Associate Product Manager (APM)

Peoplebox is an OKR & strategy execution platform that helps companies align teams and execute fast. Why Peoplebox - https://www.peoplebox.ai/why-peoplebox/ Customer Stories - https://www.peoplebox.ai/case-studies/ Our…

Location: Bengaluru
Company size: 20–50
Posted: 1w ago
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Associate Product Manager (APM) · Peoplebox

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Job title: Associate Product Manager (APM)
Job location: Bengaluru, KA, IN / Bengaluru, Karnataka, IN
Job listing URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/peoplebox/jobs/SZFeWUo-associate-product-manager-apm
Job description: ## About the Role As an Associate Product Manager at **Peoplebox**, you will be responsible for owning and scaling critical product modules that impact how modern organizations manage performance and talent. We are looking for individuals who are highly analytical, technically-sound, and driven by a strong sense of ownership. You will work closely with the founding team and engineering to solve complex problems, move from 1 to 10 on new initiatives, and optimize existing workflows to deliver a premium user experience. ## ## Key Responsibilities * **Product Discovery**: Deeply understand customer pain points through interviews, data analysis, and competitive research. * **End-to-End Execution**: Using AI tools create prototypes and mockups, iterate on the same after feedback, and work with engineers to ship high-quality features. * **Data-Driven Decision Making**: Define success metrics for your modules and use data to iterate and improve product performance. * **Cross-Functional Collaboration**: Act as the bridge between engineering, design, customer success, and sales to ensure product alignment. * **Product Roadmap**: Contribute to the long-term vision of the product by identifying high-leverage opportunities for growth. ## What We’re Looking For ### Essential Qualifications: * **Technical Foundation**: A B.Tech/B.E. in **Computer Science** from a premier institute (IITs, NITs, BITS, or equivalent). * **Analytical Rigor**: Ability to break down complex problems into first principles. You should be comfortable with data modeling. * **Product Thinking**: A deep empathy for the user. You don't just build features; you solve problems. * **Communication**: Ability to articulate technical constraints to designers and business needs to engineers. ### Ideal Profile (One of the following): * **The Premier Fresher**: You are a top-tier CSE graduate with a passion for product. You have built side projects * **The Dev-turned-PM**: You have 1-2 years of experience as a Software Engineer and are now looking to move to a product role ### Bonus Points (Good to Have): * **Ex-Founder / Founding Team Member**: You have tried to build something from scratch. You understand the "zero to one" grind and have high ownership.

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