Principal Product Manager, Data Products

Purpose in Every Position.

At Velocity Global, we believe that success knows no borders—and it’s built by teams working together across them. Our unified, tech-enabled platform empowers businesses to hire, pay, and support talent in 185+ countries, making global growth not just possible, but seamless. Behind every expansion and every solution is a spirit of collaboration between our teams and the companies we serve. With AI-powered tools and human-first service, we simplify the complexity of global workforce management so businesses can focus on what matters: their people, their purpose, and their potential.

Where Your Work Moves the Needle.

At Velocity Global, every team member helps shape our success. When you join us, you don’t just fill a role—you live our values. They guide how we work, collaborate, and make an impact across borders. By bringing these principles to life, you’ll help us grow stronger, move faster, and lead the future of global work.

Doing the Right Thing

Making authentic, values-driven decisions that build trust—even when no one is watching.

Winning as a Team

Collaborating across diverse perspectives and skill sets to achieve shared goals and celebrate collective success.

Leading with Curiosity

Asking thoughtful questions, challenging assumptions, and exploring new possibilities to drive innovation.

Connecting with Empathy

Valuing each person’s unique background and perspective to build an inclusive culture that fosters belonging and creativity.

Driving for Impact

Staying tenacious, customer-focused, and committed to delivering results that make a real difference.

What Makes You a Great Fit:

We are looking for a creative, customer-focused Principal Product Manager to lead the Data platform and product area at Velocity Global. Currently, customers use our platform to manage their global employee payroll and benefits. That's just a start and we have aggressive goals and plans.

As a Principal Product Manager, you will shape a data platform to lead AI-powered solutions to transform customer engagement and propel our phase of growth. You will collaborate with designers, engineers, GTM teams, and the executive leadership to build a modern Data platform with AI capabilities to accelerate growth and lead to market leadership. As Product Leader, you will create the strategy, manage the roadmap, and build on the product backlog, work with cross-functional teams to develop exceptional data and analytics products for our customers.

This is a hybrid position based in Palo Alto, California, and in-office collaboration is required for at least 1-3 days per week. You will be an individual contributor reporting to the VP Product.

How You’ll Make an Impact:

• Strategy: Work with cross functional teams to develop vision and strategy for the Data platform, data quality and governance to accomplish effective outcomes across all functions
• Ownership: Align with strategy for multiple teams and create and drive a portfolio of cross-functional initiatives to achieve core elements of the data strategy
• Definition: Clearly articulate the business problems about data, gather evidence from users and outside sources, clarify the potential solutions with assumptions, guiding principles, strategic connections
• Roadmap: Define the roadmap with deep understanding of the underlying data architecture, and drive prioritization of functional and non-functional requirements
• Delivery: Create user stories, and partner with data and product engineering teams to manage product backlog and execution through scrum teams
• Communication: Serve as primary evangelist of data platform and capabilities with customers, internal executive stakeholders. Participate in industry events, customer briefings, analyst briefings, and advisory boards
• Outcomes: Drive product and feature launches aligned with company goals and report key metrics
  
  
  

Let’s Connect If You:

• 10+ years of Product Management experience
• Computer Science background or equivalent technical experience
• Experience building data platforms
• Experience leading initiatives across large engineering and cross functional teams, to influence roadmap planning and execution
• Hands-on experience in testing product before releasing and editing FAQ/documentation
• Experience communicating complex technical concepts to a variety of audiences, structuring ambiguous concepts and from first principles
• Startup experience, either in FinTech or HR tech preferably
• Experience taking a product from 0-1 or founded a startup is preferred
  
  
  

Our job titles may span more than one career level. The base pay depends upon many factors, such as training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified.

Annualized Pay Range

$175,000—$240,000 USD

Our Commitment to You

At Velocity Global, we’re committed to supporting our team with comprehensive rewards and benefits designed to meet diverse needs across roles and locations. Our core offerings include:

• Flexible Time Off – Take the time you need to recharge.
• Parental Leave – Support for growing families.
• Health and Dental Insurance – Where applicable, to cover you and your loved ones.
• Retirement Savings + Employee Incentive Plan – Plan for the future while sharing our success.
  
  
  

Please visit our career page for more information.