The posting
Role: Sr Manager/ AD- Product Management, Bangalore Experience: 6+ years Salary: 20- 28 LPA
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About the Role
We are seeking an experienced product leader to drive the strategy and development of technology-enabled learning products. The role will focus on understanding user needs, shaping product experiences, defining roadmaps and validating innovations through research and data. Working closely with cross-functional teams, the individual will translate insights into scalable, user-centric products that improve learning experiences and outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
1. Product Strategy, Discovery & Problem Framing
- Lead product discovery and problem definition, drawing on user research, programme insights and field realities.
- Identify user needs, pain points, constraints and opportunities across learners, educators and other stakeholders.
- Conduct user interviews, stakeholder consultations and field immersions to validate problem statements.
- Translate qualitative and quantitative insights into clear product opportunities and solution directions.
- Ensure product strategy is aligned with organisational priorities, user needs and intended learning outcomes.
2. Product Experience & Journey Ownership
- Own end-to-end user journeys, from exploration and decision-making to learning and career transitions.
- Define experience principles, product flows and interaction requirements across digital platforms and supporting touchpoints.
- Work closely with UX and Learning Experience Design teams to create intuitive, engaging and accessible experiences.
- Identify friction points affecting user engagement, retention, completion and learning outcomes.
- Champion learner- and educator-centric design, particularly for users in low-resource and diverse learning environments.
3. Product Definition & Execution
- Translate product opportunities into clear product requirements, PRDs, user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Define feature scope, expected outcomes, dependencies and success measures.
- Collaborate with Engineering and Design teams to assess feasibility and ensure effective product delivery.
- Guide teams through product trade-offs while maintaining focus on user value and strategic priorities.
- Ensure alignment between product requirements, content experiences, technology and programme implementation.
4. Product Roadmap & Prioritisation
- Develop and manage the product roadmap in alignment with strategic objectives and user needs.
- Prioritise initiatives based on user value, learning outcomes, organisational priorities and evidence from research and experimentation.
- Balance immediate product improvements with long-term product vision and scalability.
- Continuously review and refine priorities based on user behaviour, performance data and emerging insights.
- Build stakeholder alignment around product direction, timelines, priorities and trade-offs.
5. Product Analytics, Experimentation & Validation
- Partner with Analytics and Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) teams to define product success metrics, behavioural indicators and learning outcomes.
- Drive data-informed product decisions through user behaviour analysis, feedback and performance insights.
- Design and oversee A/B testing, usability studies, pilots and other product experiments.
- Establish hypotheses, validation criteria and measurement frameworks for new features and initiatives.
- Interpret experiment findings and translate them into actionable product recommendations.
- Identify whether challenges are related to product design, content quality or implementation, and use evidence to determine appropriate interventions.
6. Innovation & Product Governance
- Lead product-related contributions to innovation frameworks, validation processes and stage-gate reviews.
- Define MVP assumptions, learning questions and validation criteria for new product opportunities.
- Work with Programme, Product Operations, Analytics and Knowledge Management teams to assess and validate innovations.
- Use evidence from pilots and experiments to determine whether initiatives should be scaled, refined, redesigned or discontinued.
- Contribute to portfolio reviews, innovation assessments and strategic product decisions.
- Ensure that product innovations are supported by clear adoption, engagement, learning and impact measures.
7. Experience Quality & Continuous Improvement
- Establish and maintain standards for usability, accessibility, consistency and overall product experience.
- Monitor product health indicators and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
- Work with Design, Engineering and Learning Experience Design teams to improve product quality and user satisfaction.
- Ensure product experiences remain simple, relevant and effective across different user groups and operating contexts.
8. Leadership & Stakeholder Management
- Provide strategic direction and functional leadership across product experience initiatives.
- Build strong working relationships with cross-functional teams, senior stakeholders and external partners.
- Facilitate collaboration between Product, Design, Engineering, Analytics and Programme teams.
- Drive clarity, accountability and alignment in complex and evolving product environments.
- Mentor team members and contribute to building a culture of user-centricity, experimentation and evidence-based decision-making.
Required Experience & Skills:
- 6+ years of relevant experience in product management or product development, preferably within learning applications, EdTech or digital learning platforms.
- Demonstrated experience in product discovery, product strategy, UX-driven development and end-to-end product ownership.
- Strong understanding of user research methodologies, journey mapping, problem framing and experience design.
- Experience designing, conducting and interpreting A/B tests, usability studies, pilots and product validation experiments.
- Proven ability to take products, features or innovations from concept through validation, iteration and scale.
- Experience developing product roadmaps, defining requirements, writing PRDs and prioritising product initiatives.
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to use behavioural, engagement and learning data to inform product decisions.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams across Design, Learning Experience Design, Analytics, Engineering and Programme functions.
- Ability to distinguish between product, content and implementation challenges through research and evidence.
- Familiarity with MVP development, innovation frameworks, experimentation methodologies and stage-gate processes.
- Strong strategic thinking, problem-solving, communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity, manage competing priorities and drive outcomes in dynamic environments.
- Prior experience in education, skilling, employability, youth development or social impact is preferred.
