Principle Specialist - Product

Udhyam Learning Foundation; Bengaluru; Presencial; INR 2.500.000 - 4.500.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Udhyam Learning Foundation is seeking a Product Leader to guide the Vyapaar program. You will shape a 2–3 year vision, own the roadmap, and work with field teams to design multilingual, low-end Android solutions that reach nano-entrepreneurs.

The role requires 8–10 years in product management, experience in social sectors, and a strong ability to balance innovation with field realities, including privacy and DPDP compliance.

Formación

• 8–10 years of experience in product management, with at least 2–3 years owning a product from discovery to launch.
• Bachelor's degree; an MBA or Master's is a plus.
• Experience in the service or social sector, ideally livelihoods, financial inclusion, MSME or rural development.
• Strategic thinking: able to set a product vision and connect it to organizational goals.
• Enough technical depth to build a technology roadmap and work with engineers on APIs, data, mobile, web and cloud.
• Working knowledge of AI and LLM-based products, including evaluation and cost.
• Data-driven: comfortable with metrics, dashboards and basic SQL or analytics tools.
• Speaks and works in Kannada, Hindi, Tamil or Marathi, along with English.
• Able to travel about 20% of the time.
• Clear communicator who partners well with field teams, engineers, leadership and funders.

Responsabilidades

• Set a 2–3 year product vision for how technology and AI can help Vyapaar reach more nano-entrepreneurs and make field operatives more effective.
• Own the product roadmap, combining field, M&E and operational requirements.
• Prioritize with evidence and be clear about what we won't build.
• Identify where AI meaningfully helps, and where it doesn't.
• Spend ~20% of time with field operatives and nano-entrepreneurs.
• Run user research and quick prototypes with low-literacy, multilingual users.
• Write requirements engineers can build from and plan pilots and rollouts.
• Define success metrics, track adoption and outcomes with M&E.
• Ensure products respect privacy and DPDP Act.

Conocimientos

Product management

Strategic thinking

Data-driven

AI/LLM awareness

Multilingual

Technical depth

Field work

Communication

Leadership

Educación

Bachelor's degree

MBA/MS preferred

Herramientas

SQL basics

APIs understanding

Descripción del empleo

About Udhyam

Udhyam Learning Foundation (Udhyam) is on a mission towards Making Bharat Entrepreneurial. We believe that entrepreneurship is a powerful way to channelize an individual's potential. Entrepreneurship enables agency and allows an individual to work on their strengths while creating value for the world.

Our programs

• Udhyam Vyapaar focuses on nano businesses in India, and solving large problems faced by them, at scale; having already enabled an income uplift for close to 10,000 entrepreneurs.
• Udhyam Shiksha works on developing entrepreneurial mindsets among the youth and enabling them to achieve their potential, having impacted ~40,00,000 learners across 12 Indian states.

Why this role exists

Vyapaar works with nano-entrepreneurs: small shop owners, street vendors, home-based producers and a growing number of rural nano-entrepreneurs, many of them women. They run on thin margins, with patchy networks and limited digital literacy, and rarely in English.

What you'll own

Vision and strategy

• Set a 2–3 year product vision for how technology and AI can help Vyapaar reach more nano-entrepreneurs and make field operatives more effective
• Own the product roadmap, combining field, monitoring (M&E) and operational requirements
• Prioritize with evidence (impact on nano-entrepreneurs, effort, cost, risk) and be clear about what we won't build
• Identify where AI meaningfully helps, and where it doesn't

Field discovery

• Spend about 20% of your time with field operatives and nano-entrepreneurs in rural and urban locations
• Run user research and quick prototypes with low-literacy, multilingual users

Delivery and outcomes

• Write requirements engineers can build from; make scope, sequencing and build-or-buy calls with them
• Plan pilots and rollouts with field teams, designing for multiple languages, voice and low-end Android
• Define success metrics, track adoption and outcomes, and work with M&E on impact measurement
• Make sure products respect privacy and consent, including India's DPDP Act

Stakeholders

• Bridge program, field, M&E, operations, fundraising and technology teams, and communicate the roadmap to leadership, funders and partners

Skills and experience

Essential

• 8-10 years of experience, with at least 2–3 years in product management owning a product from discovery to launch
• Bachelor's degree; an MBA or Master's is a plus
• Experience in the service or social sector, ideally livelihoods, financial inclusion, MSME or rural development
• Strategic thinking: able to set a product vision and connect it to organizational goals
• Enough technical depth to build a technology roadmap and hold your own with engineers on APIs, data, mobile, web and cloud
• Working knowledge of AI and LLM-based products, including evaluation and cost
• Data-driven: comfortable with metrics, dashboards and basic SQL or analytics tools
• Speaks and works in at least one of Kannada, Hindi, Tamil or Marathi, along with English, with empathy for multilingual and voice-first users
• Able to travel about 20% of the time
• Clear communicator who partners well with field teams, engineers, leadership and funders

Nice to have

• Built for low-bandwidth, offline-first or low-end Android contexts in India
• Experience with WhatsApp, chatbot or voice interfaces, or field data tools like KoboToolbox or ODK
• Worked with M&E teams, or on DPDP and privacy-by-design

Mindsets we're looking for

• A real pull towards livelihoods and social impact
• Field first, comfortable with ambiguity, and honest about where technology doesn't help
• Low ego, high ownership