Product Manager - GenAI

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

About Lilly:

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people worldwide. We are one of the world’s most valued companies, and global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our 42,000+ employees work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the globe.

At Lilly, our research and product-oriented mindset and focus on Accelerate, Reach and Scale using new-gen technologies helps us redefine what is possible through technology in pharma. Impact driven growth combined with a commitment to make a real difference in lives makes Lilly the place of choice for the best talent to come together and be at the forefront of innovation and acceleration.

Join us to make significant difference in the well-being of people worldwide.
 

Job Title: Product Manager

Experience Level: 10 to 15 Years (Minimum 5 Yrs in Product Management)

Qualification and Eligibility criteria:  A technical graduate degree (B.E./B.Tech in CS or Engineering) is required. An MBA is preferred but not mandatory.

Location: India – Hyderabad

Description:

Software Product Managers at Lilly own the vision, strategy, and execution of custom software products that advance our mission to make life better for people around the world. They bridge user needs and technical delivery, working cross-functionally to define what to build and collaborating closely with software engineering and design teams to bring products to life.

Key Responsibilities:

Champion the Vision

• Define and Articulate the Product Vision: Clearly articulate the long-term vision of the product, ensuring it aligns with Lilly’s strategic goals and delivers value to users.
• Communicate Passionately: Inspire your team by passionately and persuasively communicating the vision and the product's transformative potential.
• Focus on Value: Prioritize features and tasks based on their potential impact on customer satisfaction and business value.
• Manage the Backlog: Keep a well-organized and prioritized backlog that aligns with the product strategy and team capacity.

Understand Your Users

• Deep User Insights: Continuously seek deep, empathetic understanding of the target users' needs, behaviours, and pain points through direct interaction and data analysis.
• User-Centric Design: Ensure the product design and features solve real problems and effectively improve users’ lives or workflows.

Quality and Compliance

• Maintain High Standards: Ensure the product meets high-quality standards and fulfils all regulatory and compliance requirements.
• Anticipate Changes: Stay ahead of potential regulatory changes that could impact how your product is developed or deployed.

Sustain Scalability

• Scalable Solutions: Plan and develop scalable, maintainable, and efficient solutions as the user base grow.
• Resource Management: Optimize resource allocation to balance short-term achievements with long-term growth.

Cultivate a Growth Mindset

• Iterative Development: Promote an iterative development process that accommodates changes based on feedback and emerging requirements.
• Flexibility: Be prepared to pivot and adapt strategies as new learnings and technologies evolve.
• Stay Informed: Keep abreast of the latest developments in your industry to continually refine and improve the product.
• Validate Early and Often: Use prototypes and MVPs (Minimum Viable Products) to validate ideas and concepts early in the development cycle to avoid costly mistakes and ensure market fit.

Essential Tech knowledge:

• APIs and Integrations: Basic understanding of how APIs work to enable product integrations and interactions.
• DevOps Concepts: Awareness of CI/CD pipelines, version control systems (e.g., Git), and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Code Logic and Structure: Not necessarily writing code, but the ability to understand how code is structured for communication with developers.
• Agile Documentation: Crafting detailed and clear user stories with acceptance criteria understandable by developers.
• Quality Assurance: Awareness of QA processes to align product requirements with quality checks.
• Wireframing and Prototyping Tools: Familiarity with Figma, Balsamiq, or Adobe XD to review or create wireframes and mockups.
• Analytics and Tracking Tools: Knowledge of Google Analytics, Firebase Adobe Analytics, Mixpanel, or similar tools to track product metrics.
• Project Management Tools: Experience with tools like Jira, Trello, DevOps for managing backlogs and user stories.
• Generative AI Expertise: Familiarity with emerging GenAI concepts and frameworks (e.g. LangChain, RAG, MCP, A2A, Agentic memory), chatbots and agent-based systems enabling innovative solutions and strategic product enhancements.
• Agent Evaluation: Experience in evaluation criteria and acceptance thresholds for AI agents, ensuring deployments meet quality, safety, and business performance standards before production releases.
• AI Tools: Working knowledge of Claude Enterprise and Claude Code.

Essential Skills:

Software Product Managers must inspire and motivate teams and stakeholders with a clear vision of product value and company benefit.

• Visionary Leadership: Inspire and motivate teams and stakeholders with a clear vision and commitment to achieving it.
• Influence Without Authority: Lead by persuasion, demonstrating expertise, and build consensus and alignment across teams.
• Change Management: Lead meaningful product pivots, changes in strategy, or scope while managing team morale and stakeholder expectations.
• Risk Management: Evaluate risks and make decisions that balance potential rewards against risks to product success.
• Communication and Decision-making: Demonstrate excellent communication skills, critical thinking, collaboration, and decision-making skills.
• Build trusted relationships: Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to build professional networks with diverse groups of individuals and to work effectively with geographically dispersed teams and partners.
• Continuous learning mindset: Focus on shared learning, continuous improvement, and drive adoption of best practices.
• Thrives in ambiguity: Strong self-management and ability to work in ambiguity.
• AI knowledge: Strong preference for experience in AI/GenAI.

Lilly is dedicated to helping individuals with disabilities to actively engage in the workforce, ensuring equal opportunities when vying for positions. If you require accommodation to submit a resume for a position at Lilly, please complete the accommodation request form (https://careers.lilly.com/us/en/workplace-accommodation) for further assistance. Please note this is for individuals to request an accommodation as part of the application process and any other correspondence will not receive a response.

Lilly does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

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