Educational Technology

About Company

Our client is a brand co-creation platform that transforms powerful ideas into authentic, profitable, and experience-led brands that can define the future of brands in key consumption categories like fashion and lifestyle; food and FMCG, home and decor and beauty and wellness. They are a team of experienced entrepreneurs, marquee investors, and industry professionals who have expertise and experience in building some of the most popular brands in the country. They partner with passionate entrepreneurs to combine their collective learning and experience with data science, digital ethnography, and technology. platforms to build brands that connect to the new generation of Indian consumers.

What you’ll be doing

• Work with brand entrepreneurs to create and implement a forward looking product strategy. Influence technology choices and business strategy in creating multiple D2C brands across Food, Fashion, Home, Beauty and more simultaneously.

• Convert brand proposition into digital user experiences covering pre and post purchase journeys across channels such as D2C, Social Media, Whatsapp, Marketplaces and Metaverse by understanding business economics of brands in their first 1000 days.

• Raise the bar on customer empathy & quality of what we deliver, work with small & high performance teams to build products, managing a fast-paced agile delivery model.

• Analyse macro trends on user behaviour and adoption, predict technology shifts to identify innovative (sometimes first to market) product features and work with multiple tech startups to drive metrics and time to market.

• Talk the data language and drive a working environment fostering data driven decision making while running experiments, identifying gaps and prioritization.

Requirements

• Entrepreneurial mindset with acute understanding of product market fit for every brand with ability to decide when to scale or sunset experiments/initiatives.

• Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product and technology and come up with immediate & market first product propositions.

• End to end product development functional knowledge cutting across digital shopping journeys, marketing, contact centre operations, payments etc

• Track record of building and delivering high-quality digital products and complex roadmaps, ideally across multiple product categories with geo-distributed teams

• Ability to provide clarity, cut through clutter and being decisive on priorities and metrics.

• Ability to excite people through communication and presenting data in most the ambiguous situations.

• Ability to define short term goals & metrics (sometimes on a weekly basis) and align teams on how-lists.

• Passion for technology and pro-activeness in developing and/or integrating home developed or 3rd party applications.

• Understands business strategy and goals by studying the business function, collaborating with the client and gather business requirements.
• Documentation of formal requirements, use cases, user stories, User Journey which ensure that the UX solutions proposed are fit for purpose, meet business needs and are operationally sustainable.
• Ability to evaluate the data collected through task analysis, business process, surveys and workshops and derive meaningful insights
• Communicating effectively with UX team, external clients and internal teams to deliver product’s functional requirement.
• Manages the progress of projects by tracking activity, resolving issues, and recommending actions.
• Provides senior management and client stakeholders with regular updates on deliverable timeline and project status.
• Have complete ownership for project quality, delivery and timelines.
• Ability to manage team and multiple projects.
• Understanding of the business requirements, capture and track the details required to produce the end product, and document same in the form of user stories/use cases and process flow maps, content matrix
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and a self-starter. 
• Ability to take initiative and proactively offer suggestions and resolutions. 
• Proactive problem solver who, handle multiple complex projects and tasks.
• Great communication skills; the ability to clearly explain design decisions and processes to anyone in the company.
• Entrepreneurial mindset and self-starter who actively seeks ways to improve the customer experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Owning Fintech Fraud Risk products across account opening and account and activity monitoring
• Defining OKRs for success such as % approvals, bp in losses, good customer friction, precision/ recall etc.
• Thinking out of the box and identifying opportunities where we can build world class Fraud Risk solutions either in-house or via partnerships
• Working with Engineering to create risk capabilities, analytics and decisioning logic to identify, analyze and prevent suspicious activities, including but not limited to: Identity Fraud, Account Takeover/ Abuse Fraud, Transactions Risk, Unauthorized Chargeback Risk etc.
• Driving Proof of Concepts and Demos to illustrate the company's capabilities
• Working with Sales, Business Operations and Engineering to meet internal and external stakeholder needs
• Researching emerging issues impacting Fintech players and ideating on solving their digital risks through innovation
• Validating supply partnerships to be used in solutioning, where needed
• Collaborating with external partners and clients and standardizing integration strategy for the company's input/ output and client feedback loops

Desired Candidate Profile

• 5-7 years of experience in Product Management, preferably in Financial Fraud Risk
• Career concentration in Fintechs, Payments or Risk Service Providers
• Experience in developing requirements for Risk score-based rules engines, Classification and Regression models etc.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher, preferably in Maths, Statistics or an area of Technology
• Strong quantitative abilities, distinctive problem-solving and excellent analytics skills
• Strong organizational, communication, presentation and project management skills
• Experience with analytical/ statistical tools like SQL, SAS, Altair Knowledge Studio, R or Python preferable
• Experience in experimentation and A/B testing a plus
• Strong sense of product design and customer empathy    

RELEASE MANAGER

Bangalore/Pune

Full Time

We are seeking a collaborative, organized, process and detail oriented Release manager to drive high quality, on-time deployment of quarterly product releases by designing, implementing and executing effective release management processes in a collaboration with global Engineering, Operations, Product Management, services and Technical Support teams.

Responsibilities

•  Managing risks and resolving challenges that impact release scope, quality, and
• schedules
• Planning release windows and cycles across portfolios, components
• Managing relationships working on interrelated processes
• Communicating crucial release plans and changes
• Measuring and monitoring progress to achieve a timely software release within
• defined budgetary limits and defined quality standards
• Producing deployment, implementation, and run books plans
• Conducting release readiness and milestone reviews
• Maintaining release schedules for every core service and ensuring it aligns with major vendors and other stakeholder. Qualifications
• Mid-Senior: 7-12+ years of experience
• Experience as a release manager leading a substantial feature/product in the enterprise
• space
• Curiosity to learn + Extreme ownership + EQ/interpersonal skills
• Enjoys streamlining complex engineering processes and wants to gain mastery ∙
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent analytical skills
• Structured thinking
• Experience in coordinating cross-functional work teams up to task completion.

We have a passion for excellence. We love what we’re doing and have fun doing it. We value great minds, but we’re also humble enough to rally around the best solution, regardless of whose idea it was. We appreciate talent, and we are always on the lookout for the right people to join us. dial for info nine one zero one four double three eight one two.

Job Title: Product Manager

Job Description

Bachelor or master’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
Worked as Product Owner before and took responsibility for a product or project delivery.
Well-versed with data warehouse modernization to Big Data and Cloud environments.
Good knowledge* of any of the Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) – Must Have
Practical experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery workflows.
Self-motivated with strong organizational/prioritization skills and ability to multi-task with close attention to detail.
Good communication skills
Experience in working within a distributed agile team
Experience in handling migration projects – Good to Have
 

*Data Ingestion, Processing, and Orchestration knowledge

Roles & Responsibilities

Responsible for coming up with innovative and novel ideas for the product.
Define product releases, features, and roadmap.
Collaborate with product teams on defining product objectives, including creating a product roadmap, delivery, market research, customer feedback, and stakeholder inputs.
Work with the Engineering teams to communicate release goals and be a part of the product lifecycle. Work closely with the UX and UI team to create the best user experience for the end customer.
Work with the Marketing team to define GTM activities.
Interface with Sales & Customer teams to identify customer needs and product gaps
Market and competition analysis activities.
Participate in the Agile ceremonies with the team, define epics, user stories, acceptance criteria
Ensure product usability from the end-user perspective

Mandatory Skills

Product Management, DWH, Big Data

• Define and document detailed requirements detailing market opportunities and associated technical integrations in collaboration with architects, engineers, and key stakeholders with ISVs and strategic partners.
• Drive product execution across a large set of engineers, product designers, and product managers.
• Collaborate with Product Marketing on company Platform collaterals and sales tools such as articles, datasheets, white papers, blogs, how-to videos, demos, etc.
• Conduct usability testing interviews to gather feedback on Product integration prototypes.
• Identify market opportunities and conduct customer/user research interviews in conjunction with lead Product Managers.
• Deliver product management analysis, including market requirements, and customer experience artifacts.
• Develop a deep understanding of the RDBMS competitive market landscape and product analysis.
• Own the roadmap of active and future projects and maintain the backlog of features and priorities.
• Be outcome and KPI drove to achieve growth of your products and take the right actions accordingly.
• Work with the engineering and product team to ensure proper investment and execution in support of your strategy.
• Communicate regularly with senior leadership on status, risks, and change control.

Requirements:

• Have 5+ years of relevant experience in a technical role, with at least 3 years of those in a product management role.
• Have experience defining a roadmap and managing incremental execution through successful launches.
• Detail-oriented and able to understand the bigger picture by using your technical expertise and problem-solving abilities to prioritize and manage blocking issues.
• Thrive in the dynamic environment that comes with being part of a fast-moving startup. That means flexibility as well as dealing with ambiguity.
• Experience working across organizations with Sales, Marketing, Support, Product, Engineering, and Design.
• 2+ years experience in data infrastructure or related IaaS products and/or services; AWS and/or Google Cloud background preferred.
• Strong communication skills, analytical skills, and data-driven product decision-making mindset.
• Experience with product management planning and design tools - Confluence, JIRA, Balsamiq, AHA!

Nice to have:

• Strong proficiency in the big data ecosystem e.g. Kafka, Spark, or similar technologies.
• Technically savvy and experienced with the cloud, APIs, enterprise software.
• Worked on data platforms or streaming applications.