The Director Product will be accountable for:
End-to-end Builder lifecycle governance
AI enablement roadmap
Usability and platform discipline
24x7 support readiness
Cross-functional operational alignment
People leadership in-office
Own prioritization and roadmap decisions for Builder in alignment with executive leadership.
Core Responsibilities 1. End-to-End Insurance Product Lifecycle Ownership
Own and continuously improve the full lifecycle within Builder:
Product creation
Configuration (rates rules forms workflows)
Versioning & effective-date management
Validation & testing
Deployment
Maintenance
Product retirement
Establish structured governed enablement processes from creation to shutdown.
Builder must become the authoritative lifecycle platform.
2. AI-Enabled Platform Strategy
Lead Builders AI evolution including:
AI Copilot for configuration
RAG-based assistance
Agentic workflows
API tool orchestration
AI-assisted impact analysis
Define AI roadmap aligned to enterprise SaaS standards.
Ensure AI capabilities are production-grade governed secure and compliant.
The candidate must be able to translate AI capabilities into structured product features and platform workflows.
3. 24x7 Builder Support & Customer Enablement
Builder is used by external customer IT teams and SIs.
Responsibilities include:
Establish structured support organization
Implement SLA-driven response model
Create escalation governance
Capture and prioritize usability feedback
Improve customer satisfaction metrics
Ensure production reliability
4. Governance & Operational Discipline
Strengthen DEV / TEST / LIVE separation
Standardize impact analysis practices
Reduce configuration defects
Improve release discipline
Align with DevOps Cloud ISMS Production Ops
5. Cross-Functional Leadership
Work closely with:
Engineering
QA
DevOps
Cloud Infrastructure
ISMS
Production Monitoring
Executive leadership
Balance customer needs scalability security and long-term platform integrity.
6. People Leadership (Mandatory In-Office)
Lead teams in person
Travel across TN offices
Coach mentor and elevate BA/config teams
Raise performance standards
Build accountability culture
This role requires visible high-energy leadership.
Required Experience
5 years product management in SaaS/product company
Experience owning a platform end-to-end
Strong people leadership
Experience with DevOps & production environments
Experience defining lifecycle governance processes
Managed enterprise-grade support functions
Required: Enterprise AI Platform Fluency
The candidate must demonstrate strong conceptual understanding of modern AI architectures and how they apply to enterprise SaaS platforms.
This includes familiarity with:
RAG-based systems (embeddings retrieval grounding concepts)
AI Copilot and agentic workflow patterns
Tool/API orchestration models (e.g. MCP-style integration patterns)
Structured output validation and guardrails
Context propagation across microservices
LLM vs traditional ML trade-offs
Supervised unsupervised and reinforcement learning concepts (at conceptual level)
Enterprise AI governance compliance and production risk controls
Hands-on model training is not required.
The candidate should have:
Participated in AI initiatives beyond experimentation
Contributed to AI-enabled features in a production SaaS environment
Demonstrated initiative in applying AI to SaaS platforms
Surface-level AI tool usage (e.g. ChatGPT usage alone) is not sufficient.
Employment Type : Full Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1
Sr. Product Manager • Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India