Product Manager - Presales
First seen by Alion on Sep 8, 2026.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Product Strategy & Discovery:
- Identify customer, business, and market opportunities through stakeholder engagement, customer research, discovery workshops, and data analysis.
- Define product vision, roadmap, value proposition, success metrics, and prioritization aligned with business objectives.
- Translate business and customer needs into product requirements, user stories, PRDs, and acceptance criteria.
- Own and continuously prioritize the product backlog based on business value, feasibility, dependencies, risks, and strategic priorities.
AI & Digital Innovation:
- Identify and evaluate opportunities to leverage Generative AI, automation, and emerging technologies across products and business processes.
- Define AI-focused use cases, business cases, success metrics, user journeys, and MVP/PoC strategies.
- Collaborate with AI/ML, data, architecture, and engineering teams to convert AI opportunities into scalable product solutions.
- Drive adoption of AI across the product lifecycle and SDLC, including discovery, requirements management, development, testing, analytics, documentation, and support.
- Contribute to enterprise-wide AI initiatives and help scale successful AI PoCs into production-ready solutions.
Presales, Consulting & Solutioning:
- Lead or contribute to RFP responses, proposals, client discovery sessions, workshops, and solution presentations.
- Understand client challenges and translate them into digital transformation, modernization, and AI-driven product opportunities.
- Develop solution concepts, use cases, product capabilities, roadmaps, value propositions, and implementation strategies.
- Partner with engineering, UX, architecture, delivery, and commercial teams to define scope, estimates, assumptions, dependencies, risks, and solution feasibility.
- Support client engagements and identify opportunities for account growth through product enhancements, modernization initiatives, and AI adoption.
Product Delivery & Governance:
- Partner with UX, engineering, QA, architecture, and delivery teams to ensure successful product execution and delivery.
- Facilitate sprint planning, backlog refinement, UAT/SIT activities, release planning, production validation, and defect prioritization.
- Monitor product KPIs, delivery metrics, adoption, business outcomes, risks, and dependencies.
- Drive stakeholder alignment and continuous improvement throughout the product lifecycle.
- Mentor and guide Product Managers and product team members to strengthen product thinking, decision-making, stakeholder management, and delivery excellence.
Customer & Business Outcomes:
- Leverage customer feedback, product analytics, experimentation, and market insights to drive continuous product improvement.
- Lead adoption and successful rollout of new capabilities through effective stakeholder engagement, communication, and change management.
- Ensure products and solutions deliver measurable customer, business, and operational outcomes.
Core Competencies:
- Product strategy, discovery, roadmap planning, prioritization, and backlog management.
- Generative AI, AI product thinking, AI use-case identification, and digital innovation.
- Presales, consulting, solutioning, RFP response management, and client engagement.
- Strong business acumen with the ability to connect technology initiatives to business outcomes.
- Excellent communication, presentation, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies and end-to-end product delivery.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with engineering, architecture, UX, QA, data, and AI/ML teams.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.
- Ability to manage ambiguity, multiple workstreams, and senior client stakeholders.
Qualifications:
- B.E./B.Tech in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or an equivalent discipline.
- MBA or certifications in Product Management, Business Analysis, or related fields preferred.
- 10+ years of experience in Product Management, Product Ownership, or Business Analysis.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments with cross-functional technology teams.
- CSPO, PSPO, CBAP, or CCBA certifications are desirable.
- Location : Remote (India)
Skills
IT Product Management, IT Product Strategy, Product Roadmap, IT Business Analyst, Presales