Platform/Product Success Manager

Job Title:

Senior Product Manager

Reports to:

Director of product manager

Job Description:

we are looking for an exceptional Sr. Product Manager to be the founding member of our Product Management team. Who can be entrepreneurial and values moving quickly to drive product initiatives across the company.

You will work with a cross-functional team of engineers, designers, data scientists, and marketers to lead a product that currently serves over 27,000 customers in 120+ countries and is scaling rapidly each day using PLG (product-led growth)

What you'll do:

• Take complete ownership of a product and establish the product vision, strategy, and goals to measure success
• Develop the product roadmap and build alignment across product, engineering, and marketing teams
• Drive customer adoption and retention, including ensuring a successful onboarding process, boosting engagement and retention
• Rapidly iterate and evolve the product using product metrics to drive goals and implement best-in-class product management practices
• Conduct competitive pricing, feature analysis, and market sizing research for the product

Skills you bring to the table:

• 4-5+ years of experience in Product Management, preferably at a high-growth B2B SaaS startup. A background in Engineering is a plus
• You're comfortable being uncomfortable and ardent about figuring things out. You thrive in ambiguity and have the capacity for creative problem-solving
• Strong business, analytical, data, and troubleshooting skills
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills. Ability to quickly absorb technical concepts and effectively simplify and communicate them to a non-technical audience
• Strong time management with the ability to balance multiple deliverables while working in a high-paced environment
• Constantly look for ways to innovate and improve the product since change is inevitable in every industry
• Drive growth by identifying and improving key product metrics and balancing customer and business needs while collaborating across product, marketing, and engineering teams
• Must be able to work across time zones to liaise with our US-based customer success team

Benefits:

We offer competitive salaries, meaningful equity, and a generous vacation policy. And you get to work on a product that people love and use in over 120 countries worldwide.

What you need to have:

Responsibilities:

• Conceptualize and define product vision, create the roadmap and drive its execution
• Define, track and improve the key product metrics
• Think analytically about workflows and the impact of product features on conversion
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams like product managers, developers, designers, marketing and SEO to drive the product execution
• Develop and provide thought leadership in the user experience across devices.
• Leverage available insights like market analysis, customer feedback, site metrics, and usability findings
• Prioritize the features based on user requirements and cost benefit analysis
• A keen, flexible and aggressive intellect with superb conceptual thinking, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work with diverse teams across the organization
• Be the brand custodian and ensure design guidelines are followed for digital communications
• Design sprints and conduct daily scrums with the team

Requirements:

• Excellent understanding of product development life cycle
• Deep understanding of how your products work, know every step of the funnel.
• You'll be expected to delve deep into datasets, build dashboards and design and accurately measure experiments
• Excellent experience in creating product roadmap, optimization chart & prioritization sheet
• Good knowledge of tech, design, SEO & marketing
• Strong hand on analytical tools like Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Clevertap, Redash etc
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate upwardly to top management and downward to a wide range of audiences, especially tech teams
• Must be self-directed and motivated and able to multitask in a fast paced environment
• Excellent skills in prototyping tools such as Balsamiq, Adobe XD, Just In Mind, etc
• SQL knowledge is a must
• Ability to rapidly visualize/prototype concepts
• Ability to AB test prototypes and conduct experiments
• Ability to provide deliverables within specified deadline with a quality bar
• Excellent team orientation and communication skills
• Experience in hospitality domain is a plus Experience
• 4+ years of product management experience
• 6+ years of overall experience
• Programming knowledge is a plus
• Bachelors' degree in Engineering
• MBA is a plus
• Salary range is flexible based on interview performance and relevant experience

• Maintain, drive, monitor, and put in place dependable technological standards, systems, and procedures.
• With a high degree of skill and understanding, influence technology plans and choices.
• Provide guidance and help to ensure that necessary legislation specifications and standards are followed.
• Lead a team of product developers and handle training requirements as needed.
• Coordinate product testing on a regular basis to identify flaws and offer feedback in order to improve them.
• Assist clients with technical concerns as a key contact.
• Ascertain if the firm has adequate resources, including staff, materials, and equipment.
• Development, execution, and progress are all reported to management.
• Working with development teams and departments, as well as taking user feedback into account.
• Managing support teams and monitoring performance indicators are two of my responsibilities.
• Assuring timely and cost-effective delivery of products and services.
• Managing software and hardware updates and installs.
• Keeping the computer network infrastructure up to date and secure.

• Craft a coherent product vision, strategy, and roadmap
• Vision: Understand the company vision align the product vision and evangelize the same across the cross-functional teams
• Internalize  existing products and then align your team's mission, strategy, and roadmap with this direction
• Execute: This means being constantly biased towards action, being in the details with data, focusing on the most important problems, building strong collaborative relationships with other teams, always thinking of the customer first, and rapidly iterating towards something demonstrably awesome.
• Champion and ship bold product bets that will significantly alter the business trajectory.

• 4+ years of experience with a minimum of 2 years of experience in Product Management delivering highly successful and innovative products.
• Computer science undergraduate degree or equivalent plus hands-on software engineering experience.
• Analytical chops. You live and breathe data. You find a way to get the data you need and whip it into an insightful story with no help. You know how to wield it but also where it can lead you astray

Product Manager 

Purpose of the role 
A Product manager at CarWale would be responsible to deliver world-class products that solve real-world problems around car buying, by working in an agile framework of iterative development and collaboration.

They have to deliver great business value through user research , intelligent prioritization , and working with Stakeholders throughout the product lifecycle to ensure a great return on investment.

Role description

Primary responsibility of the role would be to define the product roadmap & backlog, work with business and functional teams to design and implement changes that drive user acquisition, user experience & monetization.

 Key responsibilities:

• Lead a development team to implement product changes while working collaboratively with multiple stake holders like Design, Sales, Operations & Management.
• Analyze data to derive product & business insights and use them to strategize changes.  Iteratively improve on the product by running tests
• Be responsible for prioritization of features based on assessment of business impact & effort.
• Report findings & periodic reviews with Management.

The ideal candidate would have the following qualities

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• Understanding and experience of Digital Product Development Life Cycle
• Excellent business analysis & problem-solving skills
• Result-driven, goal-oriented work ethic
• Customer empathy, ability to think from user’s point of view
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including technical writing skills
• Understanding of technology and exposure to software coding
• Experience in Business Requirement Specification documentation/product backlog (Epics, User stories)
• Experience of working in an Agile environment is preferred
• Understanding of user experiences (UI/UX)
• Product development experience including experience in digital product building/tech delivery is preferred

CarWale is India's largest auto media company. CarWale has always striven to serve car buyers and owners in the most comprehensive and convenient way possible. We provide a platform where car buyers and owners can research, buy, sell and come together to discuss and talk about their cars.

Our mission is to bring joy and delight into car buying and ownership. To achieve this goal, we aim to empower Indian consumers to make informed car buying and ownership decisions with exhaustive and un-biased information on cars through our expert reviews, owner reviews, detailed specifications and comparisons. We understand that a car is by and large the second-most expensive asset a consumer associates his lifestyle with.

Together with CarTrade & BikeWale, we are the market leaders in the personal mobility media space.

1. Vendor Management :: On-boarding & Payments
2. MIS Reporting & Presentation
3. Work closely with tech team, participating in the tech discussion regarding features feasibility as per technology
4. Work with teams like Customer Service, inside sales, Operations etc. to improve our customer retention, identify avenues for cross-selling/up-selling at a product level.
5. Product research, competitive analysis, positioning and packaging of the product 
6. Work closely with business, technology, operations, sales, marketing teams to gather the product requirements and build the final version and structure of the product vision. 
7. Define the product roadmap, release models and delivery the same. 
8. Responsible for sourcing, identifying and generation of new ideas, based on internal intelligence, user behavioral trends, market analysis and revenue maximization. 
9. Preparation of the product note/policies as per the guidelines and benchmarking the product features with the peers. 
10. Successful launch of the new product, versions, enhancements, in line with the cost, scope, quality and schedule