Senior Product Manager

Job Description

Zendesk is a global leader in customer service and employee service software, renowned for its powerful yet user-friendly solutions. At Zendesk, we believe in building better customer relationships through our suite of products that are smart, flexible, and reliable.

 

What You'll Do

Zendesk is looking for an innovative and passionate Senior Product Manager to drive product development for Zendesk’s products. This leader will be critical in defining the strategy, vision, and roadmap for all existing and future customers, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive growth and customer success.This person comes with a strong experimentation mindset and believes in failing fast and learning fast.

You’ll work cross-functionally with partners across product and engineering, design, go-to-market, data science, and program management to plan our growth and product development goals. 
 

This role requires deep technical expertise in SaaS Product Development, AI/ML products, and customer-centric delivery. The ideal candidate has led initiatives that significantly impacted adoption and productivity metrics across tens of thousands of customers.

This role is based in Pune and requires you to work from office at least 3 days a week. We have multiple SPM roles focusing on PLG, Employee Services, Platform teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide specialised and inspiring product leadership to stakeholders, customers and counterparts as we bolster our offerings for this segment.  

• Collaborate closely with engineering, product design, marketing, customer success, sales, data science, program management, documentation, and legal teams to enhance existing admin experience offerings, and build 0-1 functionality in this space

• Engage directly with our broad set of external customers, and internal stakeholders contributing into the admin experience, to gather requirements and feedback.

• Own and drive key result areas (KRAs) related to product delivery, customer satisfaction, and business impact.

• Cultivate a culture of product excellence, fostering innovation and customer-centricity within Product Management.

• Share your subject matter expertise and build knowledge and empathy across the business for the needs of this specific market.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in product management, ideally in a B2B landscape

• Proven track record of delivering successful products in a SaaS environment.

• Experience in building AI-first products.

• Strong technical acumen with the ability to interface effectively with customers, engineering teams and design teams.

• Exceptional leadership skills with demonstrated experience in leading specialized, cross-functional teams.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to articulate complex solutions clearly.

• Ability to think strategically about the challenges specific to the SaaS administrator persona and execute methodically.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on key metrics and user behavior.

Please note that Zendesk can only hire candidates who are physically located and plan to work from Karnataka or Maharashtra. Please refer to the location posted on the requisition for where this role is based.

Hybrid: In this role, our hybrid experience is designed at the team level to give you a rich onsite experience packed with connection, collaboration, learning, and celebration - while also giving you flexibility to work remotely for part of the week. This role must attend our local office for part of the week. The specific in-office schedule is to be determined by the hiring manager.

The intelligent heart of customer experience

Zendesk software was built to bring a sense of calm to the chaotic world of customer service. Today we power billions of conversations with brands you know and love.

Zendesk believes in offering our people a fulfilling and inclusive experience. Our hybrid way of working, enables us to purposefully come together in person, at one of our many Zendesk offices around the world, to connect, collaborate and learn whilst also giving our people the flexibility to work remotely for part of the week.

As part of our commitment to fairness and transparency, we inform all applicants that artificial intelligence (AI) or automated decision systems may be used to screen or evaluate applications for this position, in accordance with Company guidelines and applicable law.

Zendesk is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re proud of our ongoing efforts to foster global diversity, equity, & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment and employees at Zendesk are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are an AA/EEO/Veterans/Disabled employer. If you are based in the United States and would like more information about your EEO rights under the law, please click here.

Zendesk endeavors to make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities and disabled veterans pursuant to applicable federal and state law. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to submit this application, complete any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participate in the employee selection process, please send an e-mail to [email protected] with your specific accommodation request.