Guild

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At Guild, we believe talent is everywhere and that opportunity should be too. We continue to have our home and headquarters in Denver, but we have embraced a distributed model of working to reach the best talent in the United States. While some roles may require proximity to our Denver office, roles based outside of our Denver office can sit in any of the following 32 states: AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, KS, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI and Washington D.C. Please only apply if you are able to live and work full-time in one of the states listed above. State locations and specifics are subject to change as our hiring requirements shift. If you are an Internal Candidate, please apply via our Internal Job Board. ---- To thrive as a company and meet our impact goals, we must cultivate a culture of high-performance. We know managers are often the single-largest driver of employee satisfaction and growth, and our talent is our biggest asset. Because of that, we’ve identified consistent expectations for all of Guild’s people managers — helping you know what to expect from your experience here. ---- Guild is hiring a Principal Product Manager for our Guild Grow product. As a Principal Product Manager for Guild Grow, you will serve as a strategic and influential product leader for Guild’s premier product line. This role is central to Guild’s mission of expanding access to education and skilling benefits worldwide. You will orchestrate highly cross-functional initiatives, manage complex dependencies across multiple teams, and shape how employers and employees engage with education benefits globally. Reporting to a member of Guild’s product leadership team, you will be both strategist and executor—crafting vision, aligning stakeholders, and ensuring flawless execution at scale. You will influence organizational direction by synthesizing insights from executives, employer partners, learners, and the market. This role is remote, with regular travel to Denver and other locations as needed. Responsibilities Impact and Influence Shape Guild’s organizational strategy by establishing trusted relationships with executives, senior leaders, and key external partners. Synthesize diverse perspectives from internal teams, customers, and stakeholders to inform and influence strategic direction. Anticipate and navigate potential conflicts or resistance at the executive level, building alignment and momentum around shared goals. Create a culture of collaboration and influence by modeling effective relationship-building and communication practices. Product Strategy and Vision Define and articulate the long-term vision for the Professional Grow product, aligning with Guild’s mission and global expansion goals. Lead the development of quarterly product roadmaps across multiple product areas, ensuring alignment with business priorities. Drive complex discovery and solution design efforts that address multi-user and multi-team challenges. Use experimentation, testing, and data insights to sharpen product-market fit and inform strategy. Identify new opportunities that advance Guild’s long-term success and proactively act on them. Product Execution and Delivery Orchestrate execution across multiple product teams and initiatives, ensuring alignment with long-term vision and objectives. Implement and refine systems for tracking dependencies, risks, and progress across the organization. Drive continuous improvement in product development and delivery processes. Oversee strategic resource allocation and team structure to optimize organizational effectiveness. Resolve critical execution challenges impacting multiple product areas or the broader organization. Technical Product Management Serve as a subject matter expert across multiple product areas and adjacent technologies. Engage in technical architecture discussions, guiding trade-off decisions to balance immediate needs with long-term scalability. Apply advanced data analysis techniques to uncover insights, trends, and opportunities for innovation. Identify areas for technical optimization that enhance product performance, reliability, and scalability. Communication Demonstrate exceptional storytelling ability that inspires and mobilizes diverse audiences. Develop frameworks and practices that enable clear, consistent, and impactful communication across all organizational levels. Shape Guild’s organizational voice in product strategy and execution, internally and externally. Use advanced communication strategies to navigate complex stakeholder relationships and advance strategic objectives. Fostering Learning and Development Mentor and coach product managers and cross-functional leaders. Empower teams by encouraging risk-taking, experimentation, and peer learning. Build teams with complementary skills, fostering a culture of growth and self-directed development. Provide opportunities for team members to take ownership of their own learning while driving high performance. Qualifications 10+ years of product management experience, including 3+ years in a Principal, Group, or equivalent senior-level role. Demonstrated success leading complex, cross-functional, global initiatives. Deep expertise in platform product management, payments, benefits, or enterprise SaaS strongly preferred. Proven ability to define strategy and translate into executable roadmaps. Exceptional communication, negotiation, and influence skills with executives and external partners. Track record of building scalable, compliant, customer-centric products. Strong technical fluency with ability to guide architectural discussions, data-driven decision-making, and trade-offs. We are committed to equal pay for equal work and believe in compensation transparency. All salary ranges are standardized nationwide and will not vary by region. This role offers a competitive total compensation package, including a base salary of $161,300 - $236,600, variable compensation, and stock options. Compensation offered will be based on a combination of factors such as experience, competencies, and internal equity. Posting Date: This role will be open for a minimum of 3 days. Guild is America’s leading talent development company, partnering with the country’s most innovative employers, including Chipotle, Target, Walgreens, JPMorgan Chase, Hilton, PepsiCo, Tyson, and more, to build the talent needed for today and a resilient workforce for tomorrow. Guild helps employers identify, develop, and mobilize internal talent — enabling workers to gain skills for in-demand roles and helping companies stay agile. By connecting employees to real-world learning, coaching, and career support, and providing companies with actionable talent insights, Guild transforms overlooked talent into high-impact contributors and positions companies for long-term, sustainable growth. For more information, visit https://www.guild.com. Guild is female-founded and a certified B Corp. The company has been named to the TIME100 Most Influential Companies of 2022 list, CNBC Disruptor50 list three years in a row, Inc. Best Led Companies list, Fast Co. World Changing Ideas list and the B Lab Best for the World list among many others. Guild is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let your recruiter know. We currently offer the following benefits: Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Cigna and Kaiser (due to coverage limitations, Kaiser is currently only available in CA & CO) Access to a 401k to help save for the future Vacation policy to rest and recharge 8 days of fully-paid sick leave, to take the time to heal and or recover Family-friendly benefits, including 12 weeks of parental leave for non-birthing parents and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents; 4-week ramp-up period for when employees return from a leave of 6 weeks or more; as well as employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, fertility and caregiving benefits. Well-rounded wellness benefits including free and low cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services Education benefits and tuition assistance to help your future development and growth PRIVACY NOTICE I understand that I am applying for employment with Guild and am being asked to provide information in connection with my application. I further understand that Guild gathers this information through a third-party service provider and that Guild may use other service providers to assist in the application process. Guild may share my information with such third-party service providers in connection with my application and for the start of employment. I understand and agree to Guild's use of my information in accordance with Guild's Privacy Policy and, for applicants that are residents of the State of California, Guild's Applicant Privacy Notice and California Notice at Collection.