Job Description

Are you passionate about building scalable UI platforms that empower developers to create exceptional user experiences? Do you enjoy translating complex frontend architecture challenges into intuitive frameworks that improve consistency, performance, and productivity across an entire product ecosystem? Are you excited by the opportunity to shape the future of enterprise software through modern web technologies, AI-powered workflows, and close collaboration with engineering and design leaders? If so, we invite you to be a part of our innovative team.

As a Senior Product Manager, you will serve as the product leader for Ridgeline’s UI Platform - Frameworks initiatives, driving the strategy, roadmap, and execution of foundational frontend capabilities that power the entire Ridgeline product experience. You will partner closely with Engineering, Design, and fellow Product Managers to build scalable, high-performance frameworks that enable rapid product innovation while maintaining consistency, quality, and long-term platform sustainability. Working with cutting-edge technologies and AI tools like Claude, Cursor, and other generative AI solutions, you'll help define AI-native product management practices and accelerate software delivery across the organization.

At Ridgeline, how we work matters as much as what we build. Ridgeliners act like owners, choose growth over comfort, and communicate with transparency. We assume positive intent, bias toward action, and bring solutions—not just problems. We celebrate wins, learn from setbacks, and thrive in a resilient, collaborative, high-performing culture. If this excites you, we’d love to meet you!

You must be work authorized in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship.

The impact you will have

• Shape the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Ridgeline's UI Platform, creating the shared frontend frameworks and infrastructure that enable product teams to build exceptional user experiences at scale.
• Deliver platform capabilities that improve developer productivity, application performance, consistency, and scalability, accelerating product delivery while enhancing the customer experience.
• Partner cross-functionally with Product Management, Engineering, Design, PMO, and DevOps to bring strategic platform initiatives from concept through successful adoption across the organization.
• Champion the platform strategy and technical vision, building alignment with stakeholders and driving adoption of shared standards, frameworks, and architectural best practices.
• Translate strategic priorities into well-defined product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and measurable outcomes that enable engineering teams to execute with confidence.
• Drive platform investment decisions that balance long-term technical health, maintainability, and stability with evolving customer needs and business priorities.
• Partner with Design to create cohesive, accessible, and intuitive user experiences that establish consistency across the Ridgeline product suite.
• Help define quality standards and testing strategies that ensure the platform delivers reliable, performant, and resilient experiences for both developers and end users.
• Influence roadmap prioritization and resource allocation by evaluating tradeoffs, aligning stakeholders, and maximizing business impact.
• Stay ahead of frontend architecture, developer experience, and emerging technology trends, transforming innovation into scalable platform capabilities.
• Lead AI-native product management practices by leveraging tools such as Claude to generate appropriate context architecture to accelerate product discovery, produce high-quality PRDs, refine requirements, generate user stories, and streamline planning.
• Partner with Engineering to embed AI throughout the software development lifecycle, enabling intelligent code generation, deployment automation, and continuous improvements in software quality.
• Establish best practices for applying AI across product management, improving backlog quality, documentation, stakeholder communication, and overall team effectiveness.
• Foster a high-performing culture built on innovation, accountability, continuous learning, and a shared commitment to delivering exceptional platform capabilities.
• Think creatively, own problems, seek solutions, and communicate clearly along the way
• Contribute to a collaborative environment rooted in learning, teaching, ownership, and transparency

What we look for

• Bachelor’s degree in related discipline
• 3+ years of product management experience owning product strategy and roadmaps for web-based products
• Experience partnering closely with UX designers to deliver intuitive and impactful user experiences
• Experience working within Agile software development environments such as JIRA
• Experience across multiple phases of the software development lifecycle
• Strong ability to collaborate effectively across Product, Platform, Engineering, Design, PMO, DevOps, and executive stakeholders
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence technical and non-technical audiences
• Understanding of frontend architecture concepts, including bundlers such as Webpack and Rspack, microfrontend architectures, and component-based design systems
• Ability to evaluate build performance, CI/CD workflows, and developer experience tradeoffs
• Familiarity with React ecosystem considerations, including rendering patterns, state management, and versioning strategies
• Willingness to learn about cutting-edge technologies while cultivating expertise in a business domain/problem space
• An aptitude for problem solving
• Ability to communicate effectively
• Serious interest in having fun at work

Bonus

• Experience building platform products, developer tooling, or reusable UI component frameworks
• Experience developing grid-based, spreadsheet-like, or highly interactive enterprise applications
• Enterprise software experience working within SLA and SOC 2 compliance environments
• Experience using Slack, JIRA, Confluence, Figma, Productboard, Claude Code, Cursor, Google Workspace, and GitHub
• Experience supporting internal engineering teams as primary product customers
• Experience within investment management, financial technology, or adjacent financial services domains
• Long-term interest in building highly functional teams, organizational processes, and scalable operating models

About Ridgeline

Ridgeline is the first front-to-back system of record for investment managers. Founded by visionary entrepreneur Dave Duffield (co-founder of both PeopleSoft and Workday), the company was created to modernize an industry held back by outdated, disconnected technology. Powered by a single, real-time data set and embedded AI, Ridgeline helps firms automate complexity, accelerate collaboration, and deliver tailored client experiences at scale, without added headcount or risk. Ridgeline is headquartered in Lake Tahoe, with offices in New York, Reno, the Bay Area, and Dublin, Ireland. Ridgeline is recognized by Fast Company as a “Best Workplace for Innovators,” by Frost & Sullivan as a “Technology Innovation Leader,” and by The Software Report as a “Top 100 Software Company.”

Ridgeline is proud to be a community-minded, discrimination-free equal opportunity workplace.

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Compensation and Benefits

[For New York and California Based Only]

The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is listed below. In select locations (including, the San Francisco Bay Area, CA, and the New York City Metro Area), an alternate range may apply as specified below.

The typical starting salary range for this role is: $136,000-$170,000.

The typical starting salary range for this role in the select locations listed above is: $149,500-$187,000.

Final compensation amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amount listed above.

As an employee at Ridgeline, you’ll have many opportunities for advancement in your career and can make a true impact on the product.

In addition to the base salary, Ridgeline employees can participate in our Company Stock Plan subject to the applicable Stock Option Agreement. We also offer rich benefits that reflect the kind of organization we want to be: one in which our employees feel valued and are inspired to bring their best selves to work. These include unlimited vacation, educational and wellness reimbursements, and $0 cost employee insurance plans. Please check out our Careers page for a more comprehensive overview of our perks and benefits.

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