[Hiring] Principal Product Manager @Sprout Social

Role Description

Sprout Social is seeking an experienced and visionary Principal Product Manager to drive the strategy, execution, and launch of key artificial intelligence features, expanding the capabilities of Sprout’s agentic AI, Trellis. The Principal PM will work with a high degree of autonomy, serving as the deep domain expert for their focus area, driving experimentation, and fostering a culture of rapid iteration. This role is critical to Sprout’s transformation into a proactive social intelligence platform.

What you’ll do

• Define and evangelize a high-impact roadmap for Trellis Chat and Trellis Studio that translates customer needs into intuitive agentic workflows ensuring Trellis solves key customer pain points and drives ROI.
• Lead high-stakes, platform-wide initiatives by identifying integration points across the Sprout portfolio, enabling customers to achieve sophisticated outcomes with minimal effort through seamless agentic assistance.
• Partner deeply with cross-functional teams to develop our Trellis skills ecosystem.
• Serve as the primary subject matter expert for Trellis within the product org, maintaining a constant feedback loop with customers.
• Act as the connective tissue between GTM, Design, and Engineering to ensure that features are not only technically sound but also commercially viable and intuitively designed.
• Elevate the product organization’s collective AI literacy by mentoring peer PMs, sharing best practices, and helping shape the internal standards for building and shipping intelligent products.
• Stay at the forefront of AI trends and the competitor landscape.
• Drive the execution of "best-in-class" product delivery, balancing the urgency of immediate customer needs with the long-term scalability and innovation of our AI core.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of PM experience in platform or AI roles in a B2B product-driven SaaS environment.
• Experience building agentic solutions within a B2B SaaS environment.
• Proven success leading initiatives in a multi-product portfolio company.
• Experience collaborating closely with product, design, engineering, and GTM leaders to deliver cohesive solutions.

How you’ll grow

• Within 1 month, you’ll plant your roots, including:
  • Completing Sprout Social’s new hire training & onboarding program alongside other new Sprout team members.
  • Learning the current state of AI at Sprout, along with future product and technical roadmaps.
  • Diving into our products to learn about what makes our software unique and why customers love our products.
  • Beginning to understand the capabilities and limitations of our AI and data platforms.
  • Establishing relationships with other product, engineering, design and revenue leaders and identifying areas of opportunity.
  • Get hands-on with Sprout’s products, experiencing them from the customer’s perspective.
• Within 3 months, you’ll start hitting your stride by:
  • Partnering with senior AI leadership to define key success metrics for your role and teams and how you will measure against them.
  • Participating in architectural discussions and decisions, asking the right questions to guide your team to successful outcomes.
  • Participating in planning and roadmap processes and helping to shape the product roadmap for long-term success.
• Within 6 months, you’ll be making a clear impact through:
  • Owning the Trellis chat & Studio roadmap and delivering measurable results on key strategic initiatives.
  • Identifying key opportunities to improve cross-team collaboration and alignment.
  • Evangelizing our AI product vision with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Stepping up as a leader to share best practices across the Product organization and help others grow from your experiences.
  • Becoming an expert in our approach to AI and to confidently speak to ever-changing trends, new product features and platform enhancements to internal and external stakeholders.
• Within 12 months, you’ll make this role your own by:
  • Consistently meeting and exceeding established performance targets.
  • Obtaining (solicited and unsolicited) and acting upon peer, customer, and leadership feedback.
  • Continue to evolve Sprout’s product culture, shaping the next generation of product leaders.
  • Being recognized as a subject matter expert and leader of Trellis at Sprout.
  • Surprise us! Use your unique ideas and abilities to change AI and our analytical capabilities in Sprout in beneficial ways that we haven’t even considered yet!

Benefits

• Comprehensive Health & Wellness:
  • Premium BCBSIL medical, dental (high/low plans), and vision (Eyemed) insurance for you and your eligible dependents.
• Premium Mental Health Support:
  • Full, free access to Modern Health for you and your dependents, including coaching, therapy sessions, and digital wellness resources.
• Retirement Savings:
  • 401(k) plan with a 50% company match on your first 6% of contributions (a 3% total match).
• Financial Security:
  • 100% employer-paid Life and Disability insurance for your peace of mind.
• Flexible Paid Time Off:
  • A flexible PTO policy, supplemented with additional company-wide Rest & Recharge days throughout the year.
• Paid Parental Leave:
  • Up to 16 weeks of paid leave for new parents to support you in expanding your family.
• Annual Lifestyle Stipend:
  • A $1,000 USD annual Lifestyle Spending Account to spend on your physical, mental, and financial well-being.
• Work From Home Support:
  • A one-time $550 USD stipend to set up your home office, plus a monthly $50 USD stipend for internet.
• Giving Back:
  • 16 hours of paid volunteer time annually, plus a $100 annual match for your charitable donations.
• Additional Financial Perks:
  • Access to pre-tax commuter benefits, subsidized child/eldercare (Care.com), discounted pet insurance (Figo), and no-cost personalized financial wellness support through Your Money Line.