Staff Product Manager

Crunchbase is a predictive solution that provides intelligence on private companies, powered by the unique combination of live private company data, AI, and market activity from over 80 million users. We predict private market movements that matter to help investors, dealmakers, and analysts make the right decisions.

We are committed to fostering a positive, diverse, and inclusive culture by hiring for potential and embracing individuals with diverse perspectives, backgrounds, experiences, and skill sets. We value transparency and openness, believing that an inclusive environment strengthens our teams and enhances our products.

Crunchbase has a remote-first approach, and is open to hiring in residents of these states: California, Colorado, Illinois, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Maine.

Our inclusive remote-first culture, competitive pay, and employee wellness benefits set us apart!

Crunchbase's competitive advantage is built on our proprietary, market-leading data. As the Staff Product Manager for Data Platform, you will shape the strategy and roadmap for the platform that powers this foundation, enabling millions of users and AI-powered products to discover, understand, and act on business information.

You will lead product direction for the teams responsible for acquiring, managing, and delivering Crunchbase's core data assets. Working closely with engineering, data science, design, and business stakeholders, you will drive investments that improve the quality, coverage, freshness, and reliability of our existing data while identifying new opportunities to expand and differentiate our proprietary dataset. You will also work closely with other PMs to prioritize data acquisition and data delivery initiatives.

This is a highly strategic role that requires balancing long-term platform investments with customer and business impact. You will make thoughtful product decisions across complex technical systems, influence company-wide priorities, and help define how Crunchbase continues to build the most trusted and differentiated business intelligence platform in the market.

If you are passionate about building platforms, solving challenging data problems at scale, and creating durable competitive advantage through world-class data, we would love to meet you.

• Define and execute the product strategy and roadmap for Crunchbase's Data Platform, ensuring it delivers the trusted, proprietary data foundation that powers our products and AI experiences.

• Drive investments that improve the quality, coverage, freshness, reliability, and scalability of Crunchbase's core data assets while expanding the breadth and depth of our differentiated proprietary dataset.

• Balance foundational platform improvements with strategic initiatives that strengthen Crunchbase's competitive advantage through unique and market-leading data.

• Partner closely with Engineering, Data Science, Sales, CS, Partnerships and Legal teams to align platform capabilities with business priorities and customer needs.

• Define product requirements and prioritize initiatives across data ingestion, enrichment, entity resolution, data quality, governance, and platform infrastructure.

• Establish metrics and feedback mechanisms to continuously measure and improve data quality, platform reliability, operational efficiency, and downstream product impact.

• Collaborate with internal product teams to understand evolving data needs and enable the development of differentiated customer experiences across the Crunchbase platform.

• Identify opportunities to leverage emerging technologies, including AI and automation, to improve data acquisition, enrichment, validation, and platform operations.

• Make thoughtful product tradeoffs across technical complexity, business value, and long-term platform health while aligning stakeholders around a shared strategy.

• Measure the success of platform investments through data quality, coverage, freshness, platform adoption, operational efficiency, customer impact, and business outcome metrics.
  

• 5+ years of product management experience, with experience building data, platform, infrastructure, or other highly technical products.

• A track record of defining product strategy and delivering products in partnership with engineering and cross-functional teams.

• Strong understanding of modern data platforms and concepts such as data ingestion, data quality, data modeling, governance, APIs, or platform services.

• Experience balancing technical investments with customer and business needs, making thoughtful product tradeoffs that maximize long-term impact.

• Ability to partner effectively with Engineering, Data Science, AI, Design, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable platform capabilities.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience using qualitative and quantitative insights to inform product decisions.

• Experience defining success metrics and using data to measure product and platform performance.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence without direct authority and align teams around a shared vision.

• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and breaking down complex technical problems into clear product strategies and execution plans.

• A passion for building the foundational platforms and data capabilities that enable exceptional customer experiences.

• Experience working with AI-powered products, data enrichment, or machine learning applications.

• Familiarity with graph data, entity resolution, knowledge graphs, or large-scale business datasets.

• Experience working on B2B SaaS, developer platforms, or data-intensive products.

• Experience working with platform teams that enable multiple product teams across an organization.

The salary range is $193,052 - $227,120. We also offer equity in the form of stock options on top of that as the total compensation package.

At Crunchbase, we’re building a culture where talented people can grow, innovate, and make an impact. We invest in our team so everyone has the support, tools, and trust to do meaningful work and thrive — personally and professionally.
Here’s what you can expect:

• Competitive compensation and equity — rewarding you for your contributions and ownership mindset

• Remote-first flexibility — work primarily from home within our list of approved states, with opportunities for in-person collaboration

• Comprehensive health benefits for you and your family, including medical, dental, and vision coverage (PPO, HDHP, and HMO options)

• Continuous learning support through generous reimbursement for professional development and skills growth

• 401(k) and Roth plans with an annual financial adviser check-in to help you plan your future

• Wellness resources — including a monthly stipend to support physical and mental health

• Work-from-home enablement — internet stipend and home office setup allowance

• Charitable giving match through our Town Hall awards and community impact initiatives

• A mission-driven, transparent team of creative thinkers and builders passionate about helping companies connect and grow

At Crunchbase, we value team members who are passionate and enthusiastic about what we're building here. We believe there is no "perfect" candidate, and want to encourage applying even if all the requirements listed aren’t met. If you're passionate about Crunchbase and looking to learn and grow, then we look forward to reviewing your application!

Crunchbase does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression, age, height, weight, veteran status, military obligations, or marital status. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Every day our team is honored to work with entrepreneurs and innovators from every corner of the globe, and we aim to build a team that reflects the diversity of our customers. Each individual at Crunchbase brings their own perspectives, work experiences, lifestyles, and cultures with them, and we believe that a more diverse team creates more innovative products, provides a better service to its customers, and helps us all grow and learn as individuals.