Principal Product Manager, Data & AI Platforms

Smartsheet

Principal Product Manager overseeing data and AI platforms at Smartsheet. Leading execution roadmaps and managing data governance initiatives in Bangalore, India.

Posted 6/15/2026full-timeBangalore • 🇮🇳 IndiaLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudVault

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Drive Strategic Alignment: Lead the alignment of data governance and AI-driven use cases across Engineering, Product, and Business organizations to ensure unified goals, rigorous prioritization, and clear scoping of platform capabilities.
Lead Product Lifecycle: Manage both inbound (requirements gathering, strategic roadmap definition) and outbound (internal/external evangelism, community engagement, customer feedback loops) product management for the data and AI platform.
Own the Execution Roadmap: Define and drive the execution roadmap for critical data platform features, including the enablement of AI capabilities, streamlined data ingestion/onboarding, and foundational data vision initiatives.
Champion Governance & Quality: Own the business-stakeholder perspective for data quality and governance, ensuring the platform provides reliable, secure, and compliant data assets for all consumers.
Deliver High-Quality Requirements: Provide a continuous stream of detailed requirements with clear, measurable acceptance criteria, demonstrating a deep understanding of both upstream data source complexities and downstream end-user consumption needs.
Engage Stakeholders Extensively: Partner with cross-functional executive leaders to inform platform roadmaps and ensure the data strategy remains strategically aligned with Smartsheet’s overall product and business platform goals.
Act as a Data Ambassador: Represent the data and AI platform's capabilities internally and externally, clearly communicating the value proposition of features related to data retention, security, compliance, reliability, and integrity.
Provide Mentorship: Offer informal leadership and mentorship to Engineering and Product team members, fostering a culture of technical excellence, accountability, and collaborative delivery.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of experience in Product Management, with a significant and proven focus on AI & data infrastructure, core backend platforms, or high-scale technical SaaS products.
Proven track record of owning and successfully driving execution roadmaps for critical, scalable, and reliable data systems.
Extensive and current understanding of: AI Foundations and Platforms: Agentic frameworks, transformer architectures, prompt engineering, rag, fine-tuning techniques, vector databases, and embedding strategies.
Deep familiarity with leading cloud data platforms (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake).
Knowledge of Dimensional Modeling and Data Vault 2.0 (DV2.0).
Experience with Medallion Architecture and contemporary Data Integrity practices.
Exceptional ability to translate complex technical debt or architectural needs into clear business value, actionable initiatives, and precise "acceptance criteria" for diverse technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Ability to treat internal developers, analysts, and external partners as "customers," utilizing research and data to identify and remove friction in the data consumption and contribution journey.
High-level understanding of data governance, semantic impact, and data modeling, with the ability to lead and navigate complex architectural discussions with senior engineering teams.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Get to Know Us: At Smartsheet, your ideas are heard, your potential is supported, and your contributions have real impact. You’ll have the freedom to explore, push boundaries, and grow beyond your role. We welcome diverse perspectives and nontraditional paths—because we know that impact comes from individuals who care deeply and challenge thoughtfully. When you’re doing work that stretches you, excites you, and connects you to something bigger, that’s magic at work. Let’s build what’s next, together.
Equal Opportunity Employer: Smartsheet is an Equal Opportunity (EEO) employer committed to fostering an inclusive environment with the best employees. It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants in accordance with applicable laws in the US, UK, Australia, Germany, Costa Rica, Japan, Bulgaria, and India. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information. If there are preparations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please let us know.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Product ManagementAI InfrastructureData SystemsDimensional ModelingData Vault 2.0Medallion ArchitectureData IntegrityPrompt EngineeringTransformer ArchitecturesVector Databases

Soft Skills

LeadershipMentorshipStakeholder EngagementCommunicationCollaborationStrategic AlignmentRequirements GatheringCustomer FocusTechnical ExcellenceProblem Solving