Product Manager

Product Manager

Location: Chennai, India

Function: Product Team

Type: In Office

Why this role exists:

AssetPlus is evolving from a feature request culture into a problem-first, metric-driven product organization.

Our product team operates through focused pods each responsible for a specific business charter and outcome metrics. As a Product Manager, you will work within one of these pods and take ownership of discovery, prioritisation, and delivery excellence.

We're looking for someone who can operate on both sides of the product mandate:

1. Thoughtfully channelising and prioritising inbound requests from internal and external stakeholders
2. Proactively shaping a strong, forward-looking roadmap rooted in real user pain points and strategic opportunities

This is not a backlog management role. This is about building meaningful, high-impact products that improve partner productivity, unlock revenue, increase cross-sell penetration, and create differentiated experiences in wealth distribution.

Where you'll fit in:

• You'll work within one of our focused product pods, each with a defined business charter and outcome metrics.
• Depending on business priorities, your pod may be responsible for strengthening core investment journeys, expanding financial product capabilities, or improving partner productivity and lifecycle management across the platform.
• While each pod has a different domain focus, the expectations from the Product Manager remain consistent strong discovery, sharp prioritisation, structured execution, and measurable impact.

The Two Sides of the Role:

1.Owning the Inbound & Prioritisation Engine:

You will receive requests from:

• Distributors and partners
• Sales & relationship teams
• Operations
• Leadership
• External ecosystem partners

Your job is to:

• Deconstruct requests into the underlying problem
• Identify whether the issue is systemic or isolated
• Quantify impact using data (AUM, activation, cross-sell, retention, productivity, etc.)
• Evaluate trade-offs against current roadmap priorities
• Communicate decisions clearly and confidently
• Strong PMs here protect the roadmap while staying deeply empathetic to stakeholders.

2.Building a Healthy, Insight-Led Roadmap:

Beyond inbound prioritisation, you are responsible for shaping a roadmap that solves meaningful problems and builds long-term product strength.

This means:

• Identifying core friction points for distributors and end clients
• Mapping breakdowns across onboarding, transactions, servicing, and lifecycle journeys
• Spotting revenue unlocks and behavioral bottlenecks
• Proposing differentiated, industry-forward capabilities
• Across our platform, product development involves working with external ecosystem partners such as AMCs, insurance providers, NPS platforms, and other financial product vendors.

As a Product Manager, you will:

• Evaluate integration opportunities with third-party systems
• Understand API capabilities and technical constraints
• Design user-first experiences while working within external platform limitations
• Avoid fragmented, bolt-on journeys and instead build cohesive flows inside the AssetPlus app
• Identify lifecycle tools (e.g., renewal nudges, portfolio intelligence, contribution reminders, tracking dashboards) that create real partner value

You should be equally comfortable:

• Fixing operational friction
• Improving conversion funnels
• Automating workflows
• Building intelligence layers
• Designing lifecycle nudges
• Making integration trade-offs that balance speed, scale, and user experience
• The best PMs in this role don't just respond to requests they build product direction with clarity and conviction.

What you'll be doing:

1. Lead Product Discovery

• Conduct regular conversations with distributors and internal stakeholders
• Analyze product analytics and operational data
• Shadow user journeys to understand real friction
• Synthesize scattered feedback into structured insights
• Define crisp problem statements with measurable impact

2. Validate Before Building

• Design small experiments to test assumptions
• Work with design to prototype and gather early feedback
• Define success metrics before development begins
• Kill ideas quickly when evidence doesn't support them

3. Drive Structured Execution

• Write clear, concise PRDs with defined scope and edge cases
• Break initiatives into prioritised, sprint-ready tasks
• Stay closely involved during build to unblock decisions
• Ensure engineering rarely needs clarifications

4. Collaborate Across Functions

You will work closely with:

• Engineering
• Design
• Sales
• Operations
• Compliance
• External ecosystem partners

You should be able to:

• Align stakeholders on trade-offs
• Manage ambiguity
• Handle conflicting priorities
• Drive clarity without formal authority

5. Measure and Iterate

• Track feature performance against defined metrics
• Identify unintended consequences
• Iterate based on data
• Close the loop with stakeholders

What will make you successful here:

• Problem-first mindset
• Strong prioritisation judgment
• Structured thinking
• Comfort with ambiguity
• Data-driven decision-making
• High ownership and accountability
• Ability to balance short-term execution with long-term product health

What we're looking for:

• 5 years in product management, business analysis, growth, ops, or tech roles
• Experience working closely with engineering and writing requirements
• Exposure to user research and analytics
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders effectively

Nice to Have:

• Experience in fintech, SaaS, or marketplace models
• Understanding of mutual funds, insurance, or NPS products
• Exposure to API integrations or third-party system integrations