Product Architect - Cyber Security

We are searching for an experienced Product Manager with a minimum of 4 to 5 years of relevant experience in the E-commerce industry, ideally with technical knowledge related to e-commerce websites. As a Product Manager, your role will be pivotal in driving the development and enhancement of our e-commerce platform. Your primary objective will be to ensure the successful delivery of innovative and customer-centric product features and functionalities.

Responsibilities:

• Formulate and execute a comprehensive product strategy and roadmap for our e-commerce website, aligning it with business objectives and customer requirements.
• Conduct thorough market research and competitive analysis to identify industry trends, customer preferences, and best practices.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including engineering, design, marketing, and operations, to define precise product requirements and specifications.
• Prioritize product features and enhancements based on their business value, customer feedback, and market demands.
• Work closely with the development team to ensure prompt and high-quality delivery of product releases.
• Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and perform data analysis to evaluate the performance of our products and identify areas for improvement.
• Gather and analyze user feedback, conduct user testing, and iterate on product features to enhance the overall user experience.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and technological advancements in the e-commerce space, leveraging this knowledge to drive product innovation.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define and execute effective go-to-market strategies for new product launches and feature releases.
• Act as a product evangelist, effectively communicating the product vision, strategy, and value proposition to internal teams and external stakeholders.

Qualifications:

• Possess a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (such as business, computer science, engineering, or a related discipline). An MBA or equivalent qualification is desirable.
• Have at least 4 to 5 years of experience as a Product Manager, preferably in the E-commerce industry.
• Demonstrate a strong technical understanding and knowledge of e-commerce platforms and associated technologies.
• Showcase a proven track record of successfully delivering and launching customer-focused products and features.
• Exhibit familiarity with agile product development methodologies and experience collaborating within cross-functional teams.
• Possess an analytical mindset with the ability to gather and interpret data for making informed product decisions.
• Display excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the capacity to collaborate effectively and influence stakeholders at all organizational levels.
• Showcase strong problem-solving abilities and strategic thinking, while also paying meticulous attention to detail.
• Have a results-oriented mindset with a focus on driving business growth and ensuring customer satisfaction.
• Demonstrate a genuine passion for e-commerce and remain up-to-date with industry trends and best practices.

💥 What will you do?

As a Lead Product Designer, you will

• Own the Core  Product, its performance, and shape the direction it needs to evolve in. We are at a stage where we are snowballing across geographies, and a large part of your role would be envisioning and executing the correct product strategy for localized expansion.

• Act as a leader and coach within the Product Design team, collaborating with and mentoring junior designers, hiring new folks, and at the end of it all, craft a culture that you and we can be collectively proud of. 

• Drive cross-functional alignment and use storytelling backed by factual data to build conviction within the team and the organization about the problems we should be solving. 

• Partner closely with cross-functional (product, engineering, and go-to-market) teams to regularly ship experiences that drive our North Star Metrics and solve user pain points.

• Analyze incoming user feedback and make sense of the information to ideate upon possible product and revenue opportunities and contribute towards the product roadmap. 

• Run parallel tracks with the help of junior team members. We follow a breadth-first and depth later approach which almost always keeps us on our feet. 

• Be responsible for seamless execution including last-mile delivery and post-release analysis to decipher the impact of the efforts. 

• Work through design problems from beginning to end: translating business strategy, research insights, and data into ideas that form disruptive new products and features and improving and simplifying existing workflows.

• Own and manage the design system and provide direction to evolve it as and when necessary to keep up with best practices and design trends

• Sketch and prototype ideas to quickly assess the viability and design the workflows and fine-grained details of interactions. We build in close collaboration with customers and boast of a super-engaged user council. So, you will have access to our entire user base to seek any validation all the time.
  
  
  

  🙋 What makes you a great addition to the team? 
  
  

  We have a meritocratic culture, so not meeting any of these pointers below does not affect your candidacy in any negative way. However, in general, it helps to have

  • You use data and research to inform your design decisions and are able to assess the impact of your team’s designs with quantitative and qualitative data.

  • You have Some experience with fast-paced enterprise designs and have led designers to positive outcomes in the past. 

  • You enjoy working on forward-looking projects. Given the early days of the industry, you will get ample opportunities to lead on projects without many solutions to benchmark against.  

  • You have experience partnering with product managers to envision long-term product vision, strategy, and roadmap.  

  • You understand the importance of concrete business metrics product-driven acquisition, customer engagement and retention, onboarding-driven activation, and naturally think along these lines. 

  • You enjoy the process of discovery with customers and bring a strong sense of empathy and a user-centric approach to design.

  • You have an eye for pixel perfection and micro-interactions, and you enjoy coaching folks to achieve outcomes through nudges. 

  • Exposure to Crypto and Blockchain is excellent, but we believe that the domain knowledge can be gathered pretty quickly if you have a learner’s mentality. We boast of a thorough onboarding process that will ensure that you seamlessly transition into the blockchain space irrespective of where you are today. 

General Description:

Safety Connect is a leading company in the domain of enterprise field force safety. We are looking for a high-energy and dynamic Sr. Product Manager to join our growing team.

The Senior product manager will manage the successful development and implementation of the product from beginning to end. This person will see strategic ideas from design and testing to implementation and market introduction.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Build and share product strategy: Help distil the ideas and needs of stakeholders into clear quarterly and annual goals that meet the needs of Picnic and our users
  • You will also ensure stakeholders have a solid understanding of the product and its capabilities to ensure company-wide success
• Guide new feature creation: Draft, distribute, validate and update product briefs and product requirement documents
  • Answer questions and troubleshoot issues throughout the release lifecycle, communicating with engineers through our ticket management and knowledge base tool
• Increase Safety Connect’s focus on the user: Help establish a metrics-driven analysis of user behaviour and solicitation of user feedback.
  • Work with clients to understand their unique needs and pain points
  • Capture and share client feedback with the team to best investigate ways to create a solution
  • Report the success of the products and strategize improvements needed
• Be the glue: A senior product manager at a startup like Safety Connect has unique visibility across teams, allowing them to see problems and solutions that might otherwise be missed
  • Spotting problems and managing their resolution in an ongoing, ad hoc way is a critical part of product management success at Picnic

Qualification required:

• 5 year’s experience in product management
• Experience in product management in Enterprise SaaS
• A strong individual contributor who can also lead people and teams
• Impeccable analytical mindset, project management, and organizational skills
• Experience working directly with engineering teams to deliver valuable features and capabilities

• 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.

Responsibilities :

1. Reporting to the Product stakeholders (including Founders) and collaborating with the product development team.

2. Gathering product data, including web analytics, statistics, and consumer trends.

3. Analyzing consumer research data and recording product defects.

4. Determining improvements to product features.

5. Coordinating findings with the product team and aligning it with business goals.

6. Preparing project status and risk management reports.

7. Developing marketing strategies for enhanced product features.

8. Training internal departments on new product features and providing support to customers.

9. Developing efficient customer communication and feedback channels.

Qualifications (Must Have) :

1. Bachelor's degree in computer science, business management, marketing, or a related field.

2. At least 2 years of experience in a similar role would be advantageous.

3. Experience in gathering and interpreting qualitative product data and consumer feedback.

4. Ability to analyze industry trends and competitor behavior.

5. Exceptional ability to identify improved product features and contribute to marketing strategies.

6. Ability to report to the Product Manager and collaborate with the product development team.

7. Proficiency in compiling project status, risk management, and marketing reports.

8. Ability to maintain strong customer relations and provide product support.

9. Competency in training internal departments on new product features.

10. Excellent communication skills.

• Product planning and execution throughout the lifecycle, including: gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the product vision, and working closely with engineering, sales, marketing and support to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction goals are met. 
• Define the product strategy and roadmap, and own MRDs and PRDs with prioritized features
• Work with external third parties to assess partnerships opportunities
• Run beta and pilot programs with early-stage products and samples
• Be an expert with respect to the competition
• Create and articulate product development, improvement & further innovation (occasionally in front of investors or analysts), across internal and external client community
• Build, manage and retain team of high performing product managers
  
  

      Requirements:

• At least 10 years of experience, at least 5 years of product management experience in a tier-1 product firm in fields related to e-Commerce, hyperlocal services, content, financial services, etc.
• Great people skills paired with a high level of assertiveness and very good communication
• Strong analytical, strategic and coordinating skills
• Sound knowledge and understanding of the current trends in lending business and technology
• Engineering training with additional training in business administration is a big plus
• Experience in Fintech technologies is an added advantage