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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.You'll Get To:\nWithin 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.\nYou will work closely with creative and talented engineers, designers, and marketers to help develop solutions that improve companies' overall financial close process.\nAs 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.\nThe 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.\nWhat You'll Bring:\n15+ years in product management, including major launches of highly scaled and/or 0-to-1 products.\nProven ownership of multi-year strategy and business outcomes for a major product area or portfolio.\nExperience taking horizontal enterprise products into vertical, regional, or specialized markets is strongly preferred.\nProficiency in Agile methodologies and modern product development tooling like Jira, Jira Product Discovery, Confluence, Pendo or other product usage analytics tools, etc.\nStrong proficiency using AI tools such as Claude, Gemini, or ChatGPT to accelerate and enhance the product development lifecycle.\nBachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience; working knowledge of accounting or finance is an advantage.\nDomain\nDeep 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.\nFamiliarity with enterprise SaaS go-to-market, pricing, and packaging across segments and regions.\nWorking within an AI-native platform\nComfort building product within an AI-native, agentic platform.\nFamiliarity 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\npreferred.\nStrategy & influence\nExceptional strategic and systems thinking; anticipates market shifts and emerging technologies, and uses data to challenge assumptions and drive direction.\nExecutive presence with the ability to influence at the C-suite and board level, driving decisions through compelling storytelling, data, and strong business cases.\nStrong financial modeling and business-case development.\nMakes high-impact decisions under uncertainty and drives momentum in ambiguous situations.\nThrive at BlackLine Because You Are Joining:\nA technology-based company with a sense of adventure and a vision for the future. Every door at BlackLine is open. Just bring your brains, your problem-solving skills, and be part of a winning team at the world's most trusted name in Finance Automation!\nA culture that is kind, open, and accepting. It's a place where people can embrace what makes them unique, and the mix of cultural backgrounds and varying interests cultivates diverse thought and perspectives.\nA culture where BlackLiner's continued growth and learning is empowered. BlackLine offers a wide variety of professional development seminars and inclusive affinity groups to celebrate and support our diversity.\nBlackLine is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, race, ethnicity, age, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, ancestry, color, marital status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking, medical condition, genetic information, or any other protected class or category recognized by applicable equal employment opportunity or other similar laws.\nBlackLine recognizes that the ways we work and the workplace itself has shifted. We innovate in a workplace that optimizes a combination of virtual and in-person interactions to maximize collaboration and nurture our culture. Candidates who live within a reasonable commute to one of our offices will work in the office at least 3 days a week.\nSalary Range:\n$257,000.00-$322,000.00Pay Transparency Statement:\nPlacement within this range depends upon several factors, including the applicant's prior relevant job experience, skill set, and geographic location.\nIn 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.\nWe 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.\nBlackLine is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible experience for all candidates. If you require a reasonable accommodation that would better enable your success during the application or interview process, please complete this form.\nAccommodations:\nBlackLine is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible experience for all candidates. 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