The Role
Supports product development by defining requirements, creating PRDs and workflows, conducting market and competitor research, and translating needs into engineering backlogs. Facilitates Scrum ceremonies, monitors execution, improves backlog quality, and maintains product documentation. Collaborates with engineering, sales, marketing, operations, and leadership while gathering customer feedback, supporting demos, and contributing to product testing and release readiness.
Summary Generated by Built In
Associate Product Manager
Role Overview
Key ResponsibilitiesProduct Development Support
Agile Process Facilitation
Product Understanding & Analysis
Cross-Functional Coordination
Customer & Stakeholder Engagement
Must Haves
Good to Have
Qualifications
Experience Range
What We Value
Why Join Us?
Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India
Department: Product
Reports To: Product Manager / Head of Product
Work Mode: In Office
Role Overview
This role sits at the intersection of product, engineering, operations, and business. You will help convert ideas into clear requirements, drive execution through agile processes, coordinate across teams, and strengthen product documentation and customer feedback loops.
This is ideal for someone who enjoys structure in chaos, asks smart questions, and can turn scattered inputs into actionable plans.
Key ResponsibilitiesProduct Development Support
- Assist in defining product features and requirements for new and existing products
- Conduct market research and competitor analysis to identify opportunities
- Develop user personas, user journeys, and workflows to better understand customer needs
- Support creation of Product Requirement Documents (PRDs), feature specs, and use cases
- Work with engineering teams to translate requirements into development backlogs
- Participate in sprint planning and track execution progress
Agile Process Facilitation
- Act as Scrum Master for assigned product clusters or modules
- Facilitate sprint planning, stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
- Ensure adherence to agile practices and product development processes
- Monitor sprint velocity, blockers, and execution risks
- Improve backlog quality, prioritization hygiene, and workflow clarity
Product Understanding & Analysis
- Build strong understanding of Unbox Robotics products, workflows, and system architecture
- Identify usability issues, feature gaps, and improvement opportunities
- Maintain internal product documentation, release notes, and feature libraries
- Support product testing, validation, and readiness activities
Cross-Functional Coordination
- Collaborate with engineering, sales, marketing, operations, and leadership teams
- Gather and organize product feedback from stakeholders
- Translate business needs into structured product requirements
- Support internal communication of roadmap updates and feature releases
Customer & Stakeholder Engagement
- Support customer demos, pilot discussions, and product presentations
- Participate in customer calls to gather product insights and pain points
- Respond to internal product-related queries through coordination with relevant teams
- Help communicate product capabilities clearly and accurately
Must Haves
- Strong product thinking and structured problem-solving
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
- Strong coordination, follow-up, and organizational skills
- Analytical mindset with attention to detail
- Ability to work with cross-functional stakeholders
- Basic technical understanding of software / hardware systems
- Familiarity with Agile / Scrum methodologies
- Comfort using tools like Jira, Confluence, Excel, Sheets, Notion, etc.
- Ownership mindset and ability to manage multiple moving priorities
Good to Have
- Exposure to robotics, warehouse automation, logistics tech, or industrial systems
- Mechatronics knowledge
- Hardware prototyping exposure
- SQL / dashboarding / analytics familiarity
- Startup experience
- Prior experience in B2B product environments
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Technology, Product Design, Operations, or related fields
- Preferred branches: Mechanical, Mechatronics, Electronics, Computer Science, Industrial Engineering
- Internship or work experience in Product Management, Consulting, Startups, SaaS, Robotics, or Technology companies preferred
Experience Range
- 0 to 3 years experience
- Strong interns with relevant exposure may also be considered
What We Value
- Curiosity that bites into problems
- Discipline that finishes things
- Clarity in communication
- Bias for action
- Comfort with ambiguity
- Hunger to learn fast
Why Join Us?
At Unbox Robotics, products are not built in slow motion. Ideas become prototypes, prototypes become deployments, and deployments reshape real warehouses.
You won’t be watching the machine from outside the glass.
You’ll be inside the gearbox.
Skills Required
- Strong product thinking and structured problem-solving
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong coordination, follow-up, and organizational skills
- Analytical mindset with attention to detail
- Ability to work with cross-functional stakeholders
- Basic technical understanding of software and hardware systems
- Familiarity with Agile and Scrum methodologies
- Comfort using Jira, Confluence, Excel, Sheets, Notion, or similar tools
- Ownership mindset and ability to manage multiple priorities
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Technology, Product Design, Operations, or a related field
- 0 to 3 years of experience
- Exposure to robotics, warehouse automation, logistics technology, or industrial systems
- Mechatronics knowledge
- Hardware prototyping exposure
- SQL, dashboarding, or analytics familiarity
- Startup experience
- Prior experience in B2B product environments
- Internship or work experience in Product Management, Consulting, Startups, SaaS, Robotics, or technology companies
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The Company
What We Do
Unbox Robotics builds software-defined robotics systems to enable logistics players to automate and radically improve their operations on-demand in a limited footprint and capital. We are applying proprietary Swarm Intelligence and ML algorithms inspired by nature to redefine the way companies sort and ship orders. Our 1st product UnboxSort is the world's first of its kind patented AI-powered parcel sorting robotic system that gets installed in <2 weeks, saves ~50% - 80% area, and improves productivity by > 3X to 5X. We have a strong team of alumni from the National University of Singapore, the University of York, and the Indian School of Business with international experience in robotics, manufacturing, and logistics. We are backed by 3one4 Capital, Sixth Sense Ventures, SOSV, Entrepreneur First, Redstart Labs (Info Edge), Arali Ventures, CIIE, Beenext, WEH Ventures, Force Ventures, Veda VC, and an impressive set of angel investors.
