Principal Product Manager, Contentful
Content Platform
+ Stock options
Content management platform
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Content management platform
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Stock options
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To modernize how content flows by leading the transition from legacy CMS to content infrastructure.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience as a seasoned PM in a technical API first data workload or search product
- Proven experience in developing product market strategy and launching new products on the market
- Motivated to become a market and technology expert of the designated area
- Comfortable being hands-on in driving change and getting into the engineering aspects when required
- Proven ability to work in a highly collaborative working environment with internal and external stakeholder
- A holistic thinker who can translate the vision into strategy and execution
- Contentful works following an agile - cross-functional approach to product development so the candidate should be familiar with and effective in this sort of environment
What the job involves
- Contentful is looking for a Principal Product Manager - Content Platform
- This role will guide the evolution of the core of the Contentful’s platform into the platform to support generative AI workloads
- This role will be central in shifting the content platform concept from static data to dynamic data concept and drive the future strategy that is at the core of Contentful Content Management capabilities, notably including:
- Managed serverless content and data workloads
- Native content primitives and third-party data orchestration
- Content APIs and core content management concepts
- Platform AI capabilities and generative AI workloads and pipelines
- In this position the candidate will also engage in the domain of information management topics like search and retrieval, knowledge graphs, and ontologies, including their relations with AI capabilities like RAG
- This role works closely with product leadership, Founders and C-level
- This role might have 1-2 PM reporting into it
- Develop and evolve a market strategy for a dynamic content platform through discovery and customer interactions
- In partnership with Engineering Merge market and technological strategy into a cohesive product roadmap
- Be an active party in build/buy decision making
- Drive thought leadership initiatives in the area of content platform and workload automation
- Lead and mentor other members of the product team.
- Develop relationships with key partners to co-engineer product strategy
- Engage and communicate effectively with enterprise customers, creating strong feedback cycles in the product development process and establishing a customer-centric culture in the product organization, enabling the team to deliver both world-class enterprise software solutions and consumer-grade user experiences
Our take
Creating, distributing and managing digital content can be complex, time-consuming and difficult, especially at scale. Contentful solves this problem by centralizing all content management into one API-based system.
Since founding in 2013, Contentful has grown to become one of the largest companies of its kind. It now serves thousands of customers, many of which are enterprises such as Danone and Bang & Olufsen. Importantly, the company has continued to improve its offering, for example by partnering with eSSENTIAL Accessibility to offer a way for users to achieve ADA compliance.
In recent years, Contentful has grown its executive team, attracting top talent from companies like Zendesk and Atlassian which has helped to accelerate its ambitious growth strategy. It has also expanded its relationship with AWS, launching the Contentful Composable Content Platform in AWS Marketplace, a key move that will help to broaden its reach and ensure it remains a key player in the competitive CMS market.
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Diversity is a priority
"I really like the no-nonsense approach to D+E+I in Contentful. We employ people from over 70 nationalities, there are a lot of grassroots employee..."
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jul 2021
$175m
SERIES F
Jun 2020
$80m
SERIES E
Total funding: $331.1m
Company benefits
- Full-time employees receive Stock Options for the opportunity to share in the success of our company
- Generous amount of paid time off, including vacation days, education days, and volunteer days
- Use your personal education budget to improve your skills and grow in your career
- Enjoy a full range of virtual events, including workshops, guest speakers, and fun team activities, supporting learning and networking exchange beyond the usual work duties
- Use your physical fitness budget to get away from your desk and support your physical wellness
- A monthly phone/internet stipend and phone upgrade reimbursement after 2 years
- Plus, Contentful socks! And other amazing swag as part of company events. Oh yeah!
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for information, support, discussion, and counseling for life’s challenges
Company values
- Be humble - We are not centered on ourselves, but focus on the needs and contributions of others around them
- Embody a growth mindset - We believe in our collective potential to develop and evolve through dedication and continuous learning
- Start with the customer and work backwards - The first question we ask is “What customer need does this solve?” and treats each customer with empathy
- Strive together - Creating anything of significance without collaboration is challenging, so we work hard together to make an impact
Company HQ
Brunnenviertel, Berlin, Germany
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Leadership
Paolo Negri
(CTO)Previously worked as Senior Developer at AutoScout24, and Senior Developer Team Lead at Wooga.
Sascha Konietzke
(CSO & Board Member)Previously worked as EMEA Manager at Hewlett-Packard, and founded a range of companies including angel investment firm Ko9.
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