Associate Director Product Manager

Job Description – Product Manager, Platform & Enterprise Systems

Position: Associate Director/ Director Product Manager – Platform & Enterprise Systems

Experience: 8+ Years

Location: Gurgaon

Function: Product & Technology

Industry: Technology

Employment Type: Full-time

About TBO.com

TBO is a global platform that aims to simplify all buying and selling travel needs of travel partners across the world. The proprietary technology platform aims to simplify the demands of the complex world of global travel by seamlessly connecting the highly distributed travel buyers and travel suppliers at scale.

The TBO journey began in 2006 with a simple goal – to address the evolving needs of travel buyers and suppliers, and what started off as a single product air ticketing company, has today become the leading B2A (Business to Agents) travel portal across the Americas, UK & Europe, Africa, Middle East, India, and Asia Pacific.

Today, TBO’s product range from air, hotels, rail, holiday packages, car rentals, transfers, sightseeing, cruise, and cargo. Apart from these products, our proprietary platform relies heavily on AI/ML to offer unique listings and products, meeting specific requirements put forth by customers, thus increasing conversions.

TBO’s approach has always been technology-first, and we continue to invest on new innovations and new offerings to make travel easy and simple. TBO’s travel APIs are serving large travel ecosystems across the world while the modular architecture of the platform enables new travel products while expanding across new geographies.

Why TBO:

• You will influence & contribute to “Building World Largest Technology Led Travel Distribution Network” for a $ 9 Trillion global travel business market.
• We are the emerging leaders in technology led end-to-end travel management, in the B2B space.
• Physical Presence in 47 countries with business in 110 countries.
• We are reputed for our-long lasting trusted relationships. We stand by our eco system of suppliers and buyers to service the end customer.
• An open & informal start-up environment which cares.

What TBO offers to a Life Traveler in You:

• Enhance Your Leadership Acumen. Join the journey to create global scale and ‘World Best’.
• Challenge Yourself to do something path breaking. Be Empowered. The only thing to stop you will be your imagination.
• Post pandemic: travel space is likely to see significant growth. Witness and shape this space. It will be one exciting journey.
• As a fastest growing B2B platform our priority is purpose-building scalable systems.
• Adopting industry leading technologies to support best-in-class business capabilities for high performing and scalable solutions.
• Fast response to the evolving regulatory environment and helping to meet the firm's regulatory commitments by addressing internal and external commitments.

About the Role

We are hiring experienced Product Managers to take ownership of critical, high-impact parts of our product ecosystem. This is a high-trust, high-visibility role. You'll own a meaningful product surface end-to-end, partner closely with senior business and technology leadership, and have real influence over priorities and direction — well beyond what's typical for a PM role at this level. You'll also be expected to bring a genuinely AI-native lens to your area, finding opportunities for automation and efficiency that haven't been explored before.

This role suits a product leader who is energized by ownership and complexity, builds trust quickly with senior stakeholders, and combines strong technical fluency with sharp business judgment.

Key Responsibilities

1. Product Ownership & Prioritization

• Own a defined product area end-to-end, translating business priorities into a clear, well-sequenced roadmap.
• Exercise independent, day-to-day judgment on what matters most, in partnership with senior leadership.
• Convert competing, ambiguous requirements from multiple stakeholders into a coherent, defensible plan.

2. Technical Depth

• Build genuine, hands-on command of the underlying systems and architecture relevant to your area — not just requirements-gathering.
• Understand technical risk, trade-offs, and true cost before committing to a plan.
• Partner closely with engineering to balance system integrity with speed.

3. AI-Driven Thinking

• Bring a first-principles, AI-native lens to your product area.
• Proactively identify where automation, AI, and modern tooling can unlock efficiency, quality, or new capability.
• Champion new approaches independently, without waiting for a formal mandate.

4. Stakeholder Influence & Negotiation

• Operate as a sharp, credible partner to stakeholders across Engineering, Business, Sales, and senior Leadership.
• Negotiate effectively with engineering teams on scope, timelines, and trade-offs, and with fellow Product Managers on cross-team dependencies and sequencing.
• Influence at the leadership level, including when delivering difficult or unpopular decisions, without relying solely on formal authority.
• Communicate priorities, trade-offs, and rationale in a way that earns confidence quickly across technical and business audiences alike.

5. Execution Rigor & Accountability

• Drive scope, goals, and KPIs forward with real urgency — comfortable pushing timelines and outcomes rather than simply tracking them.
• Hold engineering, cross-functional partners, and other stakeholders accountable to commitments, directly and without avoidance.
• Hold yourself to the same standard — own misses transparently and course-correct quickly.
• Show grit in the face of resistance, ambiguity, or slow-moving dependencies, maintaining momentum rather than letting initiatives stall.

6. Sustained, Independent Ownership

• Perform consistently in a complex, matrixed environment with many stakeholders.
• Maintain strong energy and standards across both high-visibility and less glamorous phases of work.
• Build effective working relationships across a wide range of engineering and business collaborators.

Required Experience & Skills

• 8+ years in Product Management, with substantial experience owning complex, technically deep, or high-scale product areas.
• Bachelor's degree from a Tier-1 engineering institution; MBA from a Tier-1 or Tier-2 business school preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to go deep technically — genuinely comfortable partnering with engineering on architecture and trade-offs.
• Proven track record of prioritization and decision-making under real, competing pressure, with specific examples.
• Strong, demonstrable fluency in applying AI/automation to solve business problems independently.
• Excellent stakeholder management, influencing, and negotiation skills — with engineers, cross-functional peers, other Product Managers, and senior leadership.
• Demonstrated grit and execution rigor: a track record of driving scope, goals, and KPIs forward, and holding self and others accountable to commitments.
• Track record of sustained, high-quality delivery in complex or ambiguous environments.
• Open to strong candidates from outside the travel industry; travel, B2B travel, travel marketplaces, booking platforms, distribution, or hospitality experience is a plus, not a requirement.

What We Are Looking For

We are looking for someone who:

• Is energized by scope and ownership, and comfortable being relied on for judgment calls.
• Treats complex, technically deep systems as a craft to master.
• Brings AI-native thinking as a default instinct, not an occasional initiative.
• Is diplomatic and sharp at once — able to build trust with senior stakeholders while holding a clear point of view.
• Has real grit — pushes through resistance, ambiguity, and slow dependencies rather than waiting for conditions to improve.
• Is a strong executioner who drives outcomes forward and holds others accountable comfortably and directly.
• Has the temperament and consistency to perform at a high level over the long run.

Success in This Role

Success will be measured by the ability to: Become a trusted product decision-maker in your area → Elevate quality and technical health of your systems → Introduce AI-led efficiencies not previously explored → Drive scope, goals, and KPIs forward with visible urgency → Maintain strong prioritization discipline amid competing demands → Sustain this level of performance over time.

Preferred Industry: Travel / Travel Technology / Hospitality / OTA / B2B Marketplace (open to other industries)

Education: Bachelor's degree from a Tier-1 engineering institution required; MBA from a Tier-1 or Tier-2 B-School preferred. plus.