About the role
Dreaming big is in our DNA. It’s who we are as a company. It’s our culture. It’s our heritage. And more than ever, it’s our future. A future where we’re always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet life’s moments. A future where we keep dreaming bigger. We look for people with passion, talent, and curiosity, and provide them with the teammates, resources and opportunities to unleash their full potential. The power we create together – when we combine your strengths with ours – is unstoppable. Are you ready to join a team that dreams as big as you do?
AB InBev GCC was incorporated in 2014 as a strategic partner for Anheuser-Busch InBev. The center leverages the power of data and analytics to drive growth for critical business functions such as operations, finance, people, and technology. The teams are transforming Operations through Tech and Analytics.
Do You Dream Big?
We Need You.
Job Description
Job Title: Product Manager
Location: Bangalore
PURPOSE OF ROLE
BrewDat is ABI’s data platform, powering data products and AI solutions across all our domains – from sales and marketing to supply, finance, people, and more.
We provide the data foundations, frameworks, and tools that enable teams across ABI to ingest, transform, govern, and serve data at scale - following Data Mesh and Domain-Driven Design principles.
About the Role
We’re looking for a Product Manager with a strong technical background to lead the Integration products of BrewDat.
Your main mission is to:
Build and evolve thevision, strategy, androadmap for BrewDat’s data engineeringcapabilities (ingestion, transformation, andserving).
Understandandprioritizeuserneedsfrom data engineers, analyticsengineers, ML engineers, anddomainteams.
Turn complexplatformcapabilitiesintoclear, usableproductsthat make data teams more productiveandautonomous.
Build our Integration-as-a-Service platform and guide the transition from legacy middleware to cloud-native architectures
You’ll work in a cross-functional squad alongside engineers, a Delivery Manager, architects, and governance specialists, and you’ll collaborate closely with the Adoption team, who bring users’ needs to the product area.
KEY TASKS AND ACCOUNTABILITIES
Product Strategy & Vision
Define and evolve the product vision for BrewDat's data engineering layer (ingestion, transformation, and serving).
Translate company and data strategy into a clear, prioritized roadmap for your squad.
Discovery & User-Centricity
Deeply understand the needs of data engineers, analytics engineers, domain squads, and internal platform users.
Run product discovery: interviews, usage analysis, experiments, and feedback loops with internal customers.
Roadmap & Delivery
Own and manage the product backlog for the Data Engineering squad.
Write clear problem statements, user stories, and acceptance criteria, focusing on outcomes rather than outputs.
Work in an Agile environment, participating in ceremonies and ensuring alignment between Product, Engineering, and Architecture.
Measurement & Continuous Improvement
Define and track product KPIs: adoption, CSAT from users, build times, time-to-data, platform reliability, etc.
Use data and feedback to continuously refine priorities and validate if shipped features are creating value.
Promote a culture of experimentation and continuous improvement within the squad.
Stakeholder Management & Communication
Align with multiple stakeholders (domains like sales, marketing, supply, finance, tech, etc.).
Communicate roadmap, progress, trade-offs, and impact clearly and frequently.
Partner with the Adoption team to launch new capabilities, manage change, and scale usage.
Middleware
Managing the consolidated middleware roadmap, prioritizing global reliability frameworks (like cross-zone replication/caching), and tracking integration unit economics (e.g., standardizing integration cost per application).
QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE, SKILLS:
Must-Have
Solidexperience as a Product Manager (orProductOwneracting as PM) in:
Data platforms, data engineering, analyticsplatforms, ordeveloper/platform tools, or
Technicalproductswithstronginfrastructureorbackendcomponents.
Technical background (e.g., Computer Science, Engineering, Data, orequivalentexperience). Youdon'tneedtocodedaily, butyou must:
Be comfortablediscussingarchitecture, pipelines, andtechnical trade-offswithengineers.
Understandconcepts like data pipelines, ETL/ELT, orchestration, data lakes, data warehouses, and APIs.
Broaden the technical scope to include API management, event-driven architectures, and microservices alongside the existing data pipeline concepts.
Strong skills in:
Productdiscoveryandproblemframing.
Prioritizationandroadmap management.
Abilitytonavigatecomplex stakeholder environments, negotiatepriorities, andaligndiverseinterests.
Strong communication skills in English (writtenandspoken).
Nice-to-Have (Differentials)
Experience with some ofthetechnologiesandconceptswe use is a big plus, butnotmandatory:
Cloud & Data: Azure, Databricks, Apache Spark, Airflow, Unity Catalog.
EngineeringPractices: GitHub, CI/CD, code review flows, Data Mesh.
Experience with internal platformsor "products for developers/data teams" isespeciallyvaluable.
Explicitly call out experience with legacy-to-cloud migrations (e.g., MuleSoft to Camel-K), Azure DevOps for delivery tracking, and deep observability tools like Datadog.
And above all of this, an undying love for beer!
We dream big to create future with more cheers