# Principal Product Manager, Pricing Platform

**Company:** [Upstart](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/upstart)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Product Management
**Salary:** $183k – $260k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Product Management, backend platforms, infrastructure systems, large-scale systems, technical products, pricing systems, monolithic to modular architectures, Machine Learning, Data Science, Cross-Functional Collaboration
**Posted:** 2026-07-17

> Principal Product Manager leading the strategy and evolution of Upstart's critical pricing platform that powers loan offers across unsecured, auto, and home products. Requires 5-7 years PM experience with backend platforms/infrastructure, strong technical fluency, and ability to drive modular architecture changes while balancing stakeholder priorities.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Define and execute the long-term vision for Upstart’s pricing platform, enabling scalable and reusable capabilities across multiple loan products.
- Improve the reliability, quality, and availability of pricing systems, reducing risk and preventing high-impact failures in a business-critical system.
- Drive platform evolution from a complex, monolithic architecture toward modular, service-oriented systems that increase engineering velocity.
- Partner with engineering, machine learning, and product teams across unsecured, auto, and home lending to enable new pricing capabilities and use cases.
- Balance competing priorities across stakeholders, making principled tradeoffs between short-term business needs and long-term platform investments.
- Identify and unlock opportunities to accelerate product development by improving platform primitives and reducing dependency bottlenecks.

## Requirements
- BA/BS in Economics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5-7 years of product management experience.
- Experience building or managing backend platforms or infrastructure systems.
- Experience working with engineering teams on large-scale, complex systems.
- Experience defining product requirements and driving execution for technical products.

## Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working on pricing systems, ads platforms, or similar optimization systems.
- Experience evolving monolithic systems into modular or service-oriented architectures.
- Experience working in machine learning, data science, or analytics-driven environments.
- Experience operating in highly cross-functional environments with multiple stakeholders.

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