Senior Product Manager II

Alation, Inc.; Chennai District; On-site; INR 13,436,000 - 18,234,000; Full time

Job summary

Alation, Inc. seeks a Senior Product Manager to own connectors end-to-end, defining connectivity in an agentic world and guiding 80+ integrations across modern and legacy data stacks. You’ll shape new extraction techniques and AI-enabled data sources while collaborating with engineers, product, and customers.

This senior IC role requires building strategy, making calls, and shipping impactful solutions in a fast-moving environment that values ownership and decisive action.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in product management, engineering, or similar problem-solving roles.
• Track record of shipping real products or systems that customers used and cared about.
• Strong analytical thinking and comfort operating in complex, technical domains.
• Sharp written communication — PRDs, specs, narratives, decision docs.
• Preferred: degree from IIT/IIM/XLRI or equivalent.
• Preferred: experience with enterprise data environments, data integration, metadata management, or developer-facing products.

Responsibilities

• Own the Connector mission: make it fast and easy for customers to bring rich metadata into AIOS.
• Drive the strategy for 80+ existing integrations and decide what to deepen, optimize, or sunset.
• Lead expansion into new systems and new data sources as the AI landscape evolves.
• Turn ambiguous problems into clear direction, scoped bets, and shipped solutions.
• Talk to customers constantly to validate direction and iterate quickly.
• Work with engineering to define requirements and tradeoffs, moving fast.
• Apply AI strategically across the connector portfolio and the product.
• Raise the bar on how we build, not just what we build.

Skills

Product management

Analytical thinking

Written communication

AI-native

Education

IIT/IIM/XLRI equivalent

Tools

Enterprise data environments

Data integration

Metadata management

Developer-facing products

Job description

Alation is pioneering the next era of data intelligence - powered by AI agents and trusted data. Organizations around the world rely on Alation to drive self-service analytics, cloud transformation, data governance, and AI innovation. Our technology helps enterprises connect people and data to make faster, smarter, and more confident decisions. With more than $340M in funding – valued at over $1.7 billion and more than 650 customers, including 40% of the Fortune 100.

Job Description

About Alation

Alation is the creator of AIOS - the intelligence operating system for enterprises that cannot afford to get AI wrong. When software breaks, it throws an error. When an AI agent breaks, it produces a confident, wrong answer - and most organizations have no system to catch it before that answer drives a decision. AIOS keeps data, context, and agents in sync in one open, governed, self-improving system, so every decision an agent makes holds up.

Having pioneered the data catalog market, Alation is trusted by over 600 enterprises worldwide - including 40% of the Fortune 500 - to power their most critical data and AI initiatives. The problems we tackle are complex, high-impact, and deeply technical. This is not a slow-moving environment. We build fast, ship real things, learn from customers, and iterate relentlessly.

About The Role

AIOS doesn't work without connectivity. Agents fail when bad data reaches them, when context is stale, or when the environment shifts underneath them - and the defense against all three starts with rich, current metadata flowing in from the systems where enterprise data actually lives. Connectors are how AIOS sees the enterprise. That's this team's job, and it's getting harder and more interesting as the data and AI landscape shifts under everyone's feet.

We're looking for a Senior Product Manager to own this problem end to end. You'll inherit a portfolio of 80+ integrations spanning the modern and legacy data stack, and a mandate to define what connectivity means in an agentic world - new systems, new types of sources (including the agents and AI tools that are themselves becoming metadata sources), new extraction techniques, and AI applied wherever it genuinely moves the needle.

This is a senior IC role with real scope. You won't be handed a polished roadmap or mature systems - you'll sharpen the strategy, make the calls, and ship. This is a role for builders.

What You'll Do

• Own the Connector mission: make it fast and easy for customers to bring rich, valuable metadata into AIOS
• Drive the strategy for 80+ existing integrations - what to deepen, what to optimize, and what to sunset
• Lead expansion into new systems and entirely new categories of data sources as the AI landscape reshapes what "a data source" means
• Turn ambiguous problems into clear direction, scoped bets, and shipped solutions
• Talk to customers constantly - validate direction, pressure-test ideas, iterate fast
• Work directly with engineering to define requirements, reason through tradeoffs, and move quickly
• Apply AI strategically across the connector portfolio - both in the product and in how you work
• Raise the bar on how we build, not just what we build

Who This Role Is For

We care more about how you operate than where you've been. Traits and trajectory matter to us more than a checklist of domain credentials.

You Might Be a Great Fit If You

• Are gritty and resilient - you don't stall when things are unclear or hard
• Have a strong sense of ownership - you feel accountable for outcomes, not just tasks
• Are deeply curious - you ask why, dig into systems, and want to understand how things really work
• Are AI-native by instinct - you already use AI tools daily to think, write, analyze, and prototype, and you actively push the people around you to work differently
• Thrive in fast-moving, high-expectation environments
• Love building, especially in under-defined or shifting problem spaces
• Make decisions with incomplete information and adjust quickly
• Communicate clearly and align engineers, designers, and stakeholders around a direction

Experience & Skills

• 5+ years in product management, engineering, or similar problem-solving roles - but we weight demonstrated traits and trajectory over years served
• A track record of shipping real products or systems that customers used and cared about
• Strong analytical thinking and comfort operating in complex, technical domains
• Sharp written communication - PRDs, specs, narratives, decision docs
• Preferred (not required): degree from a top-tier institution (IIT, IIM, XLRI or equivalent)
• Preferred (not required): experience with enterprise data environments, data integration, metadata management, or developer-facing products

Alation, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to that individual’s race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The Company will strive to provide reasonable accommodations to permit qualified applicants who have a need for an accommodation to participate in the hiring process (e.g., accommodations for a job interview) if so requested.

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