Senior Product Innovation Lead

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Role : Principal Product Manager

The Economic Times | Business Verticals

Location : Noida (Onsite)

The Economic Times Business Verticals builds digital products and business platforms serving communities of business professionals, leaders and decision makers across 20+ sectors in India.

A. Key Responsibilities

• Develop product and growth strategy from nuanced analysis of market shifts, AI adoption, and evolving customer pain points.
• Identify and validate product and business opportunities through customer research, structured experiments, and ad-hoc data analysis.
• Build scalable growth loops to increase user base, engagement, and conversions through data segmentation, customer insights, and funnel experimentation.
• Use analytics tools (SQL, Excel, Python, Amplitude or Google Analytics) for segmentation, experimentation, forecasting, and performance tracking.
• Conduct structured customer and stakeholder interviews (including CXOs) and translate findings into clear problem statements and product requirements.
• Use AI for rapid prototyping, workflow design, and creation of go-to-market assets (demos, videos, marketing emails & advertisement copies).
• Build product strategy blueprints, business cases, forecasts, and prioritized roadmaps to guide investment and execution.
• Influence and align senior cross-functional leaders on product strategy, trade-offs, and delivery timelines.

B. Who should apply

Overall to 6 to 10 years of full-time relevant work experience years :

Candidates having at least one of the following backgrounds are invited to apply :

i. Early-stage builder :

Proven track record of launching and scaling zero-to-one products as a founder, co-founder, or early product lead.

ii. High-growth operator :

Senior PM or core team member at a fast-scaling digital / SaaS company with measurable user or revenue growth outcomes.

iii. Consulting strategist :

Client-facing consultant or product manager within a digital consulting or transformation practice, leading user or revenue growth, customer strategy, or large-scale digital programs.

C. Core Competencies

Adept at understanding deeper user needs & pain points, adoption triggers, and map them to potential business impact.

able to critique and refine experiences with designers for usability.

D. Metrics & numbers oriented :

Hands-on with data analytics, designing surveys and conducting experimentation with prototypes to validate hypotheses.