Principal Product Manager

PTC is hiring a Sr. Principal Product Manager to own the strategy, roadmap, discovery, and business outcomes for PTC Modeler, an enterprise model-based systems engineering (MBSE) solution. The role also partners with product and technology leaders, customers, and cross-functional teams to shape the future of systems engineering and drive product adoption and business outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• Own and communicate the product strategy, roadmap, priorities, and measurable outcomes for PTC Modeler
• Balance near-term customer commitments, product quality, platform evolution, competitive differentiation, and longer-term strategic opportunities
• Translate strategy and customer problems into prioritized product outcomes, investment proposals, and clear requirements for R&D and UX
• Partner closely with R&D and UX throughout discovery and delivery, making timely decisions based on customer value, business impact, usability, technical feasibility, and risk
• Define success measures and use product telemetry, adoption data, customer evidence, and commercial results to evaluate outcomes and guide future investment
• Partner with the VP of Product Management - AI/MBSE and other product and technology leaders to help shape PTC's long-term vision for MBSE and systems engineering
• Bring customer, market, competitive, and practitioner insight into decisions about how traditional MBSE tools and workflows should evolve
• Explore how AI, agentic experiences, connected engineering information, open standards, and modern user experiences can improve how complex systems are designed, analyzed, reviewed, communicated, and changed
• Identify opportunities that extend beyond traditional modeling and connect systems engineering more deeply with requirements, software development, product architecture, product-line and variability management, PLM, simulation, and the broader digital thread
• Develop and validate product hypotheses with customers, partners, and systems-engineering practitioners, then translate emerging direction into product concepts, investment recommendations, and roadmap opportunities
• Challenge conventional assumptions constructively and help make systems engineering more accessible, connected, intelligent, and valuable across the engineering organization
• Build trusted relationships with strategic customers, users, partners, and industry practitioners to understand their goals, workflows, constraints, and unmet needs
• Lead continuous product discovery, test assumptions, and translate evidence into clear problem definitions and differentiated product opportunities
• Represent the voice of the customer throughout the product lifecycle while balancing the needs of different industries, personas, and deployment environments
• Maintain a clear perspective on the MBSE and digital-engineering market, including customer buying criteria, competitive alternatives, standards evolution, adjacent categories, and emerging technology shifts
• Assess build, partner, integrate, and ecosystem options when developing product and portfolio recommendations
• Partner with Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Services, and Support to improve positioning, enablement, adoption, retention, and customer outcomes
• Contribute to packaging, positioning, launch, and go-to-market decisions for Modeler and related capabilities
• Develop evidence-based business cases for investment and clearly communicate expected customer and commercial impact
• Support strategic opportunities, competitive engagements, executive customer discussions, demonstrations, and roadmap conversations
• Represent PTC with customers, partners, industry organizations, analysts, and the broader systems-engineering community as an informed and credible product leader
• Drive alignment across Product Management, Engineering, UX, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Services, and Support
• Communicate product direction, priorities, decisions, tradeoffs, and progress clearly to executive, technical, commercial, and customer audiences
• Collaborate across the broader PTC portfolio spanning Codebeamer, AI, Pure Variants, Modeler as well as PLM offerings to identify cross-product customer value and avoid treating MBSE as an isolated discipline
• Influence effectively in a global, matrixed organization without relying on direct authority
• Maintain the product management discipline required for effective planning, refinement, validation, release readiness, and lifecycle management

Requirements:

• 10+ years of product management experience in enterprise software, engineering software, SaaS, or a closely related environment
• Proven ability to develop product strategy, make evidence-based prioritization decisions, and execute against roadmaps
• Demonstrated experience working with complex engineering, systems-development, or lifecycle-management problems and establishing credibility with technical customers and practitioners
• Strong customer discovery, problem-framing, requirements, and product validation skills
• Experience partnering effectively with Agile software development and UX teams from discovery through delivery
• Ability to connect technical capabilities to customer value, adoption, differentiation, and business outcomes
• Excellent written, verbal, presentation, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills
• Strong analytical judgment and the ability to navigate ambiguity, competing priorities, and consequential tradeoffs
• Ability to influence and align global cross-functional teams without direct authority
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without requiring current or future sponsorship from PTC
• Practical experience with model-based systems engineering, systems engineering, digital engineering, or engineering software products
• Working knowledge of SysML and UML; familiarity with UAF and the evolution from SysML 1.x to SysML 2.0 is a plus
• Experience with one or more relevant modeling, requirements, ALM, PLM, product-line engineering, simulation, or digital-thread ecosystems
• Understanding of traceability, configuration management, model governance, interoperability, engineering change, and reuse across the product lifecycle
• Familiarity with open standards and integration approaches relevant to engineering software, such as OSLC, REST APIs, and model interchange
• Experience bringing technically complex enterprise products to market and driving adoption across multiple customer personas and industries
• Experience with cloud platforms, enterprise software architectures, AI-enabled product experiences, or agentic software concepts
• Advanced degree in engineering, computer science, systems engineering, or business