Principal Product Manager

Minneapolis, United StatesPosted 15 days ago

Role Overview

Anaplan, Inc. is hiring a Principal Product Manager. This is a full-time role in Minneapolis. posted 2 weeks ago. Full responsibilities, required qualifications, and the apply link are listed in the description below.

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Job description

At Anaplan, we are a team of innovators focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading AI-infused scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market.

What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our collective commitment to our customers’ success and to our Winning Culture.

Our customers rank among the who’s who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2,400+ global companies who rely on our best-in-class platform.

Our Winning Culture is the engine that drives our teams of innovators. We champion diversity of thought and ideas, we behave like leaders regardless of title, we are committed to achieving ambitious goals, and we love celebrating our wins – big and small.

Supported by operating principles of being strategy-led, values-based and disciplined in execution, you’ll be inspired, connected, developed and rewarded here. Everything that makes you unique is welcome; join us and let’s build what’s next - together!

Anaplan is seeking a strategic, influential Principal Product Manager to own the methodology for our application ecosystem. This is a thought-leadership role focused on defining the "right way" to build on Anaplan, ensuring that all applications are configurable, upgradable, and seamlessly connected.

You will be responsible for creating the strategy and leading the cross-functional execution for how applications must be built. You will work to align product, engineering, and customer-facing teams on a unified set of best practices that drive scalability and long-term value for our customers. The ideal candidate is a master Anaplaner and strategic thinker who can evangelize a clear vision and influence teams across the organization to adopt it.

Your Impact

Define the Strategy: Create, own, and evangelize the strategic methodology for building robust, scalable, and connected applications on the Anaplan platform.
Establish Best Practices: Author and govern the official best practices for application architecture, serving as the ultimate authority on how to implement configurable and upgradable solutions.
Lead Through Influence: Lead large, cross-functional initiatives to embed the application methodology into our product development lifecycle, field practices, and partner ecosystem.
Align the Organization: Partner with and align leaders across product, engineering, professional services, and customer success to ensure the methodology is understood, adopted, and consistently applied.
Be the Expert: Act as the company's foremost expert on application architecture and methodology, providing guidance, authoring whitepapers, and presenting at key internal and external events.
Drive Product Requirements: Translate the strategic methodology into actionable product requirements for the Application Framework teams to ensure the platform itself supports and encourages best-practice adoption.

Your Qualifications

Master Anaplan Expertise: Recognized as an expert in Anaplan model building and application architecture. You have designed and built large, complex, and scalable Anaplan solutions.
Architectural and Strategic Thinking: Demonstrated ability to think strategically about platform architecture, methodologies, and the long-term implications of design decisions.
Proven Influence: A history of successfully leading through influence, aligning disparate teams around a central vision without direct authority.
World-Class Communication: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to create compelling narratives and confidently present to both executive and technical audiences.
Deep EPM Knowledge: Extensive experience in the Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) domain and a sophisticated understanding of customer needs in this space.
Collaborative and Driven: A self-starter with a passion for driving excellence and a collaborative approach to solving complex, ecosystem-wide challenges.

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Base Salary Range:

$152,000—$219,000 USD

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB)

We believe attracting and retaining the best talent and fostering an inclusive culture strengthens our business. DEIB improves our workforce, enhances trust with our partners and customers, and drives business success. Build your career in a place where diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging aren’t just words on paper – this is what drives our innovation, it’s how we connect, and it contributes to what makes us a market leader. We believe in a hiring and working environment where all people are respected and valued, regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, or any other aspect which makes people unique. We hire you for who you are, and we want you to bring your authentic self to work every day! 

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive equitable benefits and all privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation. 

Fraud Recruitment Disclaimer 

It has come to our attention that fraudulent and fictitious job opportunities are being circulated on the Internet. Prospective candidates are being contacted by certain individuals, mainly through telephone calls, emails and correspondence, claiming they are representatives of Anaplan. The main purpose of these correspondences and announcements is to obtain privileged information from individuals.  

Anaplan does not: 

Extend offers to candidates without an extensive interview process with a member of our recruitment team and a hiring manager via video or in person.  
Send job offers via email. All offers are first extended verbally by a member of our internal recruitment team whenever possible and then followed up via written communication.

All emails from Anaplan would come from an @anaplan.com email address. Should you have any doubts about the authenticity of an email, letter or telephone communication purportedly from, for, or on behalf of Anaplan, please send an email to people@anaplan.com before taking any further action in relation to the correspondence.  

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This role was posted on July 7, 2026 (15 days ago). It's still listed as actively hiring; we re-confirm openings against the source system multiple times per day and remove closed roles.