Associate Product Manager (APM)

About Peoplebox.ai

AI talent platform to hire, manage, and grow your people

Tech

We use on React/Rails/MySQL stack with Kubernetes based deployment

The role

## About the RoleAs 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.