Principal Product Manager, Data & AI Platforms ( Hybrid in Bangalore )

The role

You will lead the strategic direction and execution of the foundational data ecosystem. You will manage the data and AI platform product lifecycle to enable advanced AI capabilities and data democratization.

What you will do

• Lead alignment of data governance and AI-driven use cases across organizations
• Manage inbound and outbound product management for the data and AI platform
• Define and drive the execution roadmap for critical data platform features
• Own the business-stakeholder perspective for data quality and governance
• Provide detailed requirements with clear, measurable acceptance criteria
• Partner with cross-functional executive leaders to inform platform roadmaps
• Represent the data and AI platform capabilities internally and externally
• Offer informal leadership and mentorship to Engineering and Product team members
• Implement a Data as a Product mindset
• Partner with AI and Engineering teams to integrate AI-driven use cases

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Product Management
• Proven focus on AI & data infrastructure, core backend platforms, or high-scale technical SaaS products
• Proven track record of owning and driving execution roadmaps for critical, scalable, and reliable data systems
• Understanding of Agentic frameworks, transformer architectures, prompt engineering, rag, fine-tuning techniques, vector databases, and embedding strategies
• Familiarity with leading cloud data platforms such as Databricks or Snowflake
• Knowledge of Dimensional Modeling and Data Vault 2.0 (DV2.0)
• Experience with Medallion Architecture and contemporary Data Integrity practices
• Ability to translate complex technical debt or architectural needs into business value and acceptance criteria
• Ability to treat internal developers, analysts, and external partners as customers
• High-level understanding of data governance, semantic impact, and data modeling

About the company

For over 20 years, Smartsheet has empowered teams to manage work seamlessly and scale solutions smarter. The company is uniting human teams with AI agents to automate manual tasks and uncover insights at scale.