Senior Manager – Product, Platforms & Innovation

Location: Hyderabad Campus (On-site)

Employment Type: Full-Time

Experience: 4–8 years

Job Overview

ISB is looking for a Senior Manager - Product, Platforms & Innovation to identify, shape, and build the next generation of digital products and platforms across learning, business, and institutional use cases. This role is focused on new product creation, platform strategy, innovation, and applied AI. The person should be able to start with an ambiguous problem or opportunity, think from first principles, define what should exist, validate the idea, design the product approach, and take it from concept to scale.

Key Responsibilities

- Identify and shape new digital products, platforms, and technology-led opportunities
- Own 0→1 product discovery, validation, MVP definition, experimentation, and scaling
- Define product vision, platform strategy, roadmap, operating model, and success metrics
- Think across multiple systems and design solutions that work at an ecosystem/platform level, not as

isolated features
- Evaluate build vs buy vs partner decisions for new technology capabilities
- Drive experimentation through prototypes, pilots, and rapid validation before large investments
- Identify and implement AI, GenAI, agents, automation, and intelligent workflows that create measurable

business, learner, or productivity impact
- Work with engineering and architecture teams on scalability, integrations, extensibility, security, and

long-term platform design
- Identify opportunities to create reusable capabilities across programmes, teams, and business units
- Track adoption,



business impact, ROI, and platform effectiveness after launch
- Challenge existing ways of working and introduce better product, technology, and innovation practices

Qualifications

- 4-8 years of experience in Product Management, Platform Products, Digital Products, SaaS, or

technology-led businesses
- Strong first-principles thinking and ability to work with ambiguous problem statements
- Demonstrated experience building or launching products from concept to production
- Strong product discovery, experimentation, prototyping, and prioritization skills
- Positive understanding of platform architecture, APIs, integrations, data, and software engineering
- Experience working on products that connect multiple systems, users, or business functions
- Demonstrated experience implementing AI/GenAI, automation, agents, or intelligent workflows in real

products or business environments
- Ability to evaluate technology opportunities based on business value, feasibility, scalability, and ROI
- Strong analytical thinking and comfort using data to make product decisions
- Ability to work independently and influence senior stakeholders, engineering teams, and business leaders

What This Role Is Not This is not a business-requirement management role and not a project-management role. The role is expected to answer:

What should ISB build next? Why should we build it? Can technology or AI solve it differently? How do we validate it quickly? And how do we scale it if it works?

The focus is on creating new capabilities and platforms, not just improving existing workflows.

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🏢 Indian School of Business
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