Principal Product Manager

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Experience: 11+ yrs

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Job Type: Full-time

We are looking for an experienced Senior Engineering & Technology Leader to help build and scale a newly established Global Capability Center (GCC) supporting a large-scale construction management and innovation organization.

The role combines technology leadership, engineering strategy, team building, digital transformation, data, AI, and innovation. You will help establish the engineering capabilities, operating models, technology practices, and high-performing teams required to support global business and technology initiatives from India.

The ideal candidate will bring strong leadership experience in building technology organizations, driving large-scale engineering programs, and partnering with global stakeholders. You should be comfortable operating at both strategic and execution levels while creating a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Establish and scale engineering and technology capabilities within the Global Capability Center.
• Define and execute engineering strategies aligned with global business and technology objectives.
• Build, mentor, and lead high-performing teams across software engineering, data, AI, cloud, and platform technologies.
• Develop effective engineering operating models, development practices, delivery frameworks, and organizational structures.
• Partner with global technology and business leaders to define priorities, roadmaps, and investment areas.
• Lead large-scale technology initiatives from strategy and architecture through execution and delivery.
• Drive adoption of modern engineering practices, cloud-native technologies, automation, DevOps, and scalable platforms.
• Establish standards for software quality, architecture, security, reliability, observability, and technical governance.
• Identify opportunities to apply AI, machine learning, data, automation, and emerging technologies to business and construction workflows.
• Build and scale data and analytics capabilities that enable better operational and business decision-making.
• Oversee technology architecture and ensure solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise standards.
• Establish engineering metrics, delivery governance, performance indicators, and continuous-improvement practices.
• Develop talent strategies covering hiring, capability development, succession planning, mentoring, and leadership development.
• Collaborate with global teams across engineering, product, operations, data, finance, and business functions.
• Manage multiple strategic programs, dependencies, priorities, and technology initiatives across distributed teams.
• Drive a culture of innovation, accountability, collaboration, engineering excellence, and continuous learning.
• Identify technology risks, dependencies, technical debt, and opportunities for process and platform improvement.
• Ensure engineering practices align with applicable security, compliance, governance, and operational requirements.

What Makes You a Great Fit

• 11+ years of experience in technology, engineering, software development, digital transformation, or related leadership roles.
• Strong experience leading and scaling engineering or technology organizations, preferably within a GCC, global technology organization, or large enterprise.
• Proven experience building high-performing engineering teams and developing engineering leaders.
• Strong understanding of software engineering, cloud platforms, distributed systems, APIs, data platforms, AI/ML, and modern technology architectures.
• Experience defining engineering strategy, technology roadmaps, operating models, and organizational structures.
• Strong track record of delivering complex, large-scale technology programs with global stakeholders.
• Experience driving digital transformation, automation, AI adoption, data modernization, or technology innovation initiatives.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle, Agile methodologies, DevOps, CI/CD, cloud-native development, and engineering best practices.
• Ability to balance strategic leadership with sufficient technical depth to guide architecture and engineering decisions.
• Strong experience with stakeholder management and executive-level communication across global teams.
• Excellent organizational, analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and operate effectively in a rapidly evolving environment.
• Strong commercial and business understanding with the ability to connect technology investments to measurable business outcomes.
• Experience working with distributed teams across geographies and time zones.
• Strong communication, influencing, mentoring, and people-leadership capabilities.
• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline is preferred.