Principal Product Manager, Guest Retention
Job description
About Owner
Owner is the AI-native system local business owners use to succeed, starting with restaurants.
We’re building the system that replaces the many tools owners use to run their business.
It powers everything from the restaurant’s website, online ordering, CRM, POS, and more.
Product philosophy
Most small business software makes owners do the work to get what they want: sales growth and profit growth. Owner does the work for them agentically.
Our system drives demand, converts it, and helps operators run their business day to day. As it improves, the business improves with it.
Using Owner should feel like having a team of great operators, engineers, and marketers working for you.
Our vision
We’re starting by helping independent restaurants succeed online.
But it’s not just restaurants that need our help. Most local businesses are struggling with these same problems. Huge technology corporations are taking their customers, bleeding their profits, and making it hard for them to survive.
Once we nail the solution for restaurants – we’ll scale it into every other local business type.
In the future we envision, tens of millions of local business owners will use our technology to succeed in the digital age.
Our traction
Since 2020, we've generated tens of millions in revenue and processed over a billion dollars of online orders. 1 in 5 Americans have used an Owner.com website.
More importantly, we’ve helped over 20,000 restaurant owners, and saved them nearly $200 million in fees.
Our team
Our team is now in the low hundreds. We’ve got top talent from the most successful companies in SMB software, including: Shopify, HubSpot, DoorDash, ServiceTitan, Rappi, Faire and Stripe.
We’ll be scaling even faster in 2026 to keep pace with our customer growth.
Where we work
Owner is a remote-first, global company headquartered in San Francisco, with a sales hub in Toronto. For a few of our roles we prioritize in-person collaboration at one of our office locations. Most of our teammates are distributed throughout the globe. Please review the role description and discuss with your recruiter for more details on location!
Why we’re looking for you
Owner is building the self-driving, AI-powered platform for profitable growth for small businesses. A crucial element of this growth engine is turning first-time guests into loyal regulars through effective lifecycle marketing and loyalty programs. We want to empower your favorite local restaurant with the same compelling offerings that big national chains use to keep consumers coming back.
We're looking for a results-oriented, growth-minded Principal Product Manager to lead work on our AI-powered lifecycle and loyalty systems. You’ll partner with designers, engineers, and marketers on how to evolve these systems to drive meaningful incremental growth revenue for tens of thousands of restaurant customers, while still ensuring that each customer’s unique brand and identity shine.
This role is 100% remote and can be based anywhere in the United States or Canada
The impact you'll have
Develop the roadmap for Owner's lifecycle marketing and loyalty platforms, balancing growth initiatives, experience improvements, and big strategic bets
Increase guest retention and order frequency by building automated campaigns and loyalty mechanics that turn one-time guests into regulars
Lead the evolution of Owner's loyalty program, drawing on proven playbooks from leading restaurant chains and adapting them for independent restaurants at scale
Use AI to personalize marketing at scale — delivering the right brand-specific messages and offers to millions of guests across tens of thousands of restaurants
Drive measurable ROI through rigorous incrementality testing and attribution, ensuring customers can see and trust the value Owner’s marketing programs delivers
Deliver results for customers that help Owner.com become the most loved brand in restaurant software
Who you’ll work with
You'll partner deeply with our guest lifecycle marketer and Engineering to build and scale automated campaigns across email, SMS, and push notifications
You'll collaborate with Design and Engineering to craft loyalty experiences that feel rewarding, visible, and habit-forming for guests
You'll work with Data/BizOps to identify and size opportunities, define KPIs, measure and understand impact
You'll work with our go-to-market teams to ensure that customers and prospects understand the value delivered by Owner's guest lifecycle and loyalty engine
What we’re looking for
8+ years of product management experience
Ability to get things done: you have a track record of shipping software that made a difference for your customers
Excellent product sense: you have a good understanding of what makes for a high-quality product and are opinionated about what solutions will be successful
Deep customer empathy: you care about helping your customers and are skilled at performing research to uncover their true needs
Strong data fluency: you effectively gather and integrate quantitative and qualitative data to inform your decision-making and update your intuition
Proficiency handling ambiguity: you make sure your goals are clearly defined and display significant independence in achieving them
Clear written and verbal communication: you’re a force for clarity and alignment, ensuring everyone’s on the same page
Competence with technical complexity: you can understand the high-level architecture of a product and its implications for the customer experience, and you’re comfortable talking with engineers about project scope and tradeoffs
Compensation and benefits
The estimated starting base salary range for this role is $280-300K, plus a generous pre-IPO equity package
Other benefits include comprehensive health coverage, remote-first workplace, unlimited PTO - plus extra fun perks!
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