Technical Product Manager, Specialist

Leads the strategic vision and roadmap for a technical product, demonstrating an understanding of the product(s) and associated business areas. Products often have divisional implications.

About Vanguard

Founded in 1975, Vanguard is one of the world's leading investment management companies. The firm offers investments, advice, and retirement services to tens of millions of individual investors around the globe—directly, through workplace plans, and through financial intermediaries.

Vanguard’s India Office

Vanguard’s office in India is a significant milestone in our global expansion. We are committed to establishing an enduring technology center in Hyderabad, Telangana and are excited to be adding talent who will focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI), mobile, and cloud-based technologies that drive our business outcomes and deliver a world-class experience for our clients.

Role Summary

This role leads the strategic vision and roadmap for a technical product, demonstrating an understanding of the product(s) and associated business areas. Products often have divisional implications. This role also leverages market research and user feedback to influence product direction, innovation, and enhancements throughout the product life cycle.

Responsibilities

Provides technical product management services on a product, applying functional technical expertise to improve product results. Participates in the design and continuous improvement of the technical solution.

Coaches technical product teams towards best practices and learnings. Ensures delivery of messaging, communication, and customer outreach as necessary.

Partners with stakeholders to resolve production and implementation issues in a timely manner, and supports/drives escalations where required to enable rapid delivery.

Leads the planning, development and implementation of a new technical product. Defines and analyzes technical markets, developing detailed product features and requirements, and developing implementation plans.

Employs a variety of qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques to continually improve the user experience.

Participates in and provides recommendations for ongoing business planning and departmental prioritization activities.

Participates in the team’s engineering practices in development, continuous integration, and automated deployment.

Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

Manages the entire product life cycle from planning to execution in alignment with organizational strategy and objectives.

Conducts market research and analyzes consumer trends to identify opportunities for product innovation and enhancement.

Collaborates with cross-functional teams to define product features and functions and supports product development execution.

Prepares detailed product documentation and provides technical support to sales and marketing teams.

Gathers and incorporates market feedback to evaluate and steer current and future product functionality.

Qualifications And Skills

Minimum 5 years of experience in technical product management or related roles, with 2 years of experience managing projects preferred.

Bachelor’s degree (B.E./B.Tech) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of training and experience.

Must have: Appian platform knowledge (other similar platform like Camunda), backlog management, requirements elicitation and definition, Agile / Scrum product ownership, JIRA/Confluence, Roadmap planning.

Nice to have: Process mapping, stakeholder management, user story writing, testing / UAT coordination, market research and user feedback analysis, product documentation, stakeholder communication.

Strong verbal and written communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and problem-solving, Learning Agility abilities.

Preferred certifications include Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Pragmatic Institute certifications, or SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager. Financial Services or function-specific experience is an added advantage.

Location

This role is based in Hyderabad, Telangana at Vanguard’s India office. Only qualified external applicants will be considered.

Our mission

Vanguard adheres to a simple purpose: To take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success.

Our commitment to you

Vanguard takes the same long-term view of your success—at work and in life—with Benefits and Rewards packages that reflect what you care about, throughout all the phases and stages of your life. Our Total Rewards programs provide you and your loved ones with wellness support for key areas in your life:

Financial wellness

We're committed to enabling your financial success and provide competitive offers and programs.

Physical wellness

We're committed to providing benefits that support your physical health and wellness.

Personal wellness

We're committed to providing resources that help support the full scope of your life.

How we work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for most of our employees (crew members), designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.