Principal Product Manager, Platform
About The Role
Fortune Media is seeking a Principal Product Manager, Platform to own the infrastructure that powers Fortune’s consumer experience. This is a senior individual contributor role with full domain ownership.
Responsibilities
Define and drive Fortune's performance strategy across LCP, CLS, INP, TTI, and overall page speed across web and mobile web
Partner with Engineering to identify, prioritize, and ship performance optimizations that improve both user experience and SEO outcomes
Own performance KPIs and hold the bar on regressions, working proactively to prevent them before they reach production
Own the roadmap for platform health: uptime, error rates, deployment reliability, and incident response workflows
Work closely with Engineering to triage issues, define severity frameworks, and establish standards for production readiness
Translate platform risk into business impact, and vice versa, so engineering and leadership are always aligned on priorities
Own Fortune's A/B testing and experimentation platform (currently Optimizely), ensuring it's reliable, well-documented, and used effectively across teams
Partner with Growth, Editorial, and Analytics to define a rigorous experimentation framework: hypothesis design, statistical validity, result interpretation
Drive adoption of testing best practices across the product and editorial org
Serve as the primary PM for Fortune's CMS and publishing infrastructure, partnering with Editorial to understand workflow needs and shipping improvements that remove friction
Ensure editorial tooling is stable, performant, and keeps pace with how Fortune's content teams work
Identify opportunities to modernize the publishing stack in ways that enable new content formats and editorial capabilities
Cross-Functional Leadership
Collaborate with Engineering, Design, Editorial, and Data to define and deliver platform improvements with measurable impact
Write clear, detailed PRDs and technical requirements; work closely with engineers on architecture decisions and trade-offs
Proactively identify and inform stakeholders impacted by front-end or back-end platform changes (Editorial, Ads, Revenue, and others) before changes ship, not after
Requirements
Technical depth: you have an engineering background or equivalent hands-on technical experience; you understand how systems are built and can have substantive conversations with engineers about architecture, trade-offs, and implementation
Platform and performance expertise: you have a strong grasp of web performance concepts (Core Web Vitals, rendering pipelines, caching strategies) and how they translate to user and business outcomes
Experimentation fluency: you understand A/B testing methodology at a statistical and operational level, not just conceptually
Strong written communication: you write clear PRDs, detailed specs, and crisp documentation; ambiguity stops with you
Stakeholder management: you can translate complex technical realities into business language for non-technical audiences and hold the line on platform investments in a roadmap conversation
Analytical and data-driven: you use data to diagnose problems, measure impact, and drive decisions; you're comfortable in analytics platforms and know how to build the right dashboards
Scrappy and resourceful: you figure things out, you don't wait for perfect conditions
Proficiency with Jira, Confluence, Looker, and Google Analytics
7+ years of product management experience, with substantial ownership of platform, infrastructure, or technical products at a senior IC level
Bonus Skills
AI-forward approach: you use AI tools to move faster and think sharper, whether that's drafting specs, analyzing data, or generating options. This is a plus; curiosity and willingness to develop it is table stakes
Experience in media, publishing, or content-driven businesses
Familiarity with CMS platforms and editorial workflows
Experience with Optimizely or comparable A/B testing platforms
Understanding of SEO and how platform decisions affect search visibility
Understanding of Consent Management and how platform decisions affect compliance
Experience with observability tooling (DataDog, New Relic, or similar)