Product Manager, Selection Navigator Functional Lead

Johnson Controls, Inc.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,800,000 - 4,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnson Controls, Inc. seeks a Selection Navigator Functional Lead (Product Manager) to define delivery objectives, prioritize features and ensure solutions meet customer and business needs.

You will work with global cross-functional teams in an Agile environment to maximize value and drive continuous improvement. You will liaise with domain owners and IT delivery to translate business needs into actionable requirements, pair with sellers and post-sales teams, and guide product capabilities

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, CS, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience with Agile and SAFe.
• Translate business and seller needs into actionable requirements and features.
• Knowledge of JCI product domains like fire detection, controls, HVAC, or aftermarket parts.
• Excellent communication and coordination across business and technical teams.
• Ability to manage complex, globally distributed initiatives and dependencies.

Responsibilities

• Act as the business liaison between domain owners, sellers and IT delivery to capture needs and ensure delivery meets intent.
• Engage with sellers, post-sales teams, branches and product owners to gather requirements for new products and capabilities.
• Translate initiatives into well-defined features with clear requirements, outcomes, acceptance criteria, and benefits.
• Document business processes, validate requirements, and align teams 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 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 in a global team servicing customers.

Skills

Agile

SAFe

Communication

Global coordination

Requirements gathering

Product domain knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or Computer Science

Tools

Salesforce

DevOps/Jira

BI Reporting tools

Tealium/GA

Snowflake

Mulesoft

ERP (Oracle, SAP, Lawson)

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