Analyst

About Company

Company is a fast-growing start-up with a world-class platform that simplifies network monetization. Our mission is to enable any company to launch services atop any network infrastructure with radical simplicity. Leveraging the power of our platform, Reach also operates a top-rated mobile service Reach Mobile in the U.S. that donates 10% of data plan costs to provide life changing connectivity to women and students in need. About the Role: It’s a global role responsible for managing the product throughout the product lifecycle from planning to execution in support of organizational strategy and objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Write detailed user stories and acceptance criteria, draft user flows, communicate project scope effectively, and manage products through development, QA, UA Testing, and launch • Ability to understand business and technical requirements & conceptualize end-toend solutions

• Ensure requirements are communicated effectively to the business, design, operations, CS and development teams.

• Manage agile product development process from a product management point of view

• Participate in scrum meetings, planning, reviews and retrospectives • Maintain and prioritize the product backlog and track feature releases with different stakeholders

• Work with QA and engineering teams to streamline system integration, test and improve product features

• Serve as an in-house expert for our products and become the go-to person for all functional issues

• Manage all aspects of in-life products, including customer feedback, requirements, and issues

• Have Strong OSS/BSS requirement gathering and solution experience (Telecom domain).

• Minimum 5-7 years of experience in Telecom products e.g CRM, SDP, Billing & Service provisioning. Skills and Qualifications:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent preferred 

• You will work directly with the two co-founders in helping the company to achieve its strategic and operational goals, by delivering key internal and external projects that are critical to the success of the company
• You will own the creation of all external facing material produced by the CEO Office for senior engagements with the promoters, board and all employees
• You will have a deep understanding of the company business model, the underlying profitability and levers of different business verticals
• You will be responsible for driving the rigour of analytical market based insights into actionable co-ordination between the Revenue team and the Brand team

Product Manager

Experience - 2 - 3 years 

Job Location - Vashi, Navi Mumbai

Skills Required - Product Management, Product Strategy, Product development, Business Analysis, Agile/Scrum, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) 

Role description: Primary responsibility of the role would be to define the product roadmap & backlog, work with business and functional teams to design and implement changes that drive user acquisition, user experience & monetization.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead a development team to implement product changes while working collaboratively with multiple stakeholders like Design, Sales, Operations & Management.
• Analyze data to derive product & business insights and use them to strategize changes. 
• Analyze data to derive product & business insights and use them to strategize changes. 
• Iteratively improve on the product by running tests.
• Be responsible for prioritization of features based on an assessment of business impact & effort.
• Report findings & periodic reviews with Management. 
• The ideal candidate would have the following qualities   
  
  
• Understanding and experience of Digital Product Development Life Cycle.
• Excellent business analysis & problem-solving skills.
• Result-driven, goal-oriented work ethic.
• Customer empathy, ability to think from the user's point of view.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including technical writing skills.
• Understanding of technology and exposure to software coding.
• Experience in Business Requirement Specification documentation/product backlog (Epics, User stories).
• Experience of working in an agile environment is preferred.
• Understanding of user experience (UI/UX).
• Product development experience including experience in digital product building/tech delivery is preferred. 

Primary Skills & Criteria [Mandatory]

• Technology Business Analyst
• Experience with Finance IT, EPM IT, ETL Processes
• Minimum Work Experience: 12+ years

Other Requirements [Good to have]

• Exposure to tools like Jira, Confluence, etc.
• Exposure to development and production support processes
• Exposure to EPM tools [e.g., HFM, FMDEE, etc.]
• Candidate should be able to lead and track technical developments/tasks independently and present status to management
• Candidate should be self-motivated and self-sufficient to work independently without much supervision
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Role Duties/Activities

The Technology “Agile Business Analyst” or “Business Analyst” is responsible for ensuring the team works within an Agile delivery method and that their backlog of requirements and analysis feed into Technology Projects and Programmes successfully.

This role will carry out some or all of the following activities:

• Assures delivery through the entire life cycle of the project of user requirements through to live
• Managing the capture, analysis, and documentation of business process (including IT processes)
• Designing solutions or change interventions
• Oversee change management activities which can include diverse tasks such as timeline planning to
• stakeholder engagement
• Manage or collaborate in change interventions such as training and communication
• Tracking and documenting progress and managing status reporting
• Managing implementation of solutions
• Risk identification, risk reporting and devising interventions to mitigating risks
• Budget management and forecasting
• Management of external service providers
• Support Technology teams to manage delivery proactively, balancing scope, schedule, resourcing, dependencies, communications, etc.
• Work with the Technology team and Product Owner to drive improvements in productivity through backlog management, maturity in the use of Agile methodologies (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, Lean), and corresponding management of dependencies
• Oversee the monitoring and reporting of progress, issues, dependencies, risks to the stakeholders
• Ensure adherence to standard controls and drives teams to achieve compliance and framework,
• capability management, Security controls and technology architecture designs

We are hiring a Technical Business Analyst who wants to advance their knowledge and experience in Privacy & Security. The ideal candidate will have interest and experience in data privacy and application & data security. We will be providing training resources to ramp up on privacy & security, but candidates with technical background, and interest in privacy & security are preferred.

As the successful candidate, you will be required to: 

• Gathering and documenting needs and use of data from internal and external stakeholders, including privacy requirements based on laws & regulations, document security best practices and requirements.
• Research, analyze, and document business requirements. Prepare high quality analysis such as summarizing security best practices, privacy laws, business requirements specifications, functional and technical specifications, traceability matrices, etc.
• Create user stories based on functional requirements gathered from business teams.
• Work with developers and support teams to resolve defects and environment issues
• Creating data and process workflows.
• Good communication and problem-solving skills.
• Engage and work closely with development team and stakeholders, including attending scrum meetings.

To be eligible for this role, you should possess the following: 

• Bachelor’s or Engineering Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 4+ years of relevant experience as a Business Analyst.
• 2+ years of experience using JIRA and Confluence.
• Should have good communication and presentation skills with the ability to adapt to a range of audiences
• Must be self-driven, self-motivated with good soft skills.
• Must have good software engineering skills, thorough knowledge of SDLC, STLC.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Quick learner and attention to detail
• Portray strong analytical and problem-solving skills and the ability to work within a collaborative team environment; Ability to multi-task and manage multiple projects
• Open for new challenges and learning and flexible to work and support the team as per the business need
• Understand and analyze Business, Functional, and technical requirements of the project
• Knowledge in using any of the bug tracking tool like Bugzilla/Jira

RELEASE MANAGER

Bangalore/Pune

Full Time

We are seeking a collaborative, organized, process and detail oriented Release manager to drive high quality, on-time deployment of quarterly product releases by designing, implementing and executing effective release management processes in a collaboration with global Engineering, Operations, Product Management, services and Technical Support teams.

Responsibilities

•  Managing risks and resolving challenges that impact release scope, quality, and
• schedules
• Planning release windows and cycles across portfolios, components
• Managing relationships working on interrelated processes
• Communicating crucial release plans and changes
• Measuring and monitoring progress to achieve a timely software release within
• defined budgetary limits and defined quality standards
• Producing deployment, implementation, and run books plans
• Conducting release readiness and milestone reviews
• Maintaining release schedules for every core service and ensuring it aligns with major vendors and other stakeholder. Qualifications
• Mid-Senior: 7-12+ years of experience
• Experience as a release manager leading a substantial feature/product in the enterprise
• space
• Curiosity to learn + Extreme ownership + EQ/interpersonal skills
• Enjoys streamlining complex engineering processes and wants to gain mastery ∙
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent analytical skills
• Structured thinking
• Experience in coordinating cross-functional work teams up to task completion.

We have a passion for excellence. We love what we’re doing and have fun doing it. We value great minds, but we’re also humble enough to rally around the best solution, regardless of whose idea it was. We appreciate talent, and we are always on the lookout for the right people to join us. dial for info nine one zero one four double three eight one two.

Attention: We are looking for Immediate joiners!

Executive Summary

Are you looking to level up? The Senior Product Owner (Digital Transformation) role at FirstPrinciples and the partner that you will be staffed with is a multi-million-dollar digital transformation initiatives on web and mobile with one of the largest Luxury Home Builders in the United States.

About FirstPrinciples & The Role

FirstPrinciples is a Tech Holding company with a Venture Studio as part of its holdings. One part of the Venture Studio business at FirstPrinciples is about working with large enterprises on long-term digital transformation initiatives within their organization. The position that we are currently hiring for involves a multi-million-dollar digital transformation initiatives for one of the largest Luxury Home Builders in the United States. Our scope involves working as expert consultants to advice and execute on upgrading the IT & Tech different internal and stakeholder facing systems within their organization. We are working on both web and mobile platforms.  

Who is This For?

This is for an experienced Product Owner/Manager who is looking to take their career to the next stage by working on a large-scale initiative that will challenge and extend their current capacities.

At FirstPrinciples, we truly act as a Tech Strategic Consultant along with having the operational capacity to implement the suggested recommendations. This role is for someone who is able to provide recommendations to the client while having the ownership of the end deliverables. While we have technical leaders also staffed within this partnership, we are looking for someone who can talk the talk with senior engineers and tech architects and understand their recommendations and its implications.  

Requirements

• One of the following certifications (PRINCE2, CSP, CAPM, CBAP (BABOK), Agile, CSP, CSPO, PMPO)
• Experience in independently managing, End-to-End Business Analysis, Product Analysis, Project Management for complex IT Projects and Products / Apps
• Working with Client to understand provide Consulting or Business Solutions, Problem Solving Approach and Skills, Strong Analytical Skills, should be able to read between the lines
• Managing scope via release management and planning and creating User-Stories, Running Sprints Cycle and Experience working with a team of 15-20 resources
• Requirements Gathering, Requirements Analysis, Requirements Management, Requirements Elicitation, Requirements Matrix (RTMs)
• Experience in Developing Low-Level and High-Level Prototyping using Wireframes tools (using any of the latest wireframing tools, such as JustInMind, Adobe XD, MockFlow, etc)
• Ownership of the Product Backlog & Deliverables and developing the User Stories & Release Planning
• Experience in Writing and Maintaining Business Requirement Documents (BRD) or PRDs and Functional Specification Document (FSD), Software Requirements Specification (SRS)
• Should have experience in creating Project Budgeting, Creating Efforts Estimations (EE), Presentation Decks, and Clean Documentation 
• Experience in Writing Test Cases and Managing UAT and Deployment 
• Analysis: GAP, Fish-bone Analysis, RCA (Root Cause Analysis), MoSCOW
• Experience in Consulting clients on Problem Statements V/s Solution Building based on AS-IS and TO-BE
• Experience converting Business Cases to Technology case and Building Products from scratch thus Translating Business Requirements into Software Requirement Specifications
• Interacting with the Technical team to ensure Delivery and Implementation of the Software Solution/Projects
• Client Relationship Management, Excellent at English Speaking, and Written Communication
• Understanding of Change Management, Risk Management and Project Management

Management Skills

1. Excellent Written and Oral Communication Skills and Etiquettes
2. Excellent Presentation Skills 
3. Experience in working with Onshore and Offshore Teams and Experience handling Cross-Functional Projects, Resources and Clients
4. Experience dealing with Pressure and Meeting strict Project Deadlines
5. Leadership and Motivational Skills to ensure the Work is being done by the Resources on time and within the specified budget
6. Conflict and Resolution Management
7. Prior experience in operations management - good to have 
8. Experience working with US Clients

TechStack & Platform

1. MEAN Stack (Web)
2. Native iOS & Android (Mobile)
3. AWS

Product Manager 

Purpose of the role 
A Product manager at CarWale would be responsible to deliver world-class products that solve real-world problems around car buying, by working in an agile framework of iterative development and collaboration.

They have to deliver great business value through user research , intelligent prioritization , and working with Stakeholders throughout the product lifecycle to ensure a great return on investment.

Role description

Primary responsibility of the role would be to define the product roadmap & backlog, work with business and functional teams to design and implement changes that drive user acquisition, user experience & monetization.

 Key responsibilities:

• Lead a development team to implement product changes while working collaboratively with multiple stake holders like Design, Sales, Operations & Management.
• Analyze data to derive product & business insights and use them to strategize changes.  Iteratively improve on the product by running tests
• Be responsible for prioritization of features based on assessment of business impact & effort.
• Report findings & periodic reviews with Management.

The ideal candidate would have the following qualities

.

• Understanding and experience of Digital Product Development Life Cycle
• Excellent business analysis & problem-solving skills
• Result-driven, goal-oriented work ethic
• Customer empathy, ability to think from user’s point of view
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including technical writing skills
• Understanding of technology and exposure to software coding
• Experience in Business Requirement Specification documentation/product backlog (Epics, User stories)
• Experience of working in an Agile environment is preferred
• Understanding of user experiences (UI/UX)
• Product development experience including experience in digital product building/tech delivery is preferred

CarWale is India's largest auto media company. CarWale has always striven to serve car buyers and owners in the most comprehensive and convenient way possible. We provide a platform where car buyers and owners can research, buy, sell and come together to discuss and talk about their cars.

Our mission is to bring joy and delight into car buying and ownership. To achieve this goal, we aim to empower Indian consumers to make informed car buying and ownership decisions with exhaustive and un-biased information on cars through our expert reviews, owner reviews, detailed specifications and comparisons. We understand that a car is by and large the second-most expensive asset a consumer associates his lifestyle with.

Together with CarTrade & BikeWale, we are the market leaders in the personal mobility media space.