Senior Platform Product Manager (Contract Position)

What you'll do

Pindrop is looking for a high-performing Senior Platform Product Manager to drive strategy and development for the Pindrop Platform — the shared foundation that powers our products (Protect, Passport, and Pulse) and a set of platform capabilities exposed directly to customers, such as Pindrop Intelligence. You'll ensure that our platform is scalable, reliable, easy to build on, and delivers differentiated value both to internal product teams and to customers consuming platform features directly.

Market analysis & customer insight

• Stay ahead of competitive and industry trends in platforms, data products, and developer ecosystems.Partner with Product and GTM teams to understand how Protect, Passport, Pulse and other product lines depend on the Pindrop Platform today and what they will need next.
• Regularly engage with customers and partners who consume platform capabilities (e.g., Pindrop Intelligence APIs, data services) to understand use cases, workflows, and unmet needs.
• Manage organization goals, business metrics, and KPIs for the platform, including adoption, reliability, performance, and developer experience.
• Operate internal and external steering forums to align stakeholders on priorities and investments for the platform.

Vision & roadmap for the Pindrop Platform

• Set the overall vision, strategy, and success measures for the Pindrop Platform as a product in its own right.
• Define how shared platform capabilities (data, AI/ML services, APIs, integrations, observability, security, entitlements, and configuration) evolve to support Protect, Passport, Pulse and future products.
• Own and maintain prioritized platform roadmaps, balancing foundational investments (scalability, reliability, security, cost efficiency) with new capabilities and externalized features like Pindrop Intelligence.
• Write clear user and system narratives that describe how internal product teams, and end customers will interact with Pindrop Platform capabilities.
• Define, document, and communicate objectives, requirements, and constraints for platform initiatives and releases.
• Engage with executive and cross-functional stakeholders to obtain buy-in, make tradeoffs, and raise escalations when needed.

Execution & delivery

• Drive end-to-end execution for platform initiatives, from discovery and design through delivery and launch.
• Work with engineering and engineering leadership to design and deliver high-quality, continuous releases of platform services, APIs, and data products.
• Manage platform capabilities across their lifecycle, from initial MVPs to scaled, hardened services adopted across multiple products.
• Integrate new technology from research and product teams into the platform in a way that is