Lead Product Manager - Core HR

Title: Lead Product Manager – CoreHRMS

Location: Hyderabad/Bangalore/Chennai | Function: Product | Type: Full-time

About The Role

As LPM for CoreHRMS, you will own the strategic charter across CoreHRMS, Time & Attendance, and Compliance pods. This is not just about solving module-level problems but shaping how employee lifecycle, policies, and compliance come together into a unified, enterprise-ready platform. You’ll define multi-quarter roadmaps, orchestrate pods, and ensure CoreHRMS is the anchor product for Keka’s enterprise growth in India and GCC.

Key Responsibilities

• Multi-Pod Orchestration: Align CoreHRMS, T&A, and Compliance into a unified enterprise roadmap.
• Enterprise Lifecycle Ownership: Automate exit, probation, letters, policy mapping, and headcount planning.
• Strategic Bets: Scope, prioritize, and justify high-leverage enterprise features.
• Cross-Pod Governance: Set standards for discovery, delivery, and customer outcome measurement.
• Customer-Led Roadmaps: Synthesize HR/CHRO insights into cluster-level JTBD and outcomes.
• Revenue Alignment: Link CoreHRMS roadmap directly to enterprise ARR uplift and NRR improvement.
  
  

• Anchor role for enterprise expansion (India Upmarket + GCC).
• High visibility with CPO, CEO, and GTM leadership.
• Scope to scale into Director of Product leading multiple clusters.
• Ownership of multi-quarter, cross-pod strategy, not just features.
  
  

• 7–10 yrs PM experience; at least 3+ yrs in enterprise-grade HR/ERP/Platform products.
• Proven success in multi-pod orchestration and customer-led roadmaps.
• Strong systems thinker with CoreHR/HRMS expertise.
• Confident in executive storytelling and influencing GTM & leadership.
• Bonus: Experience in India Upmarket HR, GCC compliance, or US onboarding.
  
  

• Lead the CoreHRMS enterprise charter in a company scaling from 10 -> 100.
• High-leverage role impacting adoption, retention, and global readiness.
• Access to C-suite, strategic decision forums, and enterprise customers.
• Autonomy to define Keka’s CoreHRMS evolution into a global platform.