
Job Description
Ovii's Interpretation of the Role
Senior Product Manager partnering directly with the Founder to drive product vision, roadmap, and execution across AI‑first engineering teams. Owns coordination, clarity, and delivery while shaping technical decisions for a fast‑moving market‑research platform.
Role Snapshot
- Partner with Founder on product strategy
- Coordinate cross‑functional engineering delivery
- Define and own product roadmap
- Drive decisions on scope, priority, and cut‑offs
- Enforce quality and security standards
Must-Have Requirements
- Product management experience
- Technical ability to engage in architecture discussions
- Strong communication and stakeholder alignment
- product management
- technical leadership
Nice-to-Have Signals
- Experience working directly with founders or in a chief‑of‑staff capacity
- Early‑stage or zero‑to‑one startup experience
- Familiarity with AI‑driven or LLM‑based products
- founder interaction
- early‑stage startup
- AI product familiarity
Work Setup
- Location: Bengaluru, India
- Work mode: ONSITE
- Employment type: Full-Time
Not Specified in JD
- Salary range
- Visa sponsorship
- Remote eligibility
- Education requirement
- Certifications
What You'll Likely Work On
- Track, unblock, and prioritize engineering projects with the Founder
- Coordinate execution across AI, full‑stack, security, and survey‑programming teams
- Maintain visibility on progress, blockers, and upcoming work
- Build internal systems for planning, review, and documentation
- Define and own the product roadmap based on customer insight and business impact
- Represent the Founder in async updates and customer/partner calls
- Make decisions on what to build, defer, or cut with clear rationale
- Contribute to architecture and design reviews to ensure technical soundness
- Help enforce standards for code quality, system design, and security
- Drive operational improvements that keep the team fast without bureaucracy
Good Fit If You Have
- Comfortable pushing back and asking hard questions
- Able to turn ambiguous problems into clear scopes and timelines
- Strong stakeholder alignment across differing priorities
Skills
- Product Management
- Technical Leadership / Architecture Understanding
- Stakeholder Communication
- Process & Momentum Focus
- Founder Interaction (preferred)
- Early‑stage Startup Experience (preferred)
- AI/LLM Product Familiarity (preferred)