Principal Product Manager - Trellis

About the role

Sprout Social is seeking an experienced and visionary Principal Product Manager to drive the strategy, execution, and launch of key artificial intelligence features, expanding the capabilities of Sprout's agentic AI, Trellis. The Principal PM will work with a high degree of autonomy, serving as the deep domain expert for their focus area, driving experimentation, and fostering a culture of rapid iteration. This role is critical to Sprout's transformation into a proactive social intelligence platform. Why join Sprout's Product team? Sprout empowers businesses worldwide to harness the immense power and opportunity of social media in today's digital-first world. Processing over one billion social messages daily, our platform serves up essential insights and actionable information to over 30,000 brands, informing strategic decisions that drive business growth and innovation, and fostering deeper, authentic connections to their end customers. This is an exciting opportunity for a leader on the cutting edge of AI to drive transformative change and unlock new possibilities for the biggest brands. Our Product team operates at the intersection of strategy, innovation, customer value, and go-to-market collaboration. As part of the broader R&D organization, our team collaborates closely with Engineering, Product Design, and Go-to-Market (GTM) teams to create impactful experiences for customers while driving measurable business outcomes. Not only will you set the vision for the core Trellis experience of chat and studio (working with the VP of product), but you'll play a pivotal role in the evolution of our overall product management practices and shaping a best-in-class product organization with a culture of operational excellence. Join other empathetic and visionary leaders on our product leadership team who help each other grow and learn while we guide and inspire our teams to deliver world-class products.

Responsibilities

• Define and evangelize a high-impact roadmap for Trellis Chat and Trellis Studio that translates customer needs into intuitive agentic workflows ensuring Trellis solves key customer pain points and drives ROI.
• Lead high-stakes, platform-wide initiatives by identifying integration points across the Sprout portfolio, enabling customers to achieve sophisticated outcomes with minimal effort through seamless agentic assistance.
• Partner deeply with cross-functional teams to develop our Trellis skills ecosystem.
• Serve as the primary subject matter expert for Trellis within the product org, maintaining a constant feedback loop with customers.
• Act as the connective tissue between GTM, Design, and Engineering to ensure that features are not only technically sound but also commercially viable and intuitively designed.
• Elevate the product organization's collective AI literacy by mentoring peer PMs, sharing best practices, and helping shape the internal standards for building and shipping intelligent products.
• Stay at the forefront of AI trends and the competitor landscape.
• Drive the execution of "best-in-class" product delivery, balancing the urgency of immediate customer needs with the long-term scalability and innovation of our AI core.

Requirements

• 10+ years of PM experience in platform or AI roles in a B2B product-driven SaaS environment.
• Experience building agentic solutions within a b2b SaaS environment.
• Proven success leading initiatives in a multi-product portfolio company.
• Experience collaborating closely with product, design, engineering, and GTM leaders to deliver cohesive solutions.
• How you'll grow
• Within 1 month, you'll plant your roots, including:
• Completing Sprout Social's new hire training & onboarding program alongside other new Sprout team members. You'll gain a broader understanding of our products and how your role fits into the organization.
• Learning the current state of AI at Sprout, along with future product and technical roadmaps.
• Diving into our products to learn about what makes our software unique and why customers love our products.
• Beginning to understand the capabilities and limitations of our AI and data platforms
• Establishing relationships with other product, engineering, design and revenue leaders and identifying areas of opportunity.
• Get hands-on with Sprout's products, experiencing them from the customer's perspective.
• Within 3 months, you'll start hitting your stride by:
• Partnering with senior AI leadership to define key success metrics for your role and teams and how you will measure against them.
• Participate in architectural discussions and decisions, asking the right questions to guide your team to successful outcomes.
• Partici

Benefits

Your Match

How well this role fits your profile.

Company Intel

What employees say

Worked at sproutsocial? Share your experience