Associate Product Manager
Job Title: Associate Product Manager
Location: Pune
Experience: 5-7 Years
Qualification: Any Graduate
Skillsets: Product Management, Product Delivery, Product Assessment, Product Discovery
At Principal, products provide value to customers, users, and partners, and help solve their needs as
we work to enable a world where financial security is accessible to all. The 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 experienced product managers. They participate and assist with
discovery sessions, maintaining product health and operations metrics, and aiding in insights
gathering. They typically support a highly complex product or family of products; gaining exposure and
building relationships with key product disciplines. While building the skills required to operate as an
independent product manager, they contribute to an efficient and effective product practice. They
demonstrate curiosity, open-mindedness, and motivation to gain exposure and experience in all
phases of the product lifecycle.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Product Discovery:
- Learns about strategic intent, problems to solve, and outcome hypotheses
from PM or Senior PM - Listens and anticipates customer needs and conveys needs to PM or
Senior PM and product teams - Turn business and domain knowledge into product knowledge in
partnership with PM or Senior PM - Supports the product team (design, engineering, and various business
roles) in ideating and running experiments. - Reports on measurable performance against outcome hypotheses and
success criteria. Documents and shares insights and learnings with key
partners and stakeholders.
- Product Delivery:
- Supports Product Managers and product teams to identify, understand,
and track resolution of impediments to progress and dependencies with
other teams - Helps procure, package, and distribute the business, customer, user, and
stakeholder context and information required to solve problems
effectively and efficiently. - Collaborates with team to help administer key team practices and team
enablement technologies - May contribute to the role of product owner for SCRUM teams,
collaborating on story creation and refinement, definition and success
criteria, and acceptance that work is done. - Participate in team/agile ceremonies
- Draft communications regarding product release
- Product Assessment:
- Assist PM and Senior PM to ensure every goal-aligned unit of value
created by the team(s) is measurable and can show progress towards
product goals. - Monitors and communicates product health, impact of product releases,
and progress against product objectives.
- Any Graduate with 3+ year of direct work experience supporting product, technology, business or demonstrated through
equivalent military experience.
• Experience with strategic thinking and decision making in a professional context.
• Experience with managing multiple workloads and/or competing priorities in a professional context.
• Experience with synthesizing, summarizing, and aggregating information and building visuals.
• Demonstrated experience solving problems and operating in uncertainty.
• Demonstrated experience producing accurate and high-quality deliverables.
• Demonstrated experience contributing within a team setting.