BlackLine

Principal Product Manager

BlackLine$240K — $301K *
Finance & Insurance
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 15+ years in product management with experience in launching scaled products.
  • Proven track record of multi-year strategy ownership for major product areas.
  • Experience focusing horizontal products into specialized markets.
  • Proficiency in Agile methodologies and tools like Jira and Confluence.
  • Strong AI tool proficiency (e.g., Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT) to enhance product development.
  • Bachelor's degree in Business or Computer Science, or equivalent experience; finance knowledge is a plus.
  • Deep understanding of the financial close and record-to-report processes.

Responsibilities

  • Guide products through the software development lifecycle, from conception to launch.
  • Analyze and tailor solutions for new and existing customers.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with engineers, designers, and marketers.
  • Leverage technology and customer feedback from leading brands to shape product vision.
  • Create buy-in for product strategies among internal and external stakeholders.
  • Drive compelling storytelling and data-driven decisions to the C-suite and board level.
  • Make strategic decisions in ambiguous situations to propel product momentum.

Benefits

  • Robust offering of benefit and wellness plans.
  • Participation in short-term and long-term incentive programs.
  • Commitment to pay transparency.
  • Potential for professional development and career progression.
Full Job Description
You'll Get To:
Within Product Management at BlackLine, you will take part in guiding products through the software development lifecycle by analyzing, positioning, promoting, and tailoring our solutions to both new and existing customers. You will work closely with creative and talented engineers, designers, and marketers to help develop solutions that improve companies' overall financial close process. As a Principal, Product Manager, you will work cross-functionally to guide products, from conception to launch, by connecting the business and technical worlds. From leveraging new and existing technologies, to diving deep into feedback from some of the most recognized brands in the world, you will create buy-in for product vision for our internal and external stakeholders. The Principal, Product Manager is a customer-/market-oriented person with strong product and project management skills, a solid technical understanding, great personal skills and a track record for delivering exceptional business results.

What You'll Bring:
• 15+ years in product management, including major launches of highly scaled and/or 0-to-1 products.
• Proven ownership of multi-year strategy and business outcomes for a major product area or portfolio.
• Experience taking horizontal enterprise products into vertical, regional, or specialized markets is strongly

preferred.
• Proficiency in Agile methodologies and modern product development tooling like Jira, Jira Product Discovery,

Confluence, Pendo or other product usage analytics tools, etc.
• Strong proficiency using AI tools such as Claude, Gemini, or ChatGPT to accelerate and enhance the product

development lifecycle.• Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience; working

knowledge of accounting or finance is an advantage.

Domain
• Deep understanding of the financial close and record-to-report (R2R) landscape, and how industry, geography,

and finance-specialization requirements (regulatory, statutory, tax, and accounting) shape product needs.
• Familiarity with enterprise SaaS go-to-market, pricing, and packaging across segments and regions.

Working within an AI-native platform
• Comfort building product within an AI-native, agentic platform.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted or automated workflows, confidence thresholds, human-in-the-loop review, and the

ability to partner effectively with Data Science teams to build machine learning-based capabilities is strongly

preferred.

Strategy & influence
• Exceptional strategic and systems thinking; anticipates market shifts and emerging technologies, and uses data

to challenge assumptions and drive direction.
• Executive presence with the ability to influence at the C-suite and board level, driving decisions through

compelling storytelling, data, and strong business cases.
• Strong financial modeling and business-case development.
• Makes high-impact decisions under uncertainty and drives momentum in ambiguous situations.

Salary Range:
$240,000.00-$301,000.00

Pay Transparency Statement:

Placement within this range depends upon several factors, including the applicant's prior relevant job experience, skill set, and geographic location.

In addition to base pay, BlackLine also offers short-term and long-term incentive programs, based on eligibility, along with a robust offering of benefit and wellness plans.

We are committed to pay transparency and ensuring candidates have clear information about compensation expectations. For roles that include variable incentive components such as an Incentive Compensation Plan (ICP) or On-Target Earnings (OTE), the compensation structure may follow a split model - for example, a 50/50, 70/30, or 60/40 ratio between base salary and variable incentive.

About BlackLine

BlackLine, Inc. is a provider of cloud-based software that automates and controls the entire financial close process. The company’s platform is designed to help midsize companies and large enterprises improve the accuracy and efficiency of their financial reporting. BlackLine’s software is used by accounting and finance teams to manage tasks such as journal entry preparation, account reconciliations, and intercompany accounting. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Woodland Hills, California.
Learn more about BlackLine
Size
1,812 employees
Market Cap
$3.8 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$46.9 million
Founded
2001
5 Year Trend
+27.2%
Revenue
$351.7 million
NASDAQ

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