Product Manager — Consumer Product
WFO Bangalore · 2–4 years · AI-native IT Services · Reports to: Product Lead
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About The Product Highway
AI got very good at the how. Almost nothing changed about the what.
An AI-native product strategy & engineering firm — zero to multi-million ARR in year one, across India, APAC, Europe & North America. We don’t measure code or velocity. We measure whether the solution maps to how a business actually works.
Five Traits, No Exceptions
- End-to-end owners. Outcomes, not tasks. If it falls through a crack, that’s on you. Misalignment is expensive.
- Direct communicators. Bad news doesn’t age well. You surface problems early, with precision.
- Uncompromising on quality. Your bar, not your manager’s. You won’t ship what you wouldn’t stand behind.
- AI-obsessed. Manual work AI could do feels like friction. Not a nice-to-have — how work gets done.
- Structured thinkers. You commit to a position. You break ambiguity down; you don’t wait for the answer
Why We’re Hiring
One PM. One architect. A couple of engineers. A designer. That lean only works if nothing rots at the detail layer.
That layer is yours. You scope features, write the specs engineers build from, and own the gap between what a client said and what the team heard. Done well, you’re the reason one PM carries three engagements instead of one — and you build in two years the judgment most take five to reach.
What You’ll Own
The team never waits on you.
Specs & Scope
Turn direction into requirements engineers build from — stories, acceptance criteria, the edge cases nobody mentioned. Catch the gap between asked-for and needed before it’s built.
Keep the Team Moving
Be who engineers come to mid-sprint. Keep the backlog honest. Close the loop while context is still warm — that speed is how a small team stays aligned without another meeting.
Context & Client Read
Carry each client’s context well enough to be useful in the room. Start hearing the product signal under the request — the why beneath the what.
Non-Negotiables
- 2–3 years in product, APM, BA, or adjacent — building real things with engineers. Title matters less than whether anyone built from what you wrote.
- You’ve written specs engineers actually used, not docs that sat in a folder.
- You take a position in ambiguity — break it down, commit to an answer.
- You write clearly enough that nobody replies asking what you meant.
- Enough technical instinct to hold a real conversation with an engineer and ask the question that matters.
- You close gaps without being told they’re yours.
AI-Native Expectations
AI is how you hold several engagements at once.
- Drafting specs, turning a call into a usable summary, generating test scenarios, prepping a sprint — daily, not occasionally.
- You read AI output from engineering closely enough to catch where it drifts from the spec — and you flag it.
- The workflow you build around AI is why a TPH APM carries what used to take a full PM.
Probably Not Your Role If…
- You need every task handed to you. The detail and the follow-through are yours.
- You think the job is notes and tickets. Those are the floor.
- You go quiet when a problem is ambiguous. Commit to an answer we can correct.
- You want to stay on one product. You’ll move across domains and clients.
- You don’t use AI daily today. You arrive with it, not learn it here from scratch.
Where It Goes
- APM is the first rung.
- Do it well and you own an engagement’s product as a PM — then product across several as a Senior PM. The work compounds: every engagement is a new domain, a harder problem than the last. You’re not here to stay an APM.
How to apply
Send your résumé at anju@theproducthighway.com and a short note on a product you've shipped — what the problem was, what you decided, and how you knew it worked. A teardown or quick take on a voice/AI product you admire is a welcome bonus.
*We review every application and value clear thinking over credentials.*