Product Manager Ii, Policy & Governance (hybrid, Bangalore)

Smartsheet Smartsheet · Seattle · India · Product Mgt

Product Manager II focused on Policy & Governance for Smartsheet, owning the execution roadmap for enterprise customers to manage risk, enforce policies, and maintain regulatory compliance. The role involves managing data usage, sharing, and retention, with a specific focus on AI governance, data privacy (GDPR, CCPA), and organizational policy requirements. Collaboration with engineering, UX, legal, security, and sales teams is key to delivering granular control, data integrity, and adoption of governance features. The role requires understanding the needs of IT/Governance teams and solving complex policy enforcement and data lifecycle management challenges at scale.

What you'd actually do

  1. Contribute to and have the opportunity to shape the long-term vision for a core area of Smartsheet's policy enforcement, data lifecycle management, and governance capabilities, ensuring these products meet enterprise standards. Enable
  2. Own the execution roadmap for critical governance capabilities, including retention and deletion policies, data classification and enterprise controls that manage external sharing.
  3. Serve as a product owner on corporate governance, AI governance, data privacy (e.g., GDPR, CCPA), and organizational policy requirements, aligning cross-functional teams around effective compliance solutions.
  4. Identify, scope and help lead monetizable governance offerings, working closely with pricing and sales teams to drive adoption of features that enable centralized control and compliance reporting.
  5. Collaborate closely with Legal and Security teams to translate evolving regulatory requirements and internal policy needs into actionable product features and API capabilities.

Skills

Required

  • 3+ years of product management experience, including delivering impactful SaaS or enterprise software solutions.
  • Experience in governance, compliance, or information management product management, focusing on data retention, policy enforcement, eDiscovery for B2B enterprise customers
  • Ability to execute feature-level roadmaps for complex and regulated platforms.
  • Ability to think strategically about the vision for the space and identify opportunities to add to that vision
  • Demonstrated success in driving cross-functional team collaboration (including compliance and legal teams).
  • Strong storytelling skills and the ability to communicate complex compliance and policy concepts effectively to technical and customer audiences.
  • Data-driven mindset with a focus on governance adoption KPIs and business metrics to guide feature prioritization and measure product outcomes.

Nice to have

  • Working knowledge of data lifecycle management, compliance frameworks, international regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR), US domestic regulatory requirements (eg. HIPPA, CCPA), and how policy engines enforce rules across large data sets is a plus

What the JD emphasized

  • AI governance
  • regulatory compliance
  • data privacy
  • policy enforcement
  • data lifecycle management