Associate Product Manager

What you will do:

 

Job Description:

Working as part of the Aurum PropTech digital team, the right candidate will spearhead our digital product proposition as a product manager and will be responsible for product planning, delivery and marketing throughout the product lifecycle. The right candidate will develop a strategy, vision and roadmap for the product based on input from internal stakeholders, customers, market research and their industry insight. They will work closely with Development/Engineering and other teams to deliver products that align with this vision, meet market needs and are delivered to a consistently high-quality standard. They will develop a forecast for the product based on input from marketing, sales, market analysts and their own experience and manage its delivery. They will identify the key benefits and value of products. This will be used to create and maintain marketing plans and collateral (including web updates, product training materials, pricing strategy and sales training).
The role will work with our leadership and management team across all relevant commercial and operational functions, to understand commercial objectives, gather and evaluate ideas and feedback, and define product features. There are several product initiatives at differing stages of development, and the role will ensure these are managed and delivered successfully, whilst becoming a key contributor to the ongoing product strategy.

Product Manager Responsibilities:

• Define the product strategy and roadmap for our flagship digital products; Develop the business case for new products, improvements to existing products, and business ventures.
• Manage the product throughout its lifecycle from concept to end-of-life
• Collect, manage and maintain traceability of requirements from all stakeholders across product releases
• Write the business case for investments and gain internal approval
• Propose a product marketing plan and budget and then deliver against it
• Write Product Requirements and Market Requirements documents
• Work with internal stakeholders and third parties to assess and establish partnerships
• Be the recognized expert in the business on the product, the market, relevant technology and the competition.
• Develop core positioning and messaging for the product
• Perform product demos to customers and develop relationships with key clients for the B2B segment
• Be a key stakeholder as part of the product team to ensure delivery of agreed objectives
• Set pricing to meet revenue and profitability goals
• Monitor, report and improve product performance
• Brief analysts and the press
• Run trials and MVPs, develop and deliver go-to-market launch plans
• Channel management and support
• Commission market and competitor research
• Promote the product to sales teams through sales training sessions, webinars, newsletters and other mechanisms
• Develop and deliver training to technical sales support
• Manage development and marketing projects to deliver to plan
• Collate feedback from sales and customers, & brief and train the sales force at quarterly sales meetings
• Represent the voice of the customer in senior-level management meetings
• Evangelize the product internally and externally
• Be recognized as a leader in the business and build relations with business stakeholders
• Deliver regular (e.g. monthly) volume, revenue and profit forecasts
• Brief press and analysts and go on press tours
• Runs pilot programs during the qualifying phase with almost final products and samples, in an agile environment.

What we are looking for:
Essential Skills

• Minimum of 5+ years experience as a Product Manager or Product Marketing Manager
• Proven experience in Agile product development
• Demonstrated success defining and launching excellent products
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Technical background, with experience in API and SaaS product development, desired.
• Excellent teamwork skills
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
• Examples and at least one sample of an effective document delivered in the past
• Experience in a B2C / B2B SaaS Business (Industrial experience of working in PropTech would be a major advantage)
• Experience in a client-facing role
• Results and data-driven mindset, a self-starter that is excellent at multi-tasking
• This is a great opportunity for a Product Manager who loves disruptive technology in a business that is scaling rapidly - Opportunities to work for a profitable startup do not come around often!

Qualifications

➢ Bachelor's Degree
➢ MBA preferred

Development Values

New technology is exciting, but at Aurum PropTech we recognize that people are the key to our successful digital transformation. We are creating a workplace where they can focus on high-value, strategic work, high-rewarding career paths and be inspired to enhance our client’s digital services - with an Agile mindset.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a fluid and fast-paced organization offering an attractive working environment both in terms of work type, technologies and projects. It’s somewhere you can thrive, grow and be challenged. The program is currently at its nascent stage and will entail owning a challenging and fulfilling role using cutting-edge technology. We will be willing to invest in relevant training for the right candidate.
COME JOIN US as we empower our teams with digital skills.

Sr. Finance Manager is a diverse and challenging position with its broad scope of responsibilities and high accountability. You will play a central role in driving insights which would form the basis for key strategic and business decisions. This role will be a precursor to several long-term exciting opportunities within the organization.

 

 Responsibilities:

• Gain a deep understanding of customer experience, identify and fill product gaps and generate new ideas that grow market share, improve customer experience and drive growth
• Create buy-in for the product vision both internally and with key external partners
• Develop product pricing and positioning strategies
• Translate product strategy into detailed requirements and prototypes
• Scope and prioritize activities based on business and customer impact
• Work closely with engineering teams to deliver with quick time-to-market and optimal resources
• Drive product launches
• Evaluate promotional plans to ensure that they are consistent with product line strategy and that the message is effectively conveyed
• Act as a product evangelist to build awareness and understanding
• Represent the company by visiting customers to solicit feedback on company products and services

 

Requirements:

• Proven work experience in product management or as an associate product manager
• Proven track record of managing all aspects of a successful product throughout its lifecycle
• Proven ability to develop product and marketing strategies and effectively communicate recommendations to executive management
• Solid technical background with understanding and/or hands-on experience in software development and web technologies
• Strong problem solving skills and willingness to roll up one’s sleeves to get the job
• Skilled at working effectively with cross functional teams in a matrix organization
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• MS/BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent preferred

 

 

We are looking for individuals who have the following skillset:

• Adaptable and flexible
• Problem-solving skills
• Detail orientation
• Ability to establish strong client relationship
• Agility for quick learning

 

Nice to haves:

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to multitask and work on a range of requirements.
• Experience in analysing very large, complex, multi-dimensional data sets.
• Penchant for business, curiosity about numbers, persistence to work with data and passion for uncovering insights out of that

About Mudrantar Solutions Private Limited 

Mudrantar Solutions Pvt. Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary of the US based startup, Mudrantar Corporation. Mudrantar is a well-funded startup focused on disruptive changes in the Accounting Software for Small, Medium as well as Large businesses in India. Our state-of-the-art OCR + Machine Learning Technology allows customers to simply take photos and our software does the rest of the heavy lifting. Our strategy for CAs, CS and Tax Practitioners is realized through web access for our customers to manage their practice and also manage client communication through freely available mobile app. We also offer data entry automation services through AI/ML platform. 

Product Manager 

 

As a Product Engineering Manager in the SaaS industry, you will use your unique blend of business and technical savvy to create product strategies that solve user challenges to drive revenue growth via increased adoption and retention. This role is responsible for driving Mudrantar’s SaaS roadmap towards building a scalable, intelligent and modular Practice Management System to increase profitability and productivity for our customers. 

Our products, MScan and DocBins are already being used by Practice Professionals in India as well as USA. If you are interested in building the next big thing, creating a global impact on millions of users, have a passion for making data work for you, and want to own a product in the near future, this is the place for you. From a career growth perspective, there are few better product organizations to be in, where you will be able to work, learn, and grow at this pace.  

Position 

• Full time employment 

Location 

• Any location in India 

Requirements 

• Develop and lead the product vision and strategy for Mudrantar SaaS Product 
• Understand the jobs to be done for the product, synthesize those needs to shape the product roadmap for a suite of products & services, and define key metrics 
• Strategically assess new opportunities and develop alignment around these 
• Collaborate and build executive alignment for your vision 

• Foster a community of data-informed decision making 
• Provide hands-on leadership for teams consisting of top-notch engineers and Managers 
• Create clear career paths for team members and help them grow with regular and deep mentoring. 
• Perform regular performance evaluation and share and seek feedback. 

 

Who will be ideal for this role? 

• 3+ years of work experience in the SaaS Product Management team and can translate product strategy into detailed requirements and prototypes. 
• Love candidates having First Principles Thinking, Bias for Action, & Strong opinions, loosely held. 
• Customer Obsessed: Gain deep understanding of customer experience, identify and fill product gaps and generate new ideas that grow market share, improve customer experience and drive growth 

• Impact-driven: Ability to work with engineers and designers to deliver key results. 
• Follows Ship now, Perfect later: iterative development principles and practices, including breaking large product goals into small, achievable slices for early and frequent delivery. 

Nice to have 

• Bachelor's Degree and/or equivalent Computer Science course 
• 3+ years programming experience with exposure to Python, NodeJS, VueJS, ExpressJS 

• Demonstrable track record of SaaS product Development and Team Management 
• Strong written and verbal communication skills 

 

What we offer: 

• Opportunity to work in a Fast-growing Start-Up with lucrative compensation benefits 
• Working directly with the leaders; having high level of work independence, autonomy and empowerment to lead company-wide changes 

• Work with a market dominating technology 
• Being part of a start-up from an early stage, lead your area of expertise and be a part of this exciting growth journey 
• Excellent opportunity for learning how to build teams, achieve goals and handle high growth situations. Ideal for people with entrepreneurial ambitions 

Responsibilities :

- Build the product strategy and roadmap in line with customers problems and company's vision

- Lead a set of cross functional teams by translation of the product strategy into detailed requirements and prototypes to drive the product development goals

- Identify market opportunities with research and competitive analysis and integrate it into product requirements to enhance user satisfaction

- Analyze complex use cases with experience in using analytics platforms to understand product usability and break them down to simplify user experience

- Design simple and intuitive user interfaces through wireframes and mock-ups

- Listen to the clients on an ongoing basis, be a trusted advisor and work towards aligning our offerings to their expectations

- Develop and launch new products while enhancing the existing products on a timely basis

- Communicate the product solutions and offerings effectively internally and externally

- Be persistent and professional in pursuit of all product deliverables and documentation such as PRD and Knowledge Base

- Be updated with the emerging trends in IT and technical architecture

Requirements :

- Masters Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Management, Statistics or related field

- 3+ years of experience managing web and mobile products with a background in technical product management or engineering

- 7+ years of experience in building global enterprise SaaS products

- Prior experience in logistics, supply chain, e-commerce or transportation domain is a plus

- Proven ability to drive large scale products with deep understanding of agile, high collaboration and leadership in a highly accelerated work environment

- Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills with a fair understanding of what makes a good user experience and beautiful design

- Spontaneous, quick thinker and a self-starter with key organizational skills that includes attention to detail and multi-tasking

Experience and Educational Requirements:

• 7 years of experience as a Solutions Architect/Developer, designing and implementing global cloud-based solution architectures for PaaS, IaaS or SaaS.
• Experience with structured Enterprise Architecture practices, hybrid cloud deployments, and on-premise-to-cloud migration deployments and roadmaps.
• Experience with distributed computing, software development, big data analytics, cloud computing, virtualization, hosted services, multi-tenant cloud, storage systems or content delivery as well as security protocols.
• Experience developing the User Interface and User Experience for complex software solutions deployed globally
• Experience with all major programming languages and SaaS database technologies
• Experience in building and scaling up the development function and a proven ability to attract, inspire, motivate and retain top tier talent
• Experience working with large multi-national distributed teams
• Experience articulating complex topics to senior stakeholders in both business and IT teams effectively .
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

 

 

Job Description :

• Develop and define product roadmaps and feature concepts
• Work with engineering, design, marketing, business sales, and QA team to come up with time estimates and adhering to external commitments
• Identify new products, gather requirements, build and ship new products.
• Scope and prioritize activities based on business and customer impact
• Talk regularly with our customers and improve the product based on the feedback
• Define and continuously analyze metrics for the success of the product
• Be familiar with industry best practices for product management and explore improving processes at KredX
• Engage with multiple stakeholders within the organization
• Identifying all barriers to feature adoption (awareness, legal, regulatory, training, customer usage) and ensuring systematic elimination of the same
• Manage project delivery to ensure timely product launches
• Identify and unblock short term issues and hurdles while always keeping eyes on the long term prize

 

Requirements :

• 3+ years of product management experience
• First-principle thinking
• Prior experience in working on web and mobile apps
• Relentless focus on customer experience
• Ability to pull data using basic SQL queries and ask the right questions of data
• Ability to hack solutions using low-code / no-code approaches (like Zapier, Zoho Creator, AWS Honeycode, or any of such 100s of tools etc..)
• Keen interest in financial and investment landscape of India
• Prior experience in Fintech or Finance/Investment domain is a plus but not mandatory

About Seniority Ltd.
Seniority is India’s first dedicated shopping destination for senior citizens. Through a portfolio of thousands of products, we cater to both medical & lifestyle related needs of the elderly aiming to make their life easier and more independent. We currently operate through our e-commerce platform
(http://www.seniority.in/" target="_blank">www.seniority.in) and an experience zone in Pune. We are backed by the $3Bn RPG Group.

What will you be required to do? You will be responsible for determining customers' needs and desires by specifying the research needed to obtain market information. You will recommend the nature and scope of present and future product lines by reviewing product specifications and requirements; appraising new product ideas and/or product or design changes. You will have to continuously assesses market competition by comparing the company's product to competitors' products. You will be providing source data for product line communications by defining product marketing communication objectives. You will have to pioneer in bringing new products to market by analyzing proposed product requirements and product development programs; preparing returnon- investment analyses; establishing time schedules with engineering and business. You will be required to maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies. You will the complete owner of the product and will be responsible for detailing out each and every specification in the product document. Does this sound like you?  You have 3-8 years of experience in building a consumer facing product and have created an impact  You are transparent about your prioritization and roadmap process  You have the ability to Say “No,” but explain why in terms that stakeholders understand  You are a ruthless prioritizer while balancing the needs of customers and stakeholders  You bring evidence-based decision-making in your communication  You are able to communicate and derive the maximum out of the business leads  You have excellent leadership, communication and detailing skills  You hold a degree from a premium MBA college or engineering graduate from Tier 1 institutes  You are a research oriented self-starter with genuine curiosity of looking at the bigger picture - constantly seeking out ways to improve customer experience  Interest and background in technologies and the logistics sector are an added bonus  You hold a degree from a premium college, you will still be tested on IQ and SQ. We use this to filter but we don’t hold this against you.  You manage your day by work and not by watch.  If this sounds like the perfect opportunity for you, get in touch with us. We can’t wait to hear from you!