Principal Product Manager - Product Catalog
Twilio- Compensation
- $171k–$252k Published range
- Location
- Remote - US Remote eligibility
- Employment
- Full-time Staff / Principal
About the job
About the job
This position is needed to evolve Twilio's global Product Catalog platform. You will lead the development of foundational data models, API syndication layers, and internal tools defining how Twilio products are packaged and launched. Working across platform engineering, finance, and operations, you will own the backend lifecycle—from NPI governance to downstream billing—driving architectural unity and accelerating time-to-market for our diverse communication and data portfolios.
Responsibilities
- Define Unified Strategy & Taxonomy: Architect and execute a comprehensive product roadmap for a centralized, multi-tenant product catalog service that scales across Twilio's global infrastructure. Establish global category hierarchies, data schemas, and parent-child variations required to represent complex developer APIs and consumption-based usage units.
- Accelerate New Product Introduction (NPI): Design, standardize, and scale the end-to-end NPI launch framework. Reduce time-to-market by transforming manual commercialization workflows into automated, self-service paths that allow product teams to rapidly configure and launch new SKUs globally.
- Standardize Catalog Governance & Tooling: Design developer-friendly API schemas and internal PIM (Product Information Management) UI tooling to allow distributed product teams (SMS, Voice, AI Agents) to self-serve catalog listings, localization attributes, and pricing metadata with zero friction.
- Acquisition, Ingestion & System Consolidation: Lead the technical strategy to seamlessly migrate and ingest legacy configurations and acquired product entities (e.g., Twilio Segment) into a single, cohesive billing and product registry. Build robust ingestion pipelines and bulk operation tools to manage the state machine and lifecycle of thousands of SKUs.
- Data Quality & Cross-Functional Consensus: Act as the strategic bridge between engineering, data infrastructure, finance, sales ops, and Twilio Trust Hub. Enforce strict normalization and de-duplication standards to ensure absolute downstream billing accuracy, zero margin leakage, and strict compliance with global telecom regulations during NPI rollouts.
- Optimize Search & Downstream Discovery: Collaborate with core Console teams to optimize how high-performance catalog metadata flows into customer discovery workflows, customer portals, and AI-driven assistant frameworks. Ensure core catalog APIs deliver rapid, reliable synchronization across all global environments.
Qualifications
Required
- Deep SaaS/PaaS Experience: Minimum of 10+ years of product management experience specifically focused on APIs, developer tooling, highly distributed backend cloud architecture, or master data orchestration.
- Mastery of Enterprise Platform Data: Proven success building or heavily scaling internal platforms like Enterprise Product Information Management (PIM), CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote) engines, billing line registries, or multi-tenant graph architectures.
- NPI & Go-To-Market Lifecycle Ownership: Proven track record of defining cross-functional NPI processes, managing SKU lifecycle state machines (Alpha/Beta to GA, deprecation, and sunsetting), and streamlining commercial readiness pipelines.
- Architectural Acumen: Extreme comfort working directly with principal engineers on complex database schema designs, graph databases, data entity relationships, attribute modeling, and downstream service propagation times.
- Ruthless Prioritization: Demonstrated ability to decode vague platform priorities, manage heavily conflicting internal stakeholder inputs, and confidently secure executive buy-in.
- Academic Background: BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent highly technical practical experience.
Desired
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or equivalent practical experience.
- Catalog Architecture & Monetization: Designed enterprise product catalog schemas and rules engines to drive complex usage-based pricing, consumption metering models, and multi-product bundle dependencies across billing systems.
- Regulated Catalog Governance: Led product catalog data governance and master data management (MDM) across globally regulated environments (telecom, FinTech, KYC), ensuring legal compliance, schema auditability, and data integrity.
Location
Remote - US. This role will be remote, but is not eligible to be hired in CA, CT, NJ, NY, PA, WA.
Travel
You may be required to travel occasionally to participate in project or team in-person meetings.
What We Offer
Working at Twilio offers many benefits, including competitive pay, generous time off, ample parental and wellness leave, healthcare, a retirement savings program, and much more. Offerings vary by location.
Compensation
Based in Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Vermont or Washington D.C.: $171,120 - $213,900. Based in New York, New Jersey, Washington State, or California (outside of the San Francisco Bay area): $181,200 - $226,500. Based in the San Francisco Bay area, California: $201,280 - $251,600. This role may be eligible to participate in Twilio’s equity plan and corporate bonus plan. All roles are generally eligible for the following benefits: health care insurance, 401(k) retirement account, paid sick time, paid personal time off, paid parental leave.
Application
Apply via the official Twilio Greenhouse job posting. Stay alert to recruitment fraud: Twilio will never ask for payment, gift cards, cryptocurrency, or banking information during the recruiting process.
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