Associate Product Manager - Interns

Kumaran; Chennai District; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Kumaran Systems is seeking a highly motivated Associate Product Manager to join our product engineering team focused on AI-powered accelerator platforms and enterprise solutions. This is an excellent opportunity for recent MBA graduates who are passionate about technology, Artificial Intelligence, and product management.

As an Associate Product Manager, you will collaborate with engineering, product, marketing, and business stakeholders to define product strategy, understand customer needs, and

Qualifications

• MBA in a reputed business school completed in 2025 or later.
• Specialization in IT Management
• Specialization in Information Systems Management
• Specialization in Technology Management
• Specialization in Digital Transformation
• Specialization in Business Analytics

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to develop AI-powered platforms, products, and enterprise solutions.
• Support Product Leaders in defining the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and feature prioritization.
• Conduct customer research to understand business challenges, user needs, and pain points.
• Define product use cases, user stories, and acceptance criteria while maintaining and prioritizing the product backlog.
• Partner with engineering teams throughout the product development lifecycle to ensure successful feature delivery.
• Work closely with the marketing team to perform market research, competitive analysis, and product positioning.
• Monitor industry trends, emerging AI technologies, and customer feedback to identify new product opportunities.
• Assist in preparing product documentation, presentations, and go-to-market materials.

Skills

Product Management

Enterprise Technology

Generative AI

RAG

Agentic AI

LLMs

Prompt Engineering

Agile/Scrum

Stakeholder management

Education

MBA (First Class) from a reputed Business School

Job description

Kumaran Systems: Engineering Future-Ready Transformations Since 1992, Kumaran Systems has been helping enterprises bridge the past and the future, reimagining legacy systems and embracing AI-led possibilities. With over 34 years of delivery excellence, we specialise in re-engineering core applications, driving cloud transformation, and building automation-first, GenAI-enabled ecosystems across the Banking and Financial Services, Insurance, Telecom, and Automotive sectors. We help organisations not just upgrade their systems but reimagine what’s possible.

Why Kumaran?

We blend engineering discipline with AI innovation, helping clients modernise with confidence, automate with clarity, and scale with purpose. Our global delivery model ensures agility, responsiveness, and seamless collaboration, with clients always at the heart of every engagement. At Kumaran, we don’t just solve problems, we engineer future-ready transformations.

Job Description

About the Role

We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Associate Product Manager to join our product engineering team focused on building AI-powered accelerator platforms, products, and enterprise solutions. This is an excellent opportunity for recent MBA graduates who are passionate about technology, Artificial Intelligence, and product management.

As an Associate Product Manager, you will collaborate with engineering, product, marketing, and business stakeholders to define product strategy, understand customer needs, and contribute to the successful delivery of innovative AI solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to develop AI-powered platforms, products, and enterprise solutions.
  
• Support Product Leaders in defining the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and feature prioritization.
  
• Conduct customer research to understand business challenges, user needs, and pain points.
  
• Define product use cases, user stories, and acceptance criteria while maintaining and prioritizing the product backlog.
  
• Partner with engineering teams throughout the product development lifecycle to ensure successful feature delivery.
  
• Work closely with the marketing team to perform market research, competitive analysis, and product positioning.
  
• Monitor industry trends, emerging AI technologies, and customer feedback to identify new product opportunities.
  
• Assist in preparing product documentation, presentations, and go-to-market materials.
  

Qualifications

• MBA (First Class) from a reputed Business School, completed in 2025 or later .
  
• Specialization in one or more of the following:
  
  • IT Management
    
  • Information Systems Management
    
  • Technology Management
    
  • Digital Transformation
    
  • Business Analytics / Analytics
    

Preferred Skills

• Strong interest in Product Management and Enterprise Technology.
  
• AI certifications, preferably in Generative AI .
  
• Good understanding of:
  
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
    
  • Agentic AI
    
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP)
    
  • Large Language Models (LLMs)
    
  • AI Agents and Prompt Engineering
    
• Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies and product management practices.
  
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
  
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, innovation-driven environment.
  

Desired Attributes

• Self-motivated, energetic, and eager to learn.
  
• Strong customer-centric mindset.
  
• Passion for emerging technologies and AI-driven innovation.
  
• Ability to convert business requirements into product features.
  
• Excellent stakeholder management and teamwork skills.
  
• High level of ownership, curiosity, and initiative.
  

Kumaran Systems is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race or ethnicity, religion, sex, national origin, age, veteran disability or genetic information or any other reason prohibited by law in employment.