Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Wrike’s “Core” unit sits in the part of an established B2B SaaS product that determines whether the platform feels coherent at scale. A Group Product Manager role here is notable because it concentrates on foundational workflows and information architecture, where decisions ripple across adoption, configurability, and enterprise rollout patterns. The brief also signals an inflection point common in mature SaaS, evolving a proven experience toward AI native collaboration without breaking usability for existing customers.
From a SaaS career standpoint, this is a compounding leadership seat. It blends portfolio level prioritisation across customer demand, platform investment, and UX trade offs, while also building the operating system for multiple product teams. The remit spans strategy, metrics driven discovery, and cross functional alignment across Product, Engineering, Design, and GTM, which are the muscles required to run larger product lines in enterprise software.
This role fits product leaders who prefer shaping systems over shipping isolated features, and who enjoy coaching other PMs while staying close to customer context. It will suit someone comfortable making hard calls with incomplete information and translating long range product direction into clear team ownership across several squads.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
About the Role:
We’re looking for a Group Product Manager to lead Wrike’s Core unit — the product area at the heart of how customers plan, structure, manage, and scale work in Wrike.
In this role, you will lead a unit of five product teams and manage a team of five Product Managers. You will define the vision and strategy for Core Wrike going forward, balancing three critical forces: increasing product power, preserving ease of use, and evolving the experience to be suitable for the AI-native future.
This is a high-impact leadership role for someone who can combine strong product judgment, people leadership, customer empathy, and strategic prioritization. You will help shape the foundation of Wrike’s product experience while developing a team of PMs into stronger strategic product leaders.
Your Impact:
- Set the Core strategy: Define and evolve the vision, strategy, and priorities for Wrike’s Core unit, ensuring the product remains powerful, scalable, easy to use, and ready for AI agents collaboration as well as for human.
- Lead a multi-team product area: Manage five Product Managers across five teams, ensuring clarity of ownership, strong decision-making, and consistent product quality across the unit.
- Prioritize ferociously: Balance customer requests, enterprise needs, technical investments, usability improvements, and long-term strategic bets — with a clear view of what matters most.
- Enable AI-native R&D: Contribute to building the processes, tooling, and mindsets needed for the R&D organization to scale output and outcomes by 10x with AI-native ways of working.
- Develop the PM team: Coach, mentor, and grow Product Managers, helping them to achieve the next level.
Your Qualifications:
- Product leadership experience: Proven experience leading product managers or managing a complex product area with multiple teams and stakeholders.
- Strong core PM craft and customer-centric mindset: Deep understanding of product discovery, customer validation, roadmap strategy, prioritization, metrics, and product delivery.
- Enterprise SaaS experience: Strong knowledge of B2B SaaS and enterprise customer needs, including scalability, adoption, usability, configurability, and change management.
- Strategic prioritization: Ability to make hard trade-offs across incomparable investments, customer escalations, technical complexity, and long-term platform direction.
- Cross-functional leadership and stakeholder management: Ability to align teams and stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Design, GTM, and executive leadership.
- People management skills: Experience coaching, mentoring, hiring, developing, and managing performance of product managers.
- Excellent UX judgment: Ability to balance power and simplicity in complex product experiences.
Standout Qualities:
- Experience in B2B SaaS enterprise products in collaboration or productivity area
- Practical understanding of AI-native product development and agentic workflows.
- Visionary mindset and ability to redefine complex products vision
- Strong technical fluency and ability to partner effectively with engineering leaders.
Our Work Style:
- Core product impact: You will shape the foundational Wrike experience used by customers every day to manage work at scale.
- Strategic complexity: The role requires balancing power, simplicity, customer demand, technical depth, and AI-readiness in one of Wrike’s most important product areas.
- People leadership scope: You will directly develop a team of five PMs and influence the product culture of a larger R&D unit.
- AI-native transformation: You will help define how Core Wrike evolves for a future where AI changes how teams create, structure, and manage work.
- High visibility: Your decisions will influence Wrike’s product direction, customer value, and long-term competitiveness.
Why Join Wrike?
- 18 calendar days of paid vacation
- 12 days of National & Festival holidays (10 fixed, 2 flexible)
- Sick Leave Compensation (5 Paid Uncertified Sick Days)
- Menstrual Leave: Twelve (12) days per calendar year. Women employees are eligible for up to 1 day of menstrual leave per month.
- Parental Leave: 26 Weeks Maternity / 4 Week Paternity
- 2 Volunteer Days
- Group Medical Insurance (Employees + Dependents)
- Term Life Insurance (Rs 50,00,000)
- Personal Accident Insurance (Rs 50,00,000)
- Monthly Broadband / Internet Reimbursement (INR 1500)
- Hybrid Working Model + Complimentary Lunch & Snacks
What’s Next?
- Exploratory call with a Recruiter
- Meeting with the hiring manager - Product Director
- Panel interview with Product, Engineering, and Design representatives
- Home task
- Final interview with the CPO
Your recruitment buddy will be Alexandra Vorobyova, Lead Recruiter.
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