Principal Product Manager - Learning & Assessment Solution - IIT/NIT/BITS

What We Need

We need someone who's already lived this life. Someone who's built interfaces that real people depend on daily. Someone who can sit with a complex data requirement at 2pm and walk away at 6pm with components that feel magical.

You don't need to be taught how to structure a React app. You don't need to learn what SSR costs at scale. You don't need to "grow into" frontend architecture. You already know these things so deeply that you can focus on the only thing that actually matters: building experiences

that users love.

Your Craft:

● JavaScript/TypeScript flows through your mind like visual thinking

● React/Next.js are languages you speak fluently, not tools you use

● Client-side and server-side rendering are choices you make with intention

● Material UI, Styled Components feel like extensions of your creativity

● WebSockets and Highcharts make you smile when real-time data needs to dance

(bonus points)

The Reality

The work is beautifully challenging. The data is complex but the interfaces need to be simple.

The problems are the kind that make you sketch solutions on napkins. And the team? They actually care about pixel-perfect experiences.

If you're the type who gets energized by turning complex data into clear insights, you'll probably fall in love with what we do here. If you prefer static layouts or predictable requirements, this might not match your creative energy - and that's completely okay.

Procedure is hiring for WorkHero.

Across the U.S., thousands of small HVAC businesses are drowning in admin. WorkHero pairs seasoned office managers with AI workflows to free up their time, unlock growth, and modernize the trades. We handle everything that touches the back office of a small HVAC operation: billing, rebates, permits, warranties, marketing, and more. Our customers save dozens of hours every week, allowing them to focus on growing their business.

We are building at the intersection of Human and AI automation, and that’s where you come in!

How you will help us achieve it

As an Applied AI Engineer, you will collaborate with the company founders, product team, and office managers to develop agentic workflows for many of their daily processes. You will ideate, design, implement, and maintain the software side of the product. You will design the UX, develop the front end interfaces, build backend routes and design database models. The bulk of this role is interacting with office managers to understand their workflows and then creating and managing AI agents & workflows to make them more efficient.

In your day to day, you will:

• Partner with our frontline staff to understand their work so you can automate it with AI and save them time
• Live on the cutting edge of Human & AI interactions, keeping up to date with the latest patterns and how they apply to WorkHero and our workflows
• Contribute to exceptional code quality and performance of the code base
• Mentor young engineer(s) to be great at their craft, as our team grows

Key Details

• You can work remotely from anywhere with an overlap of at least four hours with the product team (6 pm to 10 pm IST)
• This role involves participating in calls with US-based stakeholders
• The compensation comes with a salary and an equity component
• Location - Remote
• YOE - 5 to 10 years
• NP - Immediate to 30 days

You’ll thrive if you

• Care about your craft and the mission of the software you are developing
• Are enterprising and can figure out how to convert workflows/playbooks to AI agents
• Work with cutting-edge AI tools and APIs
• Don’t just complete tickets that are assigned to you; you think deeply about the product and how you can make it great, then put that into action
• Enjoy developing 0-1 software products iteratively
• Are proficient in the Typescript ecosystem, including monorepos.
• Are skilled in React and Express (Koa is a plus) or similar tech
• Are pragmatic and understand trade-offs in software engineering

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in building software products
• Have created applications using AI and LLMs. Can understand when to prompt, use RAG, create agents or fine-tune an LLM
• Have solid experience with the MERN stack
• Ability to debug and optimize complex systems
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Bonus points if you have

• Experience in mentoring junior team members. Better if they had gone to replace you in your team, allowing you to take up a more meaningful role
• Familiarity with our tech stack (React, Koa, Mongo, AWS, React Native)
• A good understanding of UX best practices for SaaS based interfaces & AI
• Built apps using React Native
• A deep understanding of infrastructure and can optimize for cost
• Set up evaluation frameworks for agentic workflows
• Contributed to open-source projects

Your First Six Months

• You will be working on creating AI Agents/Workflows based on the playbooks for some of the crucial workflows of HVAC office managers
• You will work on building the frontend, APIs and apply AI knowledge to add features to the office manager and admin portal, as well as the mobile app
• You will be using Vercel AI SDK to create abstracted AI agents and workflows with the capability of falling back to different providers
• You will demo the agentic workflows to US-based stakeholders—small HVAC business owners, product team and office managers
• You will monitor and manage the AI Workflows, ensuring quality and accuracy, improving them over time

About engineering at WorkHero

We value:

• High ownership and fast iteration
• Deep understanding our tools and systems
• Continuous improvement, both technically and interpersonal

Our technology stack:

• Full Stack TypeScript (React, React Native, KoaJS Backend, CRXJS Browser Extension)
• NX Monorepo with shared typing & libraries
• Infrastructure:
• AWS (ECS, Hosted RMQ)
• MongoDB Atlas
• Firebase & GCP services
• AI Tooling (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, Deepgram)

Our team

• The Company is funded by Workshop Ventures Partners, a US-based venture studio focused on building great companies in Climate Tech
• The team consists of founding members from Harvard Business School and the Workshop Ventures team — Kyler, Furman, Chad, Jason, and Ulhas

Interview Process:

• Screening: Review of your open source contributions and past projects.
• First Round of Technical Evaluation: Assessing your problem-solving and AI integration skills.
• Technical Evaluation + Cultural Fit: Understanding your alignment with our team.

Required Experience 

1 - 5 years of total experience 

Minimum 1 year of experience in SaaS B2B sales 

Experience of selling in education sector is a plus (good to have) 

Requirements | What do we look for? 

• You have strong written and verbal English communication skills 
• You are excellent and confident in giving demos/presentations of enterprise SaaS/software tools 
• You have planned and executed sales in a defined zone previously 
• You have performed end-to-end sales and achieved targets as an independent contributor 
• You are a self-starter and enjoy collaboration with others 
• You understand that making mistakes means you’re learning 
• You have a constant desire to grow and develop 

Roles and Responsibilities | What will you do? 

As a Business Development Manager at company you will be responsible for selling company’s flagship SaaS product (campus placements automation tool) to colleges and universities on an annual license subscription basis. 

• Planning and setting weekly/monthly lead generation and outreach goals
• Prospecting, generating leads from the college database shared with you for your zone (1 or more States assigned to you), via emailing, calling, or any necessary means 
• Scheduling and fixing product demo over calls and emails 
• Perform product demos confidently to the placement officers and leadership (Chancellors, Directors, Owners) of the institutes 
• Prepare and send proposals, discuss and negotiate pricing, close deals 
• Maintain a healthy pipeline and achieve your set quota/targets

• Managing the interchange of data between the server and the users.
• Development of all server-side logic, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end Integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application; therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code.
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic
• Implementation of security and data protection.

• Should have worked on the Django REST framework.
• Familiarity with some Pandas, Numpy, text parsing/mining and ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries
• Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture
• Good understanding of server-side templating languages
• Worked on Amazon cloud solutions
• Understanding of accessibility and security compliance
• Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python
• Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Strong unit test and debugging skills
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tool
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Should know about HDL and LLD.
• Should know about making python packages
• Should have worked on microservice-based Architecture