Principal Product Manager

The Principal Product Manager will deliver strategic leadership across Trellint’s citation management product portfolio, creating a cohesive product vision and multi-year investment strategy. Reporting to the Head of Product, this role translates long-term direction into measurable outcomes while aligning cross-functional teams to advance parking enforcement and curbside management.

Strategic Leadership and Portfolio Direction

• Define and own the strategic vision, positioning, and multi-year roadmap for Trellint’s citation management products.
• Translate company strategy, market dynamics, and customer needs into portfolio priorities and investment recommendations.
• Identify opportunities for innovation and differentiation in the curbside management space.
• Establish measurable outcomes and success metrics for investment decisions.

Roadmapping, Execution Frameworks, and Lifecycle Decisions

• Convert portfolio strategy into sequenced roadmaps, product initiatives, and clear decision frameworks.
• Balance growth opportunities, customer commitments, technical sustainability, and resource constraints across products.
• Guide product lifecycle decisions, including incubation, scaling, integration, modernization, and retirement.

Customer, Partner, and Executive Engagement

• Serve as a visible product leader with strategic customers, prospects, partners, and industry stakeholders.
• Lead executive-level discovery, advisory discussions, roadmap reviews, and solution validation with customers.
• Represent Trellint at customer meetings, conferences, and other industry forums.
• Influence executive and functional leaders through clear product narratives, evidence-based recommendations, and transparent trade-offs.

Research, Insights, and Data-Driven Recommendations

• Synthesize market research, competitive intelligence, customer feedback, and product data into strategic recommendations.
• Apply deep knowledge of parking, curbside management, citation management, permit management, or municipal operations to anticipate market needs.
• Use analytical skills and market, customer, financial, and product-performance data to guide decisions.

Cross-Functional Alignment and Go-to-Market Support

• Align Research & Development, Design, Customer Care, PMO, Sales, Marketing, and Professional Services around product priorities.
• Support go-to-market strategy, demos, RFPs, proposals, pricing, and major customer pursuits with portfolio-level expertise.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of industry experience in parking, curbside management, or other municipal or government operations.
• Strong strategic judgment connecting market insight, customer needs, technology choices, and business outcomes.
• Executive presence and exceptional communication skills with customers, senior leaders, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Ability to lead through influence, navigate ambiguity, and resolve complex portfolio-level trade-offs.
• Strong analytical skills using market, customer, financial, and product-performance data to guide decisions.
• Sufficient technical aptitude to shape platform strategy and collaborate credibly with architecture and engineering leaders.
• Experience with product management tools (Jira, Pendo, Figma, etc.) preferred.
• Ability to travel up to 25% to attend onsite meetings and conferences and visit customers.

Tools and Technologies

• Jira
• Pendo
• Figma

Work Details

• Location: California (onsite)
• Experience: 10+ years
• Openings: 1
• Employment Type: Regular