Product Manager (Banking Domain)

Cognizant; Chennai; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Product Manager to translate business strategy into product strategy, own the roadmap from discovery to launch, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams. The role emphasizes stakeholder management, customer discovery, and delivering measurable outcomes in a dynamic banking/financial services context.

The candidate will drive cross-functional alignment, manage risks and dependencies, and ensure timely delivery while balancing customer needs and technical considerations.

Qualifications

• Strategize产品方向与执行计划对齐业务目标
• 定义并传达产品愿景、目标与成功指标
• 开发并维护与业务目标一致的产品路线图
• 识别市场机会、客户需求及增长机会

Responsibilities

• Translate business strategy into product strategy and execution plans.
• Define and communicate product vision, objectives, and success metrics.
• Develop and maintain a product roadmap aligned to business goals.
• Identify market opportunities, customer needs, and growth initiatives.
• Own and prioritize the product roadmap and backlog.
• Drive end-to-end product execution from discovery through launch.
• Write and refine high-level business and product requirements.
• Ensure timely delivery of features, enhancements, manage dependencies partner teams and product releases.
• Serve as the primary liaison between business and delivery teams.
• Provide product and market insights to stakeholders and leadership.
• Partner closely with onshore product managers and stakeholders to align priorities and execution.
• Collaborate with technology, UX, design, marketing, operations, and business teams.
• Drive organizational alignment to bring products to market successfully.
• Facilitate decision-making and manage dependencies across teams.
• Own product business cases and value realization.
• Monitor product performance, adoption, and business outcomes.
• Drive continuous improvement through customer and stakeholder feedback.
• Balance customer needs, business objectives, and technical considerations.
• Manage products throughout their lifecycle, including enhancements and issue resolution.
• Gather and incorporate customer feedback, research, and insights.
• Track progress, risks, timeline requirements.
• Ensure alignment between product strategy, roadmap, and delivery outcomes.

Skills

Product Strategy

Roadmap Management

Agile / Scrum

Risk & Dependency Management

Stakeholder Management

Executive Communication

Backlog Prioritization

Customer Discovery

Job description

Key Responsibilities

Product Strategy & Vision

• Translate business strategy into product strategy and execution plans.
• Define and communicate product vision, objectives, and success metrics.
• Develop and maintain a product roadmap aligned to business goals.
• Identify market opportunities, customer needs, and growth initiatives.

Product Ownership & Delivery

• Own and prioritize the product roadmap and backlog.
• Drive end-to-end product execution from discovery through launch.
• Write and refine high-level business and product requirements.
• Ensure timely delivery of features, enhancements, manage dependencies partner teams and product releases.

Stakeholder Management

• Serve as the primary liaison between business and delivery teams.
• Provide product and market insights to stakeholders and leadership.
• Partner closely with onshore product managers and stakeholders to align priorities and execution.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Collaborate with technology, UX, design, marketing, operations, and business teams.
• Drive organizational alignment to bring products to market successfully.
• Facilitate decision-making and manage dependencies across teams.

Business & Commercial Ownership

• Own product business cases and value realization.
• Monitor product performance, adoption, and business outcomes.
• Drive continuous improvement through customer and stakeholder feedback.
• Balance customer needs, business objectives, and technical considerations.

Product Lifecycle Management

• Manage products throughout their lifecycle, including enhancements and issue resolution.
• Gather and incorporate customer feedback, research, and insights.
• Track progress, risks, timeline requirements.
• Ensure alignment between product strategy, roadmap, and delivery outcomes.

Required Skills

• Product Strategy & Roadmap Management
• Agile / Scrum Product Delivery
• Risk & Dependency Management
• Stakeholder Management & Executive Communication
• Requirements Definition & Backlog Prioritization
• Customer Discovery & User Research
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Banking / Financial Services domain experience preferred