused teams, ensuring seamless user experiences, coherent workflows, and consistent product quality across the entire application layer. Candidates who have lived in both worlds – the military environment and high-scale collaboration SaaS (e.g., Google Docs, Microsoft 365/Teams/Loop, Atlassian Confluence, Figma, Miro)-will be especially competitive. This role requires a strong blend of strategic leadership, cross-team orchestration, and hands-on product management expertise, with a focus on high-impact outcomes for diverse end-users in complex, high-stakes environments.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Vision

• Define, communicate, and align team to a unified product vision and strategy for all application teams, aligning their roadmaps to company-level objectives and user needs
• Set and drive cross-team priorities, ensuring that Commander, Collaborator, and Creator products deliver a seamless, integrated experience for all user personas
• Partner with executive leadership, platform and AI teams, and other stakeholders to shape the long-term direction of application products, balancing near-term delivery with long-term innovation

Cross-Team Coordination & Oversight

• Lead the coordination of strategic initiatives, roadmap planning, and execution across application teams, identifying and resolving cross-team dependencies and bottlenecks
• Ensure clean integration of application features with shared platform services (e.g., data models, UI libraries, real-time sync), with clear interfaces and reuse of core components
• Establish and run mechanisms for alignment, such as product councils, shared planning rituals, and transparent decision-making frameworks

Product Excellence & Execution

• Set high standards for UX, quality, reliability, and performance across all application surfaces
• Use user research, analytics, and feedback loops to inform priorities, guide iteration, and measure impact
• Ensure that each application team (Commander, Collaborator, Creator) delivers on its charter:
• Commander: High-fidelity, actionable brief outputs and approval flows tailored for senior decision-makers
• Creator: Powerful, flexible tools for authoring complex plans and content, enabling rapid iteration and high-quality outputs
• Collaborator: Robust systems for feedback, tasking, comments, permissions, and provenance, supporting safe and efficient multi-user collaboration

Stakeholder Engagement

• Champion the voice of the user, grounded in a deep understanding of customer workflows and mission-critical needs
• Serve as the primary point of contact for application-layer product strategy, representing application team needs and priorities to executive leadership and the broader organization
• Build strong partnerships with engineering, design, customer success, and go-to-market teams to ensure successful delivery and adoption

Talent Development & Team Leadership

• Lead and mentor application Product Managers, providing coaching, context, and support to enable high performance and growth
• Help shape the application product management organization, contributing to hiring, onboarding, and best practices for distributed, cross-functional teams

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in product management, including significant leadership of multiple product teams or large-scale, cross-functional initiatives
• Experience building or operating at-scale collaborative productivity platforms (e.g., Google Docs, Microsoft 365/Teams, Atlassian, Slack, Figma, Miro, Notion, Dropbox, Coda, Airtable, Smartsheet, etc.)
• Prior experience in defense, government, or other regulated industries where trust, security, and reliability are paramount
• Deep understanding of modern product development practices, including user-centered design and data-driven decision-making
• Track record of strategic leadership: defining vision, setting priorities, and driving alignment across multiple teams
• Demonstrated success shipping and scaling complex B2B/SaaS products
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; able to translate complex product and technical concepts to diverse audiences
• Experience working with platform teams and shared services, ensuring robust interfaces and minimizing duplication of effort
• High degree of ownership, intellectual honesty, and a bias for action; thrives in ambiguity and drives clarity and results
• U.S. citizenship and ability to work with sensitive or classified customer data

Location: Remote

Compensation: $250k - $285k salary with significant equity

Additional Benefits:

• Flexible Work Environment: Remote work with flexible hours and unlimited PTO.
• Comprehensive Health Coverage: Health, dental, vision, and life insurance.
• Retirement Plan: 401(k) plan to secure your future.
• Parental Leave: 8 weeks at 100% regardless of state.
• Company Retreats: Annual company summit trips.
• Home Office Budget: $1,000 per year for home office improvements.