Technical Product Manager - Platform UI, Officer

Overview

Lead roadmap execution and product discovery for foundational UI capabilities within the Charles River and Alpha Platforms, working as a technically fluent product manager on the Platform UI Framework team of the Charles River Investment Management Solution (CRIMS).

What you'll do

• Collect and refine business and functional requirements from clients, engineering, architecture, security, operations, and other stakeholders, ensuring platform capabilities meet user, performance, scalability, security, and compliance needs.
• Lead product discovery and technical deep dives, translating complex user and platform needs into clear product requirements, prioritized backlogs, and actionable roadmaps.
• Own roadmap execution for foundational UI capabilities such as reusable web components, desktop containers, interoperability, design systems, and core UI services.
• Engage with engineering and QA throughout delivery to clarify requirements, evaluate trade-offs, remove ambiguity, and support timely delivery of key initiatives.
• Partner with UX designers and engineers to create experiences that are intuitive, efficient, accessible, consistent, and technically achievable.
• Use modern technology, including AI-assisted tools, APIs, automation, and lightweight prototyping, to independently investigate product questions, analyze data, communicate ideas, and validate potential solutions.
• Create lightweight prototypes, scripts, visualizations, or web applications when a tangible artifact will produce better insight or stakeholder feedback than a traditional document or presentation.
• Promote a smooth developer experience by helping ensure platform services, components, documentation, and workflows are understandable and intuitive.
• Use product analytics, user feedback, and direct stakeholder engagement to understand adoption, identify friction, and shape roadmap priorities.
• Become a subject matter expert in the coverage area and provide informed recommendations that help shape product strategy and growth.
• Support sales, professional services, and client support activities to improve the client experience and inform future product investments.

What you'll need

• 9+ years of experience in technical product management, business analysis, platform engineering, UX, software development, or a related technology role within a SaaS or enterprise software environment.
• Strong understanding of product management practices, including discovery, requirements definition, user stories, prioritization, roadmaps, iterative delivery, and stakeholder management.
• Strong interest in user experience and interaction design, with the ability to understand complex workflows and identify opportunities to simplify them.
• Technical fluency with modern web applications, including familiarity with React, JavaScript or TypeScript, REST APIs, JSON, authentication, web services, and cloud-based applications.
• Demonstrated ability to use generative AI and AI-assisted tools as part of everyday work, including research, analysis, prototyping, communication, coding, and problem solving.
• Comfort using tools such as VS Code, GitHub, GitHub Copilot, command-line utilities, APIs, and browser developer tools to explore ideas and solve problems independently.
• Ability to create lightweight prototypes, scripts, visualizations, or web applications to explore a product idea or answer a business question.
• Comfort working with data and selecting the right tool for the problem, whether Excel, SQL, an API, Power BI, or a lightweight custom application.
• Proven ability to work with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, secure, and high-impact platform capabilities.
• Strong technical acumen and the ability to engage meaningfully with engineers, architects, designers, security teams, and non-technical stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Human-Computer Interaction, Product Design, Business, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, strategic thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Intellectual curiosity and a demonstrated ability to learn unfamiliar technologies quickly and apply them pragmatically.

Nice to have

• Production-level software engineering experience is not required.
• Experience with Azure cloud services and enterprise security or compliance requirements.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, Figma, GitHub, or similar product development tools.
• Experience in financial services, enterprise SaaS, or another regulated industry.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad, India.