Lead / Principal Product Manager – Agentic AI Products

BMC Software, Inc.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,230,000 - 5,170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Returnship program

Job summary

BMC Software, Inc. is building the next generation of AI-native enterprise automation.

As a Principal / Lead Product Manager, you will own one or more new AI-driven products from concept to GA, partnering with engineering, design, and customers to define capabilities and value. You will shape product strategy, conduct partner engagements, and translate problems into differentiated features, while balancing innovation with governance, security, and reliability.

Qualifications

• 8-12+ years of Product Management experience in enterprise software.
• Proven experience delivering AI products from concept through launch.
• Strong technical background (previous software developer roles).
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, or enterprise infrastructure software.
• Experience working with enterprise customers and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Define product vision, strategy, and roadmap for a major product area.
• Conduct customer discovery and design partner engagements to validate product direction.
• Translate customer problems into differentiated product capabilities and business value.
• Analyze market trends, competitors, and emerging AI technologies to inform product strategy.
• Partner with Engineering and UX to deliver high-quality products from concept through launch.
• Write clear product requirements and prioritize engineering investments.
• Drive cross-functional execution to deliver customer outcomes.
• Design AI-native experiences balancing innovation with governance, security, and explainability.

Skills

AI products

Enterprise software

Product strategy

Customer discovery

Cross-functional leadership

Job description

You may occasionally be required to travel for business

Secondary locations

IND Pune - Business Bay

Description and Requirements

BMC empowers nearly 80% of the Forbes Global 100 to accelerate business value, faster than humanly possible. Our industry-leading portfolio unlocks human and machine potential to drive business growth, innovation, and sustainable success. BMC does this in a simple and optimized way by connecting people, systems, and data that power the world’s largest organizations so they can seize a competitive advantage.

“At BMC trust is not just a word - it's a way of life!" We are an award-winning, equal opportunity, culturally diverse, fun place to be. Giving back to the community drives us to be better every single day. Our work environment allows you to balance your priorities, because we know you will bring your best every day. We will champion your wins and shout them from the rooftops. Your peers will inspire, drive, support you, and make you laugh out loud! We help our customers free up time and space to become an Autonomous Digital Enterprise that conquers the opportunities ahead - and are relentless in the pursuit of innovation!

Position Overview:

We are building the next generation of enterprise automation. As a Principal / Lead Product Manager, you will own one or more new AI-native products from concept through General Availability. Working closely with engineering, design, customers, and executive leadership, you will define products that combine traditional workload orchestration with agentic AI, modern data platforms, and enterprise automation. This is a rare opportunity to build 0→1 enterprise products while leveraging one of the industry’s largest enterprise software install bases.

What You’ll Build:

Depending on your experience and interests, you may own one or more of the following product areas:

• AI Workflow Authoring & Design Copilot
• AI Operations, Explainability & Remediation
• Agentic Orchestration
• Data Orchestration & Lineage
• AI Governance, Compliance & Enterprise Controls
• AI Platform Services, Integrations & Runtime

Key Responsibilities:

Product Strategy & Customer Discovery:

• Define product vision, strategy, and roadmap for a major product area.
• Conduct customer discovery and design partner engagements to validate product direction.
• Translate customer problems into differentiated product capabilities and business value.
• Analyze market trends, competitors, and emerging AI technologies to inform product strategy.

Product Execution:

• Partner closely with Engineering and UX to deliver high-quality products from concept through launch.
• Write clear product requirements and prioritize engineering investments.
• Drive execution across cross-functional teams to deliver customer outcomes.
• Design AI-native experiences that balance innovation with enterprise-grade governance, security, and explainability.

Go-to-Market:

Partner with Product Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success to ensure successful product launches and customer adoption. Support customer briefings, analyst engagements, sales enablement, and strategic customer meetings.

Qualifications:

• 8-12+ years of Product Management experience in enterprise software.
• Proven experience delivering AI products from concept through launch.
• Strong technical background (previous experience in a Software Developer role or similar technical roles)
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, or enterprise infrastructure software.
• Experience working directly with enterprise customers and engineering teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence technical and business stakeholders.

Preferred experience:

• Enterprise Automation / Workload Automation
• Data Platforms & Data Engineering
• AI Infrastructure or Agentic AI
• Observability, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure
• Experience with modern AI platforms, LLMs, agent frameworks, or cloud-native developer platforms

Why Join BMC:

• Build category-defining AI products on top of one of the industry’s largest enterprise automation platforms.
• Leverage an install base that includes many of the Fortune 500, allowing you to focus on innovation rather than distribution.
• Work directly with senior product and engineering leaders to shape BMC’s long-term AI strategy.
• Help define the future of enterprise orchestration by bringing agentic AI to mission-critical business operations.

Our commitment to you!

BMC’s culture is built around its people. We have 6000+ brilliant minds working together across the globe. You won’t be known just by your employee number, but for your true authentic self. BMC lets you be YOU!

BMC is committed to equal opportunity employment regardless of race, age, sex, creed, color, religion, citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, national origin, disability, marital status, pregnancy, disabled veteran or status as a protected veteran. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, visit the accommodation request page.

BMC Software maintains a strict policy of not requesting any form of payment in exchange for employment opportunities, upholding a fair and ethical hiring process.

At BMC we believe in pay transparency and have set the midpoint of the salary band for this role at 4,700,000 INR. Actual salaries depend on a wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training, licensure, and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.

The salary listed is just one component of BMC's employee compensation package. Other rewards may include a variable plan and country specific benefits.

We are committed to ensuring that our employees are paid fairly and equitably, and that we are transparent about our compensation practices.

( Returnship@BMC )

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