Product Manager Principal

Federal Express Corporation, also known as FedEx Dataworks, is seeking a Principal Product Manager to drive product and portfolio strategies with limited supervision. The role involves leading marketing and sales activities, conducting market evaluations, and mentoring less senior team members.

Responsibilities:

• Driving development and execution of product/portfolio strategies and plans, taking into account product life cycle stage and the customer experience
• Leading, development and implementation of marketing, sales and all other activities, as needed, to achieve the necessary business outcomes
• Independently lead needed market, economic and competitive evaluations that affect product performance
• Independently performing fact-based data analysis and interpretation to identify critical business insights
• Leading completion of needed advanced data models and analytics
• Independently identifying and prioritizing new features, including market analysis, business case development and driving prioritization
• Leading/executing large, complex new-product development initiatives and other marketing/enterprise programs across large, cross-functional work teams
• Actively coaches and mentors’ others in less senior positions
• Working knowledge of API design principles and RESTful or event-driven architecture, sufficient to evaluate technical tradeoffs alongside engineering
• Ability to read and interpret system architecture diagrams, data flow, and integration points across platform services
• Familiarity with SaaS and PaaS integration patterns, including partner or vendor platform integrations
• Accountable for the coherence of the end-to-end user experience across multiple product surfaces, pods, or teams
• Ensures consistency where individual pod roadmaps intersect
• Partners with engineering leadership to translate platform-level technical constraints into product sequencing decisions
• Drives alignment across cross-functional pods and TPM/PM peers without direct reporting authority
• Resolves competing priorities through influence and structured tradeoff discussions
• Serves as an escalation point for cross-pod dependency conflicts
• Partners with Product and Engineering leadership to unblock delivery
• Demonstrated experience operating in a matrixed, pod-based, or platform organization with distributed ownership models

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalency in Product Marketing, Economics, Business, or related field
• Seven plus (7+) years' work experience in functions focused on product management, market analysis or research, or equivalent
• Superior knowledge of competitive, market and economic factors affecting product performance and ability to perform fact-based data analysis
• Expert communication and presentation skills, quantitative, problem structuring & solving skills
• Superior executive presence, human relations, networking and influencing skills
• Strong project management and project management leadership experience
• A directly related master's degree is equivalent to two (2) years' experience. More advanced degrees may offset experience requirements
• Working knowledge of API design principles and RESTful or event-driven architecture, sufficient to evaluate technical tradeoffs alongside engineering
• Ability to read and interpret system architecture diagrams, data flow, and integration points across platform services
• Familiarity with SaaS and PaaS integration patterns, including partner or vendor platform integrations
• Accountable for the coherence of the end-to-end user experience across multiple product surfaces, pods, or teams
• Partners with engineering leadership to translate platform-level technical constraints into product sequencing decisions
• Drives alignment across cross-functional pods and TPM/PM peers without direct reporting authority
• Resolves competing priorities through influence and structured tradeoff discussions
• Serves as an escalation point for cross-pod dependency conflicts
• Partners with Product and Engineering leadership to unblock delivery
• Demonstrated experience operating in a matrixed, pod-based, or platform organization with distributed ownership models