Associate Director - Product

Product Vision & Strategy

• Define and drive the long-term product vision, strategy, and roadmap aligned with Wadhwani AI's organizational mission and strategic priorities.
• Build a scalable product portfolio across multiple domains and AI-enabled solutions.
• Identify emerging opportunities where AI can generate meaningful impact in underserved communities.
• Drive product prioritization by balancing user needs, organizational goals, technical feasibility, and program impact.

Product Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of Product Managers and Group Product Managers.
• Establish product management frameworks, processes, and best practices across the organization.
• Foster a culture of customer-centricity, experimentation, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Provide coaching and career development to product team members.

Product Delivery & Execution

• Oversee end-to-end product development from discovery through deployment and scale.
• Ensure timely and high-quality execution across multiple concurrent product initiatives.
• Partner closely with Engineering, AI Research, Design, Programs, and Implementation teams to drive successful product delivery.
• Resolve cross-functional dependencies and remove execution bottlenecks.

Stakeholder Management

• Work closely with government agencies, donors, implementation partners, and internal leadership to understand evolving needs and translate them into product strategy.
• Represent the product function in executive reviews, donor meetings, strategic discussions, and external engagements.
• Build alignment across multiple stakeholders with differing priorities.

Product Discovery & User Research

• Champion user research and evidence-based product development.
• Ensure product decisions are informed by field insights, user feedback, implementation learnings, and impact data.
• Promote rapid validation through pilots, usability testing, and iterative product development.

Product Operations

• Establish product planning, roadmap management, prioritization, release planning, and governance processes.
• Drive agile product development practices across teams.
• Monitor product health, delivery milestones, adoption metrics, and implementation outcomes.
• Improve operational efficiency through standardized tools, workflows, and reporting mechanisms.

Product Quality & Adoption

• Ensure products are intuitive, scalable, reliable, and aligned with user needs.
• Define product success metrics and monitor adoption, engagement, and impact.
• Drive successful implementation and user adoption through collaboration with program and deployment teams.

Organizational Leadership

• Contribute to organizational strategy as a member of the leadership team.
• Support fundraising efforts through product strategy, demonstrations, and proposal development.
• Influence technology investments, product architecture decisions, and long-term innovation initiatives.