Senior Associate Product Manager

Principal Financial Group; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Principal Financial Group is seeking an experienced Product Manager to lead discovery, manage the product lifecycle, and partner with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment in Pune, India.

You will drive experiments, analyze customer insights, and align product metrics with business outcomes while collaborating with engineering, data, and business stakeholders to deliver value and minimize risks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or comparable experience.
• 6–10 years of overall professional experience.
• 5+ years of experience in Product Management, Business Analysis, or related field in a fast-paced environment.
• Proven expertise in directing the product lifecycle and developing the roadmap.
• Experience working with product, engineering, and business collaborators.
• Experience leading multiple workloads and challenging priorities.
• Strong collaborator management, communication, facilitation, influencing, and negotiation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to bring data and insights to drive business and product decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead product discovery sessions to understand problems, needs, and outcomes.
• Support cross-functional teams in ideating and running experiments.
• Capture, analyze, and communicate product insights and metrics to collaborators.
• Maintain and share product health metrics and progress toward goals.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and Agile teams to resolve dependencies and risks.
• Assist backlog management, story refinement, acceptance criteria, prioritization, and sprint ceremonies.
• Communicate releases, roadmaps, outcomes, and key decisions to stakeholders.
• Work with leaders and finance to support change readiness and business outcomes.
• Demonstrate strong communication, influencing, and relationship skills across product teams.
• Leverage data-driven thinking to identify product improvements.

Skills

Product Management

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder communication

Agile / Scrum

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Miro

Job description

Responsibilities

• Lead product discovery sessions to understand business problems, customer needs, and outcome hypotheses.
• Support cross-functional teams including Product, Engineering, Development, Data, and Business partners in ideating and completing experiments.
• Capture, analyze, and communicate product insights, customer feedback, operational metrics, and measurable outcomes to collaborators.
• Maintain and share product health and operational metrics, ensuring progress toward product goals and objectives is clear and quantifiable.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and Agile teams to identify and resolve dependencies, impediments, and delivery risks.
• Act as or support the role of Product Manager 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 collaborators and partners.
• Work closely with business leaders, finance partners, and collaborators to support change readiness, product adoption, and business outcomes.
• Demonstrate strong communication, influencing, and relationship management skills while building connections across product teams.
• Leverage data, metrics, and analytical thinking to support data-driven decision-making and find opportunities for product improvement.

Continuously develop knowledge throughout all stages of the product lifecycle while contributing to an effective and mature product management practice.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or comparable experience.
• 6–10 years of overall professional experience.
• 5+ years of experience in Product Management, Business Analysis, or a related field within a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment.
• Verified expertise in directing the product lifecycle and developing the roadmap.
• Experience working with product, engineering, and business collaborators.
• Experience leading multiple workloads and challenging priorities.
• Strong collaborator management, communication, facilitation, influencing, and negotiation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to bring to bear data and insights to drive business and product decisions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting benefits administration, Group Products, or related retirement-processing operations, particularly the administration of lump-sum and annuity benefits for traditional pension plans and Pension Risk Transfer arrangements.
• Working experience in Agile (Scrum/Kanban) environments.
• Practical experience working with Jira, Confluence, and Miro or similar tools.
• Exposure to end users, business collaborators, and technology teams.
• Understanding of Distribution in Life/Group Insurance would be a plus.

Key Skills

• Product Discovery & Experimentation
• Product Lifecycle Oversight
• Agile Delivery
• Collaborator Management
• Business Insight
• Prioritization & Decision Making
• Communication & Facilitation
• Influencing & Negotiation

Additional Information

Experience Principal

At Principal, we value connecting on both a personal and professional level. Together, we’re inventing a more purpose-led future for financial services – and that starts with you. Our success depends on the unique experiences, backgrounds, and talents of our employees. And we support our employees the same way we support our customers: with comprehensive, competitive benefit offerings crafted to protect their physical, financial, and social well-being. Check out our careers site to learn more about our purpose, values and benefits.

Principal is an Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status