Principal PMT, Rufus International

Our vision is to make Rufus the world"s most helpful AI shopping assistant, delivering consistently high-quality experiences for customers around the world. The Principal PMT for Rufus International owns the product vision and multi-year technical product strategy for internationalization, making Worldwide (WW) from Day 1 the default across locales and surfaces. The role defines the investments required to structurally reduce the cost and complexity of global expansion, working backwards from customers and local market needs to ensure Rufus is designed for WW scale from the outset.

With Rufus serving customers internationally across Europe, Japan, India, and Canada, this leader will shape the architecture and operating model required to scale effectively across an increasingly complex global ecosystem. The role will drive product and architectural decisions spanning global parity, skills and tool integrations, and platform evolution, while establishing mechanisms that enable international partner teams to accelerate innovation and improve the customer experience across markets. The Principal PMT will represent the Rufus International strategy in senior leadership forums and align leaders across product, engineering, science, and international teams on priorities, investments, and trade-offs.

Key job responsibilities

• Own the multi-year product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Rufus International, making WW from Day 1 the default across locales and surfaces.
• Define the capabilities and architectural investments required to reduce the cost, effort, and time to deliver Rufus experiences globally.
• Shape technical and architectural decisions to ensure international requirements are incorporated into platform design from the outset.
• Prioritize global investments and resolve trade-offs across customer needs, market requirements, technical complexity, and long-term scalability.
• Partner with product, engineering, science, and UX leaders to align roadmaps, architecture, and resource investments around a common WW strategy.
• Define the global operating model across central and international teams to accelerate scale and minimize duplicated investment.
• Represent Rufus International in Director- and VP-level forums, driving alignment on strategy, priorities, investments, and cross-organizational decisions.
• Establish mechanisms and success metrics to measure global scalability, customer experience quality, and the effectiveness of WW from Day 1 investments.