Principal Product Manager, Machine Learning Platform

Location: New York

**** About The Position** |
* Major goals and objectives and location requirements
*** We’re seeking a Principal Platform Product Manager to drive the evolution of our internal platforms that power content discovery and publishing experiences across People Inc.'s 30+ brands, reaching over 100M users monthly. This role sits at the intersection of engineering excellence and product strategy—focused on building scalable, reusable services that accelerate development velocity, reduce duplication, and improve consistency across teams.

This role reports to the VP of Product, Core Platform Services, and collaborates closely with Platform Engineering leadership to ensure we’re solving the right technical problems with the right strategic focus.
* 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.
* Ability to make tough decisions about what NOT to build to maintain platform coherence.
* Promote modularity, standardization, and reusability across services to reduce fragmentation and technical debt.
* Deliver with intention, by thoughtfully balancing user problems with platform coherence.
* 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.
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* Education:

**** Bachelor’s degree required in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related field and/or equivalent experience.
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* Experience:

**** 10+ years in product management, with substantial experience in internal platforms, developer tools, or ML infrastructure.
* 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.
* Strong understanding of search, recommendations, vector databases, and LLM application patterns is a major plus.
* 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.

The pay range above represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position and may change in the future. Actual pay may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to work location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of People Inc's total compensation package for employees.

Other compensation may include annual bonuses, and short- and long-term incentives. In addition, People Inc. provides to employees (and their eligible family members) a variety of benefits, including 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, and generous paid parental leave (birthing and non-birthing parents), all of which may vary depending on the specific nature of your employment with People Inc.

and your work location. We also offer voluntary benefits such as pet insurance, accident, critical and hospital indemnity health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance.
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