Senior Product Manager

Senior Product Manager

WFO · Bangalore | 5–7 Yrs | AI-Native IT Services

About The Product Highway

AI got very good at the how. Almost nothing changed about the what.

An AI-native product strategy & engineering firm — zero to multi-million ARR in year one, across India, APAC, Europe & North America. We don’t measure code or velocity. We measure whether the solution maps to how a business actually works.

Five Traits, No Exceptions

• End-to-end owners. Outcomes, not tasks. If it falls through a crack, that’s on you. Misalignment is expensive.
• Direct communicators. Bad news doesn’t age well. You surface problems early, with precision.
• Uncompromising on quality. Your bar, not your manager’s. You won’t ship what you wouldn’t stand behind.
• AI-obsessed. Manual work AI could do feels like friction. Not a nice-to-have — how work gets done.
• Structured thinkers. You commit to a position. You break ambiguity down; you don’t wait for the answer.

Why We’re Hiring

We’re taking on harder engagements than one PM can carry — and more at once than the founders can stay close to.

This seat owns the product on the hardest of them — where getting it wrong is expensive and no founder is in the room. It’s also the most direct path into product leadership here.

What You’ll Own

You sit opposite the architect — you on the what, them on the how.

Shape the Problem

When a client says they need X, you work out whether X solves it — or whether the real problem is Y — and make the case for the answer.

Set Direction

What we build first, what we defer, what we refuse, what we propose before they ask. The team builds to your framing.

Make the Calls

The decisions a PM escalates and a founder used to make — product, commercial & technical context held at once. Now they’re yours.

Across the Portfolio — Several Engagements, One Steady Hand

• Hold the outcome on several engagements at once — deep enough to be useful, disciplined enough not to drown in one.
• Take the engagement that can’t go wrong and run its product layer without supervision.
• Sit in discovery as TPH’s product voice — shape what the engagement should be, help decide if we take it at all.
• Set the standard for PMs & APMs, and review to sharpen their judgment, not approve it.
• See scope creep & commercial drift first — and raise it early.

Non-Negotiables

• 5–7 years in product — real stretches of owning it end-to-end, not running a backlog.
• You’ve set direction, not just delivered someone else’s — made the call when the answer wasn’t obvious, and stood behind it.
• Strong technical instinct without writing code — push back on a decision with a credible alternative.
• You’ve carried several engagements at once without losing the thread. You have a system, and it holds.
• Commercial read — you feel whether a scope is fair, whether it’s crept, before others do.
• You’ve raised other PMs. People got sharper because of how you reviewed their work.

AI-Native Expectations

AI is how you operate at this breadth.

• Holding context across engagements, stress-testing specs, prepping discovery, reading deliverables — daily, woven in.
• You judge AI output well enough to tell production-ready from “looks right, breaks later” — and catch it before the client does.
• You treat AI as a lever on what the product can be, not just how fast it ships — and hand those workflows to the PMs you lead.

This Seat Is Too Senior If…

• You wait for the problem to arrive as a spec. At this level you define it.
• You’re a project manager with a product title. This role owns the substance.
• You stall when you have to switch. You’ll hold several engagements at once.
• You can’t tell an engineer their work isn’t good enough and keep the room.
• You don’t have a view on what good product looks like. You need opinions clients respect.

Where It Goes

Toward senior product authority.

The person we put on the engagement that can’t go wrong. Whose calls don’t get second-guessed, whose read on a problem the room defers to. The work compounds — every engagement is a new domain, a harder problem than the last.