Associate Product Manager (APM)

Peoplebox.ai; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Peoplebox.ai is hiring an Associate Product Manager in Bengaluru, India. In this role, you will manage critical product modules impacting performance and talent management for organizations. You’ll leverage data-driven decision-making and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance user experience.

The ideal candidate holds a B.Tech/B.E. in Computer Science and demonstrates strong analytical skills, product thinking, and the ability to communicate effectively across teams.

Qualifications

• Technical foundation from a premier institute.
• Ability to break down complex problems into first principles.
• Deep empathy for the user, solving problems beyond feature building.

Responsibilities

• Understand customer pain points through data analysis.
• Create prototypes and mockups, iterate after feedback.
• Define success metrics to improve product performance.
• Collaborate between engineering, design, and sales.
• Identify growth opportunities in product roadmap.

Skills

Analytical Rigor

Communication Skills

Product Thinking

Education

B.Tech/B.E. in Computer Science

Job description

About The Role

As an Associate Product Manager at Peoplebox, you will be responsible for owning and scaling critical product modules that impact how modern organizations manage performance and talent. We are looking for individuals who are highly analytical, technically-sound, and driven by a strong sense of ownership. You will work closely with the founding team and engineering to solve complex problems, move from 1 to 10 on new initiatives, and optimize existing workflows to deliver a premium user experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Product Discovery: Deeply understand customer pain points through interviews, data analysis, and competitive research.
• End-to-End Execution: Using AI tools create prototypes and mockups, iterate on the same after feedback, and work with engineers to ship high-quality features.
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Define success metrics for your modules and use data to iterate and improve product performance.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as the bridge between engineering, design, customer success, and sales to ensure product alignment.
• Product Roadmap: Contribute to the long-term vision of the product by identifying high-leverage opportunities for growth.

What We’re Looking For

Essential Qualifications

• Technical Foundation: A B.Tech/B.E. in Computer Science from a premier institute (IITs, NITs, BITS, or equivalent).
• Analytical Rigor: Ability to break down complex problems into first principles. You should be comfortable with data modeling.
• Product Thinking: A deep empathy for the user. You don't just build features; you solve problems.
• Communication: Ability to articulate technical constraints to designers and business needs to engineers.

Ideal Profile (One Of The Following)

• The Premier Fresher: You are a top-tier CSE graduate with a passion for product. You have built side projects
• The Dev-turned-PM: You have 1-2 years of experience as a Software Engineer and are now looking to move to a product role

Bonus Points (Good To Have)

• Ex-Founder / Founding Team Member: You have tried to build something from scratch. You understand the "zero to one" grind and have high ownership.