Associate Product Manager

Job Title : Product Owner

Job Summary:

The Product Owner (PO) is responsible for defining, prioritising, and managing the product backlog to ensure the successful delivery of features and improvements. The PO works closely with stakeholders, including customers, development teams, and business leaders, to ensure that the product delivers maximum value.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Backlog Management :

- Define and manage the product backlog, ensuring it aligns with the product vision and business goals.

- Prioritise backlog items based on business value, stakeholder input, and development team capacity.

- Ensure that the backlog is visible, transparent, and understood by all stakeholders.

2. Stakeholder Collaboration:

- Act as the primary point of contact between stakeholders and the development team.

- Gather and analyse feedback from customers, stakeholders, and market trends.

- Communicate product vision, goals, and progress to stakeholders.

3. Requirement Definition:

- Write clear and concise user stories, acceptance criteria, and other requirement documents.

- Collaborate with the development team to ensure a shared understanding of requirements.

- Validate that the delivered features meet business needs and acceptance criteria.

4. Sprint Planning and Review:

- Participate in sprint planning, review, and retrospective meetings.

- Ensure that the development team understands the priorities and goals for each sprint.

- Accept or reject completed user stories based on acceptance criteria.

- Should be able to drive daily standup meeting

5. Product Strategy and Vision:

- Contribute to the development of the product strategy and vision.

- Stay informed about industry trends, competitor products, and emerging technologies.

- Identify opportunities for product improvement and innovation.

6. Performance Monitoring:

- Track and report on product performance metrics and user feedback.

- Analyse data to identify areas for improvement and make data-driven decisions.

- Continuously evaluate and refine the product to ensure it meets user needs and business goals.

7. Expertise in story writing:

- Writing down the EPICS into smaller stories to fulfil the sprint

- Writing down stories in correct Agile Format

- Accepting the stories after definition of done

8. Knowledge of capacity planning and load management of team

- Should be able to define the capacity of team as per upcoming iterations

- Managing the load, risks and dependencies

9. Should be able to drive Art Sync

- Should have knowledge of release (continuous integration and continuous delivery)

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

- Proven experience as a Product Owner or similar role in product management.

- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies, especially Scrum.

- Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.

- Ability to prioritise effectively and manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.

- Analytical mindset with strong problem-solving skills.

- Proficiency with product management tools (e.g., JIRA, Trello, Asana).

- Certification in Product Ownership (e.g., CSPO, PSPO) is a plus.

Preferred Skills:

- Experience with user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) design.

- Familiarity with software development processes and technologies.

- Knowledge of the specific industry or domain relevant to the product.

Work Environment:

- Collaborative and dynamic work environment with cross-functional teams.

- Opportunities for continuous learning and professional development.

What You will do

● Create beautiful software experiences for our customers using design thinking, lean and agile methodology.

● Design and develop software products from scratch using the latest cutting edge technologies, platforms and languages such as JAVA, python, Javascript, GoLang and Scala.

● Work in a dynamic, collaborative, transparent, non-hierarchical culture.

● Help to grow the next generation of developers and have a positive impact on the industry.

Basic Qualifications

● Experience: 8+ years.

● Engineering Degree in Computer Science OR Equivalent.

● Hands-on development experience with a broad mix of languages such as JAVA, Python, Javascript etc.

● Server-side development experience mainly in JAVA, (Python and nodeJS can be considerable)

● UI development experience in ReactJS or AngularJS or PolymerJS or EmberJS or Jquery etc.

● Passion for software engineering and follow the best coding concepts. ● Good to great problem solving and communication skills.

● Must have experience in technical architecture and design , code reviews and mentoring junior developers.

● Should have experience in stakeholder management and work along with architects as and when necessary to lead the project.

Nice to have Qualifications

● Product engineering and customer-centric mindset.

● Great OOP skills, including design patterns.

● Experience with devops, continuous integration & deployment.

● Exposure to big data technologies, Machine Learning and NLP will be a plus.

Benefits

● Competitive salary.

● Work from anywhere.

● Reimbursements for remote work set up.

● Insurance (including a top up insurance for COVID).

● Free Access to Online learning libraries such as O'reilly or equivalent Location Remote - work from anywhere

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• Plans and executes all web, SEO/SEM, database marketing, email, social media, and display advertising campaigns.
• Designs build, and maintain our social media presence.
• Contributes to marketing effectiveness by identifying short-term and long-range issues that must be addressed.
• Measures and reports the performance of all digital marketing campaigns and assesses against goals (ROI and KPIs).
• Identifies trends and insights, and optimizes spend and performance based on the insights.
• Brainstorms new and creative growth strategies through digital marketing.
• Plans executes, and measures experiments and conversion tests.
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• Utilizes strong analytical ability to evaluate end-to-end customer experience across multiple channels and customer touch points.
• Identifies critical conversion points and drop-off points and optimizes user funnels.
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• Maintains digital marketing staff job results by counseling and disciplining employees; and planning, monitoring, and appraising job results.
• Develops digital marketing staff by providing information, educational opportunities, and experiential growth opportunities.

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• Minimum 4 years relevant experience in pega application development
• Strong technical acumen
• Willingness to work from Office, if required, after the pandemic
• Represent Machint if deployed at client location
• Cadets with a shorter notice period OR left with a shorter notice while serving notice are the TOP PRIORITY.

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• Very good development, design and debugging experience on embedded firmware.
• Added advantage to have experience on Systems management/Out of Band/BMC domain experience
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• Excellent communication and problem solving skills  
• Experience on tools like JIRA, Yocto, Visual studio, etc.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, development, testing, deployment, and craftsmanship of the team’s infrastructure and systems capable of handling massive amounts of requests with high reliability and scalability
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Requirements

• In-depth understanding of image processing algorithms, pattern recognition methods, and rule-based classifiers
• Experience in feature extraction, object recognition and tracking, image registration, noise reduction, image calibration, and correction
• Ability to understand, optimize and debug imaging algorithms
• Understating and experience in openCV library
• Fundamental understanding of mathematical techniques involved in ML and DL schemas (Instance-based methods, Boosting methods, PGM, Neural Networks etc.)
• Thorough understanding of state-of-the-art DL concepts (Sequence modeling, Attention, Convolution etc.) along with knack to imagine new schemas that work for the given data.
• Understanding of engineering principles and a clear understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Experience in writing production level codes using either C++ or Java
• Experience with technologies/libraries such as python pandas, numpy, scipy
• Experience with tensorflow and scikit.

FlytBase is committed to delivering drone automation solutions for warehouse inventory management. Sales at FlytBase involves segmenting the target market, in-depth understanding of customer pain points, creating a portfolio of techno-commercial collateral, helping stakeholders build a business case for drone adoption, generating high-quality leads, and driving closure of commercial contracts. We believe that sustained intensity, go-to-market creativity and customer empathy are crucial for world-class sales performance in emerging technologies, besides a keen eye for detail, a genuine interest in drones, and written communication skills.

What Will Be My Role & Responsibilities?

Primary responsibilities include:
• Generate B2B sales leads and nurture them, while tracking conversion rates, timelines, cost of leads, etc.
• Be an expert user of tools such as LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Lusha, Hunter, Owler, Zoominfo, Mailchimp, GetProspect, ZeroBounce, Funnelbake, Pipedrive, Hubspot, Intercom, Drift, etc. for company analysis and lead generation
• Use Internet research to develop company & contact lists, curate email databases, CXO lists, etc.
• Measure, track & improve RoI on investments in lead generation initiatives
• Be passionate about using the latest & best marketing automation & lead generation tools

You can also aspire to:
• Develop and execute strategies to expand inbound lead / demand generation
• Develop and execute strategies for outbound, targeted, account-based marketing
• Grow into a leadership position in the company.

Should I Apply?

Only those candidates need apply who:
• are willing to be held accountable for lead generation targets,
• have an undergraduate degree in engineering and can demonstrate 2+ years of full-time experience in lead generation for IP-rich software products,
• can be effective in an extremely fast-paced environment,
• are keen to work evenings and weekends to coordinate across time zones and meet deadlines,
• are able to start the role by July 2020, if selected, and
• love to generate sales leads!

What Will I Earn?

This role comes with an annual CTC that is market competitive and depends on the quality of your work experience, degree of professionalism, culture fit and alignment to FlytBase’s long-term business strategy.

Indicative Compensation Range: 6 – 10 LPA

What Else?

Flexible work hours, informal dress code, talented colleagues, strong meritocracy, zero bureaucracy, professional autonomy, and a company-wide sense of purpose.

What Is FlytBase?

FlytBase (https://flytbase.com/" target="_blank">flytbase.com) develops intelligent software that leverages reliable, off-the-shelf drone hardware to automate and scale drone deployments for commercial use-cases. The FlytBase platform is hardware-agnostic, has intelligent plugins for autonomy, manages drone fleets via 4G/5G, and uses APIs to integrate into enterprise workflows. FlytBase is a Silicon Valley (California, USA) company and has offices in Pune, India. Widely recognized as a pioneer in the commercial drone ecosystem, FlytBase continues to win awards globally, the most recent one being the ‘NTT Data Open Innovation Global Champion 2019’ award.