Technical Product Manager

Crane Venture Partners; India; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first culture

Medical insurance

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Scrut Automation in India (Remote) seeks a Technical Product Manager to own the strategy and roadmap for AI-native SaaS modules. You will operate at the intersection of engineering, AI, and compliance, shaping architecture and product features with a high degree of independence.

The ideal candidate has 5–10 years in product management, a track record in fast-paced startups, and can influence across teams while leveraging AI-driven development tools.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of product management in a technology company.
• Proven track record in fast-paced startup/scale-up environments.
• Ability to influence across engineering, design, and GTM without formal authority.

Responsibilities

• Own strategy and roadmap for modules from discovery to launch.
• Write specs including PRDs, user stories, acceptance criteria, and API contracts.

Skills

Product management

Roadmapping

PRD drafting

API contracts

AI-native development

Stakeholder management

SaaS architecture

Tools

Claude

Cursor

Codex

Figma

Job description

Title: Technical Product Manager

Function: Product

Location: India (Remote)

Reporting: Sr Director - Product

The Role

Scrut is building the AI-native future of GRC - autonomous agents, headless APIs, an MCP server, and agentic workflows replacing what was historically manual, click-through work.

We're hiring a Technical Product Manager to own the strategy and roadmap for the modules you'll lead, sitting at the intersection of engineering, AI, and the compliance domain. This is a role for a seasoned PM who operates independently from day one. The bar is high on both technical depth and AI-native fluency - and we test for both.

What You'll Do

• Own strategy and roadmap for your modules, end-to-end - from discovery and requirements through launch and iteration. Influence prioritization based on business impact, technical feasibility, and customer value.
• Write specs engineers build from without ambiguity - PRDs, user stories, and acceptance criteria covering API contracts, data models, integration logic, webhooks, and workflow rule sets.
• Shape the architecture conversation - evaluate feasibility and trade-offs early; hold your own on system design, service boundaries, and scalability rather than just facilitating.
• Work AI-natively - use AI-driven development tools (Claude, Cursor, Codex) daily for prototyping, spec-writing, and validating technical approaches.
• Instrument everything you ship - define the event taxonomy and success metrics before launch; use funnels, cohorts, and adoption data to decide what to double down on and what to kill. Bring data and judgment in equal measure.
• Champion the customer at every stage - scope and synthesize prospect and customer feedback, define market needs clearly, and map them to actionable product features.

What You Bring

Experience (Required)

• 5–10 years of product management in a technology company. This is not a junior role - you're already highly proficient at the core craft: PRDs, backlogs, user flows, sprints, working with designers in Figma, and communicating across engineering, design, and GTM.
• A track record of shipping in fast-paced, high-ambiguity startup or scale-up environments. You bring structure where there is none.
• Demonstrated ability to influence engineering, design, sales, and customer success without formal authority.

Technical Fluency - SaaS Foundations (Required - High Bar)

The path you took to build this fluency is flexible - CS degree, prior life as a software engineer, or years as a PM on deeply technical products. What matters is that it's real:

• Architecture & infrastructure - how clients talk to services, microservices vs. monolith trade-offs, scalability concerns (load balancing, caching, latency, uptime), cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure), staging vs. production.
• Integrations & data - REST and GraphQL APIs, webhooks, payload structures, JSON, relational vs. non-relational databases, and enough data-modeling sense to contribute meaningfully.
• Delivery - SDLC end-to-end: sprint planning, estimation, release management, post-release monitoring. Version control fluency (repos, branches, pull requests) to track progress and unblock decisions without a translator.
• Security & reliability - conversant in SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA at a conceptual level; treats technical debt as a product problem - when to absorb it, when to pay it down.

You don't need to write production code - but engineers should trust your specs, and architects should consider you a useful thought partner.

What Catches Our Attention

None of these are a must have - but they help:

• Proof of work. A GitHub link, a shipped agent, a prototype, technical writing - anything we can look at will certainly catch our attention.
• Domain experience in GRC, cybersecurity, or adjacent spaces (cloud security, DevSecOps, risk management).
• Background in developer-facing products - APIs, SDKs, integration platforms.
• Hands-on coding ability.

Why This Role

• Ground-floor impact at a pivotal inflection point - the product is going fully AI-native, and you'll shape how an entire category gets rebuilt around AI.
• Direct exposure to founders and leadership; your work is visible and consequential from week one.
• A high-performing team that values ownership, speed, and intellectual honesty.
• Competitive compensation, benefits, and a remote-first culture.

Why should this job excite you?

• Opportunity to make an early impact on one of the most promising, high-growth SaaS startups in India
• Flat hierarchy, performance-driven culture
• Rapid growth and learning opportunities
• Comprehensive medical insurance coverage
• A high-performing action-oriented team
• Competitive package, benefits and employee-friendly work culture

About Scrut Automation

Scrut Automation is a one-stop platform for information security compliance, helping IT, ITES, and SaaS companies automate compliance programs - reducing manual effort by up to 70% - across SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and CCPA.

Founded by IIT/ISB/McKinsey alumni with 15+ years of combined infosec experience, Scrut is backed by Lightspeed Ventures and Endiya Partners, along with prominent angels from the global SaaS community.

Note: Due to a high volume of applications, only the shortlisted candidates will be contacted by the HR team. We appreciate your interest and effort.