Principal Product Manager, Coast

• BA/BS in an analytical field (e.g. Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Applied Sciences) or equivalent technical experience
• Minimum 6 years of product management or adjacent product-building experience
• Strong customer empathy and design thinking
• Passion for AI, shown through hands-on building, prototyping, or side projects, and staying current on research and tools
• Fluency with core LLM concepts and systems, such as prompting, fine-tuning, embeddings, retrieval, and evaluation, and the judgment to translate these into reliable, user-facing products
• Fluency with modern prototyping tools (e.g. Cursor, Bolt, Claude Code) and comfort with design/collaboration environments like Figma and Git
• Fluency in data and experimentation, and understanding when the answer cannot be found in the data
• Proven ability to lead small, cross-functional teams toward ambitious goals with urgency and agency
• Ability to translate between technical and non-technical audiences, synthesizing complex systems into compelling narratives
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills

Desirable

• As Principal Product Manager, you will own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for one of Coast’s non-fuel spend products; expanding our platform beyond fuel into the broader universe of operational expenses, including expense management, accounts payable, reimbursements, and vendor payments
• You will lead a cross-functional team of engineers and designers to build products that help fleet and field-based businesses move more of their day-to-day spend onto Coast in a way that is simpler, safer, and more trusted than existing solutions
• We’re looking for someone who is comfortable operating in ambiguity, curious about complex financial workflows, and motivated by turning messy, real-world problems into simple, intuitive products
• You should be equally comfortable thinking at a systems level and getting hands-on, whether that’s pressure-testing a concept, prototyping a flow, or working closely with engineering to translate constraints into thoughtful product decisions
• Please note that this role will require you to be comfortable with working in-person at our NYC office at least 3.5 days/week on average
• Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for a Coast product
• Deeply understand and embody the voice of the customer
• Drive high-velocity execution with a world-class team of engineers and designers, balancing principled intuition with data-driven decision making
• Collaborate with sales, customer success and marketing to deliver a product and brand of high quality
• Marry customer insights with technical possibilities, crafting intuitive user experiences that abstract away complexity
• Prototype rapidly using tools like Cursor and Bolt to accelerate the product development lifecycle and fast-forward to production-ready products
• Stay deeply plugged into AI research, industry trends, and emergent applications, filtering signal from noise and applying it creatively to Coast’s product
• Contribute to the evolution of Coast’s product management practices as we scale AI across our platform