Director - Product Management

Overview

Lead end-to-end delivery for a complex global program in Pune as the India-based Agile Lead, partnering with Technical Product Managers to strengthen the Agile Center of Excellence and scale consistent Agile ways of working.

What you'll do

• Lead end-to-end delivery for a complex global program, ensuring strong execution across multiple teams, workstreams, and stakeholders.
• Champion Agile adoption and reinforce consistent, effective ways of working across the team.
• Facilitate sprint planning, backlog refinement, quarterly planning, retrospectives, and other core Agile ceremonies with discipline and clarity.
• Proactively identify and remove blockers, manage delivery risks, and keep teams focused on priorities, commitments, and outcomes.
• Build strong collaboration, communication, and alignment across global teams, business partners, and technical stakeholders.
• Coach and mentor team members on Agile principles, delivery practices, and continuous improvement.
• Demonstrate servant leadership, creating an environment that enables the team to perform effectively and with accountability.
• Partner with Technical Product Managers to strengthen the Agile Center of Excellence and scale best practices across teams.
• Provide leadership to Scrum Masters based in India, including line management and capability development.
• Drive adoption of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), disciplined use of Azure DevOps (ADO), and stronger delivery governance.
• Improve delivery transparency through meaningful metrics, mature reporting, accurate estimation, and data-driven execution.
• Act as the primary liaison for senior stakeholders, managing expectations, providing clear updates, and ensuring strong communication throughout the delivery lifecycle.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's in a technology related discipline, or a combination of work experience, education and training equivalent to a five-year college in a technology related discipline.
• 12+ years of total experience.
• Proven track record of leading successful delivery in a regulated, complex, multi-product technology environment.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior executives and support broader Agile transformation.
• Hands-on experience implementing SAFe, facilitating quarterly planning, and leading Agile ceremonies at scale.
• Strong working knowledge of Azure DevOps (ADO) and disciplined delivery tracking.
• Demonstrated experience improving metrics maturity, delivery transparency, and governance.
• Ability to define strategy, translate it into actionable plans, and drive follow-through.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Collaborative, influential, and effective in a fast-paced, matrixed environment.
• Strong, well-rounded understanding of Agile methodologies.

Nice to have

• Ideally familiar with bringing AI model development into existing and new applications.
• Certifications such as CSP, SAFe-RTE, ICP-ACC, or equivalent.
• Experience delivering technology solutions using .NET, SQL, Angular, and agentic engineering.
• Strong experience using ADO across the full work lifecycle.
• Expertise in metrics-based tracking and linking delivery progress to business value.
• Experience in business insurance, employee benefits or related functional domains.
• Broad technology background, ideally with some development or engineering experience.

Details

• Location: Pune.
• Hybrid role requiring at least three days a week in the office.