Principal Product Manager, Partner Platform

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><p style="line-height: 1.4;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Who we are</strong></span></p> <p style="line-height: 1.4;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">DigiCert is a global leader in intelligent trust. We protect the digital world by ensuring the security, privacy, and authenticity of every interaction. Our AI-powered DigiCert ONE platform unifies PKI, DNS, and certificate lifecycle management, to secure infrastructure, software, devices, messages, AI content and agents. Learn why more than 100,000 organizations, including 90% of the Fortune 500, choose DigiCert to stop today’s threats and prepare for a quantum-safe future at <a href="http://www.digicert.com/">www.digicert.com</a></span></p></div><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Job summary</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">We are seeking a Principal Platform Product Manager to own the product strategy, requirements, and platform implications for DigiCert partners (including Managed Service Providers, Global System Integrators, Independent Software Vendors, and Value-Added Resellers).  This role will be the authoritative voice for partners inside the DigiCert one platform to translate the commercial, operational and technical needs of each partner type into durable platform capabilities and ensure that every platform component is built with partner requirements fully understood and correctly prioritized. This position will operate at the intersection of partner strategy, platform architecture, and go to market and will be the person every internal team comes to when the question is “what does this mean for our partners?”</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">DigiCert’s growth strategy is meaningfully partner dependent.  MSP's, GI, ISVs, and VARs are not just distribution channels - they are integration surfaces, deployment patterns, and co-innovation opportunities that place distinct and sometimes competing demands on the DigiCert® ONE platform. When the platform doesn't accommodate partner requirements, deals stall, renewals are at risk, and co-sell opportunities evaporate.  This role exists to close that gap by building and maintaining a deep authoritative understanding of each partner segments operational model, integration patterns, and platform requirements and translating that understanding into requirements that every team in the DigiCert organization builds too. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This is a principal-level individual contributor role requiring strategic autonomy, strong cross-functional influence and diplomacy, the ability to crisply articulate partner platform strategy to external and internal stakeholders at all levels, from C-level to individual contributor. This role has a seat on the Platform Product Management team.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What you will do</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Principal Platform Product Manager, Partner Platform serves as the primary owner of Partner requirements on Platform at DigiCert. This role will design, plan and execute the Partner Platform initiative, with substantial contribution and stakes in several other Platform initiatives. This role will conduct internal and external research: customer requirements, market requirements, competitive research, all to inform strategic direction and priorities. They will establish a backlog of portfolio requirements that express dependencies on the Platform and actively maintain a prioritized stack-ranking to inform their executable roadmap and regularly collaborate across the business to collect and socialize a comprehensive, accurate and detailed set of feature requirements for one or more major platform initiatives.  As the thought leader for Partner requirements, this role is responsible for constructing the vision and leading discussions with functional leadership across the organization to gain alignment. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Outbound</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Own the collective partner vision for Platform, including strategy, planning, and execution - and share accountability for the outcome</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Serve as externally facing subject matter expert with partners audiences to gain deep understanding of their needs, represent strategy and roadmap, solicit participation in proof of concepts, beta releases, advisory counsels</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Serve as thought leader for partner requirements at DigiCert: meets with analysts to discuss…