Principal Product Manager - Digital Mfg

Job Description

Job Summary

This role is for a Product Strategy & Delivery Leader, responsible for end-to-end product ownership across multiple strategic initiatives. The candidate will shape and execute product strategies, lead cross-functional development efforts, and ensure delivery aligns with business objectives, quality standards, and budget constraints.

" Roles & Responsibilities

• Develop and own the strategy for multiple assigned products, aligning them with overall business goals and market needs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive product development, implementation, and ensure alignment across technical and business functions.
• Define product implementation roadmaps, establish clear timelines, milestones, and manage resources effectively.
• Assess the impact of changes on the ecosystem, drive necessary interventions and change management activities to ensure smooth transitions.
• Lead and mentor a team of product managers and professionals, fostering a high-performance culture and encouraging continuous learning.
• Drive continuous process simplification and business excellence, identifying areas for improvement and enabling sustainable efficiency.
• Ensure benefit realization of implemented products and projects, track success metrics, and optimize product outcomes.
• Identify operational risks and resolve critical issues, ensuring compliance, conducting root-cause analysis, and maintaining system integrity.

Qualifications

Educational Qualification: Graduation in Engineering, Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field is mandatory. MBA is preferred. Additional certifications such as Agile Transformation (Internal on PluralSight) and Certification of Capability in Business Analysis (CCBA®) are preferred.

Minimum Work Experience: 12+ years of experience.

Skills & Attributes & Critical Exposures

Functional Skills:

• Automation
• Artificial Intelligence
• Business Analytics
• DevOps
• Digital Product Management
• Prototyping
• Technology Strategy Development
• User Experience (UX) Design

Resident Skills:

• Change Management
• Digital Transformation
• Data Storytelling
• Design Thinking
• Data Analysis
• Program Management

Behavioural Skills:

• You lead with strategic foresight and decisiveness, ensuring product outcomes are both innovative and commercially viable.
• You cultivate collaboration and influence, enabling alignment across cross-functional teams, senior stakeholders, and delivery partners.
• You demonstrate resilience and accountability, navigating complexity with composure and maintaining ownership through challenges and change.

Critical Exposures:

• 4+ years’ experience as Product Manager in developing and executing digital product strategies across geographies / BUs in a global company is desired.
• Experience in managing digital product portfolios, applying design thinking process framework and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and industry standards is desired.

Technical Exposures:

• Experience with product management tools (e.g., JIRA, Aha!, Product Plan) is desired.
• Experience in Agile methodologies and development frameworks (e.g., Scrum, Kanban) is desired.
• Exposure to data analysis and visualization tools (e.g., SQL, Tableau) is preferred.