About Pearl

Pearl is a mission-driven Certified B Corp building the first national home performance rating system and registry for U.S. homes - like a FICO score for homes. Our platform makes the invisible qualities of a home - its safety, comfort, resilience, and energy - visible, measurable, and financially valuable.

When Pearl succeeds, home performance data will sit at the center of how trillions of dollars move through the housing economy - powering smarter lending, fairer insurance, and higher resale value for efficient homes. Buyers will know what they’re getting. Owners will be rewarded for upgrading & transparency. And the market itself will help accelerate the clean-energy transition.

The opportunity is enormous: a multi-billion-dollar platform at the intersection of data, finance, real estate, and climate technology. Pearl is entering a period of accelerated product development, new partner integrations, and expansion of consumer-facing experiences.

About the role

The Principal Product Manager is a senior product operator who helps drive execution, clarity, and alignment across Pearl’s product initiatives. Reporting to the SVP Product, this role plays a critical hands-on leadership role in translating product strategy into coordinated delivery across teams and workstreams.

This role blends strategic thinking with operational execution. The Principal Product Manager helps hold together multiple parallel initiatives, strengthens product processes, and ensures teams stay aligned, unblocked, and focused on delivering meaningful outcomes.

While this is a senior leadership role, it is intentionally designed as a player-coach position. The Principal Product Manager is expected to operate as a highly experienced product manager when needed owning and organizing discovery, shaping requirements, and driving initiatives directly.

We are looking for a product leader who thrives in complexity, ambiguity, and momentum - someone energized by building category-defining products while helping teams execute across multiple fast-moving initiatives. We are especially interested in leaders who have built and scaled high-quality consumer-facing digital products and understand what it takes to deliver intuitive, high-trust user experiences at scale.

As Pearl expands its consumer-facing experiences and data platform capabilities, the Principal Product Manager will also act as an AI enabler across the organization. This includes identifying opportunities to embed AI into product experiences, workflows, internal operations, and decision-making. The ideal candidate brings modern AI fluency understanding how to responsibly leverage LLMs, automation, and data models to improve user experience, product velocity, and competitive differentiation.

This role has influence-based leadership across the product organization. Product, Design, and related team members formally report to the SVP Product, while the Principal Product Manager provides day-to-day operational leadership, coordination, and mentorship across initiatives.

Key responsibilities

Product execution & initiative leadership

• Drive coordination and execution across multiple concurrent product initiatives.
• Partner with Engineering leadership to ensure initiatives move efficiently from discovery through delivery.
• Act as initiative lead or embedded senior PM on high-priority projects as needed.
• Help translate product strategy into actionable plans, requirements, and delivery milestones.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and resource gaps early and help teams resolve them.

Product operations & organizational alignment

• Strengthen product operating rhythms including roadmap planning, initiative tracking, and delivery accountability.
• Help maintain clarity across teams during periods of rapid change or evolving direction.
• Support prioritization decisions by balancing strategic goals, customer needs, and delivery realities.

Product discovery & strategy contribution

• Contribute to product strategy and roadmap development in partnership with the SVP Product.
• Lead or support customer research, problem discovery, and validation of new opportunities.
• Help shape Pearl SCORE experiences and related platform capabilities across consumer and partner workflows.

Cross-functional leadership

• Serve as a primary coordination partner between Product and Engineering teams.
• Collaborate closely with Data Science and Standards teams to translate complex modeling and scoring concepts into clear user experiences.
• Partner with BD and Marketing teams to ensure product initiatives support commercial and partner outcomes.
• Help align stakeholders around priorities, timelines, and product direction.

Mentorship & team development

• Provide coaching and mentorship to product managers and designers.
• Help strengthen product craft, documentation quality, and discovery practices.
• Foster a culture of ownership, clarity, and collaborative problem solving.

AI Enablement & Product Innovation

• Identify and lead opportunities to integrate AI and machine learning into Pearl’s consumer and partner experiences.
• Leverage modern AI tools to accelerate product discovery, documentation, analysis, and delivery workflows.
• Ensure Pearl remains competitive and forward-looking in how intelligence is embedded into the platform.

What we are looking for

• 8-10+ years of product management experience, including leadership or senior individual contributor roles.
• Prior experience as Principal Product Manager, Head of Product, Director of Product, Principal PM, or equivalent senior product role is preferred.
• Proven track record leading complex, cross-functional product initiatives in SaaS, proptech, fintech, marketplace, or data platform environments.
• Strong ability to operate both strategically and hands-on in execution.
• Demonstrated ability to drive clarity and delivery in environments with evolving processes and priorities.
• Experience working closely with engineering, data science, and design teams.
• Strong product discovery and customer insight skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder alignment capabilities.
• Comfortable operating with influence rather than formal authority.
• Experience operating in data-rich environments where probabilistic models or scoring systems inform user experiences.
• Fluency in modern AI capabilities (LLMs, automation tools, data-driven personalization) and demonstrated ability to apply them in product strategy or execution.
• Alignment with Pearl’s mission and values.
• We look for leaders who love bringing clarity to complexity, move teams forward through uncertainty, and take pride in both strategy and execution.

Why work at Pearl?

• We are a mission-driven company: we love what we do and the impact we are making.
• Impact. Everything you do here will matter. Your opinion and contributions will make a big difference to the future of this company and our mission of making high-performance home value visible.
• Flexibility. We are 100% remote - work where you feel comfortable.
• Environment. Our company culture is supportive, team-based, and fun. We value candor, excellence, and collaboration while fostering creativity and camaraderie. We genuinely enjoy celebrating each others’ wins!
• Ownership. You will hold broad responsibilities with high autonomy in a fast-paced, evolving startup world.
• Equality between people. We support diversity, championing our differences, and most importantly, learn from one another. Pearl is an equal opportunity employer, and candidates from all backgrounds and life experiences are encouraged to apply.

Compensation and Benefits:

• Market salary based on experience and local conditions, in the range of $180k to $205k
• Medical, vision and dental coverage provided at no cost for employees and their families (with an option to purchase upgraded coverage at a minimal cost to employee)
• FSA, HSA, and dependent care accounts
• Life insurance coverage
• Employer paid cell phone service
• 401(k) with employer match up to 4%
• Stock options
• 15 vacation days during the calendar year, plus holidays (including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day), a floating holiday for your birthday, sick days, and paid parental leave
• Flexible work environment: work remotely from anywhere within the U.S.