Product Design Manager

Location: HSR Layout, Bangalore

Department: Design/Art

Job Summary:

The Design Manager at Contlo will lead our design team, driving the creation and implementation of visual designs across various projects. This role requires a blend of creative vision, leadership, and project management skills to deliver outstanding design solutions that align with our brand's identity and business goals.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage the design team, fostering a collaborative, innovative, and high-performance culture.
• Develop and implement design strategies that align with the company's objectives and brand standards.
• Oversee the entire design process, from concept to delivery, ensuring high-quality standards are met within deadlines.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including marketing, product development, and external partners, to ensure cohesive branding and user experience across all platforms.
• Provide expert guidance and feedback to designers, helping to develop their skills and careers.
• Stay abreast of industry trends, technologies, and tools to continuously improve the team's output and efficiency.
• Manage and allocate resources effectively, including budgeting for design tools, software, and external contractors as needed.
• Present designs and strategies to stakeholders, incorporating feedback to refine and improve outcomes.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, or a related field. A Master's degree is a plus.
• Proven experience (typically 4+ years) in a design leadership role, with a strong portfolio showcasing a variety of projects.
• Expertise in design software and tools (e.g., Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, Figma, Canva).
• Strong leadership and team management skills, with a track record of motivating and developing talent.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, capable of conveying complex design concepts clearly and persuasively.
• Solid understanding of branding, user experience, and digital marketing principles.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, prioritizing tasks to meet deadlines and objectives.
• Creative thinker with strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

About the role:

Associate Product Manager - Growth

As an Associate Product Manager at ForeignAdmits, you'll be responsible for driving the growth of one of the flagship products, owning the product's end-to-end acquisition/ activation/ conversion/ retention funnels. You'll identify users' needs and turn those insights into products that users love. You’ll be closely working with the PMs and CEO in driving the product vision.

Responsibilities:

• Working closely with the Backend Engineering & Front-end Engineering, Design, Operations, and Customer Experience teams to deliver world-class customer-obsessed products and features.
• Be the voice of the customer. Develop a deep understanding of our customers and build the best product user experiences on their behalf through market research, experimentation, user testing, and data analysis.
• Research and translate industry problems into solutions through the use of technology and data. Your solutions should create a measurable "impact" on the lives of consumers.
• Create detailed product requirement documents and user stories with an ability to imagine the user journeys - happy paths, unhappy paths, and edge cases
• Empathize with dozens of personas and use cases, and think user-first.
• Have a data-oriented approach and an eye for numbers, insights, and metrics.
• Define and analyze metrics that inform the success of products.
• Build user insights and recommendations from the data. Create user cohorts and funnels to understand user behavior.
• Ability to think creatively, deal with ambiguity, and manage fast-paced environments and changing priorities.
• And most essentially, a founder's mindset: is to own initiatives & deliver results.

Requirements:

• 0-1 year of relevant product management experience in consumer product organizations
• High energy and high ownership individual with a keen interest in building 0 to 1 systems that have large-scale real-world impact
• Good understanding of UX Design practices in the consumer internet space
• Ability to think granularly and are hungry to learn and evolve in all things.
• Bias for action and experience making things happen in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with a knack for articulating customer challenges clearly.
• Analyze and synthesize data, including writing SQL
• Proficient with data analytics tools like Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Adobe Omniture, etc., or the equivalents.

Good to have:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related fields, or equivalent practical experience with a deep understanding of technology platforms

What do we value?

• High energy and high ownership
• Data-driven decision making
• Ability to constantly experiment.
• Hungry for learning and a bias for action.
• Clearly articulate the user needs and insights & translate them into recommendations.

What does ForeignAdmits bring to the table:

Apart from monetary benefits, we offer

• An informal and self-managed work culture.
• Freedom to experiment with new ideas and technologies.
• A highly motivating work environment where you learn exponentially and grow with the organization.
• An opportunity to create an impact at scale.
• Opportunity to be a part of team to see our next series of funding 

Evaluate new use cases to identify product-market fit and evolve the value proposition of existing use cases through user feedback · Engage with customers and work with internal stakeholders like sales, solutions and engineering teams in creating innovative solutions · Create artefacts and run marketing campaigns to scale existing and new Go-to market initiatives · Enable sales, solutioning and marketing team to position the product in appropriate markets and channels.

You Are (behaviours to display - DRIVE) · Must be able to collaborate across stakeholders – Internally (Sales, Marketing, Solution Architects, Solutions Engg, Service Delivery and Assurance) and Externally (Customer forums, Partners, etc) · Understanding on Industry footprints & great product knowledge would be an additional advantage. · Highlight DRIVE behaviours – Accountability & Ownership, Collaboration, Innovation & Agility

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Certifications) · B.E. / B.tech with Masters Degree in Management from a premier institute with 2 - 6 years of enterprise product or technology roles. · Prefered experience: o Cloud, IT/SI/Telecom organizations o Experience in working with Large enterprise environment o Pro-active liaise with other company functions (e.g. Sales / Marketing / Solutions / Service

Product Manager at OneCard 

At Onecard, we're re-imagining the credit card for a new generation of users. Product development is an extremely collaborative effort between engineering, design, and customer-facing teams. You’d be joining a small team of experienced Product Managers who have helped build successful products at companies such as Gaana, Walnut, ICICI Bank among others. 

YOU MAY BE A GOOD FIT IF:

• You can think in terms of the big picture, but deliver on the details
• You observe users and talk to them to get insights for building products. 
• You have a nose for great products, and advocate for new features with qualitative and quantitative reasoning
• You do whatever it takes to make your product and team successful, whether that means writing a QA plan or hunting down the root cause of a user’s frustration. This is very important as we're rapidly growing. 
• You can turn incomplete, conflicting, or ambiguous inputs into solid action plans
• You communicate with empathy and exceptional precision
• You are technical enough to ask engineers good questions about architecture and product decisions alike
• Beyond just shipping new products, you obsess about continuous product improvement

REQUIREMENTS

• You’ve spent at least 3 to 5 years in product management, especially working on mobile apps. 
• You’ve built something with 100k+ users in a consumer facing application. If you've built something on your own - a blog or a website, please send us a link. 
• You’ve worked with design teams and software like Figma/Zeplin/Balsamiq. 
• Experience in Fintech and gaming is preferred. Especially working on reward programs. 

You’ve built something with 100k+ users in a consumer facing application. If you've built something on your own - a blog or a website, please send us a link. 

YOU SHOULD INCLUDE THESE IN YOUR APPLICATION:

A few words on...

• Why you’re interested in being a product manager at OneCard in particular
• The product you are most proud of shipping, and your role in its development
• The biggest product mistake you’ve made (we all have them!)

https://ownpath.xyz/">ownpath is an early stage startup with a mission of making ambitious career opportunities accessible to everyone, starting with Design. We recently completed a 3 month program on Design Management for Gojek, for which we received highly positive reviews. We had Kristin Skinner (Co-author of Org Design for Design Orgs) and Meredith Black (Ex-Pinterest) as some of the instructors for the program.

We're currently working on a https://ownpath.xyz/product-design-fellowship">Product Design Fellowship program to help junior designers develop key skills and transition towards becoming Product Designers at leading startups.

The program will involve designers working in teams, building live projects, and showcasing their work to prospective employers during Demo Day. We currently have Gojek, Razorpay, and Scripbox as industry partners. We're seeking a Head of Design Education to join us as part of the Founding team to help us run a successful cohort and build a foundation for future programs.

Key responsibilities

• Own the program experience in terms of identifying focus areas, pedagogy, learning outcomes, and evaluation criterion, and ensuring a high placement rate
• Collaborate closely with our instructional designer to innovate on scalable &highly engaging learning experiences
• Conduct regular Office Hours to guide learners on their projects and curate learning resources for both the cohort and the broader design community
• Collaborate with our community manager to grow our learner and mentor communities

You ideally have

• Around 6 years worth of experience in designing digital products/experiences, preferably with some experience at fast-growing startups
• Strong interest in making design education accessible and outcome-driven
• Experience with conducting or organising conference talks or workshops
• Excellent communication skills

Key Benefits

• Huge opportunity for impact by helping build a design school from scratch as an exciting alternative to conventional avenues for higher education
• Excellent stepping stone for a Head of Design role at fast-growing startups
• Develop your network by interfacing with Heads of Design/Product in the industry
• Get mentorship from Heads of Designs/Product

This is a full-time paid role, with an option to convert to a equity-based partner role based on performance and fit.

Shreyas Satish,

Founder & CEO,

ownpath, Inc.

1. Ensure the brand image is maintained through various collaterals
2. Execution and quick turnaround of collaterals as required by the marketing and sales teams including advertising collaterals, primary packaging, secondary packaging, brand collaterals in-store and otherwise, online banners, etc.
3. Guiding outsourced digital marketing teams on design aesthetic and brand DNA
4. Supervision of printing of packaging material and coordination with vendors for the same e.g. to ensure that colors on the screen are printed on physical labels etc.

Education Qualifications:

Minimum Graduate, Design Course diploma or degree preferred    

Experience & Skills:

• Minimum of 2-3 years of work experience in accounts
• Deep knowledge of software like Adobe Photoshop, AI, etc.
• A keen eye for design, colors and aesthetic
• Ability to communicate strongly Hindi and English
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