Principal Product Manager

Principal Product Manager LocationSydney; Auckland; Menlo ParkEmployment TypeFull timeLocation TypeRemoteDepartmentProductAbout TactiqTactiq transforms meetings from where work gets discussed to where work gets delivered. With excellence.Over 1 million users across tens of thousands of teams rely on Tactiq to turn meeting conversations into exceptional outcomes. We're a Series A, Sydney-based SaaS company building AI note taker for Google Meet, Zoom, MS Teams.We're product-led growth: individuals adopt → teams form organically → enterprises discover value → they come to us. A great product that users love.We're a small, AI-enabled team. That means high leverage, high autonomy, and every decision compounds.The RoleAs Principal Product Manager, you'll own the product strategy and execution across one of our initiatives: Growth & Distribution, Core AI Excellence, Team & Collaboration, and Monetization & Packaging.This is a hands-on builder role. You'll prototype with AI tools, set up experiments, dig into analytics, talk to users weekly, and ship fast. You won't wait for engineering to build you a dashboard or data science to run your analysis—you'll do it yourself.This isn't traditional PM work. No lengthy PRDs. No stakeholder management theater. This is: identify the problem, build the hypothesis, test it, learn, iterate. Repeat.What You'll Actually Do Day-to-DayBuild with AI: Prototype features using Cursor, Claude, Lovable, or internal tools. Test prompts. Ship MVPs.Run experiments: Set up A/B tests, define success metrics, analyze results, make the call.Deep dive analytics: Pull your own data in Mixpanel/SQL. Find the insight no one else sees.Talk to users: Weekly user interviews. Not quarterly research projects—continuous discovery.Iterate fast: Ship → measure → learn → ship again. Weeks, not months.You Might Be a Good Fit If YouHave 8+ years in product roles, with at least 3+ years in B2B SaaS PLGHave built products with AI, not just managed AI products. You've engineered prompts, tested models, shipped AI features.Are deeply technical: Launched your own products, build dashboards, and write a PR if needed.Have set up and run A/B tests end-to-end: hypothesis, instrumentation, analysis, decision.Do continuous user research: You talk to users weekly. You can run a 20-minute interview that uncovers what surveys never would.Iterate fastUnderstand PLG mechanics: activation, habit loops, expansion triggers. You've built products that grow themselves.Are a builder first: You'd rather ship a rough prototype today than a polished spec next week.Bonus Points:You've been a founding PM or sole PM at a high-growth or YCombinator startup You have experience with Chrome extensions or browser-based productsYou've built AI agents, MCPs, or workflow automationsYou've worked on meeting/productivity/collaboration toolsYou understand the Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams ecosystemsWhy Join TactiqEquity: Stock options are part of the package. You'll have real ownership in what you're building.Leverage: Small AI-enabled team = 10x the impact. You'll own core product decisions.Ownership: Principal-level scope without layers of approval. Your judgment matters.Timing: AI meeting intelligence is early. The category is being defined now. You'll shape it.Scale: 1M+ users, real revenue, PLG motion working. You're not starting from zero.Learning: This is where you learn to build with AI at the cutting edge. We're shipping AI-native product at startup speedModern Tooling: Linear, Mixpanel, Intercom, Miro, Notion, Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT and whatever else you need.Flexibility: Remote-friendly, autonomy-first culture. We trust you to do your best work.Our ValuesBuild what is right for the customer: We move from customer feedback to customer outcomes ASAP.Ship fast but thoughtfully: We look ahead, but deliver every day. Outcomes over activity.Data-driven decision making: We use rigorous analytical thinking. Data informs, intuition guides.Autonomy allows us to...