Lead Product Manager

Lead Product Manager, Corporate Business

About the Organization

Sportz Village is India`s No. 1 Youth Sports Platform.

With its mission to get 100 million children to play in a sustainable and scalable manner, Sportz Village has partnered with several Schools, Corporates, Governments, Academies and parents across 250 locations in India, and has a significant presence in UAE as well.

Sportz Village uses play and sport as a fun and engaging way to ensure children love the experience while achieving goals around fitness, health, academic outcomes, sporting outcomes and continuing to be on their sporting journey for life; an aspect which has become crucial for families in India and across the globe.

Sportz Village is backed by Gaja Capital, a leading Private Equity firm.

The leadership team at Sportz Village has a deep connect with sports and many of them are alumnus of reputed B-schools and universities such as IIT, IIM, SP Jain to name a few, and come with a rich experience of work at companies like Citibank, Intel, Wipro, KPMG etc. 

Know more about the organization and the team at: www.sportzvillage.com

About Lead - Product Management, Corporate Business,Sportz Village.

We are looking for a bright, and entrepreneurial product manager to support our Corporate business vertical – which includes ‘Sport for Change’ and “Experiential Sports Marketing’ platforms - to help us drive the planned business growth. The ideal candidate will bring an uncompromising market and customer focus, a passion for products (across the lifecycle –market research to release/ maintenance) – along with a data-driven/ digital mindset.

Job Title

Lead - Product Management, Corporate Business

Location

Anywhere

Job Purpose

This role will require your strategic and tactical skills - to help build and release products/ features based on market-feedback and build necessary user/ customer engagement. This is a high-visibility and cross-functional role that needs a team-player - with an immense opportunity to build on the solid foundation that our product and business teams have established. In this role, you will be responsible for driving the product strategy for the business – including helping create the positioning/ messaging and roadmaps for each of the products in the portfolio.

Key Accountabilities

• Plan and execute studies: researching, scoping, defining methodology, collecting and analyzing data, and presenting key findings and recommendations to the business.

• Identify areas for growth and create strategic product line roadmaps to help drive adoption of the product and differentiating features.

• Provide compelling value propositions, customer and consumer benefits and technical features that match the needs of different roles in customer organizations.

• Manage the pricing and plan structures for all products in the portfolio and support the outlined GTM for these products.

• Work with our business and content teams to create thought leading content – position

papers/ product education materials, surveys, case studies and customer success stories for different products.

• Educate both internal and external stakeholders on our product features and their benefits.

• Help publish product-related content on our website, feature pages, campaign landing pages.

• Equip our business development team with collaterals and sales tools they need to be successful in their work. Also support teams with quick concept notes and budgets preparation for proposals

• Analyze potential partner relationships for the product and lead the effort to integrate partner products (external) or from other Sportz Village businesses – into the roadmap.

• Work cross-functionally with product technology, marketing, business development – both within Corporate and across Sportz Village businesses to achieve the stated product goals.

Requirements

• Passionate about product development, product marketing, content/ story-boarding and digital/ technology

• Experience in conducting qualitative and quantitative research with the ability to find key trends within large data sets.

• Willingness to stretch from strategic thinking to the details of execution in order to drive exceptional business results.

• Masterclass level Excel and PowerPoint skills

• Ability to translate technical features to customer and business benefits.

• Prefer working in a collaborative, cross-team capacity. This role requires you to work across functions and departments to bring to life the product.

• Sharp analytical problem-solver and creative yet methodical orientation

• Excellent organizational and time management skills

• Experience working with data from multiple sources - web analytics, survey data and customer research.

• Keep abreast of the developments in the industry.

• 3-4 years proven track record in Product Management, Product Marketing. Prior experience in kids focused industries like EdTech, Gaming, Online Education is preferred.