Senior Associate Product Manager

Principal Financial Group; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Principal Financial Group is seeking a Senior Associate Product Manager in Pune to join a dynamic product management team. You will support product managers, lead discovery sessions, and work with engineering, design, data, and business stakeholders to ideate and run experiments.

You will gather insights, track metrics, and help maintain product health and roadmaps while collaborating across teams to ensure successful delivery and adoption.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent is required.
• 6–10 years of professional experience overall.
• 3+ years in Product Management or related discipline in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.
• Experience with product lifecycle management and roadmap planning.
• Experience working with product, engineering, and business stakeholders.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to leverage data and insights to drive decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead product discovery sessions to understand problems, needs, and outcomes.
• Support cross-functional teams in ideation and experiments.
• Gather and communicate product insights, metrics, and outcomes to stakeholders.
• Maintain product health and operational metrics, visible against goals.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and Agile teams to resolve dependencies and risks.
• Contribute to backlog management, story refinement, and sprint ceremonies as Product Owner.
• Communicate releases, roadmap updates, and key decisions to stakeholders.

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

Education

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Miro

Job description

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

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 & Insights
• Quantitative 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.