Product Manager

What you will do:
You will play a lead role on the squad in setting a shared vision, understanding value, and prioritizing work to build our data products on the cloud. You will be part of the team crafting a data strategy with input from various business owners. You will be responsible for the building overall execution plan, prioritizing of deliverables linked to business value. You will be responsible for managing the roadmap, backlog and communicate changes to relevant stakeholders.
You will need to engage with multiple stakeholders and enable data-informed decision making at all levels of the organization. In most cases, this will include raising awareness of data assets, making data more accessible and managing a data governance process for the function.
You will develop a deep understanding of the problem you are solving, the users and the solution space. You will balance the strategy, governance, and implementation of anything data-related, and facilitate the conversations between all impacted stakeholders who consume data (executives, engineers, analysts, and product teams). You will also partner with the firm’s information security to establish a secure-by-design cloud ecosystem, ensuring compliance with privacy, regulatory, and data residency requirements.
You will be based in our Bengaluru or Chennai office as part of our Visual Graphics & Media (VG&M) team. As a core member of product management function, focusing on building data products, you will work with business and technology hubs teams spread across the globe.
You will work with the internal business and analytics teams to build a product vision and deliver on it in an agile way. Our product managers work closely in squads alongside experts in various disciplines - designers, engineers, more - and together the squad relentlessly strives to deliver outcomes that matter. You and your squad will work together to discover opportunities, experiment, innovate, and deliver solutions using a mix of methodologies including design thinking, lean, and agile.

Who you will work with:
Driving lasting impact and building long-term capabilities with our clients is not easy work. You are the kind of person who thrives in a high performance/high reward culture - doing hard things, picking yourself up when you stumble, and having the resilience to try another way forward.
In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we'll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities you need to become a stronger leader faster than you ever thought possible. Your colleagues—at all levels—will invest deeply in your development, just as much as they invest in delivering exceptional results for clients. Every day, you’ll receive apprenticeship, coaching, and exposure that will accelerate your growth in ways you won’t find anywhere else.
When you join us, you will have:
Continuous learning:
Our learning and apprenticeship culture, backed by structured programs, is all about helping you grow while creating an environment where feedback is clear, actionable, and focused on your development. The real magic happens when you take the input from others to heart and embrace the fast-paced learning experience, owning your journey.
A voice that matters:
From day one, we value your ideas and contributions. You’ll make a tangible impact by offering innovative ideas and practical solutions. We not only encourage diverse perspectives, but they are critical in driving us toward the best possible outcomes.
Global community:
With colleagues across 65+ countries and over 100 different nationalities, our firm’s diversity fuels creativity and helps us come up with the best solutions for our clients. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
World-class benefits:
On top of a competitive salary (based on your location, experience, and skills), we provide a comprehensive benefits package, which includes medical, dental, mental health, and vision coverage for you, your spouse/partner, and children.

Your background:
5+ years’ experience building and shipping technical, non-consumer-facing, products; delivering with large scale data sets and/or cloud products
Expert at leading delivery with high-performing teams, including engineers, designers, and data analysts
Entrepreneurial mindset with an ability to navigate ambiguity, while keeping a focus on strategic outcomes; ability to ‘put things into perspective’ for team and stakeholders
Ability to establish trust-based relationships with senior McKinsey leaders, and thought partner with business teams
Influencing skills that drive alignment with a breadth of stakeholders in a non-hierarchical environment
Proficiency in data analytics tools, methodologies, and techniques; knowledge of data modeling, data visualization, machine learning, and statistical analysis is beneficial
Skilled at leading divergent problem-solving sessions enabling healthy debate between diverse views, but then bringing the thinking together on priorities and path forward
Mastery of wide range of product management and design thinking techniques and tools such as customer journey maps, service blueprints, vision workshops, roadmaps, story maps
Growth mindset, always looking to improve self, work of the squad and adapt to the culture of the organization
Communication skills (written and verbal) that reflect structured, clear, and objective thinking
Ability to translate between technical and non-technical audiences to enable business outcomes through technology
Experience with large data sets, data security and integration services, public cloud products, hybrid and cloud-native architectures, server less frameworks, Docker/Kubernetes a plus