Group Product Manager

About WorkIndia:

WorkIndia is India's largest blue- and grey-collar hiring platform, built with a clear purpose: to provide meaningful livelihoods to 23.7 crore blue-collar individuals across India.

WorkIndia helps millions of job seekers connect with employers across the country. On the employer side, WorkIndia serves tens of thousands of businesses every month, enabling them to discover, evaluate, and hire relevant candidates at scale.

About the Role:

We're looking for a Group Product Manager to lead the Centre of Excellence — WorkIndia's central matchmaking engine. You'll own product strategy and outcomes across the end-to-end hiring funnel, translating company strategy into a roadmap that improves experience and retention on both sides of the marketplace, alongside driving candidate growth.

You will lead a team and work closely with the Head of Product, business leads across the org, and Engineering/Data partners whose infrastructure your roadmap depends on.

This role requires strong product judgment on a genuinely hard, two-sided problem — what looks like a candidate-side fix is often the difference between an employer renewing or churning.

About the Centre of Excellence (CoE):

The CoE owns WorkIndia's central matchmaking engine — the capability that drives world-class matching by solving for the end-to-end hiring funnel. This manifests as improved experience and retention on both sides of the marketplace. Additionally, CoE carries the responsibility for candidate supply — acquisition and reactivation.

What You'll Do:

Strategic Ownership

• Own and evolve the CoE product strategy in service of WorkIndia's matchmaking goals
• Translate company goals into a clear CoE roadmap
• Balance near-term KPI delivery with longer-term platform investments that unlock them

User Thinking & Product Judgment

• Build deep fluency in consumer behaviour and the drivers of activation and retention
• Ground every roadmap decision in real candidate and employer outcomes, not proxy metrics

Business & Product Leadership

• Own outcomes, not features: growth, retention, and long-term matchmaking capability
• Manage and grow a cross-functional team spanning product management and analytics
• Partner closely with marketing and engineering on channel and delivery strategy
• Represent CoE in cross-functional forums where outcomes are shared with other business units

Execution & Systems Thinking

• Drive roadmap sequencing across near-term fixes and longer-term platform bets
• Convert repeated operational patterns into scalable product systems rather than one-off fixes
• Push for systems that hold up at significant scale, in coordination with platform teams

Data & Decision Making

• Own the CoE metrics tree and use data to prioritise across the charter
• Push the team to instrument outcome metrics over vanity metrics

Team & Reporting:

• Reports to: Head of Product
• Directly manages: A team spanning product management and analytics
• Key partners: Marketing, Engineering & Data, other product business units, Design

What We're Looking For:

• 9+ years of Product Management experience, with a track record of owning large, metric-accountable product areas
• Demonstrated ability to drive both growth and retention/matching-quality metrics
• Strong systems thinking and comfort resolving ambiguity
• Deep data fluency
• Experience managing a cross-functional team
• Marketplace or two-sided consumer product experience strongly preferred

Why Join WorkIndia

• Impact: Be a part of a mission-driven company that impacts millions of lives daily
• Growth: High ownership environment where your initiatives directly shape the company culture
• Location: Work out of our vibrant office in HSR Layout, the startup hub of Bengaluru