Product Manager I at Principal in Pune

Job description

Responsibilities Are you a driven and ambitious individual looking to make an impact in the world of Information Technology? Principal is seeking a Product Manager I to join our team in Pune, Maharashtra, India. This is a unique opportunity to work with a world-class team and be part of exciting and innovative projects that shape the future of our technology landscape! Job Responsibilities Product Strategy & Execution Partner with Product Management and Engineering leadership to understand PDIO strategy and drive execution within agreed priorities. Convert the PDIO vision into well-defined product outcomes, roadmap priorities, and quantifiable opportunities. Develop a solid grasp of the developer journey, engineering workflows, SDLC methods, and challenges faced by product delivery teams. Ensure relationships and dependencies across developer platforms, engineering methods, tooling, data, and delivery processes are understood and reflected in product decisions. Integrate developer, engineering, product, and collaborator insights to build a shared understanding of the highest-value problems to solve. Product Discovery & Developer Experience Recognize and assess opportunities to advance Developer Experience (DX), engineering productivity, software delivery flow, quality, and reliability. Partner with engineers, delivery managers, product managers, and other collaborators to understand workflow friction and determine root causes. Develop hypotheses and collaborate with engineering teams on experiments and solutions. Use quantitative DX signals alongside qualitative team feedback to distinguish symptoms from meaningful problems worth solving. Assess experiment results and use findings to inform backlog and roadmap prioritization. Help establish an effective parallel discovery and delivery model for PDIO. Product Delivery Take responsibility for the successful delivery of measurable, goal-aligned PDIO outcomes in collaboration with engineering and other technology teams. Own and refine the product roadmap and prioritized backlog for assigned PDIO capabilities. Transform validated opportunities into well-defined product requirements, outcomes, success measures, stories, and acceptance criteria. Work together with the team to divide tasks into smaller parts that allow for regular delivery and learning. Identify and help resolve dependencies and impediments affecting product outcomes. Engage fully in Agile ceremonies and join the team in ongoing efforts to refine delivery approaches. Communicate product releases, changes, and resulting value to collaborators and partners. Product Measurement, DX & Engineering Intelligence Use DX, DORA, and SDLC metrics to understand product health, developer friction, delivery performance, and opportunities for improvement. Review dashboards weekly or per sprint to identify hotspots, trends, rework, lead-time indicators, blocked work, and cross-team handoff delays. Bring relevant signals into retrospectives, planning, and team reflection conversations. Use team health, snapshot results, negative themes, and satisfaction trends in combination with workflow measures to form a balanced understanding of developer experience. Partner with teams to co-create measurable improvement goals and promote experimentation and small changes. Evaluate whether PDIO capabilities produce measurable improvements in engineering effectiveness and developer experience. Use data to guide discovery, prioritization, investment decisions, and roadmap adjustments. Collaborator Management & Communication Develop solid connections with Product Management, Engineering, Delivery Management, Platform Engineering, Architecture, Security, and other technology collaborators. Communicate PDIO strategy, priorities, roadmap, experiments, product performance, and outcomes clearly to collaborators. Develop shared understanding between engineering teams and supporting enterprise functions. Balance competing needs and prioritize opportunities