Job Summary The Senior Associate Product Manager is responsible for supporting Product Managers as part of a product management team; however, they are not the accountable Product Manager for a product. They develop knowledge, experience, and skills by working side-by-side with experienced product managers while contributing to the success of complex products and product families.

Responsibilities

- Lead product discovery sessions, helping teams understand business problems, customer needs, and outcome hypotheses.
- Support cross-functional teams including Product, Engineering, Design, Data, and Business stakeholders in ideating and executing experiments.
- Gather, analyze, and communicate product insights, customer feedback, operational metrics, and measurable outcomes to stakeholders.
- Maintain and communicate product health and operational metrics, ensuring progress against product goals and objectives is visible and measurable.
- Collaborate with Product Managers and Agile teams to identify and resolve dependencies, impediments, and delivery risks.
- Act as or support the role of Product Owner by contributing to backlog management, story refinement, acceptance criteria definition, prioritization discussions, and sprint ceremonies.
- Communicate product releases, roadmap updates, experiment outcomes, and key product decisions to stakeholders and partners.
- Work closely with business leaders, finance partners, and stakeholders to support change readiness, product adoption, and business outcomes.
- Demonstrate strong communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills while building relationships across product disciplines.
- Leverage data, metrics, and analytical thinking to support data-driven decision-making and identify opportunities for product improvement.




- Continuously build expertise across all phases of the product lifecycle while contributing to an effective and mature product management practice.

Qualifications

- Bachelors Degree or equivalent.
- 6-10 years of overall professional experience.
- 3+ years of experience in Product Management, Product Ownership, Business Analysis, or a related discipline within a highly collaborative, rapid-paced environment.
- Demonstrated experience with product lifecycle management and roadmap planning.
- Experience working with product, engineering, and business stakeholders.
- Experience managing multiple workloads and competing priorities.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, facilitation, influencing, and negotiation skills.
- Demonstrated ability to leverage data and insights to drive business and product decisions.

Preferred Qualifications

- Strong analytical and quantitative aptitude with the ability to interpret data, identify trends, derive insights, and support evidence-based decision-making.
- Excellent mathematical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
- Experience creating reports, dashboards, KPIs, and product health metrics.
- Experience driving prioritization discussions and balancing customer, business, and technical needs.
- Understanding of Cloud concepts.
- Working experience in Agile (Scrum/Kanban) environments.
- Hands-on experience with Jira, Confluence, and Miro.
- Exposure to end users, business stakeholders, and technology teams.
- Understanding of Distribution in Life/Group Insurance would be a plus.

Key Skills

- Product Discovery

- Experimentation

- Product Lifecycle Management

- Product Ownership

- Agile Delivery

- Stakeholder Management

- Data Analysis

- Prioritization

- Decision Making

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📌 Sr Associate Product Manager (Pune)
🏢 Principal Financial Group
📍 Pune