Principal Product Manager

About the role

We're looking for a Product Manager to drive the product strategy for Screen, HackerRank's core hiring platform. This is a high-impact role where you'll shape how companies evaluate technical talent at scale, working at the cutting edge of AI-powered assessment.

You'll own the future of candidate evaluation—defining how we leverage AI to assess technical skills, problem-solving ability, and collaboration in ways that are both innovative and trustworthy. This is cutting-edge AI evaluation work that's defining new standards for the industry.

The platform operates at significant scale and carries a meaningful technical legacy, serving customers of various sizes, shapes, and needs—from startups running a handful of interviews to enterprises processing thousands of assessments. This isn't about greenfield product work; it's about making sophisticated decisions in a constrained environment and delivering measurable impact.

The role comes with high visibility across the organization, including direct exposure to our CEO, and requires close collaboration with platform teams working on integrity, IDE infrastructure, and AI capabilities.

What you'll do

• Own the product strategy and roadmap for Screen, making critical decisions about how we evolve our core evaluation platform while balancing innovation with platform stability
• Drive AI-first evaluation capabilities, defining what signals matter, how AI can surface insights that human reviewers miss, and how to make evaluation both more effective and more fair
• Navigate technical complexity at scale, working deeply with a team of X engineers (including X staff engineers) and an Engineering Manager to balance technical constraints with user needs
• Balance competing needs across multiple personas—recruiters, hiring managers, and candidates—designing solutions that work across their often conflicting requirements
• Guide customers through platform evolution, spending time understanding their hiring challenges, managing migrations to new experiences, and ensuring we solve real problems
• Collaborate across teams and time zones, working with multiple product and platform teams, and often serving as the bridge between technical complexity and customer value
• Lead with visibility and impact, working directly with senior leadership and driving cross-functional initiatives that shape the future of technical hiring

Who you are

• You've built B2B SaaS products at scale where you balanced competing needs across different user personas and made tradeoffs that worked for multiple stakeholders
• You're comfortable with complex, legacy systems and don't need every problem to be new or sexy—you can get excited about intricate technical challenges and the hard work of improving something that already exists at scale
• You understand the complexity of serving diverse customers—from small teams to large enterprises—and can design solutions that flex across this diversity rather than forcing one-size-fits-all approaches
• You have strong judgment under pressure and can go deep technically when needed, build empathy across different personas, and synthesize complex constraints into clear decisions
• You care deeply about customers and see direct customer engagement not as a chore but as essential input for building the right thing

Even better if you have

• Experience working with legacy systems and driving incremental transformation in constrained environments
• Background in assessment, evaluation, or EdTech products
• Experience with AI/ML product development or integrating AI capabilities into existing platforms
• Track record of managing complex platform migrations while maintaining customer satisfaction

You'll thrive in this role if you

• You're energized by complexity, not overwhelmed by it. The challenge of navigating a legacy platform serving diverse customers excites you rather than frustrates you.
• You're comfortable working globally. This role requires collaboration across multiple time zones, including occasional meetings outside standard hours, and you see this as an opportunity rather than a burden.
• You want high visibility and impact. You're ready to work with senior leadership, including our CEO, and drive decisions that shape how companies around the world hire technical talent.
• You're passionate about the cutting edge of AI evaluation work. You want to be at the forefront of defining how AI changes candidate assessment and you're excited to push boundaries while maintaining trust and fairness.
• You balance deep technical engagement with customer empathy. You can dive into technical constraints with staff engineers one hour and guide a customer through a migration the next, finding energy in both.