{"id":1263202,"url":"https://alion.io/job/yal-associate-product-manager","title":"Associate Product Manager","company":{"id":20378,"name":"YAL","domain":"yal.inc","url":"https://alion.io/company/yal","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Keka","truth_index":null},"role":"Product","role_family":"Product","seniority":"junior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["India"],"countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":12500,"max_usd":31000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":14},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-08-25T07:04:57Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-08-25","last_verified_at":"2026-09-26T04:23:26Z","board_verified":false,"closed_at":null,"days_open":34,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":34},"description":"About YAL.ai and Discovery\nYAL is building Discovery - an intent-driven social platform that connects people through situation-based matching. We help people find the one specific person who has been in their exact situation and can actually help. We are launching across IITs, IIMs, and top campuses in India. The team is 15 people, the product is launching in 18 days, and the work is real from day one.\nThe Role\nYou will work directly with the product lead and own the operational product layer that makes execution possible - research synthesis, engineering coordination, design review, EIR programme intelligence, and user feedback triage. You are not managing people. You are making sure the right information gets to the right person at the right time so that decisions happen fast and well.\nWhat You Will Do\nProduct intelligence and research\nOwn the EIR product intelligence system - read conversation notes coming in from 22 campuses, run the extraction pipeline, identify patterns, and deliver a weekly synthesised report to the product lead.\nAudit research quality - identify when EIR conversations have sampling bias, leading questions, or weak methodology before that data reaches product decisions.\nCross-check qualitative interview findings against survey data and produce a reconciled picture of what users actually want versus what they say they want.\nTurn research into product recommendations with evidence attached - not summaries, decisions.\nEngineering coordination\nAttend daily standups across all engineering teams, summarise, flag blockers, and escalate only what genuinely needs the product lead.\nOwn minor product decisions within defined boundaries. Make the call and document it. Escalate the ones that require strategy.\nTrack sprint progress and surface risks before they become blockers.\nDesign review\nOwn the weekly design review loop - check UI/UX decisions against PRD specs, flag deviations, write clear actionable feedback in writing.\nUser feedback - post launch\nTriage all incoming user feedback - categorise by type and severity, prioritise against the roadmap, and deliver a weekly prioritised list.\nRun structured feedback sessions with EIRs and early users on a standing weekly cadence.\nWhat We Are Looking For\nMust have\n0 to 2 years of experience in a product, research, or early-stage operator role where you had no playbook and had to figure it out.\nYou have done real user research - run interviews, synthesised findings, made a product recommendation from them. You can read a conversation note and tell immediately whether the methodology was right or wrong.\nYou write clearly and specifically. A brief from you should not need editing before an engineer acts on it.\nYou are comfortable not knowing what to work on next and figuring it out yourself.\nYou have worked with or alongside a technical team and can translate between product intent and engineering constraint.\nFamiliarity with the IIT or top college ecosystem as a student, graduate, or someone who has worked closely within it.\nNice to have\nExperience synthesising large volumes of qualitative research and finding non-obvious patterns.\nPrior exposure to a consumer social or community product at an early stage.\nWhat This Is Not\nThis is not a structured rotation. The scope expands every week as the product grows. If you need a clean job description to know what to work on each day, this is not the right fit. 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