TISTEPS - Program Manager - Skill Assessments & Career Development

As the Program Manager - Skill Assessments & Career Development, you will serve as the in-house expert leading our skill and role-based assessment vertical. You'll own the end-to-end packaging of skill assessments for both B2C aspirants and B2B partners, drive platform enhancements and user acquisition, design domain-specific career programs, support adjacent offerings, and turn market insights into strategic direction.
Key Responsibilities
1. Skill Assessments Packaging (B2C & B2B)
- Curate, validate and maintain skill assessment bundles for tech and non-tech roles.
- Manage and Engage industry SMEs to ensure test libraries and question banks relevant to the trends.
- Ensure each skill assessment maps to real-world job requirements and drives aspirants' career growth.
2. Domain-Specific Program Design
- Engage industry SMEs to design career development programs (e.g., data analytics, digital marketing) aligned to assessments, upskilling and guidance.
- Translate skill assessment insights into personalized skill-upskilling pathways and project-based learning modules.
3. Platform Enhancement & Demand Generation

- Define product requirements and roadmap enhancements for the skill-assessment module (question bank, test library workflows, integrations).
- Identify high-potential user segments (freshers, career-transitioners, recruitment partners) and lead targeted acquisition campaigns.
4. Cross-Vertical Enablement
- Liaise with Mentorship, Course and Community teams to integrate skill assessment outputs into mentor-mentee matching, course recommendations and interest specific micro-communities.
- Act as the go-to subject matter expert for all career-development and skill-assessment queries across the organization.
5. Trends & Market Research
- Conduct ongoing research on emerging job roles, hiring practices and upskilling trends in both tech and non-tech domains.
- Synthesize findings into strategic recommendations to ensure quality and relevancy in skill assessment, curation and career development programs, product roadmap, packaging strategy and go-to-market plans.
Qualifications & Experience
- 5-10 years leading a skill-assessment or talent-assessment vertical (B2C & B2B), with proven track record as a Subject Matter Expert in tech & non-tech domains.
- Minimum 1-year experience in a product management role for a digital / SaaS assessment platform.
- Deep expertise in assessment design, competency mapping, and test-library management.
- Strong experience in demand-generation and user-acquisition strategies (digital campaigns, partnerships, channel development).
- Excellent analytical skills, comfortable with data tools (Excel, SQL, Python/R) to derive insights and measure impact.
- Outstanding stakeholder management and cross-functional leadership abilities.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in any field.
What We Offer:
- Competitive compensation
- Professional development opportunities
- Chance to shape the future of career development assessments