Senior Product Manager, UX Foundations

About Apollo.io

Apollo.io is the leading go-to-market solution for revenue teams, trusted by over 500,000 companies and millions of users globally, from rapidly growing startups to some of the world's largest enterprises. Founded in 2015, the company is one of the fastest growing companies in SaaS, raising approximately $250 million to date and valued at $1.6 billion. Apollo.io provides sales and marketing teams with easy access to verified contact data for over 210 million B2B contacts and 35 million companies worldwide, along with tools to engage and convert these contacts in one unified platform. By helping revenue professionals find the most accurate contact information and automating the outreach process, Apollo.io turns prospects into customers. Apollo raised a series D in 2023 and is backed by top-tier investors, including Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, and more, and counts the former President and COO of Hubspot, JD Sherman, among its board members.

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead our User Experience Foundations team. This is a high-impact role for a skilled product leader who is passionate about usability, systems thinking, and platform-scale design excellence.

In this role, you’ll own a set of core features in depth, admin settings, and platform-level UX surfaces. At the same time, you'll wield broad influence across the horizontal user experience, leading the strategy, architecture, and adoption of Apollo’s design system and foundational UI components. Your work will shape how every user interacts with Apollo, ensuring our platform feels cohesive, intuitive, and efficient at every touchpoint. You’ll collaborate deeply with design, engineering, and product teams across the company to raise the bar for interaction quality, consistency, and user satisfaction, turning complex B2B workflows into seamless product experiences.

What You’ll Do

• Define Vision and Strategy: Own and execute the roadmap for UX Foundations, ensuring tight alignment with Apollo’s broader goals of delivering a world-class product experience.
• Drive Evidence-Based Development: Use qualitative research and quantitative data to uncover usability pain points and guide decision-making grounded in user insights.
• Champion Usability: Be the voice of the user, prioritizing simplicity, clarity, and ease-of-use across every layer of the platform, including high-leverage admin and settings experiences.
• Establish Core Patterns: Work closely with design partners to evolve Apollo’s design system and reusable UI patterns, enabling product teams to build with speed and quality.
• Lead Cross-Team Initiatives: Drive strategic usability programs that span multiple product surfaces, aligning teams, tools, and practices to improve consistency and interaction quality.
• Own Metrics and Outcomes: Define and track key performance indicators related to usability, design system adoption, and customer satisfaction.
• Collaborate for Impact: Foster strong cross-functional collaboration with engineering, design, and other product teams to ensure consistent, scalable implementation.
• Deliver Immediate and Lasting Value: Balance short-term wins with long-term investments, laying a durable foundation for scalable product growth.

What We’re Looking For

• Experienced Senior PM: You bring product leadership and exceptional communication skills. You’ve successfully owned complex product areas and delivered measurable outcomes.
• Cross-Team Influence: You’ve led cross-functional, multi-team initiatives that improved platform-wide usability and enhanced customer satisfaction at scale.
• Usability-First Mindset: You’ve made it your mission to remove friction for users—consistently delivering intuitive, streamlined experiences in sophisticated software environments.
• Design System Partner: You’ve worked closely with design on evolving and scaling UI systems, patterns, and tooling that power product consistency and efficiency.
• Admin Experience (Preferred): You’ve worked