Product Manager, Planning

Planful is the pioneer of financial performance management cloud software. The Planful platform helps businesses drive peak financial performance and is used globally to streamline business-wide planning, budgeting, consolidations, reporting, and analytics. Planful’s award-winning AI capabilities accelerate decision-making, serving users in over 100 countries to close faster, accelerate cycle times, increase productivity, and improve accuracy. Planful is a private company with more than 1,500 customers, including Bose, Boston Red Sox, Five Guys, Grafton Plc, Gousto, and Specialized, backed by Vector Capital.

About the Role

Planful is seeking a full-time Product Manager, Planning to join our world-class product team in Hyderabad, India. Reporting to the SVP of Product, this individual will own the roadmap and execution for Planful’s dynamic planning capabilities—driving continuous, connected, and AI-powered planning experiences for finance and operations teams across the enterprise. The right candidate combines deep domain knowledge in financial and operational planning with a passion for building intelligent, modern software.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the product roadmap for Planful’s dynamic planning capabilities and set engineering priorities accordingly.
• Write and share clear functional specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria with development, QA, and UX teams.
• Design and champion intuitive new planning functionality in close partnership with engineering and UX teams, ensuring an exceptional user experience for finance and operations users.
• Evangelize product vision, planning strategy, and AI capabilities to customers, partners, prospects, and internal stakeholders including Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success.
• Integrate AI capabilities into the planning product—including predictive analytics, intelligent scenario modeling, anomaly detection, and natural language interfaces—to deliver an AI-forward user experience.
• Leverage AI tools and techniques personally to accelerate research, synthesis, prototyping, and requirements development workflows.
• Analyze the competitive landscape for planning and FP&A solutions and define differentiated requirements that advance Planful’s market position.
• Evaluate product performance and feature utility with internal stakeholders (support, services, sales) and external stakeholders (customers, partners, analysts).
• Lead research and discovery in areas of innovation, including AI-driven planning automation, rolling forecasts, scenario planning, and workforce/operational planning.
• Define and refine the data model and calculation layer requirements to support flexible, multi-dimensional planning across finance and operations.
• Partner with the broader product team to ensure coherent integration between planning, reporting, consolidation, and analytics capabilities within the Planful platform.

Requirements

• 3–5+ years of experience as a Product Manager, Program Manager, or consultant with enterprise software, preferably in FP&A, CPM, EPM, or related planning and analytics domains.
• Deep domain knowledge in financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and operational planning—ideally with hands-on experience as a user, implementation consultant, or PM of planning software.
• Demonstrated experience incorporating or working alongside AI/ML capabilities in a product context, including familiarity with LLMs, predictive modeling, or AI-assisted workflows.
• Actively uses AI tools (e.g., generative AI, co-pilots, automated analysis) to improve personal productivity and bring innovative ideas to product development.
• Strong understanding of driver-based and continuous planning methodologies, rolling forecasts, scenario and sensitivity analysis, and workforce/headcount planning.
• Experience defining user interface concepts for complex business applications, including wireframes, mockups, and final UX decision-making.
• Understanding of EPM concepts including financial analytics and visualization, data integration, multi-dimensional modeling, and financial reporting.
• Proven ability to define and communicate product requirements to a broad audience—engineers, QA, marketing, senior management, customers, and analysts—through both verbal and written communication.
• Proficiency with modern product management tools: Atlassian Jira, Claude, Google Docs, Figma, Pendo or similar.
• Experience with SaaS development models, cloud computing, and Agile/Scrum development methodologies.
• Undergraduate degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Intelligence, Computer Science, or related field. Graduate degree is a plus.
• Independent thinker and self-starter who operates with urgency and can research, synthesize, and present findings with minimal direction.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including comfort presenting to large audiences in person or over video, and ability to craft clear requirements and specification documents.
• Experience working with or presenting to U.S.-based customers and stakeholders.
• Experience in a lead role mentoring or managing team members is a plus.

Benefits

• Volunteer days, Birthday PTO, and company-wide Wellness Days.
• Supply of diapers and meal deliveries for the first month of your Maternity/Paternity leave.
• Office hubs in Hyderabad and Indore, with a home office setup allowance and monthly reimbursements for Wi-Fi and cell phone expenses.
• Join Employee Resource Groups like Women of Planful, Parents of Planful, and more, with support for creating new ERGs.
• Participate in People Programs that foster connection and wellbeing, such as Movember, Summer Wellness, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and Hispanic Heritage Month.