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This Staff Product Manager role owns a cross-functional or foundational product area within ClickUp's AI-native workspace. The position combines product strategy, hands-on prototyping, customer and data synthesis, executive stakeholder alignment, and mentorship of senior product managers. The successful candidate will use AI tools to create product artifacts, build functional prototypes, automate research workflows, and test shipped experiences. It requires 6–8+ years of product management experience and demonstrated influence across engineering, design, data, and go-to-market teams.
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I began by mapping the end-to-end customer problem, technical dependencies, and business outcomes across teams. I created a shared decision framework with clear success metrics, used customer and product data to prioritize tradeoffs, and maintained alignment through concise leadership updates and working sessions. This allowed teams to move independently while remaining connected to the same strategic outcome.
I use AI to accelerate research synthesis, create early PRD and user-flow drafts, explore edge cases, summarize support and customer-call themes, and prototype concepts. I validate all outputs against source evidence and product constraints, then use the time saved to deepen customer understanding and improve decision quality. AI is most valuable when embedded in repeatable workflows rather than treated as a one-off writing tool.
I first examined metric definitions, segmentation, instrumentation changes, and potential selection bias. I paired quantitative findings with session-level behavior and customer feedback, which revealed that an aggregate improvement masked a meaningful decline for a high-value user segment. We revised the metric hierarchy and adjusted the roadmap to optimize for durable customer value rather than the misleading top-line signal.
I would define the core user outcome and minimum viable flow, then use tools such as Figma, AI coding environments, and browser automation to build and test a functional prototype. I would recruit relevant users or internal subject-matter experts, capture usability and workflow feedback, and document the technical assumptions that require engineering validation. The goal is to retire the highest-risk assumptions before committing significant implementation capacity.
I mentor through leverage: shared decision frameworks, high-quality examples, structured reviews, and coaching on problem framing rather than simply providing answers. I make my reasoning visible in strategy and execution artifacts so others can adapt the approach to their own areas. This raises the overall product-management standard while allowing me to stay accountable for my own cross-functional outcomes.
At ClickUp, we’re building the future of work: the first truly converged AI workspace unifying tasks, docs, chat, calendar, and enterprise search, all supercharged by context-driven AI. We are an AI-native company. Every team member is expected to leverage AI daily, and we evaluate AI fluency as part of our hiring process. Join us and help redefine what’s possible. 🚀
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are hiring the next generation of product managers. AI has collapsed the work that used to sit between an idea and a working version of it, and for the first time, PMs can be true builders. The PMs who win in this era do not manage the work. They build the product, every day, with their own hands.
A Staff Product Manager operates and drives vision across product areas. You own a problem space that spans multiple surfaces, or one so foundational that getting it right shapes how everything else at ClickUp works. You still build. The strategy is sharper because you are prototyping the cross-cutting workflow yourself, reading data wherever it shows up, and sitting on customer calls that span the whole problem. You scale impact by inventing leverage that other PMs adopt, wiring up AI workflows that keep you current on more signals than any one person could manually track. The scope is wide on purpose, and you find new ways to cover it.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Define and own a cross-functional problem space or a foundational platform area whose quality shapes outcomes across multiple product surfaces.
Drive strategic alignment across product areas. Identify the decisions that unblock the most work and make them.
Synthesize signals from customer calls, data, support trends, and partner feedback across your entire scope, not just your immediate surface.
Prototype cross-cutting workflows and concepts yourself. The strategy is more credible when you have already tested it.
Identify leverage and share it. Build AI workflows, frameworks, and patterns that other PMs on the team can adopt.
Mentor and stretch Senior PMs. Raise the floor of the function, not just your own output.
Represent the product voice in senior leadership conversations and contribute to decisions that span multiple teams.
Contribute to how the PM function operates, including how we run discovery, define quality, and measure success.
QUALIFICATIONS
6-8+ years in product management, with a clear record of operating across multiple product areas or owning a foundational platform.
Demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional alignment without authority, across engineering, design, data, and GTM.
Systems thinker. You see second-order effects and account for them before they become problems.
Able to hold strategy and execution at the same time. You do not hand off the detail when the scope gets bigger.
Track record of mentoring and elevating other PMs, not just shipping your own work.
Strong data instincts. You can pull your own analysis, define the right metrics, and spot when a number is telling the wrong story.
Experienced with AI tooling and actively finding new ways to scale your own coverage through it.
Proven communicator at the executive level. You can frame a complex problem crisply and land a recommendation with senior stakeholders.
AI PROFICIENCY
Generate artifacts that accelerate alignment. Leverage AI to draft PRDs, map user flows, validate product launch readiness, synthesize research and customer feedback, produce competitive analyses, and write release notes.
Prototype and iterate with AI coding tools. Build functional prototypes independently of design and engineering using tools like Cursor or Claude Code.
QA your own work. Use browser automation tools to test flows, verify edge cases, and confirm what shipped matches what was specced.
Stay current and apply it. Familiarity with tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Figma AI, and MCP integrations is expected. Actively experiment and fold new capabilities into your workflow.
Equal Opportunity Employer
ClickUp is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.
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