PRODUCT MANAGER

The Product Manager is 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.

• Drive the product- and business-planning processes for cross-functional teams
• Analyze customer needs, current market trends, and potential partnerships from an ROI and build-vs.-buy perspective
• Assess current competitor offerings and seek opportunities for differentiation
• Analyze product requirements and develop appropriate programs to ensure they’re met
• Develop, implement, and maintain production timelines across multiple departments
• Appraise new product ideas and strategize appropriate go-to-market plans

What you need to have:

Role: Product Manager

Experience: 5-10 years

Location: Hyderabad (Remote due to COVID-19)

Technovert is not a typical IT services firm. We inculcate the product mindset for the talent working with us. We have to credit two of our successful products generating $2M+ in licensing/SaaS revenues which is rare in the industry.

Step ahead, we are looking for a Product Manager who can create best out of excellent engineering minds and build together a product which suffice Insurance Industry needs. This is a pivotal role where you can see yourself working with the Technology, Sales, Marketing and Leadership team. 
Your Responsibilities

• Identify product market opportunities through market research, customer profiling, needs analysis, market sizing and competitive analysis.
• Define the product strategy, and translate product strategy into roadmap and feature definition, in line with business and customer experience objectives.
• Collect and develop ideas, prioritize the ideas, create business cases
• Define, track, and improve key product metrics.
• Drive the product discovery process for large projects and support the product implementation and deployment
• Partner and collaborate with stakeholders from multiple teams like Engineering, UX, Data, etc. across numerous business units across countries and teams
• Liaise with Engineering and Product owners to help them implement and verify the product increments
• Liaise with Sales, Marketing, Services and Support organizations to launch the product evolutions to market
• Works with product marketing department to develop effective communication activities and programs including product positioning, collateral development, whitepapers, and analyst engagement
• Serves as the key contact for product questions and new product ideas which surface from customers, sales, or market research.
• Manages the resolution of escalated customer problems. Escalates problems and issues to other departments when needed.

Ideal Candidate Traits

• Strong understating of the Insurance industry. Preferable Life & Health.
• Must be able and willing to think and act strategically and tactically
• Excellent communication skills, and design thinking skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Leveraging data to make informed product decisions.
• Must have sound business judgment as well as the ability to think clearly, analyze quantitatively, problem-solve, scope technical requirements, and prioritize
• Ability to explain the business and technical value of a technical offering to internal and external audience which is a mix of technical and non-technical customer representatives

Minimum Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in technology product management.
• 3+ years of working in the insurance domain
• Have worked independently or as a lead on GTM and launch of at least 1 product
• Worked closely with developers in an agile development environment
• Prior experience as a developer preferred.

• Drive the execution of all product lifecycle processes for the growth of Factory Acquisition product, including product research, market research, competitive analysis, planning,
• positioning, roadmap development, requirements development, and product launch
• Identify, Plan and execute side Product Hacks to speedup Factory Acquisitions
• Assess current competitor offerings, seeking opportunities for differentiation
• Analyze consumer needs, current market trends, and potential partnerships from an ROI and build vs. buy perspective
• Create product strategy documents that describe business cases, high-level use cases, technical requirements, revenue, and ROI
• Translate product strategy into detailed requirements for prototype construction and final product development by engineering teams
• Build product flows for seamless factory onboarding at scale
• Collaborate closely with engineering, production, marketing, and sales teams on the development, QA, and release of products and balance of resources to ensure success for the entire organization
• Drive the Factory CAC Metric
• Implement, and maintain production timelines across multiple departments
• Appraise new product ideas and strategize appropriate to-market plans
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• Engineering or an MBA graduate from a reputed university
• 4+ years of product management experience, preferably with consumer and/or b2b startups that have attained scale
• Experience identifying business opportunities, building a product strategy, and influencing deliver against a multi-year roadmap
• Understands core technologies utilised in their product domain and is fluent in pros and cons of technical alternatives
• Good understanding of acquisition and retention funnels
• Demonstrated ability to achieve goals in a fast paced and an unstructured environment. Thrives in ambiguity and rapidly changing environment
• Hands-on experience of both qualitative and quantitative research methods such as AB testing, data analytics, and user research
• Robust understanding of complex and scalable technical architecture for web and mobile applications
• Problem solver with strong analytical skills and comfort with data
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Job Description :

• Develop and define product roadmaps and feature concepts
• Work with engineering, design, marketing, business sales, and QA team to come up with time estimates and adhering to external commitments
• Identify new products, gather requirements, build and ship new products.
• Scope and prioritize activities based on business and customer impact
• Talk regularly with our customers and improve the product based on the feedback
• Define and continuously analyze metrics for the success of the product
• Be familiar with industry best practices for product management and explore improving processes at KredX
• Engage with multiple stakeholders within the organization
• Identifying all barriers to feature adoption (awareness, legal, regulatory, training, customer usage) and ensuring systematic elimination of the same
• Manage project delivery to ensure timely product launches
• Identify and unblock short term issues and hurdles while always keeping eyes on the long term prize

Requirements :

• 3+ years of product management experience
• First-principle thinking
• Prior experience in working on web and mobile apps
• Relentless focus on customer experience
• Ability to pull data using basic SQL queries and ask the right questions of data
• Ability to hack solutions using low-code / no-code approaches (like Zapier, Zoho Creator, AWS Honeycode, or any of such 100s of tools etc..)
• Keen interest in financial and investment landscape of India
• Prior experience in Fintech or Finance/Investment domain is a plus but not mandatory