Senior Product Manager

At AREA 17, we believe we can help the world be more open, resilient, and optimistic. We work with clients we trust and admire across various industries, including Saint Laurent, OpenAI, the International Energy Agency, Fondation Louis Vuitton, and The New York Times. We build long-term partnerships by delivering value through brand, experience, and technology.

We are seeking a Senior Product Manager to turn vision into delivery. This role connects experience strategy and technical architecture to execution, translating ambition into clear plans that keep complex projects moving forward. You will own the path from intent to outcome, ensuring work is delivered predictably, thoughtfully, and with impact.

The position

As a Senior Product Manager at AREA 17, you are accountable for delivery outcomes. You bring structure to ambiguity, align cross-functional teams and stakeholders, and ensure projects are delivered on time, on budget, and at a high level of quality. This is not a purely operational role; you are expected to exercise judgment, make trade-offs, and lead with confidence in partnership with Experience and Technology teams.

Key responsibilities

Product leadership

• Own delivery planning by defining and maintaining scope, milestones, sequencing, and priorities in alignment with Experience, Technology, and the client.
• Translate experience strategy and technical architecture into clear backlogs, plans, and milestones that teams can execute without ambiguity.
• Define and track success criteria, actively managing scope and priorities to deliver value early and avoid late surprises.
• Make timely trade-offs around scope, timeline, and quality, escalating risks and decisions when needed to keep delivery moving.

Client engagement and alignment

• Serve as the primary day-to-day delivery partner for clients, ensuring clear and ongoing alignment on progress, risks, and upcoming decisions.
• Lead client demos, working sessions, and feedback reviews that drive decisions, with outcomes clearly documented and shared.
• Communicate changes and trade-offs transparently, explaining what is changing, why, and the impact on scope and timeline.
• Build trust through reliable delivery, proactive communication, and consistent follow-through.

Methodology and collaboration

• Apply a pragmatic delivery approach that enables teams to deliver high-quality, scalable work within agreed constraints.
• Identify risks and dependencies early and work with partners to define and implement mitigation plans.
• Facilitate delivery rituals so they result in clear goals, committed scope, and shared accountability.
• Maintain transparent delivery artifacts that make priorities, ownership, and risks visible to teams and clients.

Requirements

What we’re looking for

We are looking for a senior product leader with 6+ years of experience delivering complex digital products in agency, consultancy, or product-led environments. This role requires someone who has owned delivery across multiple concurrent initiatives and worked closely with designers, engineers, and clients to deliver real value under real constraints.

We are looking for someone who is comfortable operating in ambiguity and making decisions around scope, sequencing, and trade-offs, creating clarity and momentum while keeping teams and stakeholders aligned.

We are looking for someone with a strong, pragmatic grasp of agile delivery and product practices. You should be fluent in delivery tools such as Jira and Confluence, and understand how to use them to support clear planning, communication, and accountability—rather than process for its own sake.

We are looking for someone with a solid understanding of modern web technologies, APIs, and system constraints, and who can collaborate closely with engineering to assess feasibility and guide decisions. You should value strong design and product quality, and know how to advocate for them within real-world constraints.

Key capabilities

• Delivery planning & execution — Translating product vision, experience principles, and technical architecture into clear plans, backlogs, and milestones, while defining success criteria and actively managing scope and priorities.
• Cross-functional orchestration — Coordinating designers, engineers, and clients across parallel workstreams, anticipating dependencies and risks, and keeping delivery moving without sacrificing quality.
• Decision-making — Making and communicating timely decisions around scope, timeline, and quality, escalating when appropriate and helping stakeholders understand options and consequences.
• Client & stakeholder leadership — Leading client working sessions and feedback loops, driving decisions, and building trust through transparency, clarity, and follow-through.
• Communication — Communicating complex product and delivery concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, ensuring shared understanding and minimal surprises.

This position is based in our New York studio. Candidates should be located within the New York City metro area and able to work from our Brooklyn studio at least two days per week.

Benefits

What we offer

At AREA 17, we believe that doing great work comes from living great lives. We are a global company with studios in Paris and New York, composed of an international team from 18 countries, speaking 13 languages, and distributed across continents. We believe that time spent together enhances our collaborations with our team and clients. To that end, we focus our in-person energy together on Tuesdays and Thursdays, centralizing group meetings and in-person touchpoints to make the most for our team. Our approach balances connection with the flexibility to support each person’s life and family, including temporary remote work options and no-cap PTO. Candidates should be local to NYC and able to work from the studio in accordance with our policy and client commitments. 

The salary band for this position is $103,000-120,000 per year. Actual salary will depend on several factors, including experience, qualifications, capabilities, and the salaries of existing employees within the same role to maintain equity. Benefits for full-time employees include fully-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their families; 401(k) with 4% company match; HSA options with annual employer contributions; in-office snacks and activities; employer-paid life insurance, and additional health, wellness, and lifestyle perks. 

We champion diversity in all forms. As individuals and a team, we are inspired by the world around us and united by our shared principles of rigor, curiosity, kindness, courage, and individuality. We are looking for applicants who feel connected to and inspired by these principles as well as our DEI Statement.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building and maintaining a diverse staff, and recognize that our continued success depends on hiring and retaining high-quality, creative professionals with a variety of backgrounds and experiences. As a company, we structure our team across bands and levels to create a path for growth and development. Opportunities for advancement exist for all employees – we invest in each member of the team to develop, grow and advance, individually and as a team.

AREA 17 does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, sexual orientation, handicap, and/or disability, veteran status, or any other protected category under federal, state or local law.