Associate Product Manager

About the Role:

redBus is India's largest online bus ticketing platform, moving millions of travellers across 150,000+ live routes globally. A meaningful share of our growth now comes from platforms we don't fully control ourselves — B2B2C seller tools, partner APIs, whitelabels, OTAs, and super-app integrations — where product decisions are inseparable from technical architecture decisions.

We are looking for a Technical Product Lead who is equally comfortable writing a crisp PRD and reading an API contract or a data pipeline diagram. This role sits at the intersection of classic product management — roadmaps, prioritisation, stakeholder alignment — and the deeper technical fluency needed to partner credibly with engineering on system design, integrations, and platform scalability. You'll own both the 'low-hanging' product requirements that keep the roadmap moving and the harder technical trade-offs that determine whether it scales.

Key Responsibilities:

• Product Roadmap Ownership

– Define, prioritise, and execute the product roadmap for partner-facing and distribution platforms, balancing quick-win requirements against longer-horizon technical investments.

• Technical Depth in Product Decisions

– Partner directly with engineering on API design, data flow pipelines, and system architecture; be able to evaluate technical trade-offs (latency, scalability, integration complexity) rather than relying solely on engineering estimates.

• Requirement Documentation

– Write PRDs, user stories, API specifications, and wireframes; define clear acceptance criteria and success metrics for every release.

• Cross-Functional & Partner Collaboration

– Work across engineering, design, sales, partner/BD, CRM, payments, and supplier-facing teams to align the roadmap within the broader product framework.

– Engage directly with external partners (OTAs, travel platforms, super apps, and aggregators) to curate integration requirements and merchandising offerings.

• Data-Driven Iteration

– Run and analyse A/B tests across web, mobile web, and apps; build dashboards and hypotheses using SQL and product analytics tools to guide decisions.

– Continuously monitor product and platform performance metrics, using them to prioritise the backlog.

• Quality, Launch & Enablement

– Establish acceptance criteria and work with QA to ensure releases meet both business and technical bars before going live.

– Train internal stakeholders (Support, Channel, Field teams) on new features to ensure smooth rollouts.

What You Bring:

• 1–3 years of experience spanning both software engineering/development and product management —candidates from a strong technical background moving into product, or PMs with genuine hands-on engineering experience are equally welcome.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering (B.E./B.Tech); an MBA is a plus but not a substitute for technical depth.

• Working knowledge of APIs, system design fundamentals, and data pipelines — enough to have a substantive technical conversation with engineering, not just consume their output.

• Proficiency in SQL and hands-on experience with web/app analytics and experimentation tools (Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Hotjar, or similar).

• Hands-on experience with Agile/Scrum practices — backlog grooming, sprint planning, and PDLC end to end.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate technical constraints into business language and vice versa.

• Business acumen to understand how distribution, partnerships, and platform decisions tie back to revenue and growth.

Why This Role:

This is a role for someone who doesn't want to choose between being a 'product person' and a 'technical person.' You'll own real product outcomes — roadmaps, launches, partner relationships — while staying close enough to the architecture to make the calls that matter. If you're energised by both the business 'why' and the engineering 'how,' we'd love to talk.

Skills Required
System Architecture, Sql, Scrum, Google Analytics, Agile, API Design