Principal Product Manager

Abbott is seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead Enterprise Developer Experience strategy, roadmap, and measurable outcomes for platforms and tools developers rely on.

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate the Developer Experience product vision, portfolio strategy, and roadmap.
• Prioritize investments using developer research, product telemetry, business value, technical health, risk, and cost.
• Align domain roadmaps, identify duplication and gaps, and guide decisions across build, buy, standardize, and retirement.
• Use critical thinking and data-driven analysis to evaluate priorities, risks, opportunities, and long-term enterprise impact.
• Drive alignment and leadership across teams by facilitating decision-making and partnering with stakeholders at all levels.
• Set product direction for AI coding assistants, agentic workflows, enterprise knowledge integration, AI-enabled testing, documentation, and operational workflows.
• Partner with engineering, architecture, security, data, privacy, legal, risk, and procurement to establish safe and scalable enterprise patterns.
• Drive adoption through onboarding, education, reusable practices, communities of practice, support, and clear responsible-use guidance.
• Mentor and guide cross-functional teams, supporting collaboration, innovation, continuous improvement, and customer-centric thinking.
• Build continuous discovery and feedback loops with developers, engineering leaders, and technical communities.
• Translate workflow pain points and unmet needs into clear product outcomes, priorities, and roadmaps.
• Represent the developer perspective in architecture, security, governance, and investment decisions.
• Partner with engineering and platform teams from discovery through delivery, launch, adoption, and lifecycle management.
• Make trade-offs transparent across developer value, reliability, security, technical health, operational risk, and enterprise priorities.
• Define success measures for developer flow, platform and AI adoption, satisfaction, delivery performance, self-service, quality, cost, and risk.
• Ensure accountability across teams for strategic objectives, adoption targets, and operational excellence.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field.
• 10+ years overall experience, including 8+ years of product management experience.
• Strong experience owning enterprise developer experience platforms, software development tooling, and AI Developer Experience capabilities.
• Proven ability setting product strategy, making portfolio trade-offs, and delivering measurable outcomes across multiple teams.
• Technical fluency with the ability to build credibility with engineers, architects, security teams, and senior technology leaders.
• Experience guiding decisions with customer research, product telemetry, operational data, and business evidence.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and align teams when ownership, funding, and priorities are distributed.
• Exceptional communication, relationship-building, and decision-making skills.
• Leadership capability to coach, mentor, and influence technical and business teams without direct authority.
• Strong critical thinking and analytical problem-solving skills to navigate ambiguity and make sound strategic decisions.
• Experience managing technology investments, budgets, vendor relationships, and value realization initiatives.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with developer platforms, internal products, or one or more Developer Experience domains.
• Experience with AI-enabled products, AI-assisted software development, or responsible enterprise AI adoption.
• Experience working in a large, matrixed, global, or regulated organization.
• Experience leading enterprise change initiatives and driving adoption of new technologies and ways of working.

Capabilities in Scope

• Source control and collaboration
• Build and release automation
• Internal developer portals and self-service
• Development environments
• Automated testing
• Engineering intelligence
• Secure software delivery
• AI Developer Experience capabilities

Benefits

• Free medical coverage in Abbott’s Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year
• Retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement
• Freedom 2 Save student debt program
• FreeU education benefit
• Health and wellness benefits (see www.abbottbenefits.com)

Role Details

• Location: Waukegan, IL (onsite)
• Work arrangement: Not remote
• Base pay: $129,300.00 – $258,700.00 per year
• Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to employee diversity