Principal Product Manager

Overview

Principal Product Manager to lead the roadmap for HackerRank Interviews, an AI-native live technical interviewing platform, covering AI-assisted development evaluation, Chakra Assist, session observation, and reporting and integrations.

What you'll do

• Own the roadmap for how HackerRank Interviews evaluates AI-assisted development, including richer ADE harnesses, Chakra Assist, and session observation capabilities.
• Define how the platform captures and surfaces signals on how candidates prompt, review and apply AI-generated work, so interviewers get clearer, structured evidence.
• Drive the reporting and integration strategy across in-product reporting, exports, APIs and MCP.
• Engage directly with engineering customers and users, including senior engineering leadership, as the primary audience, translating their needs into roadmap decisions.
• Represent the product in high-visibility, customer-facing moments with composure, including when executives engage directly and unexpectedly.
• Partner closely with Engineering and Design to ship production-quality, AI-native interview experiences.
• Embrace AI in how we operate, as well as in the product.

What you'll need

• Overall 7+ years of total professional experience, including at least 1 year of hands-on Software Engineering.
• 5+ years of Product Management experience, preferably building B2B SaaS, enterprise products and/or tech services and/or platforms, and currently working as a PM.
• Comfortable being the technical/product voice in a room full of engineers, including stakeholders like senior engineering leadership.
• Able to stay composed and sound under sudden high-visibility pressure, for example, a CTO persona dropping into a live customer channel.
• A strategic thinker who can evaluate complex challenges, prioritise effectively, and balance short-term progress with long-term success.
• Deeply passionate about AI, using it as a reflex across your own workflows, not just in the product you build.
• Ability to deep dive into ambitious problem statements and create customer value.
• Proven track record of successfully launching and growing new products and/or significant features.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, cross-team, cross-geo environment and to deliver on a common vision.
• Ability to work with engineers, designers and analysts and be comfortable presenting to non-technical/business stakeholders and customers.

Nice to have

• Hands-on fluency with agentic coding harnesses (Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, Copilot Workspace, or similar), deep enough to reason about what good AI-assisted engineering looks like.
• Experience designing or owning a GTM motion where the buyer and user were engineers or engineering leadership, rather than a traditional non-technical economic buyer.
• Experience operating in a lean, founder-style team with no dedicated marketing support, i.e., you've personally built your own sales decks, messaging and customer-facing materials before.
• Background in HR tech, talent assessment, or technical hiring.
• Experience building reporting/analytics or API-level integrations (e.g. MCP, data exports) for a technical audience.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.
• Work mode: Hybrid.