Associate Product Manager

F22 Labs Global Private Limited is a startup studio based out of Chennai. We like to think of ourselves as mean MVP machines. We help founders go from idea to product in under 6 weeks.

What will you work on?

• Define product strategy and roadmap
• Helping the product owner and development team to achieve customer satisfaction
• Analyzing potential partner relationships for the product. 
• Define feature roadmap for F22 Labs Global Private Limited products based on business opportunities and market research 
• Propose an overall product budget to ensure success.
• 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
• Scope and prioritize activities based on business and customer impact
• Act as a product evangelist to build awareness and understanding
• Work closely with founders, tech, design, marketing, customer support team to build world class products.

Do you fit in?

• Proven work experience in product management
• Proven track record of managing all aspects of a successful product throughout its lifecycle
• Proven ability to develop product, 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

What you can expect?

• Flexible work timings
• Work from Home policy
• Medical Insurance- self and immediate family
• Intensive performance linked incentives
• Optimized Learning Culture
• Approachable and helpful founders a.k.a leaders to guide your career

and much more…

Summary: - As a Product Manager, you will act as a conduit between Surgeons and our R&D team. You’ll work with Surgeons to understand their needs & desires and have the technical skills to work with engineers to deliver those requirements. The result of your work is a commercial product that enterprise users (Hospitals and Surgeons) love and value. You’ll explore & develop product ideas through scheduled conversations with customers, assess competitor's offerings & investigate open-source technologies. You will collaborate with UX, engineering, and leadership teams to assess and prioritize the best for product development. Your key role will be translating user requirements into executable work items that the development team can implement in the product. You will have the necessary detailed technical knowledge to explain feature requirements to developers and work with them to deliver these improvements for users. This role is suitable for someone who enjoys working with users, and technology, and delivering software products that end customers would love to use in their respective fields of work.

Core Competencies: -

▪ Excellent Communication – Oral and Written

▪ Collaborative Mindset ▪ Adaptability to dynamic business scenarios

▪ Analytical Thinking

▪ Trusted Partnership

▪ Execution Excellence

▪ Problem-Solving

▪ Networking and Relationship Building

Job Responsibilities: -

# Product Exploring:-

▪ Understanding the overall market and competitors

▪ Work closely with stakeholders (customers, business development, and the open-source community) to understand needs and priorities

▪ Translate market and stakeholder needs into product requirements and definitions

▪ Collaborate with UX and Eng. on feature ideas and prototypes to bring potential solutions to life.

#Product Development:-

▪ Collaborate with stakeholders to guide feature development and prioritization

▪ Translate user requirements into executable feature work items with engineering.

▪ Be the "voice of the customer" during the specification and development stages.

▪ Influencing and collaborating in open source while balancing commercial product development.

#Product Success:-

▪ Able to communicate the business value of product capabilities to sales.

▪ Act as a product champion externally and internally in support of sales channels.

▪ Develop, track, and report key metrics to drive future product development.

Skills and Experience Requirements:-

▪ Any Engineering Degree/MBA.

▪ Aptitude for technology and familiarity with basic SDLC.

▪ Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.

▪ 4 - 8 years of software product management experience.

▪ Enthusiastic about new technology and its transformational abilities.

▪ Prior experience in the field of Ortho / Navigation is preferable.

▪ Exposure of New Product Launch. 

About Vakilsearch

Vakilsearch is India's largest online legal, tax and compliance provider. Vakilsearch, through its products and end-to-end workflow automation journey has revolutionized how Start-ups/ Small & Medium Enterprises register, seamlessly run and comply with Government regulations. On our mission to provide one-click access to individuals and businesses for all their legal and professional needs, we have helped over 4 Lac start-ups/ small and medium enterprises to date.

Why Join Us

Vakilsearch is a people-first organisation that thrives on the enthusiasm of our team to execute our mission to the satisfaction of our customers. Towards this end, we stress on creating an optimal work-life balance and inculcating a strong sense of team spirit that stems from enthusiasm and good vibes. When you work at Vakilsearch, you don't just become an employee, you become family, and we always coalesce around each other to ensure a strong sense of family.

We, at Vakilsearch, are strengthening our product team and below are the criteria's that are specific for this role.

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.

Desired Candidate Profile

• Developing and refining prioritized product needs based on insights from market research, competitive analysis, customer engagement, business needs and collaboration with subject matter experts
• Owning the successful delivery of your roadmap and co-owning the success of the overall products
• Effectively identifying and managing cross-team dependencies
• Building effective relationships that matter with engineering, design, QA and a variety of cross-functional stakeholders
• Developing communications material, value propositions, and high-level strategic justification to help explain the why of your product both internally and externally
• Developing relationships with customers and prospects, gathering and understanding customer feedback on existing products and products in development
• Communicating the vision of the product, value proposition and releasing goals to the cross-functional team as part of the release planning process

Desired Candidate Profile

• Bachelor’s degree
• 2 Years of product management experience, including cloud/SaaS product
• Preferably 5 Years of product management experience, including cloud/SaaS product
• Healthcare Experience
• Understanding of the industry, market, and product/service trends affecting the organization’s competitiveness
• Expertise on features and product
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Customer centric mindset
• Ability to lead agile teams effectively
• Ability to use common tools to create mockups, stories, and roadmaps
• Ability to find way to measure and track customer satisfaction effectively throughout the product development    

• Be bold in building industry-first consumer-facing products that actualize the company’s vision
• Keenly understand user needs and demonstrate first-principles thinking in building solutions for the same
• Be responsible for developing and delivering the product roadmap

• 3-4 years of experience in building products at B2C start-ups
• Case studies involving deep customer insight
• Taken decisions based on strong analytics and/or intuition from time to time
• Growth mindset - moving quickly, shipping products, scaling
• Ability to act as a bridge between business and engineering teams
• The website is yet to reflect our direction going ahead.
• We have been generating transactions in the market using WhatsApp before productizing the same

Detailed Job Description / Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

The role requires deep expertise in delivering modern web application solutions on the Open Source Tech platform, as well as ability to communicate how these solutions drive business value. Detailed responsibilities include -

• Lead Engineering team and ensure customer requirements and needs across the current and future targeted segments are met.
• Work with Product Owner / US counter parts / SME’s to understand the requirements and prioritize development efforts.
• Work in capacity of Scrum Master role and manage development through Agile - Scrum framework. Activities include Sprint planning, Preside Scrum meetings, Sprint Retrospective, Publish reports, etc.
• Responsible for creating User stories, Epics in Project management tool based on the requirements received from various stakeholders including clients.
• Manage all aspects of engineering operations including Product Design, Development, Testing and Deployment.
• Architect the applications / providing recommendations to choose the right technologies for the products to be built.
• Manage Operational efforts for the contracted clients and ensure the SLA’s with required quality are met.
• Manage Product support team and ensure the SLA’s for response and resolutions are provided to client that meets or exceeds the customer’s expectations.
• Build / Guide Developers in building Full-Stack Web applications at Internet scale.
• Code Review and provide feedback to ensure timely delivery with required quality.
• Programming in MEAN stack or similar open source technologies and framework
• Data Modelling using NoSQL and Relational Database management Systems
• UI / UX Design and Implementation
• Web Development with BootStrap, Angular Material, and other libraries
• Develop Data / File parsing programs using Python or other programming languages
• Create methods and algorithms for data analysis and optimization
• Develop curriculum for talent development, Knowledge Sharing, etc.
• Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with all stakeholders involved.
• Willing, capable and excited to roll up the sleeves to code when needed.
• Having exceptional expertise in one of the following areas –
  • Backend / Front end Web Application Framework
  • Serverless Architecture
  • Micro Services Platforms
  • AWS Services