Associate Product Manager

Responsibilities:
Assist the PM in translating GPM roadmap priorities into a structured, sprint-ready backlog with well-defined user stories and acceptance criteria.
Maintain and groom the product backlog, ensuring stories are sized, prioritized, and unambiguous before sprint planning.
Track roadmap progress and flag deviations, blockers, or priority conflicts to the PM promptly.
Research competitive products, feature benchmarks, and industry best practices to inform roadmap inputs.
Prepare roadmap update decks, sprint summaries, and feature status reports for PM and GPM review.
Conduct structured user interviews, surveys, and usability tests with buyers, sellers, and internal stakeholders under PM direction.
Synthesize research findings into clear opportunity statements, persona maps, and journey maps that the PM and GPM can act on.
Recruit and coordinate research participants across buyer, seller, and logistics partner segments.
Document and maintain a living research repository tagging insights by persona, theme, and feature area for reuse.
Support field visits and contextual enquiry sessions to observe how users interact with the platform in real operating conditions.
Write well-structured user stories with clearly defined acceptance criteria, edge cases, and out-of-scope boundaries.
Collaborate with engineering and design during sprint planning to clarify requirements, answer questions, and resolve ambiguities.
Maintain requirement documentation PRDs, feature briefs, and flow diagrams in an organized, up-to-date state throughout the sprint.
Perform structured UAT against acceptance criteria for features before sign-off and go-live.
Raise and track defects through resolution, ensuring engineering closes gaps before features are released to users.
Coordinate day-to-day sprint dependencies across engineering, design, QA, and data teams on behalf of the PM.
Monitor sprint progress, identify at-risk tasks, and surface blockers to the PM before they cause delays.
Maintain JIRA hygiene: story updates, sprint board accuracy, release notes, and sprint velocity tracking.
Support the PM in running sprint ceremonies, preparing agendas, capturing action items, and following up on commitments.
Assist the PM in preparing go-to-market and feature activation materials in coordination with commercial and ops teams.
Define and track success metrics for owned feature areas in partnership with the PM: adoption rate, task completion, conversion, and error rate.
Build and maintain product dashboards in collaboration with the data team to monitor post-launch feature performance.
Compile weekly and sprint-level performance summaries for PM and GPM review.
Identify anomalies, drop-offs, or unexpected usage patterns in feature data and raise them with the PM for investigation.
Support post-launch reviews by preparing data packs, user feedback summaries, and improvement hypotheses.
Track competitor product developments, feature launches, and pricing changes relevant to Birla Pivot's platform.
Research market trends, buyer and seller behavior shifts, and emerging digital commerce patterns in the B2B construction space.
Prepare structured competitive analysis frameworks and benchmarking reports for GPM and PM consumption.
Identify white-space opportunities and unmet customer needs through systematic market and user research.
Support long-term vision inputs and GTM planning with well-researched, data-backed market context.

Experience
2-4 yrs