Program Manager

Zenteiq Aitech; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

ZenteiQ is building agentic, Generative AI-powered systems—production infrastructure teams depend on. You will sit across multiple product teams, coordinating and judging rather than adding paperwork, with senior scope and end-to-end release ownership.

Senior role (6–10 years), full-time on-site in Bangalore (Jakkuru). You will own program mgmt, packaging, distribution, and release notes, driving accountability and aligned cadences across engineering, product, and leadership.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in program or release management across multiple engineering teams or products.
• Hands-on experience owning release packaging, distribution, and documentation.
• Use PM tools to reconcile roadmap commitments against release progress and surface gaps.
• Strong stakeholder management with ability to influence across levels and functions.
• Clear, direct communicator with collaborative mindset.

Responsibilities

• Own program management across Engineering — track releases against roadmaps and close the gap when they drift apart
• Drive progress reporting that gives leadership and product teams insights into current status and required course corrections
• Own release packaging and distribution — making sure what ships is what was actually meant to ship, on the right channel, at the right time
• Own release documentation and release notes — clear enough that engineering, support, and customers all understand what changed and why
• Identify cross-team dependencies and risks early enough to act on them, not just report on them after the fact
• Run the cadence that keeps engineering, product, and leadership aligned, without adding process overhead
• Push back on scope, timelines, or process when they threaten a release — even when that's an uncomfortable conversation

Skills

7+ years release management

Release packaging & docs

PM tools

Stakeholder management

Clear communication

Tools

JIRA

Zoho Projects

Microsoft Projects

Job description

ZenteiQ is building agentic, Generative AI-powered systems — from ingestion and chunking through vector search, message passing, and orchestration — that need to run not as demos but as production infrastructure people depend on. The platform systems, powered by our Scientific Foundation Model, are designed to be used by a wide range of consumers, from government to industry and academia. We move at the pace of a company still shaping what it's becoming — priorities shift as products and customers teach us what matters. Decisions are made close to the work, by whoever's closest to the problem, not routed through layers of sign-off. You'll sit across multiple product teams (AhamX, KogneX, BrahmX, and others), which means your job is coordination and judgment, not paperwork for its own sake.

What You'll Do

• Own program management across Engineering — track releases against roadmaps and close the gap when they drift apart
• Drive progress reporting that gives leadership and product teams insights into current status and required course corrections
• Own release packaging and distribution — making sure what ships is what was actually meant to ship, on the right channel, at the right time
• Own release documentation and release notes — clear enough that engineering, support, and customers all understand what changed and why
• Identify cross-team dependencies and risks early enough to act on them, not just report on them after the fact
• Run the cadence that keeps engineering, product, and leadership aligned, without adding process overhead
• Push back on scope, timelines, or process when they threaten a release — even when that's an uncomfortable conversation

What We're Looking For

Must have:

• 7+ years of experience in program or release management, ideally spanning multiple engineering teams or products at once
• Direct, hands-on experience owning release packaging, distribution, and documentation
• Leverage PM tools to reconcile roadmap commitments against actual release progress and surface the gap before it becomes a crisis
• Strong stakeholder management — ability to communicate, negotiate with, and influence engineering, product, leadership, and external clients / vendors
• Clear, direct communicator, strong on collaboration and accountability
• Hands-on experience with tracking systems like JIRA / Zoho Projects / Microsoft Projects

Good to have:

• Experience in a startup or deep-tech environment where roadmaps shift often
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum delivery models, trained in PMP / Six Sigma
• Exposure to engineering concepts (APIs, deployments, CI/CD) — enough to understand what a release actually involves
• Experience setting up program management practices from scratch, rather than inheriting a mature process

Senior – 6 to 10 years

Mode – Full Time from onsite, Bangalore – Jakkuru – Vista Pixel AWFIS

Required Skills

B2B Enterprise Product Ownership/Management - Strong programming skills in Python