Senior Product Manager

Company Description

AbhiBus is a leading online bus-ticketing platform that aggregates ticket inventory from over 4,000 bus operators - including major State Road Transport Corporations (SRTCs), covering more than 3.5 lakh (350,000+) routes across India. The AbhiBus website and apps allow users to check amenities provided by bus operators, compare booking fares, check bus timings in the searched route, live tracking of the bus before arrival, cancellation protection options and other facilities. It is the official ticketing partner for several state road transport corporation bus tickets and IRCTC bus bookings.

AbhiBus is owned and operated by ixigo (Le Travenues Technology Limited), Indias leading OTA for the Next Billion Users. With over 54 crore Annual Active Users in FY25, ixigo offers AI-powered train, flight, bus, and hotel bookings through its platforms - ixigo, ConfirmTkt, and AbhiBus.

About the role

BusGDS is AbhiBuss distribution and operations backbone for bus operators — the platform

that powers inventory, scheduling, fare and yield management, channel distribution, and settlement across consumer apps, agent network, and external partners. It is the supply-side

engine that thousands of operators and millions of travellers depend on every single day.

As Senior Product Manager for BusGDS, you will own both the strategy and the execution

for this mission-critical B2B enterprise platform. This is a role for a PM who is equally

comfortable setting multi-quarter direction and driving day-to-day delivery — someone who

can size a market opportunity in the morning and go deep with engineering on a fare-

calculation edge case the same afternoon.

You will operate in a complex, multi-stakeholder environment — working across engineering,

design, operations, sales, and external operator and channel partners — and you will be

expected to make sharp, well-reasoned prioritisation calls that balance operator needs,

traveller experience, and commercial impact.

What youll own

Strategy & vision

• Own the multi-quarter product vision and roadmap for BusGDS, grounded in a deep understanding of the bus distribution ecosystem, operator economics, and the competitive landscape.

• Develop a first-principles understanding of the market — operator pain points, channel dynamics, pricing and inventory behaviour — and translate it into a defensible product strategy.

• Build the business case for major bets: frame the opportunity, model the impact, and secure alignment from leadership and cross-functional partners.

• Make deliberate build/buy/partner and prioritisation decisions, and clearly articulate the trade-offs behind them.

Execution & delivery

• Translate strategy into crisp, unambiguous PRDs, specs, and acceptance criteria that engineering and design can move on quickly.

• Drive the full delivery lifecycle — discovery, scoping, sprint planning, release, and iteration — in close partnership with engineering and architecture on a technically deep

platform.

• Own the numbers: define success metrics, instrument the product, and use A/B testing, usage data, and operator feedback to drive continuous improvement.

• Maintain a high bar for quality and reliability, and unblock the team relentlessly to ship on time.

Stakeholder & partner management

• Be the voice of the operator inside the building — and the voice of BusGDS product to external operators and channel partners.

• Partner with sales, operations, and customer success to onboard operators, drive adoption, and close the loop on feedback.

• Communicate the product vision, roadmap, and trade-offs clearly to audiences ranging from engineers to senior leadership to external partners.

Qualifications

Must-have

• Proven strength in both strategy and execution — you can set direction and own a roadmap, and you can also write the spec and grind through delivery details. We are explicitly looking for both.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; comfortable working directly with data to frame problems and validate decisions.

• Hands-on with product analytics tools such as CleverTap, Google Analytics, Mixpanel, or Tableau for research, instrumentation, and measurement.

• Hands-on with wireframing and prototyping tools such as Figma, Adobe XD, or similar — and a sharp eye for the difference between good and bad design.

• Technical fluency: able to collaborate credibly with engineering and architecture on APIs, data models, and system trade-offs on a complex platform.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder skills, with the ability to influence without authority across functions and partners.

Strong plus

• Travel, mobility, or transportation sector experience — bus, rail, air, hospitality, OTA, GDS, or logistics.

• Experience with distribution systems, inventory or yield management, marketplaces, or other supply-side / two-sided platforms.

• Experience building self-serve tooling, onboarding, or operations platforms for business customers.

• Familiarity with agile development methodologies.

• Prior experience in engineering or a strongly technical background.

What success looks like in the first 6–12 months

• Youve developed a deep, credible point of view on the BusGDS roadmap and where the biggest opportunities lie.

• Youve shipped meaningful improvements to operator-facing inventory, pricing, or distribution workflows — with measurable impact.

• Operators, internal teams, and leadership trust you as the owner of this platform and the person who makes the calls

Additional Information: Candidates are responsible for safeguarding sensitive company data against unauthorized access, use, or disclosure, and for reporting any suspected security incidents in line with the organizations ISMS (Information Security Management System) policies and procedures