Senior Director - Product Management
First seen by Alion on Oct 27, 2026.
Senior Director of Product Management.
Bangalore/Hyderabad/Pune (Hybrid).
12+ years Experience; Preferably with significant exposure to enterprise data platforms, cloud infrastructure, or AI/ML tooling.
What You'll Do:
This is a senior product leadership role responsible for defining and driving the strategy, roadmap, and execution for critical AI & Data Platform capabilities from India.
You will operate with high autonomy as the senior product voice in-region, partnering closely with global engineering and product leaders.
Key impact areas include:
- Own and execute the product vision and roadmap across Fabric, AI & Data Governance, and Capacity & Cost Intelligence.
- Drive deep customer and market discovery to identify high-value problems and translate them into scalable platform capabilities.
- Define clear product requirements (PRDs, user stories, success metrics) that enable engineering teams to deliver with speed and precision.
- Lead cross-functional alignment across Engineering, Architecture, Go-to-Market, and Customer Success.
- Act as the primary product leader representing India within a globally distributed organization.
- Elevate product management excellence by mentoring and coaching PMs across the India team.
What Makes You a Qualified Candidate:
- 12+ years of product management experience, including significant exposure to enterprise data platforms, cloud infrastructure, or AI/ML tooling.
- Proven track record of owning complex product portfolios end-to-end - from strategy through execution and iteration.
- Strong technical depth in modern data architectures (data lakes, warehouses, lakehouses, streaming, hybrid/multi-cloud).
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive alignment in global, matrixed organizations.
- Experience mentoring or coaching product managers and elevating team-wide product management capability.
What You'll Bring:
- Expertise in data governance, FinOps, or platform instrumentation and analytics.
- Familiarity with tools and ecosystems such as Collibra, Alation, Apache Atlas, or cloud cost management frameworks.
- Knowledge of open data formats (e.g., Iceberg, Delta, Hudi) and cloud-native analytics services.
- Strong understanding of enterprise SaaS/PaaS business models, including consumption-based pricing.
- Exposure to AI/ML platform components such as MLOps, feature stores, or LLM infrastructure.
- Experience operating within large-scale engineering centers in India.
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline (MBA preferred)
Skills
IT Product Management, IT Product Strategy, Product Roadmap, AI Product Management