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Senior Manager, Product Management

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Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IND
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Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IND
Senior level
Leads product management strategy, governance, roadmaps, prioritization, and lifecycle execution across digital platforms or business domains. Oversees portfolio-level delivery health, risks, dependencies, outcomes, and platform stability while partnering with engineering, design, data, operations, and business leaders. Manages and develops Product Managers, strengthens product practices, supports hiring, and builds scalable frameworks, tooling, and capability programs.
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The Product Management function defines the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for platforms and capabilities that deliver customer value and enable business outcomes. By partnering closely with engineering, design, data, operations, and business teams, the function drives outcome focused product discovery and delivery, balances innovation with platform stability, and ensures disciplined prioritization and governance. The team applies modern product management practices, customer centric thinking, and data informed decision making to deliver scalable, high impact products across the enterprise.


The Senior Manager, Product Management builds and executes the product management strategy for assigned digital platforms and products, or business domains, aligning product vision, roadmaps, prioritization, and governance frameworks with business priorities and customer needs. The role enables predictable, high quality digital product outcomes by overseeing end to end product lifecycle execution, and by building strong product management capability aligned to organizational product standards and outcome driven practices.


Strategic Responsibilities

·       Build and execute the product management strategy for assigned platforms, products, or domains by aligning product vision, roadmaps, OKRs, and prioritization with business goals, customer outcomes, and governance frameworks.

·       Implement product governance and outcome controls by operationalizing product management processes, portfolio reviews, prioritization frameworks, success metrics, and documentation standards.

·       Promote product practice uplifting by identifying gaps in product discovery, delivery, and lifecycle practices and adopting modern product management methods and tools.

·       Optimize product planning and delivery by aligning road mapping, prioritization cycles, dependency management, and resource allocation across PM teams to improve predictability and value delivery.

·       Monitor product, delivery, and portfolio risks, establish escalation paths, and support informed trade off decisions across scope, customer impact, stability, timelines, and priorities.

Functional Responsibilities

·       Oversee end to end product lifecycle execution across assigned platforms, products, or business areas, ensuring alignment with business objectives, customer needs, and product strategy.

·       Ensure consistent application of product governance practices across teams, including prioritization frameworks, roadmap hygiene, outcome metrics, documentation standards, and decision making rigor.

·       Align product priorities, roadmap decisions, and dependency management with engineering, design, data, operations, and business partners to deliver integrated, scalable product outcomes.

·       Strengthen product delivery workflows through standardization of discovery practices, roadmapping approaches, prioritization templates, OKR adoption, and product tooling to improve consistency and predictability.

·       Assure predictable portfolio level outcomes by monitoring product performance, delivery health, dependency risks, platform stability, and execution bottlenecks across initiatives.

People Responsibilities

·       Lead and guide multiple Product Managers and Product Management leads across assigned platforms, products, or domains, strengthening product discipline, customer focus, and outcome oriented execution.

·       Build strong relationships with senior business, engineering, design, data, and platform leaders to ensure transparency, aligned priorities, and effective portfolio level decision making.

·       Identify capability gaps within product teams and drive targeted capability building initiatives across product strategy, discovery, prioritization, stakeholder management, and outcome ownership.

·       Support hiring and onboarding of Product Managers by contributing to role definitions, skill requirements, candidate assessment, and effective team integration.

·       Provide ongoing performance feedback, coaching, and career guidance to Product Managers to develop high potential talent and build a strong product leadership pipeline.




Requirements

·       10–14 years of experience leading product management initiatives across multiple platforms, products, or domains within large organizations, including product governance, portfolio level delivery, and people leadership of Product Managers.

·       Strong ability to align domain-level product strategies, roadmaps, and prioritization with business objectives, customer outcomes, and enterprise platform considerations to deliver measurable impact.

·       Deep understanding of operationalizing product governance, outcome measurement, and decision controls, including OKRs, prioritization frameworks, roadmap discipline, and documentation standards.

·       Experience building and scaling product management capability through standardized practices, shared frameworks, tooling, and coaching to improve consistency and execution maturity.

·       Ability to interpret portfolio-level product and delivery signals, including roadmap health, dependency risks, outcome performance, customer feedback, and platform stability, and take corrective action.

Skilled at identifying product, delivery, and portfolio risks, assessing trade-offs, and shaping recommendations that balance customer impact, strategic priorities, platform health, and delivery timelines.


Minimum: Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

Preferred: Master’s degree in Business, Management, Engineering, or a related discipline and/or relevant certifications in Product Management, Agile, Scrum, SAFe, Lean, Design Thinking, OKRs

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