Assistant Project Manager

About Company

Our client is a brand co-creation platform that transforms powerful ideas into authentic, profitable, and experience-led brands that can define the future of brands in key consumption categories like fashion and lifestyle; food and FMCG, home and decor and beauty and wellness. They are a team of experienced entrepreneurs, marquee investors, and industry professionals who have expertise and experience in building some of the most popular brands in the country. They partner with passionate entrepreneurs to combine their collective learning and experience with data science, digital ethnography, and technology. platforms to build brands that connect to the new generation of Indian consumers.

What you’ll be doing

• Work with brand entrepreneurs to create and implement a forward looking product strategy. Influence technology choices and business strategy in creating multiple D2C brands across Food, Fashion, Home, Beauty and more simultaneously.

• Convert brand proposition into digital user experiences covering pre and post purchase journeys across channels such as D2C, Social Media, Whatsapp, Marketplaces and Metaverse by understanding business economics of brands in their first 1000 days.

• Raise the bar on customer empathy & quality of what we deliver, work with small & high performance teams to build products, managing a fast-paced agile delivery model.

• Analyse macro trends on user behaviour and adoption, predict technology shifts to identify innovative (sometimes first to market) product features and work with multiple tech startups to drive metrics and time to market.

• Talk the data language and drive a working environment fostering data driven decision making while running experiments, identifying gaps and prioritization.

Requirements

• Entrepreneurial mindset with acute understanding of product market fit for every brand with ability to decide when to scale or sunset experiments/initiatives.

• Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product and technology and come up with immediate & market first product propositions.

• End to end product development functional knowledge cutting across digital shopping journeys, marketing, contact centre operations, payments etc

• Track record of building and delivering high-quality digital products and complex roadmaps, ideally across multiple product categories with geo-distributed teams

• Ability to provide clarity, cut through clutter and being decisive on priorities and metrics.

• Ability to excite people through communication and presenting data in most the ambiguous situations.

• Ability to define short term goals & metrics (sometimes on a weekly basis) and align teams on how-lists.

• Passion for technology and pro-activeness in developing and/or integrating home developed or 3rd party applications.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

1) Lead a team of 6-10 Product Managers and Design team members to build cutting-edge Vision products for the AI Cataloging space.

2) Create a world-class Self Serve SaaS Product experience with data analysis at its center.

3) Lead the Web, Mobile and API experience of the AI product stack.

4) Talk to users - Large and Small to better understand their needs and motivations.

5) Project management to align the technology team and ship products.

6) Stay up to date with the latest research in Computer vision and best product practices and bring the most important features

7) Prioritization and Roadmap Management, Work alongside all stakeholders to represent a true picture of priorities and future initiatives.

8) Diving deeper into the data to identify opportunities and learnings.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

1) BTech/MBA degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject from a Tier-1 institute (Mandate)

2) 3+ years of experience leading Product team in high growth Product companies

3) 5+ years of Product Management experience in growth startups or Product companies

4) Extremely self-motivated and autonomous. You'll be given direction but it's on you to figure out how to proceed.

5) Analytical. You should have plenty of experience looking at the data to inform your decisions.

6) Strong product intuition. You need to have an informed opinion to build a product from scratch.

7) Systems thinker. You should understand how even the smallest change affects the entire system.

8) Super detail-oriented. Small errors or oversights should jump off the screen for you.

9) Team champion. We're serious about our work, but that doesn't mean we can't have fun together. :)


Education Mandatory: IIM, IIT, BITS

As a Product Growth Intern with a focus on User Engagement, you will play a crucial role in connecting with our user base to gather valuable insights. Your primary responsibility will be reaching out to users, arranging meetings, and conducting discussions to deeply understand their experiences, issues, and needs. These insights will directly contribute to our product development and growth strategies.

• Proactively reach out to users through various channels to arrange meetings or interviews.
• Conduct user interviews and meetings to gather feedback on their experiences, issues, and needs regarding our product.
• Analyze user feedback to identify common trends and areas for improvement.
• Collaborate with the product management team to translate user insights into actionable product strategies.
• Assist in developing and maintaining a user feedback loop to continually engage with our user community.
• Support the creation of user personas and journey maps to better understand and address user needs.
• Work with cross-functional teams including marketing, sales, and engineering to implement user-centered growth initiatives.
• Prepare and present reports on user feedback and insights, and their implications for product growth.

What We Offer:

• Hands-on experience in user research and direct user engagement.
• More than Industry standard Stipends
• Opportunity to contribute significantly to the product development process.
• Exposure to a dynamic and fast-paced startup environment.
• Mentorship from experienced professionals in product management and user research.
• A learning-focused environment where your insights will be valued and acted upon.

THIS IS FOR YOU, IF YOU:

1. Love technology and have an innate interest in coding and building products.
2. Aren’t afraid of taking ownership and accountability. You love challenges and won’t stop till you haven’t found a solution.
3. Possess knowledge of Software development industry best practices.
4. Have hands-on experience and expertise in the technical competencies needed for the job, so that you can work independently.
5. Are passionate about the travel/hospitality space and can understand the nuances of hotel operations.
6. Know how to have fun and smile often.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Identify potential product ideas/features based on market research and discussions with
   customers and other stakeholders.
2. Design and drive the roadmap for the product – vision & strategy, feature definition, and milestones.
3. Manage end to end product – from concept, to design, development, testing to deployment/launch.
4. Manage Product Backlog
5. Competitive Benchmarking
6. Define success criteria for products and review usage/metrics.
7. Be responsible for Product Improvement and Innovation based on technology and market trends, as well as customer needs and feedback.

QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE:

1. B.E./B.Tech + MBA (preferred but not mandatory).
2. At least 10+ years of total experience with 5+ years of relevant experience.
3. Excellent communication skills (active listening, verbal and written) - ability to comprehend and translate vague requirements into clear, detailed documentation.
4. Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills.
5. Excellent planning, organizational, and time management skills.
6. Solid understanding of technology. Preferably past experience working as an engineer.

As a Senior/Principal Product Manager you will be responsible for the product roadmap, features, adoption, and bugs. This includes defining and prioritizing product roadmap, listening to customers, creating business requirements, driving functional requirements, driving this through development, and successfully launching new product features.

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1. Develop business cases for each product feature to demonstrate feasibility including target pricing and margin, addressable and realizable market, SWOT analysis, estimated development, implementation, and support costs etc.

2. Develop functional, technical and designs specifications for the product.

3. Help define the value proposition of the product for the sales team and help develop the sales documentation that support the selling process of your products.

4. Research and understand competitive offerings in your sector.

5. Experience in E-commerce, CMS, Payment Apps, and Integration products will be preferred as the role would demand this experience.

You will closely work with technology, design, sales and customer care teams. You'll report to head of product development for Plum.  

An enthusiastic individual with 6+ years of product management function in a product company. We'll look forward to technical skills required for a product role along with soft skills required to manage multiple stakeholder roles. 

We are looking for candidates from B2B SaaS or consumer SaaS based companies only.Rest we can explore together during our interactions. If you find yourself to be someone that fits this requirement then read on.

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About the team and Role

You are passionate about product management, finance and leadership. You consistently display outstanding commitment to delivering quality work and customer delight while being a transformational leader in the organization. You are comfortable working with multiple stakeholders, creating product backlogs, defining requirements from ambiguous needs, putting sprints together and delivering on the requirements. You are able to thrive in a highly collaborative, creative, analytical, and fast-paced environment. You are comfortable acting as a product manager/business analyst/project manager where required.

Primary Responsibilities

• Create and build product roadmap and strategy in collaboration with leadership team.
• Define Product Vision – Create product roadmap, identify the product market fit, areas for investment and potential for innovation in the market.
• Define Product strategy and market fit - break down the product vision and design product strategy to achieve vision.
• Business Requirements - Create and maintain business requirements for the technical teams.
• Execution of Product Planning and Development – Include customer goals and business requirements for product release, ensuring implementation is aligned with product goals and requirements.
• Document insights and interaction models based on user feedback.
• Conduct usability tests to validate business ideas.
• Work as a product owner as part of our agile teams, run sprints and lead product delivery.

Required Skill

• MBA or Master’s Degree in Finance Or Operations.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience as a Project Manager/Business Analyst/Product Manager.
• Strong experience in project delivery methodologies and business analysis methodologies.
• Possess good knowledge of agile project delivery and has experience working with agile teams.
• Strong experience in defining and documenting business requirements and functional specifications.
• Robust verbal and written communication skills with proven experience engaging and influencing senior executives.
• Ability to see the big picture, effectively evaluate trade-offs and drive consensus across business units and serve as an effective liaison between customers and engineering.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations and drive actions.
• High attention to detail, ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously while delivering results in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

Work Environment Details

• An opportunity to play a formative role in an ambitious financial services marketplace spanning investment banking, debt capital markets, institutional finance, retail lending and asset management
• A journey that will challenge and reward you in a manner few others will

About Peppo

https://www.peppo.co.in">Peppo is a fair food ordering utility. It helps restaurants manage both the demand and the delivery sides of their business, on the cloud.

The simplest way to think of Peppo is that it is a backend for restaurants that takes them online, not on just one channel but on all of them. App publishers that integrate with Peppo, will see every restaurant that uses Peppo and can enable food ordering through their own front-end.

On the fulfilment side, Peppo allows restaurants to plug into an aggregated delivery fleet on which it helps restaurants choose between various providers to optimise between delivery costs and performance.

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Business Development Manager with first-rate system administration and cloud systems management skills to join our retail platform team. In this role, you’ll be making some of the most significant decisions for the company. You need to have strong problem solving capabilities, be a team player and have great communication skills. You also need to be goal-oriented, have the ability to understand the core architecture and take up responsibility of product deployment and scaling. You must be a highly technical, hands-on system admin with passion for devops and scaling.

We value those with an entrepreneurial spirit and those who bring experience from established organizations. You ought to be comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces. You must have excellent attention to detail; and you should be flexible and  comfortable to learn new technologies and systems.

The opportunity is ideal for someone early in their career who learns by doing. This is a high-exposure role and you will learn what it really looks like in the early days of a startup.

We offer a friendly, casual, collaborative working environment that is mission-driven and results-oriented. Our small office is in a great space in Bangalore. Due to the COVID situation, we are committed to having a fully remote engagement.

Responsibilities 

• Collaborate with the Tech Lead on product deployment and scaling
•  Responsible for communicating and reporting to the tech lead
•  Setup new environments as well as maintain existing ones
• Participate in technical design and architecture reviews from the deployment and scaling point of view
•  Write technical documentation
• Automate stuff
• Infrastructure as code
• Be aware of costs and skilled enough to squeeze

Skills and Requirements

We are looking at your experience not just in terms of the years you’ve clocked but the aptitude to get things done. Here’s the skills that your job would entail, so please make sure you highlight the following in any capacity you have demonstrated - professional, freelance or hobbyist.

• 2+ years of software development experience (professional, freelance or hobbyist). Github profiles matter.
• Strong proficiency in AWS products with certifications
• Deep understanding of Infrastructure as code tool like Ansible
• Understanding of tools like Gitlab, Jenkins etc required for code management and continuous delivery 
• Python or Bash scripting skills
• Experience with deployment frameworks, practices and processes
• Demonstrated skills in deploying, releasing, and maintaining highly scalable web applications
• Bonus if you know AWS CloudFormation or Terraform
• Good communication skills and ability to work independently or in a team.

Employment Type

• Full-time
• Remote/On-Site 

Our Preferred Resume Format

• Polished resume with list of projects clearly listed (with responsibilities you held)
• Links to interesting projects that you worked on (professional, freelance or hobbyist)
• Blogs written and any other public contributions you made

1. Resume evaluation: We will screen all incoming CVs and invite candidates for next round, fitting our job profile description.
2. Case study:  If you are one of the shortlisted candidates, you will be sent a case study to solve.
3. Phone screening: we will follow up with a phone screening round for better understanding of the CV, technical proficiency, experience etc.
4. F2F Round(s): The next round is a direct face-to-face discussion over a video call.

• Small team with an opportunity to have a steep learning curve. 
• Have a meaningful impact on end customers and sellers on their experience with digital tools.
• Work on redefining the e-commerce experience by building cooperatives for the micro-services era. This makes Peppo a perfect home for those looking to pursue compassionate capitalism.
• Train under a diverse and accomplished set of team leads, mentors and investors who have worked in government and big tech.
• Holistic development guaranteed as you will grow in an environment that prizes lateral thinking allowing you to supplement your core responsibilities with additional functions.
• Competitive compensation and flexibility to work from anywhere since Peppo uses the best of productivity tools.

Peppo is an equal opportunity employer. We're excited to work with talented and empathetic people no matter their race, caste, color, gender, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, physical disability, mental well-being, or age. Our code of conduct reflects the kind of company we strive to be, and we celebrate our diversity for that truly makes us create products that cater to the world.