Company description:

Our client is a global Digital Products, Consulting and IT Solutions company, helping their hundreds of clients across the globe – from Fortune 500 companies to latest start-ups – succeed in a hyperconverged world. Their Data Products business unit is a Product organisation, offering a suite of 6 Digital products, covering Cloud, Data & Analytics / AI-ML and allied Digital solutions

Role details:

• Title / Designation: Director – Product Management, Data Products  
• Reporting Manager: Product Head – Applied Intelligence
• Location: Pune (or Chennai / Mumbai / Bengaluru / Hyderabad)

Role & responsibilities:

• Own product vision, strategy, roadmap, initiatives and releases, working cross-functionally, for the Data Sciences products
• Lead the team of Product Managers for the individual products from concept to commercial launch, comprising product strategy, positioning / value proposition articulation, user persona mapping, UI/UX views, roadmap, pricing, channel, packaging, communication strategy, campaign management, product delivery, customer success and support and more
• Work closely with product leads across product management, consulting, expert services, product implementation, customer success and support
• Be responsible for product management metrics, product goals and future roadmap readiness
• Provide management visibility into product management function, while supporting effective decision- making, approvals, and direction
• Organize and conduct periodic project reviews with key stakeholders to provide progress and plan to key milestones, manage key decisions and mitigate risks.
• Help Product Managers and Sales Engineering Team to support RFP/RFIs, PoC/Pilot Proposals for customers and during analyst relations
• People Management: Performance Management: Upskill, hire, feedback to team members, situational leadership to handle unexpected instances (health, conflicts, losses, stress), mentoring
• Business travel, which could, at times, be up to 25% of the time

Candidate requirements:

• 12-16 years’ experience in product manager with at least 5 years in Data Products
• At least 5 years of experience in leading SaaS products
• Bachelor's Degree
• MBA or Engineering background – preferable
• Data & AI products experience
• Ability to wade into ambiguity and navigate to clarity
• Demonstrated experience working with global product teams and engineers
• Ability to understand complex technical concepts and to communicate them to nontechnical stakeholders.
• Stakeholder influencing and positioning skills, beyond span of control
• Strong verbal presentation and written skills
• Experience leading Product teams
• Experience in front-ending customer discussions during pre-sales, product delivery and support
• Knowledge of AI / ML – preferable
• Understanding of automation systems such as RPA/BPA – preferable
• Understanding of OCR and image processing – preferable

Selection process:

• Interview by Head of Applied Intelligence products
• Interview by Head of Digital practice
• HR round