Smartsheet - Principal Product Manager, Data & AI Platforms ( Hybrid in Bangalore )
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Requirements
• Engage Stakeholders Extensively: Partner with cross-functional executive leaders to inform platform roadmaps and ensure the data strategy remains strategically aligned with Smartsheet’s overall product and business platform goals. • Engage Stakeholders Extensively: • Act as a Data Ambassador: Represent the data and AI platform's capabilities internally and externally, clearly communicating the value proposition of features related to data retention, security, compliance, reliability, and integrity. • Act as a Data Ambassador: • Provide Mentorship: Offer informal leadership and mentorship to Engineering and Product team members, fostering a culture of technical excellence, accountability, and collaborative delivery. • Provide Mentorship: • Experience: 8+ years of experience in Product Management, with a significant and proven focus on AI & data infrastructure, core backend platforms, or high-scale technical SaaS products. • Execution Focus: Proven track record of owning and successfully driving execution roadmaps for critical, scalable, and reliable data systems. • Execution Focus: • Technical Depth: Extensive and current understanding of: • Technical Depth: • AI Foundations and Platforms: Agentic frameworks, transformer architectures, prompt engineering,rag, fine-tuning techniques, vector databases, and embedding strategies. • AI Foundations and Platforms: • Data Platforms: Deep familiarity with leading cloud data platforms (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake). • Data Platforms: • Data Warehousing: Knowledge of Dimensional Modeling and Data Vault 2.0 (DV2.0). • Data Warehousing: • Architecture: Experience with Medallion Architecture and contemporary Data Integrity practices. • Architecture: • Communication Mastery: Exceptional ability to translate complex technical debt or architectural needs into clear business value, actionable initiatives, and precise "acceptance criteria" for diverse technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Communication Mastery: • Customer-Centricity: Ability to treat internal developers, analysts, and external partners as "customers," utilizing research and data to identify and remove friction in the data consumption and contribution journey. • Customer-Centricity: • Architectural Fluency: High-level understanding of data governance, semantic impact, and data modeling, with the ability to lead and navigate complex architectural discussions with senior engineering teams. • Architectural Fluency: • Get to Know Us: • Get to Know Us: • At Smartsheet, your ideas are heard, your potential is supported, and your contributions have real impact. You’ll have the freedom to explore, push boundaries, and grow beyond your role. We welcome diverse perspectives and nontraditional paths—because we know that impact comes from individuals who care deeply and challenge thoughtfully. When you’re doing work that stretches you, excites you, and connects you to something bigger, that’s magic at work. Let’s build what’s next, together.
Responsibilities
• Drive Strategic Alignment: Lead the alignment of data governance and AI-driven use cases across Engineering, Product, and Business organizations to ensure unified goals, rigorous prioritization, and clear scoping of platform capabilities. • Drive Strategic Alignment: • Lead Product Lifecycle: Manage both inbound (requirements gathering, strategic roadmap definition) and outbound (internal/external evangelism, community engagement, customer feedback loops) product management for the data and AI platform. • Lead Product Lifecycle: • Own the Execution Roadmap: Define and drive the execution roadmap for critical data platform features, including the enablement of AI capabilities, streamlined data ingestion/onboarding, and foundational data vision initiatives. • Own the Execution Roadmap: • Champion Governance & Quality: Own the business-stakeholder perspective for data quality and governance, ensuring the platform provides reliable, secure, and compliant data assets for all consumers. • Champion Governance & Quality: • Deliver High-Quality Requirements: Provide a continuous stream of detailed requirements with clear, measurable acceptance criteria, demonstrating a deep understanding of both upstream data source complexities and downstream end-user consumption needs. • Data as a Product (DaaP): Evangelize and implement a "Data as a Product" mindset, shifting the organization from reactive data requests to a self-service, scalable, and visionary data platform. • Data as a Product (DaaP): • AI Enablement: Partner closely with AI and Engineering teams to integrate AI-driven use cases into the core data fabric, ensuring the platform robustly supports advanced machine learning, predictive analytics, and process automation. • AI Enablement: • Infrastructure Strategy: Leverage a strong, current understanding of Data Lakes, Data Mesh principles, Medallion Architecture, and modern cloud data platforms (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake) to guide the technical evolution of Smartsheet’s data architecture. • Infrastructure Strategy: • Data Integrity & Semantic Impact: Define and manage the semantic layer and data integrity practices to ensure data is accurate, fresh, and trusted across all business units. • Data Integrity & Semantic Impact: • Compliance & Ethics: Establish and automate robust data governance standards, including metadata management and strict privacy compliance (GDPR, CCPA, SOC2), while maintaining engineering velocity. • Compliance & Ethics:
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