Senior Associate Product Manager

Principal-Global-Services; Pune District; On-site; INR 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Principal-Global-Services is seeking a Senior Associate Product Manager to support product managers within a collaborative team in Pune. You will help run product discovery sessions, gather insights, and assist with backlog refinement and sprint ceremonies.

You will work with cross-functional teams—Product, Engineering, Design, Data, and Finance—to drive data-driven decisions, track product health, and ensure alignment with business outcomes while growing your product management skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent.
• 6–10 years of overall professional experience.
• 3+ years of experience in Product Management, Product Ownership, Business Analysis, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience with product lifecycle management and roadmap planning.
• Experience working with product, engineering, and business stakeholders.
• Experience managing multiple workloads and competing priorities.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, facilitation, influencing, and negotiation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage data and insights to drive business and product decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead product discovery sessions, helping teams understand business problems, customer needs, and outcome hypotheses.
• Support cross-functional teams in ideating and executing experiments.
• Gather, analyze, and communicate product insights, customer feedback, operational metrics, and measurable outcomes to stakeholders.
• Maintain and communicate product health and operational metrics.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and Agile teams to identify and resolve dependencies, impediments, and delivery risks.
• Act as or support the role of Product Owner by backlog management, story refinement, acceptance criteria definition, prioritization discussions, and sprint ceremonies.
• Communicate product releases, roadmap updates, experiment outcomes, and key product decisions to stakeholders and partners.
• Work with business leaders, finance partners, and stakeholders to support change readiness, product adoption, and business outcomes.
• Demonstrate strong communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills while building relationships across product disciplines.
• Leverage data, metrics, and analytical thinking to support data-driven decision-making and identify opportunities for product improvement.
• Continuously build expertise across all phases of the product lifecycle.

Skills

Product Discovery

Product Lifecycle

Product Ownership

Agile Delivery

Stakeholder Management

Data Analysis

Business Acumen

Prioritization

Communication

Influencing

Education

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Miro

Job description

Responsibilities

The Senior Associate Product Manager is responsible for supporting Product Managers as part of a product management team; however, they are not the accountable Product Manager for a product. They develop knowledge, experience, and skills by working side-by-side with experienced product managers while contributing to the success of complex products and product families.

The successful candidate will:

• Lead product discovery sessions, helping teams understand business problems, customer needs, and outcome hypotheses.
• Support cross-functional teams including Product, Engineering, Design, Data, and Business stakeholders in ideating and executing experiments.
• Gather, analyze, and communicate product insights, customer feedback, operational metrics, and measurable outcomes to stakeholders.
• Maintain and communicate product health and operational metrics, ensuring progress against product goals and objectives is visible and measurable.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and Agile teams to identify and resolve dependencies, impediments, and delivery risks.
• Act as or support the role of Product Owner by contributing to backlog management, story refinement, acceptance criteria definition, prioritization discussions, and sprint ceremonies.
• Communicate product releases, roadmap updates, experiment outcomes, and key product decisions to stakeholders and partners.
• Work closely with business leaders, finance partners, and stakeholders to support change readiness, product adoption, and business outcomes.
• Demonstrate strong communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills while building relationships across product disciplines.
• Leverage data, metrics, and analytical thinking to support data-driven decision-making and identify opportunities for product improvement.
• Continuously build expertise across all phases of the product lifecycle while contributing to an effective and mature product management practice.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent.
• 6–10 years of overall professional experience.
• 3+ years of experience in Product Management, Product Ownership, Business Analysis, or a related discipline within a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated experience with product lifecycle management and roadmap planning.
• Experience working with product, engineering, and business stakeholders.
• Experience managing multiple workloads and competing priorities.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, facilitation, influencing, and negotiation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage data and insights to drive business and product decisions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong analytical and quantitative aptitude with the ability to interpret data, identify trends, derive insights, and support evidence-based decision-making.
• Excellent mathematical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
• Experience creating reports, dashboards, KPIs, and product health metrics.
• Experience driving prioritization discussions and balancing customer, business, and technical needs.
• Understanding of Cloud concepts.
• Working experience in Agile (Scrum/Kanban) environments.
• Hands-on experience with Jira, Confluence, and Miro.
• Exposure to end users, business stakeholders, and technology teams.
• Understanding of Distribution in Life/Group Insurance would be a plus.

Key Skills

• Product Discovery & Experimentation
• Product Lifecycle Management
• Product Ownership
• Agile Delivery
• Stakeholder Management
• Data Analysis & InsightsQuantitative Problem Solving
• Business Acumen
• Prioritization & Decision Making
• Communication & Facilitation
• Influencing & Negotiation

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent.
• 6–10 years of overall professional experience.
• 3+ years of experience in Product Management, Product Ownership, Business Analysis, or a related discipline within a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated experience with product lifecycle management and roadmap planning.
• Experience working with product, engineering, and business stakeholders.
• Experience managing multiple workloads and competing priorities.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, facilitation, influencing, and negotiation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage data and insights to drive business and product decisions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong analytical and quantitative aptitude with the ability to interpret data, identify trends, derive insights, and support evidence-based decision-making.
• Excellent mathematical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
• Experience creating reports, dashboards, KPIs, and product health metrics.
• Experience driving prioritization discussions and balancing customer, business, and technical needs.
• Understanding of Cloud concepts.
• Working experience in Agile (Scrum/Kanban) environments.
• Hands-on experience with Jira, Confluence, and Miro.
• Exposure to end users, business stakeholders, and technology teams.
• Understanding of Distribution in Life/Group Insurance would be a plus.

Additional Information

Key Skills

• Product Discovery & Experimentation
• Product Lifecycle Management
• Product Ownership
• Agile Delivery
• Stakeholder Management
• Data Analysis & Insights
• Quantitative Problem Solving
• Business Acumen
• Prioritization & Decision Making
• Communication & Facilitation
• Influencing & Negotiation