Data Product Manager

Vakilsearch is the leading Legal, Tax and Compliance (LTC) company in India. We are here to revolutionize the way business work with the Government. We are working on exciting and transformative products to revolutionize the LTC space. At Vakilsearch, we believe the future of legal in India lies in great products. 

If you're passionate about real change, love building products and are curious about marketing and the overall customer experience, this is for you.

The product manager (PM) will manage the direction and market delivery of existing products and identifying new products, product features, product strategy, and relevant services.

In This Job, You Will:

• Work with Senior Engineers across multiple teams and business stakeholders to design and build highly available and scalable systems
• Use Lean Software Development processes such as Agile, Scrum, and Kanban
• Drive strategic upward product communications internally and externally
• Drive alignment on product features, business metrics, and business strategies
• Work and collaborate effectively with tech teams and launch to production
• Understand business context to decisions made within and across the organization

This Role Might Be for You If:

• You have experience in owning a suite of products and defining long-term product strategy and vision
• You possess strong business acumen with strategic, analytical, and critical thinking
• You understand technical software development life cycle and have knowledge on how to drive teams towards business solutions
• You excel in owning and driving the development of technical products
• You drive strategic product communications across organizations providing clarity in decisions

Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Translate business strategy into product strategy.
• Understanding user needs, knowing the difference between ‘wants’ and ‘needs’ and
  converting these into Products.
• Own the product roadmap and execute product strategy.
• Collect, manage and maintain traceability of requirements from all stakeholders across product releases.
• Write requirements – typically as user stories and epics.
• Maintain and prioritize the product backlog.
• Track releases.
• Building lean and agile Products, know how to accurately test hypotheses in the
  lightest way possible and be comfortable using lean UX techniques.
• Driving new features forward in weekly sprints.
• Balancing internal stakeholders’ requests & bugs.
• Monitor, report and improve product performance.
• Participate in scrum meetings, planning, reviews and retrospectives.
• Support the development team with any questions they may have.

• Nature of Experience:
• Experience in Agile development.
• Proven track record bringing innovation to on-demand SaaS software.
• Should be able to work and remain calm even under pressure situations, and should be able to address and resolve any relevant issues.
• Should be able to work with a diverse range of people and communicate with them effectively.
• High levels of confidence, maturity, and competence are required.

• Length of Experience: 4 - 8 years.
• 4+ years in Software or Saas Industry with 4+ years in Product Management.
• Formal Agile Training
• Programming, UI/UX, or QA experience preferred.
• Experience in Legal Industry or Legal Technologies is an added advantage.

About Fundamento

Fundamento is a skills readiness platform for customer-facing teams.

Companies can integrate the platform with existing CRMs and other tools so employees can be trained in the flow of work. Bite-sized interventions that are accessible on demand and also reinforced periodically ensure that sales and CX teams are equipped to deliver high performance and improve priority business metrics, including win rates and customer retention.

High-growth companies like Zomato, Flipkart, and Paisabazaar use the platform to measure and develop critical skills and know-how for their customer-facing teams and measurably improve business outcomes. Fundamento is backed by leading investors in the industry, including Binny Bansal, Kunal Shah, Caesar Sengupta, Pankaj Chaddah, among others.

Join us to transform the future of work.

We are looking for an exceptional and seasoned Product Manager to join the founding team at Fundamento. You’ll work closely with a passionate team of engineers, designers, marketers, and sales managers to understand customer needs and define the experiences that set Fundamento’s clients up for success.

What the role entails 👉🏽

• Manage, align, and communicate the vision for Fundamento’s Skills Readiness platform to internal stakeholders at all levels of the business.
• Build, regularly manage, and execute product roadmap for the platform. 
• Work closely with and communicate clearly to engineering, design, and business to ensure the correct product trade-offs and decisions can be made.
• Work as a bridge between customers, business, marketing, design, and engineering. You are responsible for making a product and ensuring you can create ambassadors and advocates for the development and its vision among these key stakeholder categories. 
• Own sprint execution and lead scrum
• Always advocate for the customers - do what it takes to get customer feedback with or without the help of the sales team. Define and analyze key performance metrics to support and inform product decisions.
• Continuously evaluate product fit and process optimization, and ascertain technical dependencies.
• Approach your work with a global design mindset to ensure we’re considering the needs of all future customers, wherever they may be
• Demonstrate your team releases to internal and external stakeholders.

Location: Delhi 

Job-type: Full-time 

Desired candidate profile 👇🏽

• 3+ years experience in designing and delivering world-class software products in a Product Management role. 
• Prior experience working on a B2B SaaS product is a must. 
• Experience must include having been through the Product-Market-Fit journey of a product.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
• Strong project management skills and ability to break down a big vision into actionable, bite-size milestones
• Ability to develop and execute a successful product roadmap.
• Experience with AI/ML is a plus. 
• Comfortable using/ reading through GraphQL/ postman documentation and a decent understanding of complex Postgres DBs. An understanding of SQL is good to have. 
• Self-motivated, innovative, and strong team player
• Agility and flexibility in adapting to a dynamic and hybrid work environment

Why us?

Fundamento’s dynamic work environment thrives on an entrepreneurial mindset. You don’t need to be a rockstar to come work with us. Instead, you should be willing to learn and hungry for outcomes. We’re a young start-up so comfort with ambiguity is always a big plus.

We grow when you grow.

Founders:

Ankit Durga (Co-founder & CEO) - Co-founded Leap Skills in 2013, before that he worked in various managerial roles across both - corporates and start-ups (Ernst and Young, Zomato, Happily Unmarried). He is an alumnus of Harvard’s Executive Program for Strategic Nonprofit Management and an INK Fellow.

Megha Aggarwal (Co-founder) - is an Oxford alumna & a Chevening Scholar from the London School of Economics. She is an ex-investment banker who comes with years of experience in financial strategy owing to her work at Morgan Stanley, New York.

Prominent Investors:

Binny Bansal (Founder, Flipkart), Kunal Shah (Founder, Cred), Caesar Sengupta (VP and GM, Payments and Next Billion Users initiative, Google), Amrish Rau (CEO, PineLabs) Mohit Joshi (President, Infosys; Non-Executive Director at Aviva), Elea Foundation

• Own the product strategy; Understand customer requirements, market gaps/ need gaps and drive release-level feature choices.
• Connect activities and deliverables to business outcomes.
• Should be highly granular & hands-on.
• Constantly test his own products, create edge cases and if required should have the ability to write and define product specs from scratch.
• Have the ability to be able to work with complex cross functional teams/ should be able to influence cross functional teams: Engineers, Architects, category, business & finance.
• Should be data obsessed.
• Derive insights from data and use the same for product improvements and iterations.
• Also educate cross functional teams with actionable derived from deep data insights.
• Must aggressively defend a good strategy against random changes, fads and single-customer escalations.
• Candidate must push to allocate technical resources strategically among products.
• Integrate usability studies, market analysis, CST use-cases, NPS related data into product requirements to enhance user satisfaction and execute product specs for further execution.
• Design and execute a continuous testing plan for important end-to-end flows working

• Should have the experience of managing healthy conflicts and drive people towards the customer goals and organisation priorities.
• Should have the ability to define economic rationale for every major effort and translate into metrics.
• Hand in hand with QA team to deliver excellent experience.
• Work experience in the Ecommerce industry is highly preferred.
• Desired Skills: - Passionate about building world class products on the web / mobile

JOB DESCRIPTION

Position: Product Manager

We are looking for an experienced Product Manager with great technology background and impressive interpersonal skills. You need to be passionate about people and products. You will join a dynamic and fast-paced start-up environment and work with talented teams to design, build and roll-out products that deliver the company’s vision and strategy.

The Product Manager will be responsible for both product planning and product marketing. This includes managing the product throughout the product lifecycle, gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the product vision, and working closely with engineering, to deliver winning products. It also includes working with sales, marketing, design and operations and support to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction. You also need to ensure that the product and marketing efforts support the company’s overall strategy and goals.

The Product Manager will need to act as the bridge between the CEO and the Team. He/She will act as a trusted advisor to the CEO. At the same time, you must build strong relationships with team members across the organization in order to maintain momentum and enable outcomes.

The Product Manager is expected to

• Support define the product strategy and roadmap and co-ordinate with various functions to translate product strategy into detailed requirements and prototypes. Run beta and pilot programs with early-stage products and prototypes.
• Improving the product innovation and management process and gaining consistency are top priorities. Needs to ensure the teams are not just aware of best-in-class approaches, but are also consistently following those frameworks
• Act as a leader within the company to work closely across teams and act as a champion for company culture. Should be able to drive home the culture and values of MMW.
• Work Closely with the CEO, to organize and align strategic priorities with members of the senior leadership team, act as a gatekeeper of tasks that can be resolved without direct involvement of the CEO. Organise follow up meetings to ensure that the decisions made in meeting rooms, make it into action. Language not in line with the rest of the document.
• Work closely with Engineering teams to optimize resources and deliver within turnaround time. Ensure smooth coordination amongst different engineering teams to deliver a seamless product
• Work closely with the Sales team to design product demos to be delivered to customers, deliver a monthly revenue forecast, develop sales tools and collateral, brief and train the sales force at quarterly sales meetings
• Work closely with the Operations team and propose an overall budget to ensure success. Ensure that the budget target is met.
• Work closely with the Marketing team to Develop product pricing, core positioning and messaging for the product. Brief press and analysts and go on press tours. Drive product launches including working with public relations team, executives, and other product management team members
• Gain a deep understanding technology, innovation and customer experience. Need to work with the Design team and identify and fill product gaps and generate new ideas that grow market share, improve customer experience and drive growth.

Requirements:

• Master’s degree from Tier-1 institute (IIT/IIM/BITS/ISB) in Business and/or Engineering. With a Bachelors degree of Engineering.
• 7+ Years of Experience in Product Management Roles
• Excellent teamwork skills. Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority. Skilled at working effectively in a matrix organization
• An analytical mindset driven by data, research and arithmetic. Not just by intuition.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to build world class presentations, excel sheets and reports
• Ability to build easy to understand dashboards and reports from complex systems
• Displays high degree of discipline, confidentiality, integrity and trust.
• A thorough understanding of the Impact of technology and AI on Innovation and Product Development. Is updated about and able to keep pace with evolving technologies across the globe.
• Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to roll up one’s sleeves to get the job done.

Tailor and Circus is a progressive and unisex underwear brand in the Indian apparel space, at the forefront of E-commerce and product innovation. We have created India's most comfortable and responsible piece of underwear, offering the highest quality and selling direct-to-consumer. As a brand, we are India's first inclusive and body-positive underwear company. This has been part of the company's DNA since the inception, all our models and influencers who represent the brand are real people having real bodies.

Tailor and Circus is looking to hire suitable candidates for the Product Manager role who will handle user-facing product experience (website) and is very data-driven. The role will be based either in Bangalore or Coimbatore.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• You will be focused on building consumer-facing applications for the Tailor and Circus website.
• You will be responsible for conceptualizing and building user experience across the website and other customer touchpoints.
• Define and manage all critical user journeys and conversion funnels across website and other customer touchpoints.
• You will be responsible for launch and change management of features going live on apps/website.
• You will work closely with PMs responsible for all key business areas (Marketing, Design and Tech) to create a simple and delightful experience for our users.
• You will have a high degree of responsibility and ownership.
• You will drive the strategy, roadmap, execution, and growth of a product area.
• You will work closely with other product managers, engineers, designers, marketing, legal, analytics and do everything (defining requirements, prioritizing, testing, writing copy, tracking metrics and more.) to deliver high-quality products.

Apply If you:

• Minimum of 1-2 Years of Experience in Product & Marketing Management
• Can showcase your user-facing products experiences
• Have very high customer obsession
• Are a highly data-oriented person and have skills to analyze data using SQL
• Have an understanding of funnels, sprint & agile ways of working, PRDs & wireframes
• Have empathy towards users and colleagues, are creative and excited by ideating/ building new product features and functionalities.

• 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