Principal Product Manager

Job Description

Principal Product Manager (IC role) | Financial Services Platform
Full time | Hybrid Sydney

We’re recruiting a Principal Product Manager for a fast-growing business in the insurance/fintech space. This is a hands on Individual Contributor role for a builder who thrives close to delivery - not a people manager, and not a strategy only PM.

This is a unique opportunity to help evolve and scale an established product and platform as the business moves further from startup into scale-up.

The Role

As Principal Product Manager, you’ll take ownership of a platform / technical product area and play a key role in scaling capability, improving how the product works, and shipping meaningful outcomes.

This is not greenfield “from scratch”, but it does require a builder’s mindset - you’ll be improving what exists while also building new capability where required.

You’ll partner closely with engineering, design and stakeholders across the business to run discovery, define priorities, and deliver end to end.

What we’re looking for

This role leans technical / platform more than commercial/strategy.

You are likely someone who has worked in areas like:

• platforms or shared services

• APIs / integrations

• internal tools

• workflow systems

• technical product domains

We’re open to someone slightly less tenured than “traditional Principal” if you’re hungry, hands on, and you’ve built real product momentum.

Key responsibilities

• Own the strategy and roadmap for your platform/product area, aligned to business goals

• Lead discovery to identify the right problems to solve (qual + quant), then define clear product bets

• Translate complex technical needs into clear, prioritised outcomes and delivery plans

• Partner deeply with engineering to drive delivery, trade-offs, sequencing and quality

• Work cross-functionally with design, data, operations and leadership to influence decisions and execution

• Improve scalability and capability over time (performance, reliability, tooling, platform maturity)

• Drive a high-ownership delivery rhythm: outcomes, experimentation, iteration, and measurable impact

Skills & experience

• Proven experience as a Product Manager in technical and/or platform environments

• Strong delivery track record across both:

  • 0–1 (building new capability) and

  • 1–N (scaling/improving an existing product)

• Comfortable working with engineers on technical concepts (APIs, integrations, systems, platform trade-offs)

• Strong discovery and problem-solving skills - able to turn ambiguity into action

• Confident communicator and stakeholder manager across multiple teams

• Experience in regulated industries (insurance, fintech, financial services) is beneficial but not essential

• A “builder” mindset - practical, proactive, and biased toward shipping

What this role is NOT

To help candidates self-select, this role is not:

• a people leadership role

• a PM role for someone wanting to transition into management in the short to medium term

• purely strategy / commercial / GTM-focused

• greenfield product creation from nothing

This is a hands on platform product role for someone who wants to build and scale.

How to apply

If this sounds like you, apply now via the job post. You do need to be based in Sydney as it's a hybrid role, and with full working rights.