Principal Product Manager

About the team:

The SkillUp team is reimagining how developers grow and how companies recognise and unlock that growth. We're building a product that blends hands-on coding, AI tutoring, and real-world skill validation to support upskilling, mobility, and the rise of Next Generation developers. As a Product Manager on this team, you’ll work closely with Design and Engineering to define a new category inside HackerRank - one that helps developers thrive and helps organisations act on skills intelligence, not guesswork.

How might we use AI tutors to drive personalised learning? How can we make developer growth measurable, motivating, and career-defining? How might a company identify and accelerate its future staff engineers, or retrain a developer into a new domain? The SkillUp team lives in these questions - and this role is central to shaping the answers.

About the role:

In this role, you'll lead the SkillUp product, empowering hundreds of thousands of developers to enhance their technical skills while enabling organisations to gain a clear view of their engineering team's skill distribution. This helps address skill gaps, drive better workforce planning, and improve retention. You'll have the opportunity and the responsibility to scale this business by thinking creatively and unlocking meaningful value for both users and buyers.

What you’ll do:

• Own the 0-1 journey – Define the vision, execute aggressively, and drive adoption.
• Develop and execute a GTM strategy – Work closely with field teams to drive the entire funnel and adoption.
• Drive rapid iteration – Make bold, data-informed bets and refine based on market signals.
• Champion SkillUp – Evangelize internally and externally to build momentum and adoption.
• Engage deeply with developers – Understand their needs and shape the product accordingly.
• Scale the business, not just the product – Ensure SkillUp drives real revenue and customer impact.
• Embrace AI - in how we operate, as well as in the product.

You will thrive in this role if:

• You are a builder at heart. You enjoy creating something from scratch, transforming ideas into tangible, high-impact products.
• Ambiguity excites you. You’re comfortable working in undefined spaces, carving out clarity where little exists, and defining a clear vision and strategy.
• You take a customer-first approach. You excel at identifying unmet customer needs and turning those insights into innovative product solutions.
• You are a strategic thinker. You can evaluate complex challenges, prioritise effectively, and make decisions that balance short-term progress with long-term success.
• You thrive in fast-paced environments. You’re energised by working on high-impact initiatives where priorities can shift as you gain new insights.
• You have a bias for action. You’re not afraid to experiment, iterate, and learn quickly in pursuit of delivering exceptional outcomes.
• You are deeply passionate about AI. You’re in the weeds and trying out AI tools constantly, and are at a point where you are using AI as a reflex to try and automate several workflows in your life and 10x yourself.

What you bring:

• Overall 7+ yrs experience, 5+ years of PM experience, preferably building B2B SaaS, enterprise products and/or tech services and/or platforms.
• Experienced building developer facing SaaS products (you can engage with engineering beyond just product and user needs) OR, 2+ years of Software Programming experience (in any industry).
• Experienced in developing a robust, long-term, data-driven, customer-focused vision and strategy.
• Experienced in building and owning roadmaps for multiple teams, backed by solid prioritization and clear milestones.
• Ability to deep dive into ambitious problem statements and create customer value.
• Proven track record of successfully launching and growing new products and/or significant features.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, cross-team, cross-geo environment and to deliver on a common vision.
• Ability to work with engineers, designers and analysts and be comfortable presenting to non-technical/business stakeholders and customers.