About the opportunity

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to help build capabilities that enable personalization and optimization at scale. This role focuses on shaping foundational systems and customer-facing functionality used to deliver personalized, high-performing digital experiences.

The ideal candidate is passionate about data-driven products and excels at owning the end-to-end lifecycle of a product, responsible for defining, evolving, and ensuring a successful execution across a wide product surface that helps enterprise customers, deliver personalized experiences, and continuously optimize results. The scope includes data infrastructure, intelligent automation, and visual experiences - all powered by innovative AI capabilities.

This is an opportunity to play a key role in shaping how digital teams measure and grow their content’s impact in a fast-evolving AI-driven market.

What to expect?

Own the end-to-end lifecycle of product capabilities, from discovery through delivery, iteration, and measurable outcomes.
Define and evolve APIs, SDKs, and AI systems that power personalization and experimentation use cases at scale.
Partner closely with Engineering on system design, architectural trade-offs, scalability, and long-term technical direction.
Drive product decisions that support personalization at scale, including emerging agentic and automated optimization approaches.
Apply domain knowledge in personalization, experimentation, and optimization to guide prioritization and roadmap decisions.
Engage directly with customers, partners, and prospects to understand needs, validate solutions, and represent the product externally.
Collaborate with Product Marketing and Go-To-Market teams to shape clear value propositions and customer narratives.
Work cross-functionally with Research, Design, Engineering, Data, and other Product teams to deliver cohesive, extensible solutions.
Balance near-term delivery with longer-term investments in internal systems and technical foundations.

What you need to be successful?

Proven experience as a Senior Product Manager owning and shipping complex products through a full lifecycle in a B2B SaaS context.
Strong technical product management skills, with experience working on APIs, SDKs, or data- and platform-oriented products.
Ability to engage deeply with engineers on technical design, constraints, and trade-offs.
Domain experience in personalization, experimentation, optimization, or adjacent problem spaces.
Strong customer empathy and experience working directly with enterprise marketers, developers, and stakeholders.
Clear, structured communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
Comfort operating independently, making decisions in ambiguous problem spaces, and driving outcomes.

What’s in it for you?

Join an ambitious tech company reshaping the way people build digital experiences
Full-time employees receive Stock Options for the opportunity to share in the success of our company
Fertility and family building benefits, including a lifetime reimbursable wallet to support your growing family.
We value Work-Life balance and You Time! A generous amount of paid time off, including vacation days, sick days, education days, compassion days for loss, and volunteer days
Time off to care for and focus on your growing family
Use your personal annual education budget to improve your skills and grow in your career
Enjoy a full range of virtual and in-person events, including workshops, guest speakers, and fun team activities, supporting learning and networking exchange beyond the usual work duties
An annual wellbeing stipend to care for your physical, financial, or emotional health
A monthly communication phone/internet stipend and phone hardware upgrade reimbursement.
New hire office equipment stipend for hybrid or distributed employees. Get the gear you need to work at your best.

Who are we?

Contentful is a leading digital experience platform that helps modern businesses meet the growing demand for engaging, personalized content at scale. By blending composability with native AI capabilities, Contentful enables dynamic personalization, automated content delivery, and real-time experimentation, powering next-generation digital experiences across brands, regions, and channels for more than 4,200 organizations worldwide. More than 700 people from more than 70 nations contribute their energy and creativity to Contentful, working from hubs in Berlin, Denver, San Francisco, London, New York, and distributed worldwide.

Everyone is welcome here!

“Everyone is welcome here” is a celebrated component of our culture. At Contentful, we strive to create an inclusive environment that empowers our employees. We believe that our products and services benefit from our diverse backgrounds and experiences, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical [dis]ability, or length of time spent unemployed. We invite you to apply and join us!

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Senior Product Manager (f/m/d)

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