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About Role:
Are you passionate about building products that solve real customer problems Do you thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment We're looking for an Associate Product Manager to join our Core Platform & Reports team and help drive the delivery of high-impact features for our business.
This Associate Product Manager role, based in India, will fulfill a crucial role across the Domains product team, collaborating with multiple development teams that span various product areas. This position will be required to work closely with area-focused Product Managers to translate the overall product vision into actionable deliverables. The Associate Product Manager is required to act as a bridge between stakeholders, customers, and development teams, ensuring alignment with business objectives and customer requirements. By converting business needs into development tasks, the Associate Product Manager must demonstrate strong prioritization skills and provide steadfast support to Product Managers within the Domains vertical, whilst reporting directly to the Product Line Manager. This role is designed to amplify execution and delivery across the Domains product portfolio, for both regional and global business goals.
Success North Star: Execution with Clarity
Clear documentation of Product Requirements, EPICs (projects), Features, User Stories across multiple product areas
Feature prioritization (ensuring the right features are delivered at the right time for maximum customer value in diverse regional and global markets)
High-quality execution (no P1 bugs in production, high user satisfaction & minimal support tickets due to product defects, especially considering India-specific customer needs)
Key Responsibilities:
Communicate Product Vision: Align India-based development teams with the product vision through clear communication and collaboration with area-focused Product Managers. Ensure the teams understand the why behind each feature and the value delivered to customers. Evangelize the vision and mission across all product areas.
Create and Communicate EPICs, Features & User Stories: Write concise EPICs, user stories, and product requirements, ensuring both functional and non-functional needs are clearly documented. Collaborate closely with development teams to ideate and deliver optimal solutions that address regional and global customer needs, while contributing to the broader product strategy and vision and developing increasing ownership of strategic product direction over time.
Manage Product Backlog: Maintain the product backlog for assigned development teams, ensuring all backlog items are clearly defined and ordered by business value. Continuously update the backlog based on evolving product knowledge and stakeholder feedback, in support of the area-focused Product Managers.
Prioritize Features & User Stories: Connect each feature to customer and business value (such as sales value, user retention, reputation risk, regulatory requirements, etc.), and rigorously rank features in priority order. Challenge each feature to determine whether it is a must-have, should-have, or nice-to-have, always aligning prioritization with customer value delivery and supporting the Product Managers strategic direction.
Clearly communicate priority order to development teams in India. Challenge the value of every feature and provide rationale for changes in priorities, minimizing disruption to planned work. Support agile practices while avoiding unnecessary pivots.
Decide on Release Readiness: The Associate Product Manager is accountable for release decisions and customer acceptance in the Indian market and globally. Be firm in Go-No Go decision making, collaborating closely with Product Managers and development teams to ensure readiness and high quality.
Agree Acceptance Criteria: Work with Quality Assurance to define acceptance test scenarios. For website features (UI), perform workflow-oriented user acceptance testing, including manual walkthroughs and user impersonation, to ensure fit for purpose prior to release. Ensure every feature released meets high quality standards (no known material bugs released).
Required Skills and Qualifications :
Ability to prioritize effectively and make decisive product decisions supporting the multiple product teams
Experience with product backlog management and user-centered design principles, must be India-based for colocation with development teams
Analytical thinking and proficiency in using data to drive decisions
Strong understanding of Agile and Scrum methodologies HR Documentation Public Access
Excellent communication skills in English (written and verbal), with the ability to work effectively across cultural and geographic boundaries
Strong stakeholder management skills, supporting area-focused Product Managers and cross-functional teams
Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced, multi-product environment
Company Benefits :
Job ID: 145104051