
Director of Product Development
at India's No.1 Smartwatch Brand
Responsibilities
- Manage the product development and R&D process, ensuring all stakeholder timelines and deliverables are met.
- Source vendors and negotiate for cost-effective purchases, while reducing delivery times.
- Achieve product assortment goals while ensuring product quality, testing standards, and margin expectations are met.
- Work closely with sales to understand customer directives, analyze sales data, and review new product forecasts.
- Use personas, stakeholder maps, customer journey maps, etc. to develop and refine new product concepts.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in product development, with a focus on sensors, IoT, and electronics.
- Comfortable with technical aspects of product development and communicating with engineering teams.
- Experience in dealing with the Chinese vendor ecosystem and exposure to China's ecosystem.
- Great negotiation skills and a mix of business acumen and product knowledge.

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Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Gurgaon, our client makes the latest personal technology accessories available and affordable.
They have been listed as best selling brand on Amazon and Flipkart for four years in a row and in 2019, they were the biggest Indian seller of wireless earphones in the country. Also, among the top 5 brands selling wireless earphones in India, they were the only Indian brand.
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- Achieving product assortment goals while ensuring product quality and testing standards as well as margin expectations are met
- Working closely with ODMs to ensure production timelines & quality standards are met
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Who we are?
Kaleidofin is a financial platform for the masses in India, which provides intuitive solutions tailored to the customer’s goals and provides a payments platform for digitizing payments across financial institutions. We are working towards creating fair and transparent financial solutions that can target millions of customers and enterprises in India that don’t have easy access to formal financial planning.
In a very short time span, global investors such as Oiko Credit, Omidyar Network and Blume Ventures have supported Kaleidofin’s well thought out business model with $8 million in seed and Series A funding. The company was one of only ten startups chosen for the Google LaunchPad Accelerator program in 2019, was recognized as India's Most Innovative Wealth, Asset and Investment Management Service/Product by the Internet & Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and was selected to present at United Nations General Assembly Special Task Force Event.
Kaleidofin aims to become a leading FinTech player bringing financial solutions to everyone. We have brought together a fantastic team with folks with prior experience at Google, Amazon, Oracle, Microsoft, IFMR, WebMD, that are all working towards this common mission together.
To know more about Kaleidofin, do visit our site https://kaleidofin.com/">https://kaleidofin.com/
Key Responsibilities
- Manage the execution of the entire product lifecycle management from concept through launch and beyond.
- Break down the overall roadmap into specific components for you to own the backlog.
- Grow the products and features for both existing and new products.
- Own responsibility and accountability for the product experience and associated OKR’s.
- Define, implement, and own metrics to monitor and communicate product performance, validate hypothesis, refine content and experience.
- Analyze and educate the business on the market dynamics, trends and our competition.
Requirements/Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience in product management. FinTech market experience a strong plus.
- Experience creating and contributing to a software product roadmap, evangelizing the product vision.
- Experience working directly and cross-functionally with developers, product managers, and other related stakeholders
- Excellent communication, presentation skills and ability to interact with all levels of the organization.
- Strong work ethic. Self-starting personality with the ability to problem solve and develop creative solutions. Works well and stays focused under little supervision.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in work experience.





