Senior Product Manager - PaaS

Airtel Cloud: India has a large Cloud market estimated at $22Bn for year 2024 and growing at 17% CAGR with Cloud spends becoming an increasingly larger % of our customers IT spends. Customers have seen huge gains both on Performance and well as Cost-optimization by actively managing their Cloud strategy and adopting a Multi and Hybrid cloud approach. Airtel Cloud was launched to address the gap in the current market. Airtels core strengths on Network & Security are tightly integrated a part of our cloud offering. We have also leveraged Airtels brand trust, enterprise relationships, and partner ecosystem to strengthen the positioning and adoption of Airtel Cloud. Airtel cloud is a Telco-grade Cloud -Built in India, for India. It is a fully sovereign & regulated offering, built with best technology integrations promising maximized performance. It is built to address Indias regulatory, performance, and cost-efficiency needs. Tailored to handle 140 crore transactions per minute for Airtels own use in India, this cloud platform is now being extended to meet the ever-evolving needs of businesses in India. Hosted on next-gen sustainable data centers, with Gen-AI based provisioning, and managed by 300 certified cloud experts, the highly secure and reliable. Airtel cloud will offer the complete stack to our customers- IaaS, PaaS offerings, Observability, a Cloud management platform for customers to manage their Hybrid & multi-cloud environments; and Cloud security posture management across their clouds. This will be complemented with Advisory, Cloud analyzer, Data migration & Professional services from Airtel. With this product launch, we intend to become a part of our customers cloud journey and become a one stop shop for our customers across Connectivity, Network, Security, CPaaS, IOT & Cloud. We are looking for a high performing team of motivated individuals who will help us forge our growth story.

As Senior Product Manager Cloud PaaS, you will own the strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle of Airtel Clouds Platform-as-a-Service offerings. You will be responsible for building differentiated, developer-friendly, and enterprise-grade PaaS services that accelerate application modernization, data platforms, and cloud-native adoption for customers.

This role sits at the intersection of engineering, customers, partners, and commercial teams. You will translate market and customer needs into scalable PaaS products spanning application runtime, data, integration, AI/ML, and developer platforms, while ensuring alignment with Airtels sovereign cloud, security, and compliance requirements.

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities

• Define and own the PaaS product vision, strategy, and multi-quarter roadmap aligned to Airtel Clouds business goals and target customer segments (BFSI, Government, Enterprise, SMB)
• Identify and prioritize PaaS offerings across application platforms (containers, Kubernetes, serverless), data platforms (databases, analytics), integration services, AI/ML platforms, and developer tooling
• Translate customer, developer, and market needs into clear product requirements, PRDs, and user stories in close collaboration with engineering teams
• Work closely with Cloud Engineering and Platform teams to drive product delivery with a strong focus on reliability, scalability, security, and ease of consumption
• Own product positioning, differentiation, and value propositions for PaaS offerings, including sovereign cloud and regulatory advantages
• Partner with ISV Partnerships, Solution Architecture, and PSS teams to enable integrated solutions, reference architectures, and bundled offerings
• Define pricing, packaging, and monetization models in collaboration with Commercial and Finance teams, ensuring competitive yet sustainable unit economics
• Support go-to-market execution through sales enablement, customer presentations, competitive battlecards, and deal support for strategic accounts
• Track product performance using defined KPIs such as adoption, usage, revenue, customer satisfaction, and NPS; drive continuous improvement based on insights
• Ensure PaaS services meet Airtel Cloud standards for security, compliance, data sovereignty, and operational excellence
• Stay abreast of industry trends, hyperscaler PaaS offerings, open-source ecosystems, and developer expectations to continuously evolve the product portfolio