Product Manager : AI & Geospatial Products

Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), New Delhi

Product Manager (Technology & AI)

Terms of reference

At CEEW, we are deliberate about what we stand for (and what we don’t stand for!) as an employer. So, if the below description strikes a chord, we would love to hear from you!

·       We offer strong visionary leadership – with emphasis on research and impact at scale

·       We actively promote leadership by initiative

·       We celebrate talent and ambition

·       You will be surrounded by smart people who will challenge you and help you grow

·       You will learn faster than your peers in other organisations

·       Curiosity and irreverence, as well as responsibility, come together at CEEW

·       You will get above-market remuneration

·       We provide a safe space for all

·       At CEEW, your life is your example for others

Designation offered

Product Manager : AI & Geospatial Products

Team/ Focus area

Technology & AI

Technology & AI Lead

Job duties and accountabilities

·       Establish and lead the AI product program function; manage a portfolio of products, platforms, and initiatives. Drive prioritisation, capacity planning, sprint cadence, and executive reporting

·       Lead the POC → MVP → production pipeline; define success metrics (business + technical)

·       Write technically sound PRDs with edge cases and acceptance criteria

·       Build QA frameworks across data accuracy, model outputs, and UI flows

·       Establish release standards, monitoring, alerts, and feedback loops across the product portfolio, Ensure traceability

Adoption, Partnerships & Impact

·       Design adoption strategies across central ministries, state governments, enterprises, and partner institutions; track Activation, Retention, and Depth

·       Make new partnerships to identify new features, increase impact, and API/data-sharing use cases

·       Act as a bridge between external stakeholders (government, industry, multilateral organisations) and internal product, tech, and research teams

·       Define and own the AI/agentic product strategy and roadmap across the Tech & AI portfolio (CRAVIS, disease early warning systems, air quality tools, hyperlocal climate AI)

·       Ship AI-driven capabilities: agentic workflows, natural-language querying, forecasting, recommendations that are interpretable and decision-grade for government users

·       Define product requirements for multi-agent systems stateful workflows, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop (HITL) controls

·       Input to design agentic UX beyond chat structured workflows, dashboards, trust layer (explainability), and control layer (overrides, approvals)

·       Define frameworks for agent observability (AgentOps), evaluation (accuracy, grounding, latency, hallucination), and responsible AI compliance.

Qualification

B.E./B.Tech from IITs/NITs (or equivalent top-tier engineering institute) or MBA from a Tier-1 institute (IIM/ISB/IMT/FMS/SP Jain or equivalent)

Key skills

·       Experience in product management, with at least 2 years actively building and shipping AI/ML or GenAI products end-to-end

·       Working knowledge of LLMs, RAG, Graph RAG, agentic systems, and evaluation frameworks applied in real production contexts

·       Direct experience with modern AI stacks: multi-agent frameworks (ADK, SDKs,  Lang Graph, LangChain, MCP, etc.), vector/graph retrieval, and observability tooling

·       Comfort with SQL, APIs, and data pipelines; ability to debug across data,model,UI layers

·       Track record of driving adoption and measurable business or policy impact

·       Experience in climate tech, geospatial / Earth-observation platforms, or public-data systems

·       Familiarity with GIS / map-based products and satellite data workflows

·       Prior work with government, multilateral, or mission-driven ecosystems

·       Familiarity with the Indian policy and regulatory landscape

·       Experience supporting DPI-aligned products or open data platforms

“If you are passionate about leveraging data for creating decision-making toolkits that help in effective policy-making, we would like to speak to you. If you can help in turning climate datasets into insightful analytics, while also upskilling yourself in public policy space, you are probably the candidate we are looking for.”

CEEW operates in a dynamic environment and the candidate will be required to show flexibility in undertaking a variety of tasks.

Compensation

Competitive compensation – commensurate to the experience and matching the best of standards adopted by industry or other similar organisations for similar roles.

Application Process

CEEW is an equal-opportunity employer, and the selection process does not discriminate on the basis of age, gender, caste, ethnicity, religion, or sexuality. Female candidates are encouraged to apply.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Interested applicants are advised to apply at the earliest possible.

Only shortlisted candidates will be notified by us. We appreciate your interest.