# Principal Product Manager, Pricing Platform
**Company:** [Upstart](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/upstart)
**Location:** Remote
**Salary:** $188K-$260K
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Backend Platforms, Infrastructure Systems, Machine Learning, Data Science, Pricing Systems, Service-Oriented Architecture, Product Requirements, Large-Scale Systems, Analytics, Modular Architecture
**Posted:** 2026-04-22
> Leads strategy and evolution of the pricing platform powering loan offers across products, balancing reliability improvements with modular architecture for engineering velocity. Requires 5+ years PM experience managing backend platforms in ML-driven environments.
## Job Description
## How you’ll make an impact
- 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

## Minimum Qualifications
- 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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