Associate Product Manager

We're Nagarro. We are a Digital Product Engineering company that is scaling in a big way! We build products, services, and experiences that inspire, excite, and delight. We work at scale — across all devices and digital mediums, and our people exist everywhere in the world (18000+ experts across 32 countries, to be exact). Our work culture is dynamic and non-hierarchical. We're looking for great new colleagues. That's where you come in!

Must Have Skills: Digital products, Industry 4.0, RFP, Agile

WHAT MAKES YOU A GOOD FIT FOR THIS ROLE:

• Should have experience in Supply chain/Data analytics/IOT domains.

• Must have experience as a consultant in one or more of the following domains: manufacturing, light engineering industry, heavy engineering, automotive, chemical, food & beverages, consumer goods, agriculture.

• Good experience in implementing IoT use cases across Edge and Cloud by leveraging standard out of the box platforms or creating bespoke solutions.

• Candidate should be fluent in agile delivery model with experience in working with any of the agile product management tool, preferably JIRA.

• Ability to create an understanding of customer business and customer value chain to identify the AS-IS process and digital gaps and create a TO-BE process.

• Must have experience in creating digital products / software / digital platforms.

• Must have experience in conducting customer workshops and ability to engage with them to elicit their business requirements and product requirements.

• Must have experience as a product owner especially in – creating and championing customer and product vision, identifying and documenting customer needs, managing the product backlog, prioritizing the requirements, planning and creating roadmaps for MVP.

• Should have experience of creating responses to customer RFP and RFI proposals.

• Must have ability to make and effectively communicate decisions. The candidate should know how to disagree, how to address opposition/rejection, how to navigate the conflicts in multi stakeholder requirement and how to build consensus.

• Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills and demonstrated ability to work with a global team.

WHAT ARE YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ensuring short term and long-term success of the account

• Identifying opportunities in the current engagement to cross sell or up sell Nagarro’s offerings

• Interacting with other Center of Competence (CoE) architects and teams, and providing solutions from a software perspective

• Analyzing applications, both pre-production and post-production

• Participating in process studies or pre-sales process of responding to RFI, RFPs and proposals

• Leading business and technical analysis sessions to support new development efforts to meet current and projected business needs

• Quickly understanding the business issues and data challenges of client’s organization and industry

• Providing expertise on the systems capabilities/limitations as it relates to business goals

• Preparing impact and opportunity assessments regarding the cost/benefit of proposed projects

• Driving the implementation of technology and process solutions from concept to completion

• Providing analysis and support for the project management, application development, and QA teams throughout the development lifecycle

• Good understanding of clients’ accounts, client database and business projects

• Conceptualizing and executing workshops internally and with customers on technology and business topics to identify new solution areas and use cases

• Effectively managing program(s) through development of robust schedules, change control, and risk mitigation

• Owning the health of the account on all key metrics (risk, scope, schedule, quality, resources, finance, and customer satisfaction)

• Showcasing a consulting mindset by acting as a solution provider rather than an order taker

• Identifying project/service stakeholders at an early stage and working with them to ensure that the deliverables are in sync with the benefits defined in the business case

• Mentoring and managing team members, by giving constant on the job feedback, and by providing guidance

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.

• Working closely with the engineering team to guide and drive the roadmap
• Driving superb execution against plan anticipating risk and leading discussions via frequent, clear communication (both internally and with customers)
• Owning the product metrics driving scale, efficiency and experience
• Working closely with business to build the growth road-map

Desired Candidate Profile

• B.E/BTech and/or MBA
• At least 4 years of product management experience where you have played a significant role in the creation of new products or had end to end ownership of a product
• B2C product management experience, preferably in lending tech startups
• A strong technical background, enabling meaningful contribution to technically-driven features
• Previous development experience in some form is required    

• Build hypotheses: It starts with identifying the problems by doing in-depth research with customers and cross-validating it with data analysis. We are razor-focused on solving the right problems:
• Identify solutions: You will be defining the requirements and working with a cross-functional team from design, engineering, business, marketing, and support. You will identify solutions that truly solve the user problem keeping business interests in mind
• Launch and iterate: No product is truly world-class in the first launch. Your job is not just to launch new products but also to work closely with other teams to ensure the go-to-market is completed from all sides. Additionally, you will also balance new product launches with iterating on existing products ensuring that you pick the ones that are most impactful
• Build roadmap: You will always have a roadmap for your product and you will constantly update the roadmap taking into account the rapid change of business dynamics as well as user behavior and segments that we would go after
• Help build the team: Participate in hiring cross-functional team members for different roles

You are a right fit if:

• You understand technology, but love customer-first & business-first thinking
• You are comfortable working hands-on in a fast-paced start-up environment
• You are good at problem-solving and have an analytical and data-driven approach to day-to-day work
• You have prior work experience in the tech-driven lending business
• You are in love with Bangalore weather and would enjoy working here :)

Why should you work with us?

• Work in one of the most exciting start-up sectors
• Opportunity to create impact for the blue-collar workforce
• Unique and unsolved problems for the unique customer segment to work on
• The non-hierarchical, flat, and transparent culture where we also have lots of fun
• Pay at par with market salaries

Product Manager

Location : Gurgaon

Education Qualification : B.Tech/M.Tech, MBA from Tier 1 institute preferred

Skills Required : Define product line, identify market requirements, define the product vision, creating preliminary design concepts and drive the implementation of the product roadmap.

Experience : 3 to 6 years

We are looking to hire a smart product manager who is passionate about taking up ideas and

bringing them to life. You will engage with our customer base directly, and decide the future of the product by working closely with key partners. You will also collaborate with marketing, sales and support to ensure smooth product roll out and user engagement.

Responsibilities:

• As a product manager, you will take end to end ownership of a product line, identify market requirements, define the product vision, creating preliminary design concepts and drive the implementation of the product roadmap.
• The perfect candidate has to be a strategic thinker who is extremely analytical and detail oriented and great at multitasking and prioritizing.
• Analyze the effectiveness of the current features and define ways to improve them in order to reduce failure rates, increase usage and improve booking conversion rates based on analytics data and good understanding of customer needs.
• Work closely with the design & development teams to explain requirements of new features and change requests for current features.
• Closely manage roll out of all product requirements with focus on both quality and time to market.
• In charge of competitor analysis, market analysis, product analysis, business cases, product evolution, feature prioritization, high level requirement gathering, and product marketing.

Requirements :

• Works well under pressure has the ability to work within stringent timelines and to collaborate across departments to achieve results.
• Must be a true problem solver with outstanding skills in discovery techniques and the proven ability to translate the underlying business needs of requests into actionable items.
• A strong focus on detail, with the proven ability to ensure data and related reports are thorough and totally reliable.
• A demonstrated enthusiasm for learning and working with new tools and technologies is essential.
• Experience with business users and able to translate business requirements into software requirements.
• B.E./B.Tech a must. MBA from premier institutes preferred