Position Purpose:

The Product Principal for Content Supply Chain connects strategy to execution across the disciplines that move creative assets from production to customer experience: Digital Asset Management, Content Management, Campaign Activation and Email, Ad Builder, and SEO. This role bridges product direction and delivery, ensuring that work across these domains coheres into a unified content supply chain capability rather than a collection of independent tools and workflows.

Product Principals are leaders, not just senior practitioners. They are expected to operate simultaneously across three dimensions: leading complex programs through delivery with full accountability for outcomes; raising the capability and craft of the teams around them through mentorship, standards-setting, and knowledge-sharing; and representing the domain with credibility to senior stakeholders and cross-functional partners without requiring escalation. The Product Principal brings both intellectual rigor and decisiveness to ambiguous problems, driving clarity and momentum where others surface questions. They partner closely with engineering and data science counterparts, product directors, and senior business leaders, and are trusted to represent the content supply chain portfolio in high-stakes conversations. Typically reports to the Director, Sr. Director.

Key Responsibilities:

• 10% Delivery and Execution – Coordinates Distinguished Engineers, User Experience Principals, and Impacted Teams to ensure path to scope is known and aligned; Reviews recommended solutions and work of product team to ensure products are aligned with company, stakeholder and end user priorities
• 60% Strategy and Planning – Partners with either a Cross-Functional Program or Technology Portfolio to align outcomes; Cascading context up to leadership and strategy down to balanced teams using OKRs; Lead cross-functional discovery by partnering with UX Principals, Distinguished Engineers (DEs), and balanced teams; Creation, coordination, and sequencing of activities to ensure alignment across impacted teams (Inputs for planning sessions); Providing visibility of the work by providing holistic roadmap with dependencies
• 30% Team and Stakeholder – Partners with leadership to represent the portfolio during enterprise planning, coordination, and discovery; Fosters collaboration across multiple teams and portfolios to drive value and identify and resolve impediments; Manages cross-functional team and stakeholder expectations to ensure scoping aligns to product strategy and provides education to requestors to determine prioritization based on tangible benefits and/or user experience

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• This position typically reports to Director
• This position has 0 Direct Reports

Travel Requirements:

• Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.

Physical Requirements:

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions:

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working across content operations or marketing technology domains, including familiarity with asset management, content publishing, digital activation, or search optimization
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional programs from initiation through delivery without requiring close direction
• Proven track record of mentoring product practitioners and elevating team craft, not just individual output
• Ability to translate technical concepts and platform constraints into clear business implications for diverse audiences
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience presenting to senior leadership
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and a track record of structuring problems before solving them
• 2+ years of previous leadership experience

Minimum Education:

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Preferred Education:

• No additional education

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

• 8

Preferred Years of Work Experience:

• No additional years of experience

Minimum Leadership Experience:

• None

Preferred Leadership Experience:

• None

Certifications:

• None

Competencies:

• Business Insights
• Drives Vision and Purpose
• Manages Ambiguity
• Nimble Learning
• Self-Development
• Collaborates
• Cultivates Innovation
• Manages Complexity
• Situational Adaptability
• Balances Stakeholders
• Communicates Effectively
• Customer Focus
• Drives Results
• Interpersonal Savvy
• Organizational Savvy