Lead, Product Management (Human Capital Products)

Role overview

Lead, Product Management (Human Capital Products) at D. E. Shaw India

We are looking for a product manager to join our Human Capital Products team based in the firm’s offices in Hyderabad / Bengaluru / Gurugram, to support the ongoing development of data infrastructure that enables people analytics.

In this role, you will partner with developers and analytics/business intelligence professionals to design efficient data transformations that support visually engaging analytics products.

Responsibilities

• You will own relationships with internal stakeholders and share responsibility for sprint planning, backlog grooming, and providing operational support for existing ETLs.

Required qualifications

• The candidate should have a bachelor’s degree or higher and at least six years of total work experience with at least 3 years in product management.
• Experience working directly with data engineers, data scientists, and software developers, on ETL designs, business intelligence infrastructure, or API specifications, is required.

Preferred qualifications and skills

• Previous experience working as a developer, or a data engineer would be a plus.
• Familiarity with best practices and functional expertise in data modeling, data architecture, and data infrastructure is preferred, as is experience with generative AI infrastructure (e.g., vector databases).

Employment details

• Location: Hyderabad [Bengaluru] [Gurugram] [India]

Additional role details

• This team manages technology that optimizes human capital processes and empowers the firm to make data-driven talent decisions.
• This role offers the chance to collaborate with analytics, technology, and human capital teams to deliver scalable, secure, and flexible business intelligence solutions -including leveraging generative AI to derive insights from non-traditional data sources - in an engaging and collegial working environment.
• You will work closely with stakeholders to understand business needs, design technical solutions, specify requirements, and oversee development, testing, and rollout.
• Additionally, you will gain a broad understanding of the proprietary systems and third-party products that make up the firm’s human capital systems landscape.
• The ideal candidate should have experience in metadata management, data catalog and data lineage skills, Data Warehousing and ETL concepts.
• Should be comfortable with SQL.
• Familiarity with data warehouse technologies such as Snowflake or Redshift is a plus but not required.
• The candidate should have experience in collaborating with software developers and analytics professionals on schema, API and ETL pipeline designs.
• Excellent written and verbal communication (including explaining complex, technical ideas to a non-technical audience), organizational skills, a customer service mindset, and quick problem-solving abilities are critical.
• Attention to detail, effective teamwork, project ownership, and the ability to exercise extreme discretion with confidential information are all essential.