Associate Product Manager (APM)

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" grind and have high ownership.