Principal Product Manager (IC)

Location: Chicago, United States; hybrid with 3 days in the office.

Company

hirify.global builds technology that connects schools, educators, data, and operational processes to improve education staffing and help place the right educator in the right classroom.

What you will do

• Frame real problems and identify the shortest path to proving or disproving them.
• Combine qualitative user insight with quantitative data to guide priorities.
• Work with design, engineering, and operations to ship, learn, and iterate.
• Define success metrics connected to business outcomes.
• Improve product practices through better tools, habits, and feedback loops.
• Shape solutions, test assumptions, speak with users, remove blockers, and help teams focus on high-impact work.

Requirements

• 10+ years building and scaling digital products or systems with measurable impact in a marketplace business.
• Experience running discovery, experiments, and delivery end-to-end across a portfolio of product lines.
• Experience setting strategic goals and driving delivery of products or experiences that achieve them.
• Comfort working with data, including spreadsheets, dashboards, BI systems, or SQL when needed.
• Strong collaboration with engineering, design, operations, sales, and growth teams.
• Evidence of simplifying complex problems and systems into clear, usable solutions.
• Ability to lead as an individual contributor, mediate differing perspectives, create alignment, and operate effectively amid ambiguity.

Nice to have

• Experience in EdTech or adjacent verticals.
• Experience in hybrid physical and digital environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Work focused on improving children’s futures.
• 25 days of holiday plus bank holidays.
• Health and life insurance, stock options, Cycle to Work, and Electric Vehicle schemes.
• Coaching and development support.
• A culture emphasizing clarity, pace, sustainability, kindness, understanding, equity, and inclusion.

Hiring process

• Introductory conversation followed by a product deep dive covering how you think, what you have built, and what you have learned.
• Competency- and behaviour-based interview.
• Task and meeting with the team.