Principal Product Manager, Roon

HARMAN International is a global technology company whose Lifestyle division connects consumers with superior sound through innovative audio products and brands. Roon is seeking its most senior product leader to define product strategy, understand listeners, shape the roadmap, prototype solutions, establish measurement practices, and collaborate hands-on with engineering and design.

Responsibilities:

• Own product strategy: Define who Roon is for and what we do better than anyone else for them
• Grow the audience: Determine who the serious listener of the next decade is, how they discover and consume music, and what Roon has to become to belong in their setup. Do this without losing the listeners who pay for Roon today
• Represent the listener: Maintain an accurate picture of who our users are and what they need, drawing on direct conversations, community forums, support tickets, reviews, and product data
• Define the feature set: Translate strategy into a specific set of features with a clear rationale for each, and decide what gets built, what gets cut, and what we will not take on
• Own the roadmap: Sequence the work across multiple quarters, keep it current, and build the implementation plan with engineering, in specifications clear enough for the team to start work
• Build the measurement practice: Instrument what matters, define the metrics that decide whether a feature worked, and move Roon from gut to evidence
• Prototype your own ideas: Build working, interactive prototypes yourself with AI tooling, close to our design language, and bring them to the team as the starting point for an idea
• Hold the quality bar: Have and defend opinions on interaction, information density, defaults, naming, and how the product feels to use, working with design as a peer
• Investigate our codebase: Use AI coding tools to establish how Roon behaves today, including business rules, constraints, and edge cases, before specifying changes
• Build your own tooling: Create the research pipelines, internal tools, automations, and evaluation harnesses you need to work effectively

Requirements:

• Experience: 10+ years in product management, including having owned the strategy for a whole product or business rather than a feature area
• You have done your own research rather than commissioning it, launched something new, and stayed with a mature product long enough to live with your earlier decisions
• A personal connection to music: A serious, long-standing involvement with music, as a collector, musician, producer, DJ, critic, or simply someone who has spent years listening closely
• Product taste and direction: A clear sense of what good looks like, the ability to say where the product should go, and the judgment to choose between competing versions of something and explain the reasoning
• Building with AI: AI is already part of your daily work, from research synthesis through to prototyping and the tooling you build for yourself
• You have taken ideas to working prototypes with tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Lovable, or v0, and can show the work
• You validate what these tools produce and know when not to use them
• Ownership: Comfortable committing to a position with incomplete information and defending it to engineering, design, and senior leadership
• Works with limited guidance in a small, remote, self-managing team
• Communication skills: You can write for a public community of expert users who will scrutinize everything we say, and for senior leadership, and be persuasive to both
• Measurement: You have built this practice somewhere it did not exist, not only operated one that did
• You decide what success looks like before anything gets built, and you can get to the answer yourself by querying product data in SQL or equivalent, running an experiment, and reading the result honestly
• Familiar with subscription metrics such as trial-to-paid conversion, retention, churn, and lifetime value
• Technical fluency: Enough technical grounding to pick up how our systems work and why the constraints exist, so you can judge what a decision makes easy, expensive, or impossible
• Willingness to travel up to 5%, domestically and internationally
• Able to work virtually in any US time zone
• Something you built and shipped on your own, outside of a team — a side project, a tool, a small product — that people other than you actually used
• Experience in music, audio, media, or another category serving enthusiast users across both hardware and software
• Experience with subscription businesses, or with hardware and software sold together
• Experience with a product that has a vocal, publicly organized user community
• You have built something on the Roon API, or you are a Roon user with opinions
• A deeper engineering background is a plus, not a requirement
• Founders and early-stage operators who have worked at this altitude without the title are welcome to apply