Job Summary

The Lead Product Manager is responsible for driving product execution and release delivery throughout the product development lifecycle. Working closely with Product Management, Engineering, Architecture, and other cross-functional stakeholders, you will translate strategic product objectives into actionable plans and successful product outcomes.

In this role, you will serve as the bridge between business priorities and technical execution, ensuring that customer needs, product strategy, and engineering investments are effectively aligned. You will lead requirement definition, prioritization, backlog management, and release planning activities while helping teams deliver high-quality enterprise software solutions at scale.

The successful candidate will bring strong leadership, product ownership, Agile delivery expertise, and a passion for continuously improving product development processes within a global organization.

Responsibilities

- Defining and managing the product roadmap, prioritizing features, and ensuring timely delivery.
- Conducting market research to understand customer needs, identify opportunities, and validate solutions.
- Collaborating with key customers (internal/external) to acquire and respond to product feedback for future product releases and communicate roadmap details.
- Understanding product competitors and supporting the development of competitive responses for sales and marketing.
- Independently managing products and ensuring alignment with other cross-functional teams.
- Balancing customer needs with strategic priorities to define a roadmap that drives product success.
- Tracking and reporting on key product performance indicators (KPIs), analyzing data, and identifying areas for improvement.




- Managing buy/build/partner technology decisions.
- Reducing COGS by leveraging automation, building scalable systems, and utilizing elastic infrastructure to support dynamic product demands.
- Supporting architectural reviews, evaluating technical debts, and educating stakeholders on business outcomes for addressing the same.
- Contributing to defining and managing pricing and billing strategies.
- Collaborating with Product Marketing on executing successful product launches, including communication and marketing strategies.
- Championing the product to external partners and stakeholders.
- Wherever appropriate, deliver capabilities as APIs first and commercialize APIs.

Requirements

- 5+ years of experience in product ownership/management roles and an overall experience of more than 10 years in IT
- Proficient in Agile methodology, writing user stories, and backlog grooming.
- Able to independently conduct user research.
- Solid understanding of SAP, SaaS architecture and cloud technologies
- Strong business and technical acumen with the ability to translate business objectives into product requirements and successful product outcomes
- Experience with enterprise-grade content management systems is desired.
- Leadership skills with an ability to influence cross-functional distributed global teams and drive alignment without direct authority
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
- Experience in OpenText Content Products is preferred
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
- Bachelors degree in engineering (Computer Science, ECE, or related field).
- Masters degree in business administration (MBA) or equivalent (preferred focus in Product Management, Strategy, or Analytics).
- Knowledge of AI ML fundamentals

📌 Lead Product Manager- SAP (Hyderabad)
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📍 Hyderabad