Job description
About the Opportunity
Contentful is looking for a driven and curious Product Manager to lead the vision and execution of our Content Management product area. This role is about ensuring the world’s largest organizations can run content operations efficiently and at scale on our platform.
Enterprises rely on Contentful to deliver consistent digital experiences across multiple teams, brands, regions, and channels. The Content Operations group builds the workflows, governance, and collaboration tools that empower content teams to work faster, stay aligned, and deliver high-quality experiences to their customers.
In this role, you’ll partner with engineering, design, research, and go-to-market teams to deeply understand the needs of content creators, marketers, and other enterprise stakeholders — and translate those into impactful product outcomes.
What to expect?
- Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Content Operations within Contentful.
- Apply first-principles reasoning and strong analytical skills to uncover opportunities that unlock efficiency and collaboration for enterprise content teams.
- Partner with design and engineering to deliver workflows and governance features that are intuitive and impactful.
- Drive discovery to validate customer problems and prioritize the most valuable opportunities.
- Define clear success metrics, track impact, and adjust course as needed.
- Collaborate with sales, marketing, and customer success to ensure strong adoption and positioning of your product.
- Act as a passionate advocate for enterprise content teams, bringing their perspective into every decision.
What you need to be successful
- 5+ years in product management (or equivalent product ownership roles).
- Solid technical understanding and experience
- Strong ability to reason from first principles and approach complex problems with structured thinking.
- Highly analytical, with experience using data to size opportunities, guide decisions, and measure success.
- Proven track record of highlighting opportunities for enterprise customers, ideally in domains serving marketing personas.
- Customer-obsessed: you start with the user’s problem, not the technical solution, and you relentlessly seek to create value for them.
- Excellent communicator who can work effectively with diverse stakeholders — from executives to engineers to end-users.
- Technical fluency that helps you collaborate effectively with engineering teams.
- Comfortable leading discovery, running interviews, and synthesizing insights into actionable product strategies.
Great if you have:
- Experience in content management, digital experience platforms, or enterprise SaaS.
- Familiarity with the challenges of large-scale content operations (governance, workflows, localization, etc.).
What’s in it for you?
- Join an ambitious tech company reshaping the way people build digital experiences
- Full-time employees receive Stock Options for the opportunity to share in the success of our company
- Fertility and family building benefits, including a lifetime reimbursable wallet to support your growing family.
- We value Work-Life balance and You Time!A generous amount of paid time off, including vacation days, sick days, education days, compassion days for loss, and volunteer days
- Time off to care for and focus on your growing family
- Use your personal annual education budget to improve your skills and grow in your career
- Enjoy a full range of virtual and in-person events, including workshops, guest speakers, and fun team activities, supporting learning and networking exchange beyond the usual work duties
- An annual wellbeing stipend to care for your physical, financial, or emotional health
- A monthly communication phone/internet stipend and phone hardware upgrade reimbursement.
- New hire office equipment stipend for hybrid or distributed employees. Get the gear you need to work at your best.
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Who are we?
Contentful is a leading digital experience platform that helps modern businesses meet the growing demand for engaging, personalized content at scale. By blending composability with native AI capabilities, Contentful enables dynamic personalization, automated content delivery, and real-time experimentation, powering next-generation digital experiences across brands, regions, and channels for more than 4,200 organizations worldwide. More than 700 people from more than 70 nations contribute their energy and creativity to Contentful, working from hubs in Berlin, Denver, San Francisco, London, New York, and distributed worldwide.
Everyone is welcome here!
“Everyone is welcome here” is a celebrated component of our culture. At Contentful, we strive to create an inclusive environment that empowers our employees. We believe that our products and services benefit from our diverse backgrounds and experiences, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical [dis]ability, or length of time spent unemployed. We invite you to apply and join us!
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