Associate Director

Job Description

Associate Director – Product Management - Agentic AI

Location: Bangalore

About ArisGlobal: ArisGlobal is dedicated to empowering life science organizations to deliver breakthroughs faster, more accurately, and with greater precision. Our software, services, and technologies are essential to the delivery of life-saving medications. As an industry leader, ArisGlobal offers software as a service for Clinical Trials, Regulatory Affairs, Drug Safety, and Medical Affairs. Our products are utilized by 40 out of 50 major biopharmaceutical companies. Among our clients are four out of five of the world's most advanced global pharmaceutical companies and nine government-health authorities, including the FDA, Health Canada, and the National Medical Products Administration. ArisGlobal boasts a worldwide presence with offices located in the US, Croatia, Slovenia, Japan, China, and India. We are distinguished by the high caliber of our team and by our passion for creativity and innovation. We pride ourselves on our welcoming and supportive corporate culture, which is inclusive of all team members.

The Opportunity: ArisGlobal is seeking a Associate Director – Product Management - Agentic AI to both create and grow a strategic revenue-generating product line within our Agentic AI solutions platform. In this role, you will translate high-priority opportunity areas into products, iterating quickly toward validated outcomes. You’ll combine practical product leadership with commercial thinking, leveraging your understanding of emerging AI opportunities to inform our broader platform trajectory. This is a customer-facing, zero-to-one build role, ideally suited to someone with a background in data-driven decision support and insight generation, combined with experience of developing Agentic AI propositions.

Key Responsibilities:

Product Creation, Management & Growth:

• Drive the zero-to-one product build, leveraging entrepreneurial DNA and experience with lean startup, design thinking, service design, and other relevant methodologies.
• Translate strategic priorities into roadmaps, MVP definitions, user stories, and delivery plans.
• Operate with autonomy and pace, taking new products from concept through early validation to scale.
• Identify opportunities to increase revenue, lower operational costs, and improve customer retention by analyzing product performance and customer feedback.

Customer Development:

• Engage with key stakeholders in life sciences to validate need, value, and usability.
• Run lean product discovery cycles across hypothesis-driven themes.
• Serve as a key external representative of the product — trusted, credible, and customer-aware.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Work collaboratively across internal teams including Engineering, Sales, Services, and Marketing to ensure alignment on product priorities, effective go-to-market execution, and customer adoption.
• Work, as needed, with key external partnerships, as required to build out and commercialise new propositions.
• Clearly communicate product vision and benefits to internal stakeholders, enabling effective product launches and adoption strategies.

Why Join Us?:

You’ll help build one of the most strategic products within a bold new wave of Agentic AI capabilities. This is a rare chance to take full product ownership, drive innovation with real customer impact, and work within a supportive team that’s moving fast to shape the future of AI-powered development in life sciences.

Skill Requirements:

Required:

• 12+ years of experience in Product Management in B2B2C, B2B, or B2C space.
• 3+ years in AI-focused product management in B2B2C, B2B, or B2C space.
• Good experience in Agentic AI
• Experience working closely and driving product requirements for Data Engineering, ML Engineering, and Data Science teams.
• Proven track record of launching AI-driven enterprise SaaS solutions at scale.
• Deep curiosity and awareness of emerging AI technologies and trends, along with an ability to conceptualize how they can drive practical business value.
• Analytical mindset, skilled at using metrics to drive product decisions and continuously improve user experience.
• Strong communication skills, comfortable translating complex ideas into clear business value for diverse stakeholders.
• Proven ability to prioritize and execute effectively in dynamic environments.
• Entrepreneurial DNA, with experience in zero-to-one product builds and methodologies such as lean startup, design thinking, and service design.

Preferred:

• Prior experience building AI products or platforms designed to automate or augment enterprise workflows.
• Understanding of modern platform architectures, scalability, and performance considerations for AI-driven products.
• Formal degree in a technical field such as Machine Learning, Statistics, or Computer Science.
• Familiarity with core AI platform elements and knowledge of AI tooling stack across one/many public cloud and data vendors.
• Experience managing large, technically complex product programs spanning multiple teams.
• A high degree of independent drive.
• Experience in contextual intelligence, information design, and insight generation.