[Hiring] Principal Product Manager @Harman

Role Description

At Roon, we are at the forefront of revolutionizing the way people experience music. Since our inception, we have dedicated ourselves to developing software that transforms music streaming into an immersive journey, tailored specifically to the listener's preferences and unique tastes.

This is the most senior product role on Roon, and it is a hands-on one. You will set the direction the product takes, and then do the work that gets it there: the research, the strategy, the feature definition, the prototypes. You will have engineers and a designer to build with, and no support function to hand the thinking to.

What You Will Do

• Own product strategy:
• Define who Roon is for and what we do better than anyone else for them.
• Grow the audience:
• Determine who the serious listener of the next decade is, how they discover and consume music, and what Roon has to become to belong in their setup. Do this without losing the listeners who pay for Roon today.
• Represent the listener:
• Maintain an accurate picture of who our users are and what they need, drawing on direct conversations, community forums, support tickets, reviews, and product data.
• Define the feature set:
• Translate strategy into a specific set of features with a clear rationale for each, and decide what gets built, what gets cut, and what we will not take on.
• Own the roadmap:
• Sequence the work across multiple quarters, keep it current, and build the implementation plan with engineering, in specifications clear enough for the team to start work.
• Build the measurement practice:
• Instrument what matters, define the metrics that decide whether a feature worked, and move Roon from gut to evidence.
• Prototype your own ideas:
• Build working, interactive prototypes yourself with AI tooling, close to our design language, and bring them to the team as the starting point for an idea.
• Hold the quality bar:
• Have and defend opinions on interaction, information density, defaults, naming, and how the product feels to use, working with design as a peer.
• Investigate our codebase:
• Use AI coding tools to establish how Roon behaves today, including business rules, constraints, and edge cases, before specifying changes.
• Build your own tooling:
• Create the research pipelines, internal tools, automations, and evaluation harnesses you need to work effectively.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in product management, including having owned the strategy for a whole product or business rather than a feature area.
• A personal connection to music, as a collector, musician, producer, DJ, critic, or someone who has spent years listening closely.
• A clear sense of what good looks like and the ability to choose between competing versions of something and explain the reasoning.
• AI is already part of your daily work, from research synthesis through to prototyping and the tooling you build for yourself.
• Comfortable committing to a position with incomplete information and defending it to engineering, design, and senior leadership.
• Strong communication skills for writing for a public community and senior leadership.
• Experience building measurement practices and familiarity with subscription metrics.
• Technical fluency to understand how systems work and why constraints exist.

Requirements

• Willingness to travel up to 5%, domestically and internationally.
• Able to work virtually in any US time zone.
• Successfully complete a background investigation and drug screen as a condition of employment.

Benefits

• Flexible work environment, allowing for full-time remote work globally for positions that can be performed outside a HARMAN or customer location.
• Access to employee discounts on world-class Harman and Samsung products (JBL, HARMAN Kardon, AKG, and more).
• Extensive training opportunities through our own HARMAN University.
• Competitive wellness benefits.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• "Be Brilliant" employee recognition and rewards program.
• An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development.