Product Readiness Manager

OneStream • Full-time • United States • 1d ago

Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs

Product readiness has become a formal discipline in SaaS as release cadence increases and launches span product, revenue, and support operations. This role sits in a Product Readiness Office model, coordinating New Product Introductions and major releases where the market impact is material. The remit touches the full launch surface area in a software environment, from enablement and communications through to support and partner preparedness, which is where many SaaS launches succeed or stall.

For a SaaS career, the strongest signal here is repeatable exposure to cross functional execution. Managing dependencies across Product and Engineering and customer facing teams builds practical fluency in how SaaS organizations translate roadmap into commercial reality. The focus on go or no go reviews, risk visibility, and post launch handoffs also develops a governance mindset that transfers well into product operations, program management, and GTM enablement roles across enterprise software.

This position tends to suit professionals who like structured coordination work and influencing without formal authority. It aligns with candidates who enjoy turning ambiguous inputs into clear plans, status, and decisions, and who want to be close to product launches without owning a single functional silo. It also fits those comfortable operating through tools and recurring stakeholder rhythms.

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

Product Readiness Manager

Location: Remote, US

Employment Type:Full-Time

Benefits Offered: Vision, Medical, Life, Dental, 401K

Gross Annual Base Salary: USD 114,000 - 148,000

Additional variable compensation and benefits may apply. Total compensation is based on experience, skills, and location using objective, job-related criteria.

Summary

The Product Readiness Manager is responsible for driving cross-functional readiness activities for New Product Introductions (NPI) and major product releases with market impact. As part of the Product Readiness Office (PRO), this role helps ensure the business is ready to deliver, sell, support, and scale offerings at launch by coordinating readiness plans, tracking dependencies, and surfacing risks that could affect launch success.

This role partners with Product & Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Support, Services, and Partners to coordinate launch readiness plans, maintain visibility to key milestones, and ensure required enablement and operational activities are completed on time. Working under the direction of the Director, Product Readiness, the Product Readiness Manager consolidates status, risks, and dependencies into clear updates, supports go/no-go readiness reviews, and helps execute smooth handoffs to post-launch owners such as ComX where applicable.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

Coordinate cross-functional product readiness activities for assigned new product introductions and major releases, ensuring plans, owners, dates, and dependencies are clearly documented and tracked.
Build and maintain readiness plans, status updates, and milestone tracking to provide timely visibility into launch progress and areas of risk.
Partner with Product & Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Support, Services, and Partner teams to align launch requirements, internal readiness activities, and operational dependencies.
Track completion of key launch readiness deliverables such as enablement materials, release communications, FAQs, support readiness, partner readiness, and internal process updates.
Facilitate recurring readiness meetings, capture action items, follow up on commitments, and escalate blockers or risks to the Director, Product Readiness as needed.
Support go/no-go readiness reviews by consolidating inputs from stakeholder teams and ensuring leaders have an accurate view of launch status, open issues, and dependencies.
Help monitor readiness metrics and launch outcomes, and identify opportunities to improve launch processes, templates, tools, and team coordination.
Support handoffs to post-launch owners, including ComX where applicable, to help ensure continuity from launch readiness into commercialization and adoption activities.
Contribute to consistent execution of the Product Readiness Office operating model, standards, templates, and governance practices across launches.

Required Education and Experience

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Project/Program Management, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
5+ years of experience in project management, program management, launch readiness, product operations, or a related role in a software/SaaS environment.
Experience coordinating complex, cross-functional initiatives involving Product, Engineering, and customer-facing teams.
Strong organizational and execution skills, including experience managing timelines, dependencies, risks, and stakeholder communications.
Ability to synthesize information from multiple teams into clear status updates, readiness views, and action-oriented recommendations.

Preferred Education and Experience

MBA or relevant advanced degree is a plus.
PMP, CAPM, ScrumMaster, or similar certification preferred.
Experience supporting product launches, release readiness, sales enablement, support readiness, or similar cross-functional business processes in an enterprise software company.
Experience using program/project tools and reporting mechanisms to manage delivery and readiness across multiple stakeholders.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Strong project and program coordination skills with the ability to manage multiple workstreams, deadlines, and stakeholders simultaneously.
Knowledge of launch readiness, cross-functional planning, and governance processes in a software or SaaS environment.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare concise status updates, meeting materials, and risk summaries for stakeholders.
Ability to identify, track, and escalate risks, issues, and dependencies in a clear and timely manner.
Strong analytical and organizational skills with attention to detail and follow-through.
Ability to work effectively across Product, Engineering, GTM, and operational teams without direct authority.
Proficiency with project/program tooling and collaboration platforms (e.g., Jira, Asana, Microsoft 365).

Who We Are

OneStream is how today’s Finance teams can go beyond just reporting on the past and Take Finance Further™ by steering the business to the future. It’s the only enterprise finance platform that unifies financial and operational data, embeds AI for better decisions and productivity, and empowers the CFO to become a critical driver of business strategy and execution. Our vision is to be the operating system for modern finance, digitizing core financial functions and empowering the CFO to become a critical driver of business strategy. To learn more visitwww.onestream.com.

Why Join The OneStream Team

Transparency around corporate structure, salary, and benefits.
Core value of customer success.
Variety of project work. (not industry-specific)
Strong culture and camaraderie.
Multiple training opportunities.

Benefits at OneStream
OneStream employees are passionate, hardworking individuals who go above and beyond to keep our customers happy and follow through on our mission statement. They consistently deliver the best and in turn, we make every effort to keep them cared for and happy. A sample of the benefits we provide are: