r/ProductManagement_IN

SPM here, have been in Product Management for about 7 years now.

I keep seeing folks either rebranding themselves as "AI PM" or pushing out fear-mongering posts saying that if you don't know X, you are behind. L

To all the younger folks and peers who are getting disheartened by this, please please ignore these people. The fundamental value that a PM adds has always been and will continue to be a deep understanding of the business, the PnL goals (every product metric is ultimately tied to either increasing revenue or reducing loss) and how tech can help achieve these goals. The more senior you go, the more the conversation shifts to how you will achieve the business outcome.

You just need to know how AI can solve this problem, if indeed it can at all. Previously, you had to have a rough idea of how APIs worked, data (which data points are critical, which are not) and the right UI for the right user flow. Think of AI as one more addition to this toolkit. Understand deeply what the safety, cost ( people, tokens, infra and time to build), and impact trade-offs are for your problem (You were doing this before AI as well).

If you frame yourself as the business guy who understands tech, you will never be obsolete. If you frame yourself as the "AI guy" or the "tech guy" who understands some business, there will always be smart engineers (or others) who will take up your role.

I'm a product manager in Pune (fintech, ~7 yrs). One thing I've felt strongly: Bengaluru has a dense PM community, Pune doesn't — despite a growing product scene here.

So I'm starting a small, WhatsApp circle for Pune-based PMs.

What it is:

• Opportunities, Honest discussions on PM craft and AI's impact on our roles

• A monthly weekend coffee meetup

What it's not: no courses, no self-promo, no forwarded junk. Every member is verified (name/role/company) before joining — deliberately keeping it small and high-signal.

If you're a PM working in Pune and this sounds useful, reply or mesage me and I'll share details. (Not posting a link here per sub rules.)

This sub has a problem and we are not going to pretend otherwise.

The main feed became a queue of career asks from people who had not yet earned the right to ask. Not because asking is wrong. Because asking without contributing first is a one-way drain on the people whose answers make this sub worth visiting. Those people left. You noticed.

So we are trying something different.

THE QUALITY TOKEN

Contribute something real. Earn the right to ask.

Here is how it works:

Make a quality post that is NOT about career, job hunt, or hiring. If your post reaches 30 upvotes and 10 top-level comments within 7 days, you earn one Quality Token.

One Quality Token = one career-related post on the main feed.

When you use it, link your qualifying post in the career post.

That is the verification. No link, no approval.

Tokens do not expire. Bank them.

NOT A SENIOR YET?

You have a track too.

Leave 5 substantive top-level comments on Quality Token posts within 30 days. Not "great post." Not "thanks for sharing." Something that adds, challenges, or extends the thinking in at least 3 sentences.

Do that and you earn one career post in the main feed.

WHAT COUNTS AS A QUALITY POST?

Anything that makes a working PM stop scrolling.

• A decision you shipped and what it cost you.

• A framework you stress-tested and where it broke.

• A product teardown specific to the Indian market.

• An unpopular opinion you can actually defend.

• A post-mortem with numbers, honest ones.

WHAT DOES NOT COUNT

Anything a Google search answers in under 3 minutes.

WHY THIS MODEL?

Because the best communities are not open access. They are earned access.

Every person who posts something real makes this sub more valuable for the next person. Every career ask posted without that foundation does the opposite.

The token is not a gate to keep you out. It is a ramp to bring you up.

We want you here. Earn it and you will get more back than you put in.

— Mod team, r/ProductManagement_IN

Raise your hand if your inspiration of features comes from your competitors.
Yeah not anymore. So let me tell you one good way to think.

So if you are ever in a situation where you have to imagine how a particular behaviour will evolve in future then this is how you can do it .

Assume that you have all the resources in the world. Like all that money can buy but ofcourse you do not have much time well because even the richest live the same amount of years.

Now imagine what would you if you needed X. And that's the direction that the general market will take in future.

Your goal should be to bring that experience to the mass audience. Let me share some examples

1.) Its 7PM , you are hungry and craving for some exotic Thai noddles . What do you do ?
Ans - You ask your chef to prepare it. He does the shopping , chopping etc etc ofcourse.

Now think who does this today ?
- Zomato , Instamart , Urban Clap etc.

2.) You are at home , suddenly your entire family has to go to someplace . You have a family of 10. What do you do ?
Ans - Well ask your chauffeurs to bring around the limo probably

Who does this today ? - Uber

3.) You have all the money in the world. You don't want to work. You want to enjoy life but in your residence . What do you do ?
Ans - Well your agent plans an evening of entertainment for you.

Who does this today ? - Instagram. Entertainment on demand. Everyone is dancing at your fingertips ( or thumb )

It takes time to adjust to this framework because while looking back these things might look clear but looking forward its very very hard to imagine .

Not sure how I completely missed this until today, but I stumbled upon https://higherorder.club and it genuinely feels like someone is trying to build an Indian version of Reforge.

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I've been looking for PM/AI learning that's more practical than theory, and their curriculum actually looks pretty thought

This thread covers everything the main feed does not: resumes, job hunting, referrals, mentorship, and interview prep.

If you want a resume review: Share the resume as text or a link with PII removed. Tell us: target role, years of experience, and what specific feedback you need (structure, impact framing, ATS, something else). A bare resume drop with no context is unlikely to get responses.

If you are job hunting: State your current situation (notice period, location preference, domain background). This community has sharp practitioners; the more specific your ask, the more useful the response.

If you want mentorship: Tell us the actual problem: which stage, which decision, which skill gap. "Looking for a mentor" without context is not a matchable ask.

If you are hiring: State the role, company stage, location (remote/hybrid/onsite), and one honest thing that is hard about the job. Puffery gets scrolled past.

If you have interview questions or prep queries: Tell us the company type (startup/growth/enterprise), the round, and the specific format you are preparing for. Screaming "what should I prepare for a PM interview" will receive silence.

Ground rules: no DM farming, no paid course plugs, no vague asks. Be specific and you will get specific help.

Not what you road-mapped. Not what you planned in Q3. What you actually shipped.

A feature, a fix, a process change, a dashboard nobody asked for but everyone now uses. A decision you killed before it went live. A bet that paid off or blew up.

Any stage, any domain, any company size. B2C or B2B, startup or enterprise, one-person PM team or twenty.

The format is loose. Tell us:

What it was. Why it mattered. What you learned shipping it.

One paragraph or ten. Numbers if you have them. Honest if you don't.

This is not a brag thread. A shipped thing that failed and taught you something is more valuable here than a polished success story with the rough edges sanded off.

Drop it below.

This thread covers everything the main feed does not: resumes, job hunting, referrals, mentorship, and interview prep.

If you want a resume review: Share the resume as text or a link with PII removed. Tell us: target role, years of experience, and what specific feedback you need (structure, impact framing, ATS, something else). A bare resume drop with no context is unlikely to get responses.

If you are job hunting: State your current situation (notice period, location preference, domain background). This community has sharp practitioners; the more specific your ask, the more useful the response.

If you want mentorship: Tell us the actual problem: which stage, which decision, which skill gap. "Looking for a mentor" without context is not a matchable ask.

If you are hiring: State the role, company stage, location (remote/hybrid/onsite), and one honest thing that is hard about the job. Puffery gets scrolled past.

If you have interview questions or prep queries: Tell us the company type (startup/growth/enterprise), the round, and the specific format you are preparing for. Screaming "what should I prepare for a PM interview" will receive silence.

Ground rules: no DM farming, no paid course plugs, no vague asks. Be specific and you will get specific help.

This thread covers everything the main feed does not: resumes, job hunting, referrals, mentorship, and interview prep.

If you want a resume review: Share the resume as text or a link with PII removed. Tell us: target role, years of experience, and what specific feedback you need (structure, impact framing, ATS, something else). A bare resume drop with no context is unlikely to get responses.

If you are job hunting: State your current situation (notice period, location preference, domain background). This community has sharp practitioners; the more specific your ask, the more useful the response.

If you want mentorship: Tell us the actual problem: which stage, which decision, which skill gap. "Looking for a mentor" without context is not a matchable ask.

If you are hiring: State the role, company stage, location (remote/hybrid/onsite), and one honest thing that is hard about the job. Puffery gets scrolled past.

If you have interview questions or prep queries: Tell us the company type (startup/growth/enterprise), the round, and the specific format you are preparing for. Screaming "what should I prepare for a PM interview" will receive silence.

Ground rules: no DM farming, no paid course plugs, no vague asks. Be specific and you will get specific help.

This thread covers everything the main feed does not: resumes, job hunting, referrals, mentorship, and interview prep.

If you want a resume review: Share the resume as text or a link with PII removed. Tell us: target role, years of experience, and what specific feedback you need (structure, impact framing, ATS, something else). A bare resume drop with no context is unlikely to get responses.

If you are job hunting: State your current situation (notice period, location preference, domain background). This community has sharp practitioners; the more specific your ask, the more useful the response.

If you want mentorship: Tell us the actual problem: which stage, which decision, which skill gap. "Looking for a mentor" without context is not a matchable ask.

If you are hiring: State the role, company stage, location (remote/hybrid/onsite), and one honest thing that is hard about the job. Puffery gets scrolled past.

If you have interview questions or prep queries: Tell us the company type (startup/growth/enterprise), the round, and the specific format you are preparing for. Screaming "what should I prepare for a PM interview" will receive silence.

Ground rules: no DM farming, no paid course plugs, no vague asks. Be specific and you will get specific help.

I've been trying to run autonomous AI agents to do some PM work (Claude Code crons mostly) and honestly the setup has been satisfying to build. The output is another story.

My agents run inside a repo full of markdown docs describing our product, our personas, our positioning, etc. And I've connected them over MCP to my tools: Linear, PostHog, Intercom, Slack, Gmail. So on paper they can see the roadmap, the product analytics, every support conversation, our internal threads. In practice they still act kind of randomly.

I mostly use them for things like:

- look at our space and suggest features our customers would actually want

- estimate how much a feature I'm about to ship would get used, and the rough ROI

- draft follow-ups to specific customers

The results come out too generic and sloppy. When I push back on them they just switch their answer, even though they're supposed to be grounding everything in facts. The drafts are generic. And they're bad at figuring out how much a signal is actually worth: a debate about a feature in Slack might repeat the word we're looking for a hundred times, but that's worth way less than one customer using it once. They treat both the same.

So all the data is technically sitting right there but they can't handle it very well.

Is anyone here actually getting useful PM output from a setup like this? Is it a context problem, or is there a layer I'm missing? Have any of you gotten good results as a PM with something like OpenClaw or Hermes?

We've all seen the lists. Zomato, Zepto, Swiggy. And look, there's nothing wrong with loving a product that gets your coffee to you before you've finished the thought. But "it delivered fast" describes the operations team, not necessarily the product. These are genuinely convenient for urban India, though it's fair to ask whether the problem they solve is as ground-level as the ones we don't talk about enough.

Some of the best products never ask for your attention. Gmail's spam filter, for instance, has probably saved you hundreds of hours and quietly kept a few phishing emails from ever reaching you. You've never once thought about it. That's actually the highest compliment a product can receive.

So here's what we'd love to hear: what Indian product do you genuinely think is well-built, and why? Not just why you enjoy using it, but why it's good. What problem does it solve, for whom, and what makes it worth admiring from a craft perspective?

Bonus points if it's something most people overlook. Products built for Bharat rather than just metro India, invisible infrastructure, unglamorous tools that just work quietly and reliably, all of it counts.

Would love to read your takes.

There is something special about a community that actually gives a damn.

r/ProductManagement_IN is getting a fresh start — and we want you to be part of it.

Product careers in India are hard. The path is unclear, the advice online is generic, and most spaces feel like they were built for someone else. We are building something different here. A place where a first-year PM and a ten-year veteran can sit in the same room and both walk away better. Where your real questions get real answers. Where the messy, unglamorous, actual work of building products in India gets the conversation it deserves.

Whatever brought you here — a career you are trying to crack, a problem you cannot stop thinking about, or just the quiet hope that there are others like you out there — you are in the right place.

A few things are changing

The main feed is now for craft and conversation. Resumes, job leads, referrals, and mentorship asks have a dedicated home in the weekly Career & Hiring thread, pinned at the top. It is friendlier there anyway — go check it out.

Seven simple rules are now live. They exist to protect the quality of what we are building together, not to police you. If a post gets redirected, fix it and bring it back. We want your voice here.

Grab your flair

Head to the sidebar and pick a user flair. It takes ten seconds and tells the community who you are. Options:

· [PM Level] · [X] yrs
· Aspiring PM · [City]
· Founder · [Domain]
· PM Educator · [Platform/Org]
· [X] yrs · [Domain] · [City]
· Lurker turned Poster 👀

Also flair your posts — Discussion, Rant, Insight, Resource, Early Career, Advice Needed, Frameworks & Tools.

We are looking for new mods

If you care about this community and want to help shape what it becomes, we want you on the team. Two or more years in product, 30 to 60 minutes a week, and a genuine belief that this sub can be something great.

Comment below with your background and one answer to this: what kind of post do you wish existed here when you were starting out? We will DM shortlisted folks within two weeks.

##Edit: we have enough mods for now. We'll announce when we need more warm bodies to moderate.

This community is yours as much as it is ours. Every great conversation that happens here, every career that gets unstuck, every person who finds their footing because someone showed up and shared something real — that is what we are here for.

Come as you are. Grow with us. 🌱

— Mod team, r/ProductManagement_IN

This thread covers everything the main feed does not: resumes, job hunting, referrals, mentorship, and interview prep.

If you want a resume review: Share the resume as text or a link with PII removed. Tell us: target role, years of experience, and what specific feedback you need (structure, impact framing, ATS, something else). A bare resume drop with no context is unlikely to get responses.

If you are job hunting: State your current situation (notice period, location preference, domain background). This community has sharp practitioners; the more specific your ask, the more useful the response.

If you want mentorship: Tell us the actual problem: which stage, which decision, which skill gap. "Looking for a mentor" without context is not a matchable ask.

If you are hiring: State the role, company stage, location (remote/hybrid/onsite), and one honest thing that is hard about the job. Puffery gets scrolled past.

If you have interview questions or prep queries: Tell us the company type (startup/growth/enterprise), the round, and the specific format you are preparing for. Screaming "what should I prepare for a PM interview" will receive silence.

Ground rules: no DM farming, no paid course plugs, no vague asks. Be specific and you will get specific help.

This thread covers everything the main feed does not: resumes, job hunting, referrals, mentorship, and interview prep.

If you want a resume review: Share the resume as text or a link with PII removed. Tell us: target role, years of experience, and what specific feedback you need (structure, impact framing, ATS, something else). A bare resume drop with no context is unlikely to get responses.

If you are job hunting: State your current situation (notice period, location preference, domain background). This community has sharp practitioners; the more specific your ask, the more useful the response.

If you want mentorship: Tell us the actual problem: which stage, which decision, which skill gap. "Looking for a mentor" without context is not a matchable ask.

If you are hiring: State the role, company stage, location (remote/hybrid/onsite), and one honest thing that is hard about the job. Puffery gets scrolled past.

If you have interview questions or prep queries: Tell us the company type (startup/growth/enterprise), the round, and the specific format you are preparing for. Screaming "what should I prepare for a PM interview" will receive silence.

Ground rules: no DM farming, no paid course plugs, no vague asks. Be specific and you will get specific help.

I was looking over our upcoming roadmap today and realized how much time we waste messing around with RICE scores. Let's be honest, the whole framework feels like a joke. You want a feature to get picked? You just bump the "Confidence" score from 50% to 80% or guess a higher "Impact" number until the spreadsheet gives you the answer you wanted anyway.

Half the time, an executive swoops in with a pet project, and we just reverse engineer the scores to make it look official for the engineering team.

If you’re at a company that actually moves fast, how do you decide what to build next? Because spending hours arguing over whether a feature is a "2" or a "3" for impact feels like a massive waste of time.

My brother is a Senior Product Manager with 11+ years of experience across FinTech, InsurTech, and SaaS platforms. He’s been out of work since end of April and honestly the job market has been brutal — quality leads have been hard to come by despite active applications.

His background in brief:
Led a 200K+ user Super App, drove 40% MAU growth

Mobile app product ownership (iOS launch end-to-end)

API-first platform delivery across multi-country regulated environments

SAFe Agile governance, 300+ KPI dashboards, strong cross-functional stakeholder management

AI/GenAI product execution with enterprise adoption

ET CIO Forum Enterprise IT Excellence Award (2025)

He’s based in Pune, open to remote, hybrid or onsite, and can join immediately.
If anyone works at — or knows someone at — companies like Mastercard, Barclays, FIS, Avalara, Zendesk, Zoho, or any FinTech/SaaS product company in Pune and could pass along a referral or even a warm intro, it would mean a lot.
DM if you’d like to connect on this directly.

Thanks in advance, Pune folks. 🙏