About the role

Role overview

As Principal Product Operations Manager at Guild Education, you will be a senior individual contributor leading high-impact, cross-functional product initiatives. You’ll bridge product strategy, technical execution, and operational excellence—translating strategy into executable plans and ensuring smooth launch/release readiness.

Key missions

Lead end-to-end cross-functional product initiatives, aligning teams, clarifying technical trade-offs, driving execution, and measuring outcomes.
Translate product strategy into concrete execution plans with Engineering leaders, covering architecture boundaries, dependencies, and sequencing.
Own launch and release readiness across stakeholders, ensuring teams are informed and prepared before anything ships.
Develop and refine operational systems and operating cadences for the Grow product area.
Conduct regular audits of R&D processes.

What you bring

AI-forward mindset: strong opinions on where AI belongs in product development; experience building/prototyping AI-assisted tools and workflows (not just using AI tools).
Executive communication: ability to distill operational/technical complexity for VP-level audiences while maintaining precision for Engineering leadership.
Systems thinking & technical acumen: design scalable operating systems; understand architecture trade-offs, data flows, service dependencies, and cross-team sequencing.
Ownership and outcome focus: step into gaps, clarify ambiguity, and drive results rather than coordinate.
Agile expertise & tooling: experience using Agile methodologies and tools such as Jira and Confluence.
Product delivery leadership: proven track record designing/scaling product delivery systems across multiple teams/product areas.
Analytics: define metrics, build dashboards, and use data to drive decisions.

Requirements

12+ years of experience in Product Operations, Technical Program Management, Product Management, or a related role on product teams.
Experience leading cross-functional product initiatives end-to-end with accountability for outcomes.

Nice-to-haves

Hands-on prototyping experience with AI-assisted tools/workflows.

Remote

Full remote.

About Guild Education

Guild Education is an education and career advancement platform focused on helping learners progress through educational pathways and into better career outcomes. The company builds product experiences that combine technology and education, with an emphasis on operational excellence and product delivery.

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