Principal Software Product Manager

Location: Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Salary: $147,050–$230,850 USD annually, with additional bonus and/or equity opportunities for candidates in the United States.

Company

hirify.global develops consumer hardware, software, services, and operating system experiences, including notebook products.

What you will do

• Own major software initiatives from discovery and framing through delivery, launch, and iteration.
• Define product vision, strategy, requirements, and roadmaps for consumer notebook software across operating system, platform, and application layers.
• Lead market, customer, and ecosystem analysis and use quantitative and qualitative insights to guide investment and product decisions.
• Partner with engineering and architecture leaders on systems design, technical tradeoffs, platform APIs, device ecosystems, cloud services, and cross-platform interoperability.
• Coordinate execution across engineering, UX, commercial, marketing, partnerships, legal, and operations teams, including executive roadmap and planning forums.
• Engage customers and partners, influence senior stakeholders, and mentor other product managers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, software engineering, operating systems, or a closely related technical field.
• 10+ years of experience in software product management or closely related roles.
• Demonstrated success delivering large-scale, customer-facing software products in complex, global, cross-functional environments.
• Experience working with modern operating system platforms, including Windows, Linux, Android, or comparable software ecosystems.
• Experience leading multiple 0-to-1 and 1-to-N initiatives with clear customer and business impact.
• Experience defining and executing platform-level or portfolio-level product strategy and partnering deeply with engineering teams on architecture, systems design, and technical decisions.
• Strong analytical thinking for product decisions, tradeoffs, and prioritization; ability to influence senior leadership through storytelling, data, and structured thinking.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, competing priorities, and organizational complexity, including effectiveness in resource-constrained or fast-moving environments.
• Deep understanding of modern operating system architecture, platform services, application frameworks, security models, and software lifecycle considerations across Windows, Linux, Android, or similar environments; experience collaborating with platform software, operating system integration, developer framework, device service, or ecosystem teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with mobile software ecosystems, smartphone platforms, or connected device experiences.
• Familiarity with Windows, Linux, and Android platform roadmaps, developer ecosystems, and application models.
• Experience launching software experiences across multiple operating systems or device categories.
• Understanding of platform architecture, middleware, system services, and device-level software integration.
• Experience with AI-enabled, cloud-connected, or ecosystem-oriented product experiences.

Culture & Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life, and short- and long-term disability insurance.
• Employee assistance program and flexible spending account.
• Four to twelve weeks of fully paid parental leave based on tenure.
• Eleven paid holidays plus flexible paid vacation and sick leave.
• Work spans multiple functions and large, cross-division initiatives influencing long-term consumer software strategy.