Principal Product Manager - HR Technology

Cornerstone; Hyderabad; Hybrid; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Cornerstone OnDemand is hiring a Principal Product Manager in Hyderabad, hybrid work model. You will lead AI-native product delivery and enterprise outcome agents, from customer discovery to prototypes and launch.

The role combines customer collaboration, fast iteration, and cross-functional execution across engineering, design, data science, architecture, and GTM. The ideal candidate has 5+ years in product management for enterprise software, SaaS, or AI-native products, with hands-on AI

Qualifications

• 5+ years in product management for enterprise software, SaaS, AI or platform products.
• Proven track record delivering customer-facing product delivery for enterprise SaaS or AI-native products.
• Able to translate customer discovery into working prototypes and launched solutions.
• Hands-on use of AI-native prototyping tools to accelerate validation.
• Experience partnering with customers and technical delivery partners to launch solutions.
• Strong product execution: prioritization, prototype validation, release planning, cross-functional coordination.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of AI-native products and enterprise outcome agents from discovery to prototype and launch.
• Partner with customers to understand problems, workflows, and outcomes.
• Translate needs into clear requirements, use cases, and testable concepts.
• Build prototypes with AI-native tools to accelerate validation and delivery.
• Turn customer outcome agents into re-sellable out-of-the-box agents.
• Use prototypes as the new PRD motion for rapid review and iteration.
• Collaborate with FDEs and engineering to refine feasibility and user flows.
• Work with teams in tight feedback loops to improve prototypes and value.
• Drive cross-functional execution across product, engineering, design, data science, architecture, GTM.

Skills

Enterprise SaaS

AI-powered PM

Customer-facing delivery

Prototype delivery

Cross-functional leadership

Requirements to prototype

Stakeholder management

Agile execution

Tools

Lovable

Claude

Co-Pilot

Job description

Principal Product Manager - Hyderabad | Hybrid

Cornerstone OnDemand

Summary

Cornerstone OnDemand is seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead the delivery of AI-native products and enterprise outcome agents that drive measurable customer value.

This is a customer-facing AI-native product management role for a hands-on PM who can move quickly from customer discovery and requirements to working prototypes, using modern AI-native product development tools such as Lovable, Claude, Co-Pilot and similar platforms. The role requires close collaboration with customers, FDEs, engineering, and cross-functional teams to validate solutions early, iterate rapidly, and launch outcome agents that solve meaningful business problems.

The ideal candidate is highly execution-oriented, comfortable working in ambiguity, and able to translate customer needs into prototypes, product direction, and shipped capabilities with speed and rigor.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of AI-native products and enterprise outcome agents, from customer discovery and requirements gathering through prototype creation, iteration, and launch.
• Partner directly with customers to understand business problems, workflows, pain points, and desired outcomes.
• Translate customer needs into clear product requirements, use cases, and solution concepts that can quickly be tested and refined.
• Build and evolve working prototypes using AI-native tools such as Lovable, Claude, Co-Pilot and similar rapid prototyping platforms to accelerate validation and shorten the path from idea to delivery.
• Turn customer specific outcome agents into re-sellable out-of-the-box agents
• Use prototypes as the new PRD motion: move from customer discovery to working AI Agent prototypes that customers, FDEs and engineering can review, test, and refine.
• Collaborate closely with FDEs and engineering to iterate on prototypes, validate feasibility, refine user flows, and prepare solutions for launch.
• Work with customers, FDEs and engineering in tight feedback loops to improve prototypes, confirm value, and shape deliverable product capabilities.
• Drive cross-functional execution across product, engineering, design, data science, architecture, and go-to-market teams to bring validated concepts into production.
• Ensure launched outcome agents are practical, scalable, and easy for enterprise customers to adopt.
• Use customer feedback, adoption signals, and business-impact metrics to continuously improve product execution and outcomes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in product management, including significant experience delivering enterprise software, SaaS, AI, or platform products.
• Strong track record in customer-facing product delivery for enterprise SaaS or AI-native products.
• Demonstrated ability to go from customer discovery and requirements to working prototypes and launched solutions.
• Hands-on experience using AI-native prototyping and product development tools such as Lovable, Claude, Co-Pilot or similar tools to accelerate product definition and validation.
• Experience collaborating closely with customers and technical delivery partners such as FDEs to iterate rapidly and launch customer-ready solutions.
• Strong product execution skills, including prioritization, prototype validation, release planning, cross-functional coordination, and delivery tracking.
• Experience translating ambiguous customer problems into structured product requirements and testable product experiences.
• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to operate effectively in fast-moving, matrixed environments and drive alignment across technical and business teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience delivering AI agents, copilots, workflow agents, or decision-support products.
• Experience in enterprise AI, workforce technology, learning, talent, HR technology, or related SaaS domains.
• Demonstrated success using rapid prototyping to accelerate product-market fit and customer adoption.
• Experience working in close partnership with customer success, services, sales, and solution delivery teams.