Principal Product Manager

About the Role

Job Responsibilities

• Partner directly with C-suite and founder-level stakeholders to navigate high-stakes rapid builds and frame technical trade-offs around business outcomes.
• Drive innovation across the full product lifecycle, moving ideas past the pilot trap into production systems delivering tangible ROI.
• Establish the market and competitive landscape, go-to-market strategy, and business case or economic model for client opportunities.
• Lead modern product development practices within autonomous cross-functional pods, integrating AI across the product lifecycle.
• Provide hands-on leadership within lean pods to drive multidisciplinary teams toward high-impact outcomes.
• Lead large, complex programmes across multiple workstreams and stakeholder groups, owning strategy, roadmap, scope, and outcomes end to end.
• Lead growth initiatives by shaping client engagements, authoring proposals, delivering executive pitches, and running strategic discovery workshops.
• Own and contribute to account growth targets, expanding existing client relationships into new engagements and revenue streams.
• Play a foundational role in scaling local organisational capabilities and authoring case studies, POVs, and repeatable frameworks.

Technical Skills

• 8+ years of product leadership driving new product launches, commercialisation, and production-scale growth of digital products and platforms.
• End-to-end expertise launching net-new products to market, including discovery, value propositions, rapid cross-functional pods, go-to-market strategies, and monetisation models.
• Depth in research and leveraging market trends, customer insights, and competitive intelligence for strategic ideation.
• Expertise in developing value propositions for digital and AI products using lean approaches to test viability, feasibility, and desirability.
• Deep commercial acumen spanning pre-sales, engagement structuring, unit economics, monetisation strategies, and organic account expansion.
• Proven ability to operate at company, portfolio, and product levels, defining and executing strategy and translating vision into a roadmap.
• Ability to advise clients on becoming a value-driven, customer-centric product organisation.
• Fluency in leveraging AI tools and platforms to transform the end-to-end product development lifecycle.

Professional Skills

• Skilled at operating and building relationships with C-suite executives across technology, product, business, and transformation.
• Experience with consultative selling and senior client leadership, converting trusted-advisor relationships into long-term engagements.
• Exceptional storytelling, negotiation, and workshop facilitation skills with a track record guiding executive stakeholders through rapid, ambiguous builds.
• Passionate about being a visible external voice for the practice through conferences, panels, or publications.
• A builder mindset with strong inclination to work collaboratively alongside multidisciplinary teams, leading by example.
• A curious, open mindset that challenges established ways of working and is energised by building a new business.

Working Model

• Hybrid – 3 days on-site/week.

Benefits

• Private medical insurance, travel insurance, income protection, critical illness, life assurance, pension scheme, personal development budget, 25 days holiday, and a ride2work scheme.
• Benefits can be adjusted to match exact KSA regional benefits if required.

About Thoughtworks

Other Things To Know

• Learning and development is supported by interactive tools, numerous development programs, and a cultivation culture.
• Thoughtworks promotes diversity and rejects discrimination and inequality.