Senior Product Manager

Job Title: Senior Product Manager PI System
Location: Bangalore

Employment: Regular full time hybrid work arrangement
Department: Product Management / Portfolio
Reports To: Director of Product

The job

As a Senior Product Manager AVEVA PI System you will own the definition and delivery of customer-facing capabilities for one or more software products within the AVEVA PI System portfolio. You will own product discovery and delivery outcomes for a defined scope including roadmap definition prioritization and ongoing lifecycle managementensuring the product delivers measurable value to customers and contributes to AVEVAs business objectives.

This role is execution-heavy and highly technical. You will translate strategy into detailed product requirements partner with R&D to deliver high-quality outcomes and ensure the voice of the customer is embedded into every phase of product development.

This role requires strong technical fluency and comfort operating in an agile delivery environment. You will represent the voice of the user in engineering forums drive clarity through well-formed requirements and acceptance criteria and create transparency into prioritization decisions and delivery progress.

As a senior individual contributor you will demonstrate strong product management craft influence without authority and operational excellence. You will help raise the bar on how product decisions are madeusing customer evidence market insight and data-driven metrics to guide prioritization and trade-offs.

In this role you will also play a critical part in stakeholder engagement responding to customer issues that impact product success. Success requires strong communication comfort navigating ambiguity and the ability to drive alignment across teams toward shared outcomes.

Main responsibilities

Product Execution & Delivery

• Opportunity Definition: Prepare and manage Opportunity Canvases and related Initiatives defining objectives value propositions success measures priorities and delivery scope in partnership with cross-functional stakeholders.

• Backlog Ownership: Own the product backlog for your scope: intake triage refinement prioritization and readiness for development.

• Requirements & Scenarios: Translate user needs and cross-product scenarios into clear requirements (user stories functional and non-functional requirements acceptance criteria) that R&D can implement.

• Delivery Planning: Partner with R&D to define milestones sequencing and release plans; proactively manage risks dependencies and scope trade-offs.

• Technical Reviews: Participate in technical and development reviews; provide product input on implementation decisions to ensure usability supportability security and scalability.

• Release Readiness: Drive product release strategy and readiness by coordinating engineering documentation support services marketing and enablement activities.

• Outcome Validation: Ensure high-quality outcomes by defining success criteria validating solutions (customer/field feedback) and driving iteration.

Customer & Internal Engagement

• Voice of the Customer: Serve as the trusted voice of the customerensuring product decisions are grounded in real user problems and that customer feedback is systematically incorporated.

• Internal Engagements: Represent the product in internal forums to provide clarity alignment and decision support across teams.

• Issue Resolution: Coordinate responses to escalated customer-facing or internal issues impacting product success; drive root-cause understanding and prioritization of fixes.

Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement

• Portfolio Strategy Translation: Work closely with the Portfolio Director to understand portfolio strategy and investment priorities for the assigned area and translate them into clear long-term direction and short-/mid-term execution plans (roadmap sequencing and quarterly objectives) aligned to delivery capacity and customer outcomes.

• Cross-Team Alignment: Collaborate with key stakeholders including Portfolio/Product leadership R&D UX Customer Success Support and other internal groups to align product initiatives with company and product strategies.

• Stakeholder Communication: Clearly present product strategy roadmap scope decisions and progress updates to internal stakeholders; ensure shared understanding of goals trade-offs and timelines.

Team Development & Operational Excellence

• Operating Cadence: Establish and maintain strong product operating practices (e.g. roadmap reviews backlog refinement discovery cadence release readiness) to enable predictable execution.

• Collaboration & Leadership: Lead through influencealigning engineering UX and cross-functional stakeholders around shared outcomes.

• Quality & Responsiveness: Ensure high standards for product quality usability and customer impact; ensure responsiveness to user feedback via the feedback portal and other vehicles.

Skills

Product Management Excellence & Strategic Execution

• Ability to write high-quality requirements and acceptance criteria; comfortable decomposing ambiguous problems into executable increments.

• Experience collaborating day-to-day with engineering teams in agile development environments; confident in development reviews and backlog grooming.

• End-to-End Product Ownership: Demonstrated success owning products across discovery delivery launch and iteration.

• Prioritization & Trade-Offs: Ability to manage competing priorities while balancing short-term and long-term investments.

• Outcome Orientation: Strong focus on measurable customer value and business impact (not just output).

• Cross-Functional Execution: Proven ability to work effectively with engineering UX marketing sales and customer success.

Customer & Market Focus

• Customer-Centric Mindset: Consistent practice of grounding decisions in customer needs and usage evidence.

Communication & Influence

• Clear Communication: Strong written and verbal skills to communicate roadmap decisions and trade-offs.

• Stakeholder Management: Ability to align diverse stakeholders and handle disagreement constructively.

• Storytelling: Ability to articulate value and rationale to different audiences.

Technical & Analytical Skills

• Data-Driven Decision Making: Ability to use metrics analytics and qualitative insights to guide decisions.

• Technical Fluency: Solid understanding of software development and product delivery practices; able to collaborate effectively with R&D.

• Product Lifecycle Understanding: Familiarity with ideation MVP delivery iteration customer feedback loops and end-of-life considerations.

Execution & Operational Excellence

• Organizational Skills: Strong planning and execution discipline; reliable follow-through.

• Continuous Improvement: Ability to inspect-and-adapt product practices to improve delivery adoption and customer outcomes.

Qualifications

• Typically 5 years of product management experience; candidates with 3 years may be considered depending on scope and demonstrated technical execution strength.

• Experience in industrial software data/analytics platforms or enterprise SaaS preferred.

• Customer support customer success services or field experience with the PI System suite of products (or similar) is preferred.

• Desire to learn adjacent product lines and technologies to inform product positioning discussions and cross-product scenario definition.

R&D at AVEVA

Our global team of 2000 developers work on an incredibly diverse portfolio of over 75 industrial automation and engineering products which cover everything from data management to 3D design. AI and cloud are at the centre of our strategy and we have over 150 patents to our name.

Our track record of innovation is no fluke its the result of a structured and deliberate focus on learning collaboration and inclusivity. If you want to build applications that solve big problems join us.

Find out more: Benefits include:

Gratuity Medical and accidental insurance very attractive leave entitlement emergency leave days childcare support maternity paternity and adoption leaves education assistance program home office set up support (for hybrid roles) well-being support

Its possible were hiring for this position in multiple countries in which case the above benefits apply to the primary location. Specific benefits vary by country but our packages are similarly comprehensive.

Find out more: working

We work in a hybrid way at AVEVA. Most roles are based at a local AVEVA office with an expectation of being on-site 50% of your working hours to support collaboration and connection. Some positions are fully office-based depending on the nature of the work and certain roles that support specific customers or markets may be remote. The working arrangement for this position will be confirmed during the hiring process.

Hiring process

Interested Great! Get started by submitting your cover letter and CV through our application portal. AVEVA is committed to recruiting and retaining people with disabilities. Please let us know in advance if you need reasonable support during your application process.

Find out more: AVEVA

AVEVA is a global leader in industrial software with more than 6500 employees in over 40 countries. Our cutting-edge solutions are used by thousands of enterprises to deliver the essentials of life such as energy infrastructure chemicals and minerals safely efficiently and more sustainably.

We are committed to embedding sustainability and inclusion into our operations our culture and our core business strategy. Learn more about how we are progressing against our ambitious 2030 targets: out more: requires all successful applicants to undergo and pass a drug screening and comprehensive background check before they start employment. Background checks will be conducted in accordance with local laws and may subject to those laws include proof of educational attainment employment history verification proof of work authorization criminal records identity verification credit check. Certain positions dealing with sensitive and/or third-party personal data may involve additional background check criteria.

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