Associate Product Manager (APM)

Location: BANGALORE Employment Type: Full-Time

About the Role

As an Associate Product Manager at Peoplebox, you will be responsible for owning and scaling critical product modules that impact how modern organizations manage performance and talent. We are looking for individuals who are highly analytical, technically-sound, and driven by a strong sense of ownership. You will work closely with the founding team and engineering to solve complex problems, move from 1 to 10 on new initiatives, and optimize existing workflows to deliver a premium user experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Product Discovery: Deeply understand customer pain points through interviews, data analysis, and competitive research.
• End-to-End Execution: Using AI tools create prototypes and mockups, iterate on the same after feedback, and work with engineers to ship high-quality features.
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Define success metrics for your modules and use data to iterate and improve product performance.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as the bridge between engineering, design, customer success, and sales to ensure product alignment.
• Product Roadmap: Contribute to the long-term vision of the product by identifying high-leverage opportunities for growth.

What We’re Looking For

Essential Qualifications:

• Technical Foundation: A B.Tech/B.E. in Computer Science from a premier institute (IITs, NITs, BITS, or equivalent).
• Analytical Rigor: Ability to break down complex problems into first principles. You should be comfortable with data modeling.
• Product Thinking: A deep empathy for the user. You don't just build features; you solve problems.
• Communication: Ability to articulate technical constraints to designers and business needs to engineers.

Ideal Profile (One of the following):

• The Premier Fresher: You are a top-tier CSE graduate with a passion for product. You have built side projects
• The Dev-turned-PM: You have 1-2 years of experience as a Software Engineer and are now looking to move to a product role

Bonus Points (Good to Have):

• Ex-Founder / Founding Team Member: You have tried to build something from scratch. You understand the "zero to one" grind and have high ownership.

Evaluation Criteria & Interview Process

1. The Product Sense Round (Case Study)

• Objective: Test your ability to design a product from scratch.
• Case: "Design a class/lecture hall management system for a university campus."
• What we look for: User personas, edge cases, prioritization, system thinking, creativity.

2a. The Technical & AI Deep Dive

• Objective: Test your CSE background and ability to use AI to build products.
• Example: "Need to see what they have built using AI"
• What we look for: Understanding of API limits, prompt engineering logic, data security, and system architecture.

2b. The Ownership Round

• Objective: Test for "Ownership"
• What we look for: Stories of grit, ability to handle ambiguity, and alignment