PR Manager

Core Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs using Python or Golang.
• Write high-quality, testable, and maintainable code with a focus on performance and scalability.
• Implement automated tests and contribute to CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with product, QA, and DevOps teams for end-to-end feature delivery.
• Troubleshoot production issues and provide timely resolutions.
• Participate in design and architecture discussions to improve system efficiency.
• Contribute to improving development processes, coding standards, and best practices.

Experience and Expertise:

• 2–4 years of experience in backend development with Python or Golang.
• Solid understanding of RESTful APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and OOPS principles.
• Hands-on experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases.
• Familiarity with Linux development, Docker, and basic cloud concepts (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Proficiency with Git and version control workflows.
• Familiarity with AI-powered development tools or exposure to projects involving large language models (LLMs) is a plus.

Skills:

• Strong analytical and debugging skills with the ability to solve complex problems.
• Good communication and collaboration skills across teams.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision while being a strong team player.
• Growth mindset – eagerness to learn new technologies and improve continuously.

About Company

Mihup is a voice AI company building in-car voice assistance and sound technology for the automotive industry. We power intelligent voice experiences for leading OEMs.

Its solutions integrate automation, real-time assistance, and analytics at scale to enhance accuracy, efficiency, and agility in enterprise operations. Mihup.ai also serves organizations across BFSI, IoT, and other sectors, delivering robust conversation intelligence that supports performance and innovation. With over 1 billion interactions powered, Mihup.ai helps businesses turn voice data into measurable business outcomes and competitive advantage. The company offers a dynamic environment for professionals interested in advanced AI applications in automotive and other industries.

Role Description

The Product Manager – Automotive is a full-time, on-site role based in the Greater Bengaluru Area. This role is responsible for defining product vision and roadmap for automotive Voice AI solutions, gathering and prioritizing customer and market requirements, and aligning features with business objectives. Day-to-day responsibilities include collaborating with automotive clients and internal teams, translating user needs into product specifications, coordinating with engineering and design for feature development, and managing product launches. The Product Manager will monitor product performance, customer satisfaction, and usage metrics, while continuously identifying opportunities for improvement and innovation in automotive use cases. The role also involves working closely with customer success and sales teams to support demos, training, and feedback loops that inform ongoing product enhancements.

Qualifications

• Candidates hving domain knowledge in Automotive and the Automotive Industry, with experience in connected vehicles, infotainment, or in-car digital experiences is a plus
• Experience in product management, including roadmap planning, requirements gathering, and cross-functional collaboration with engineering, design, and data teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret product data, user feedback, and market trends to drive decisions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical partners.
• Background in Voice AI, SaaS, or enterprise software is highly beneficial; prior work with automotive OEMs, Tier-1 suppliers, or mobility platforms is a plus.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, or a related field; advanced degrees or product management certifications are advantageous.

GradRight is an ed-fin-tech company committed to driving transparency and accountability in the global higher education sector.

We are the world's first platform that integrates 'Selection' with 'Financing'. and brings students, banks, and universities into a SaaS environment to make smarter decisions. Using data science, technology, and strategic partnerships across the industry, we enable students to find the “Right University” at the “Right Cost”. We are on a mission to aid a million students to find their best-fit universities and financial offerings by 2025.

Our flagship product - FundRight, is the world’s first student loan bidding platform. In just two years, we have enabled students to get the best deals on $ 1 Billion of loan requests and facilitated disbursements of more than $ 120 Million in loans. We are India's largest single pipeline of education loans and are poised to scale up globally.

Our second product, SelectRight, is the world's first MarTech SaaS platform that redefines how students select the right colleges and how colleges find and engage with the right students.

GradRight is a Delaware, USA-registered company with a wholly-owned subsidiary in India.

Brief:

Obsession with customer needs, passionate about customer experience, and thrive on data - if you resonate with these, then we’d love to hear from you. As a product manager, you’ll be the voice of reason for our entire product ecosystem. You’ll join a fast-paced environment and work with cross-functional teams to design and deliver products aligned with the company’s vision and strategy.

Responsibilities:

1. Collect and analyze customer needs, collaborate with key stakeholders to ideate and deliver compelling solutions that create incremental value for customers
2. Create buy-in for product vision across all stakeholders
3. Develop positioning strategies that can drive growth and improve market share
4. Create and maintain detailed product requirements and roadmap
5. Create and track product success metrics and use them to identify problems and opportunities to pursue
6. Work with designers to build wireframes, validate and translate them into full-blown designs
7. Collaborate with engineering teams to drive feasibility analysis and refine product requirements
8. Work closely with engineering teams to deliver the roadmap while optimizing for time-to-market
9. Own the design <> engineering teams hand-off, release timelines, and work with business teams to plan and execute product launches
10. Evaluate marketing and sales strategies to ensure that they are in line with product strategy
11. Standardize the product design process and evangelize the same across all stakeholders

Requirements:

1. At least 6 years experience as a product manager at a B2C startup, with war stories to share
2. Proven track record of managing all aspects of product development lifecycle
3. Strong understanding of software development workflows and ability to work with top-notch engineering teams
4. Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to roll up one’s sleeves to get the job done
5. Excellent written and verbal communication skills
6. Strong presentational and public speaking skills
7. Bias for experimentation and ability to ask the right questions

Good to have:

1. Both B2C and B2B experience, preferably on marketplace-like initiatives
2. Exposure to edTech and/or finTech domains
3. Worked on products that addressed an international audience
4. Worked on products that scaled to millions of users

Location: Hyderabad

Additional resources:

1. Our team - https://gradright.com/team.html
2. Customer Testimonials - https://gradright.com/testimonials.html

GradRight on social media - LinkedIn, Instagram

Experience: -

* Minimum 2 year of coding experience in ReactJS (TypeScript), HTML, CSS-Pre-processors, or CSS-in-JS in creating Enterprise Applications with high performance for Responsive Web Applications.

* Minimum 2 year of coding experience in NodeJS, JavaScript & TypeScript and NoSQL Databases.

* Developing and implementing highly responsive user interface components using React concepts. (self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components)

* Architecting and automating the build process for production, using task runners or scripts

* Knowledge of Data Structures for TypeScript.

* Monitoring and improving front-end performance.

* Banking or Retail domains knowledge is good to have.

* Hands on experience in performance tuning, debugging, monitoring.

Technical Skills: -

* Excellent knowledge developing scalable and highly available Restful APIs using NodeJS technologies

* Well versed with CI/CD principles, and actively involved in solving, troubleshooting issues in distributed services ecosystem

* Understanding of containerization, experienced in Dockers, Kubernetes.

* Exposed to API gateway integrations like 3Scale.

* Understanding of Single-Sign-on or token-based authentication (Rest, JWT, OAuth)

* Possess expert knowledge of task/message queues include but not limited to: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Pushpin and Kafka.

* Practical experience with GraphQL is good to have.

* Writing tested, idiomatic, and documented JavaScript, HTML and CSS

* Experiencing in Developing responsive web-based UI

* Have experience on Styled Components, Tailwind CSS, Material UI and other CSS-in-JS techniques

* Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching layer, proxies, and other web services used in the system

* Writing non-blocking code, and resorting to advanced techniques such as multi-threading, when needed

* Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model

* Documenting the code inline using JSDoc or other conventions

* Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles

* Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools

* Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux or ContextAPI or Data Structures)

* A knack for benchmarking and optimization

* Proficient with the latest versions of ECMAScript (JavaScript or TypeScript)

* Knowledge of React and common tools used in the wider React ecosystem, such as npm, yarn etc

* Familiarity with common programming tools such as RESTful APIs, TypeScript, version control software, and remote deployment tools, CI/CD tools

* An understanding of common programming paradigms and fundamental React principles, such as React components, hooks, and the React lifecycle

* Unit testing using Jest, Enzyme, Jasmine or equivalent framework

* Understanding of linter libraries (TSLINT, Prettier etc)

Functional Skills: -

* Experience in following best Coding, Security, Unit testing and Documentation standards and practices

* Experience in Agile methodology.

* Ensure quality of technical and application architecture and design of systems across the organization.

* Effectively research and benchmark technology against other best in class technologies.

Soft Skills: -

* Able to influence multiple teams on technical considerations, increasing their productivity and effectiveness, by sharing deep knowledge and experience.

* Self-motivator and self-starter, Ability to own and drive things without supervision and works collaboratively with the teams across the organization.

* Have excellent soft skills and interpersonal skills to interact and present the ideas to Senior and Executive management.

• We run functional teams based on the SCRUM methodology and are a fairly Agile environment, with 2-week sprints and teams with a minimum of 2 developers (preferably 3) plus a Platform Owner.
• Sprints cannot be interrupted and work is planned out well in advance to keep stress down to a minimum.

• Line by line code reviews for every pull request on Gitlab maintains code quality, and keep everyone in the loop &amp; learning.
• At least 2 people working together on every project (collaborating not pairing)

• Swift is strongly preferred
• Experience with clean architecture, MVVM, and other design patterns
• Master Storyboards and auto layouts
• Familiar with RESTful web service
• Experience with Static Frameworks
• Great logic and problem-solving skills
• Practical understanding of Continuous Integration and Delivery

• A resume in pdf format. Include into your resume the links to software, mobile apps, your coding samples so we can see proof of your talents.