Drata
Principal Product Operations Manager
Remote - US · Principal
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About the role
- This is a highly strategic, cross-functional leadership role responsible for shaping how product investments are prioritized, planned, measured, and communicated across the company.
- Establish scalable mechanisms to improve visibility, accountability, and execution across the product development lifecycle, from idea intake through launch and post-launch measurement.
- Influence leaders at all levels through data-driven recommendations, strong operational judgment, and a clear point of view on how to improve organizational effectiveness.
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the product operating model, including planning frameworks, prioritization practices, governance mechanisms, decision-making cadences, and cross-functional collaboration norms.
- Partner with Product, Design, Engineering, GTM, and Customer teams to improve how customer feedback, market signals, and business priorities inform product decisions.
- Build and operationalize executive-ready reporting on roadmap progress, product performance, organizational throughput, experimentation results, and key operational metrics.
- Identify structural inefficiencies and lead high-impact initiatives to improve planning quality, process consistency, speed of execution, and cross-functional alignment.
- Evaluate, implement, and optimize tooling, systems, and workflows that support product planning, collaboration, experimentation, analytics, and knowledge management.
- Create and maintain durable documentation, standards, playbooks, and best practices for product and design operations.
- Serve as a thought partner to product and functional leaders on organizational design, process maturity, and operational excellence.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in product operations, product management, strategy and operations, business operations, or a related discipline, with significant experience in high-growth SaaS and AI-first environments.
- Exceptional analytical and systems thinking skills, with the ability to translate data into strategic insights, operational recommendations, and clear decisions.
Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Design, or a related field
- advanced degree is a plus.
Skills
- Experience designing scalable workflows and automations using tools such as Zapier, Retool, or similar platforms.
Compensation
- Lead company-level product planning and roadmap operations, partnering with senior leaders to drive annual planning, quarterly planning, investment tradeoff discussions, commitment tracking, and executive communication.
Benefits
- Drive portfolio-level insight and operational rigor by defining and tracking the health of strategic initiatives, product bets, delivery risks, and outcome attainment.
- Develop scalable frameworks for experimentation and learning, enabling teams to run effective tests, measure impact, and incorporate findings into product strategy.
Company info
- Drata is building the trust layer between great companies - automating compliance, managing risk, and helping organizations prove trust continuously as they scale.
- We're Dratanauts:
- a global crew of 600+ professionals united by a culture that rewards integrity, ownership, and raising the bar, no matter where in the world we're working from.
- Why Join the Drata Team?
- At Drata, you're not maintaining legacy compliance software - you're building the agentic AI platform defining what trust looks like for the next generation of companies.
- Here's what makes the work itself worth showing up for:
- Problems without a playbook:
- You'll work at the edge of AI and security, building agentic governance, continuous compliance, and real-time trust verification to solve problems that don't have an established answer yet.
- You're writing it as you go.
- Real ownership, not just process:
- Our values center on owning outcomes and raising the bar, not checking boxes.
- You're expected to have opinions and back them.
- A seat at the table:
- Your perspective is unique and valued.
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