Product Manager Selection Navigator Functional Lead

Johnson Controls; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Employee development programs

Job summary

Johnson Controls in Bengaluru seeks an experienced Selection Navigator Functional Lead (Product Manager) to define delivery objectives, prioritize features, and ensure platform solutions meet customer and business needs. The role partners with global teams in an Agile, SAFe environment to maximize value and drive continuous improvement.

Responsibilities include engaging with sellers and stakeholders, translating initiatives to well-defined features, refining requirements, and guiding

Qualifications

• Must translate business and seller needs into actionable requirements and features.
• Proven ability to translate business and seller needs into actionable requirements and features.
• Working understanding of JCI product domain — fire detection, controls, HVAC equipment or aftermarket parts.
• Excellent communication and coordination across business and technical teams.
• Ability to manage complex, globally distributed initiatives and dependencies.

Responsibilities

• Define delivery objectives, prioritize the feature backlog to maximize value.
• Act as the business liaison between domain owners, sellers and IT delivery team.
• Gather requirements for new products and capabilities onboarded to the platform.
• Translate initiatives into well-defined features with clear acceptance criteria.
• Document processes, validate requirements and align teams across stakeholders.
• Coordinate work across multiple teams and dependencies.
• Communicate progress, status and risks to stakeholders and leadership.
• Review UX designs for alignment with requirements and standards.
• Support Product Owners and developers through refinement, sprints and releases.
• Participate in SAFe ceremonies and PI planning.

Skills

Agile methodologies

SAFe

Stakeholder management

Requirements gathering

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or CS

Tools

Salesforce

Jira

BI Reporting tools

Tealium

Google Analytics

Snowflake

Mulesoft

ERP systems (Oracle, SAP)

Job description

Job Description:

What you will do

Selection Navigator Functional Lead (Product Manager)/ defines delivery objectives, prioritizes features, and ensures the design solution that meets customer and business needs. This role partners with global cross-functional teams in an Agile environment to maximize value and drive continuous improvement.

How you will do it

• Act as the business liaison between domain business owners, sellers and the IT delivery team — capture what the business wants to enable on Selection Navigator and make sure delivery meets that intent.

• Engage directly with sellers, inside/post-sales teams, branches and product business owners to gather requirements for new products and capabilities being onboarded to the platform.

• Translate business initiatives into well-defined features with clear requirements, outcomes, acceptance expectations, and benefits.

• Document business processes, validate requirements and support team alignment across product, engineering and business stakeholders.

• Define delivery objectives and prioritize the feature backlog to maximize business value.

• Coordinate work across multiple teams and manage cross-team and cross-system dependencies.

• Communicate progress, status and risks to business stakeholders and IT leadership.

• Review UX designs for alignment with requirements and user experience standards.

• Support Product Owners and developers through refinement, sprint execution, demos and release readiness.

• Participate in SAFe ceremonies — PI planning, backlog refinement, system demos and portfolio syncs.

• Operate effectively across time zones within a global team (the product management in the U.S., product owners and engineering in India) serving global customer

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.

• 8+ years of experience, with strong working knowledge of Agile and SAFe principles.

• Proven ability to translate business and seller needs into actionable requirements and features.

• Working understanding of a JCI product domain — fire detection, controls, HVAC equipment or aftermarket parts.

• Excellent communication and coordination across business and technical teams.

• Ability to manage complex, globally distributed initiatives and dependencies.

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Experience with product configuration, selection, estimating or CPQ platforms.

• Familiarity with HVAC, Fire Detection, Building Automation/Controls, or related industries.

• Prior experience in sales, inside sales, post-sales, or a GCOE/engineering support function where JCI products were configured or quoted.

• Experience applying AI to selection, estimating or sales-productivity workflows.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.

• Excellent stakeholder management and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced global environment.

Hands-on experience with:

• Salesforce,

• DevOps / Jira

• BI Reporting tools

• Tealium / Google Analytics

• Snowflake

• Mulesoft

• ERPs (Oracle, SAP, Lawson, MAPICS, etc