Product Head

Hi,

We,Enterprise Minds is hiring for Sr.Product Manager for Ahmedabad and Bangalore Locations.

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If interested, please forward your updated profile here or please help us by referring your friends.

Prefer max 30 days notice candidates.

Position :: Sr. Product Manager
Location:: Ahmedabad First choice & Bangalore is the second choice

Years of experience: 8+

Skills ::

• Strong product management or consulting experience in technology focused business

• Domain knowledge in Banking or Mortgage or Lending or Credit cards

• Proven track record of managing all aspects of a successful product throughout its lifecycle.
• Hands on experience delivering large scale, enterprise, digital transformations
• Proven ability to develop product and marketing strategies and effectively communicate recommendations to executive management
• Solid technical background with understanding and/or hands-on experience in software development and web technologies.
• Define a thoughtful, detailed, and executable rollout strategy for new features, releases, and products.
• Write business cases, perform ROIs, and prioritize and write user stories; partner with product development team to break things down and plan them into releases
• Translate high, level business requirements into detailed technical specs, and aggressively unblock the engineer teams to execute fast.
• Perform competitive benchmark analysis, analyze customer needs, look at surveys and quantitative data to come up with the right judgement of product and feature investments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering or Technology.

MBA with work experience in fintech companies is  a big plus.

This role requires a self-motivated leader with direct Product Management experience delivering Solutions around MS Teams Telephony. Candidate must have a keen sense of the overall UCC market, competitive awareness of the India Unified Communications and Collaboration solutions market and provide critical strategic direction related to India Domestic and Global UC objectives.

The Candidate will be responsible for the India UCaaS/MCS objectives and targets. Also, responsible for Product Life cycle management that involves Envisage, Concept, Framework, Partnerships, Process, Engineering validation, Documentation, GTM etc.

the other responsibility involves Pricing, Bundling, Enablement through Trainings, Adoption and Growth strategy that plugs into our entire UCaaS/MCS portfolio. Critical to success will be identifying Enterprise and Partner offers, migrating customers to the next generation UCC platform with Regulatory compliance, differentiated solution capabilities ensuring that lifecycle management and improving adoption services.

The Product Manager will champion and execute across cross-functional teams and drive solution enablement discussions with Sales, Solutions, Engineering, Service Assurance, Operations, Technology & Service Development teams. The successful candidate will be setting objectives and delivering results that have a significant impact on product adoption.

The Product Manager will champion projects through the Tata Communications New Product Introduction/Agile Development process and lead the UCaaS/MCS Workstream that is accountable for the delivery and customer acceptance of the solutions.

The Global Product Manager will be fully responsible for the Annual Operating Plan (AOP), P&L and CAPEX/OPEX of all UCaaS/MCS business initiatives and programs. Key focus will be on Gross and Net Revenue contribution and growth targets that are assigned to the UCaaS/MCS portfolio.

About Us :

- MSMEx is a business advisory platform which connects Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) & Start-ups with leading industry experts for professional advice & mentoring.

- Our goal is to bring world-class business management support in a micro advisory format to MSMEs at highly-affordable price points, so they can scale to their full potential faster with qualified guidance, expert mentoring and hand-holding.

- We take a customer-centric approach in our product development and measure our success using defined business metrics.

- We are a small team with diverse background & experiences. We work hard as a team - and appreciate the meaningful contribution of each other. We celebrate the journey and milestones and don- t wait for destination.

Responsibilities :

- Perform market research and competitive analysis

- Understand user needs, pain points & behaviour

- Develop & drive product direction and strategy

- Own the product roadmap, milestones and KPIs

- Collect & gather the requirements from different stakeholders to write PRDs & User

Stories.

- Define Acceptance Criteria & KPIs for each product feature

- Preparing Wireframes to explain the feature requirements to UI/UX Team

- Managing & Planning Sprints, Backlog & UAT

- Oversee product execution from inception to delivery

- Define and execute go-to-market plans /strategies along with marketing team

- Work with design, engineering, operations & marketing teams to set priorities & achieve the product and business goals

- Own the product tracking & analytics to gain insights for product iteration

Requirements:

What we are looking for:

- BE/BTech or MBA with relevant experience of 3-5 years

- Strong Analytical Skills with ability to formulate data driven decisions

- Own a track record of building interesting mobile products

JOB DESCRIPTION - PRODUCT MANAGER :

- Experience in Agile Product Development Process

- Exceptional Written & Verbal Communication Skills

- Cross-Functional Team Management

- A Team Player with an Entrepreneurial spirit

- Embrace change, and thrive in a fast-paced start-up environment

Tools:

- Project Management: JIRA, Slack etc

- Wireframing Tools: Framer etc

- Analytics: Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Facebook Analytics, Metabase, Tableau etc

- MS Office: Excel, Power Point, Word etc

Why MSMEx?

- You want to work directly with cofounders & serial entrepreneurs

- You love challenges and independently solve them

- You love to work in fast paced start-up environment

- You want fast paced growth in your career

Location: Preferred Mumbai in long run. For 2021 can work from anywhere.

The role is responsible for building a vertical payments experience across all the payments for a Vehicle. All users are from cities in tier 2/3/4 who are mobile-first and have close to no exposure to digital payments

BlackBuck will be building a network of merchants across multiple categories and will be driving payments via in-house payment solutions and 3rd party integrations

• Own the strategic vision and product roadmap
• Create a clear career path for your managers and the team beneath. Nurture and grow them with regular and deep
• Contribute to product strategy, manage business goals and develop teams
• Define simple and easy to use digital payments experience for tier 2/3/4 customers
• Define user stories for end-to-end features
• Regularly coordinate with multiple 3rd parties for integrations
• Work closely with engineering teams and design teams to deliver the product to market on timelines
• Define metrics to measure the health and success of all features

 

• Have an entrepreneurial spirit and possess a total of 7 -8 years of experience and spent at least 4-5 years in product management of which must have spent at least 2 years in Indian payment ecosystem and a track record of creating innovative solutions
• Demonstrated success as product manager for large-scale consumer-facing products

Demonstrated ability to think creatively, deal with ambiguity, and manage to change priorities

Roles and Responsibilities
● Determines customers' needs and desires by specifying the research needed to obtain market information.
● Recommends the nature and scope of present and future product lines by reviewing product specifications and requirements; appraising new product ideas and/or product or packaging changes.
● Assesses market competition by comparing the company's product to competitors' products.
● Provides source data for product line communications by defining product marketing communication objectives.
● Obtains product market share by working with the sales director to develop product sales strategies.
● Assesses product market data by calling on customers with field salespeople and evaluating sales call results.
● Provides information for management by preparing short-term and long-term product sales forecasts and special reports and analyses; answering questions and requests.
● Facilitates inventory turnover and product availability by reviewing and adjusting inventory levels and production schedules.
● Brings new products to market by analyzing proposed product requirements and product development programs; preparing return-on-investment analyses; establishing time schedules with engineering and manufacturing.
● Introduces and markets new products by developing time-integrated plans with sales, advertising, and production.
● Determines product pricing by utilizing market research data; reviewing production and sales costs; anticipating volume; costing special and customized orders.
● Completes operational requirements by scheduling and assigning employees; following up on work results.
● Maintains product management staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees.
● Maintains product management staff job results by counseling and disciplining employees;
planning, monitoring, and appraising job results.
● Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
● Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
Qualifications
● 3-8 years of overall experience depending on how fast you have grown in your career. We would be looking for evidence that your experiences are commensurate with the kind required from the person in this role.
● 2 years of prior product management experience preferably in an internet-based company which preferably is a best-in-class large company or a respected disruptor startup.
● A bachelor's degree or master's degree in a numerically inclined discipline such as Engineering, Economics, Commerce, Mathematics preferably from a premium institute.
● MBA degree from a premier institute and prior startup experience is preferred but not necessary

About the company:
Locofast Online Services Private Limited operates under the brand name - Locofast- & today is one of the fastest growing B2B companies in the textiles B2B space. The company connects textile manufacturers (mills,
manufacturers) to customers (brands, buying houses) both in India & internationally. It integrates technology to the core transaction flow & delivers industry best pricing & turnaround time for textile products. The century old textile industry has been untouched by any disruption leave alone technological disruption. At Locofast, we are driven to do exactly that & today have an opportunity to create a very large impact in an extremely large industry.

Founders & Investors:
The company in a short span of time (little over two years) has raised two rounds of funding, most recently one large round of Series B financing (to be announced soon). The company is backed by some of the most marquee investors that have backed landmark companies such as Myntra.com, Firstcry.com, Lenskart.com, Cult.fit, Bounce, Gomechanic & others.
The company is founded by second time entrepreneurs who have demonstrated the ability to build and scale businesses in the past. The profile of the founder can be seen here - www.linkedin.com/in/wadhwadeepak.
Deepak was previously the founder of WeAreHolidays, a B2C platform for travelers. The founders come with deep expertise in building & scaling marketplaces.

We are looking for someone who can:
- Develop and implement product strategies consistent with company vision
- Collect and analyze feedback from customers, stakeholders and other teams to shape requirements, features and end products
- Work with senior management to create product plans and roadmaps
- Lead product managers and coordinate cross-functional teams
- Produce and review product requirements documents (PRD) and wireframes
- Ensure products and releases are launched correctly and on schedule
- Make creative recommendations to expand product base and vision
- Suggest ways to track product use and impact on end users

An ideal candidate will have :
- 2-4 years of work experience as a product manager, preferably in a start-up
- Proven experience as a Product Manager or similar role
- Experience in product lifecycle management
- Familiarity with Agile framework
- Excellent problem solving skills
- The ability to own end-to-end responsibility
- A "Will Do" attitude

We have :
- A team of aces, from top-tier schools and start-ups, to work with
- A fast-paced, data-driven, and fun work environment
- A huge appetite for new, disruptive, creative, and implementable ideas
- An open work culture

We offer :
- Competitive salary
- Great working environment, opportunity to work directly with the founders on very exciting real-life problems.
- Opportunity to grow really fast.
- Opportunity to hire a team & mentor them in the future.
- ESOPs

If this is something that interests you, let's talk.

We are looking for an experienced product leader to join us to work on leveraging products to rapidly accelerate community growth and personalization. 

Responsibilities

• Define the product strategy and roadmap for BabyChakra suite of products
• Partner with engineering to build products and customer experiences that delight our users and partners 
• Define feature visions and roadmaps, gathering requirements from the community and business stakeholders
• Drive measurable business impacts working closely with cross-functional teams across the GoodGlamm group 
• Actively prioritize backlogs that are optimized against benefit tradeoffs
• Write agile user stories and validate product ideas with stakeholders
• Make data-driven decisions with developers, QA, product designers and analysts to constantly deliver incremental and tangible value to the customer
• Be the internal voice and advocate of the customer and domain subject matter expert

Requirements

 

• Demonstrated experience building products across community and commerce; side projects are welcome! 
• Comfort with ambiguity and ability to take ownership to build 0-1 systems that have large scale impact
• Demonstrated experience of having managed an entire product life cycle from Business & Consumer insights, PRDs, UI/ UX oversight, stakeholder alignment to execution
• Proven ability to adopt a creative and data-driven approach to solving problems. 
• Inspiring & strong communicator, excited to collaborate with cross functional stakeholders
• Obsessed with user experience / journeys to understand and create a global product
• An intense curiosity about all things technology to include IoT, Data Science, UX and more

• Build hypotheses: It starts with identifying the problems by doing in-depth research with customers and cross-validating it with data analysis. We are razor-focused on solving the right problems:
• Identify solutions: You will be defining the requirements and working with a cross-functional team from design, engineering, business, marketing, and support. You will identify solutions that truly solve the user problem keeping business interests in mind
• Launch and iterate: No product is truly world-class in the first launch. Your job is not just to launch new products but also to work closely with other teams to ensure the go-to-market is completed from all sides. Additionally, you will also balance new product launches with iterating on existing products ensuring that you pick the ones that are most impactful
• Build roadmap: You will always have a roadmap for your product and you will constantly update the roadmap taking into account the rapid change of business dynamics as well as user behavior and segments that we would go after
• Help build the team: Participate in hiring cross-functional team members for different roles

You are a right fit if:

• You understand technology, but love customer-first & business-first thinking
• You are comfortable working hands-on in a fast-paced start-up environment
• You are good at problem-solving and have an analytical and data-driven approach to day-to-day work
• You have prior work experience in the tech-driven lending business
• You have at least 3 years of experience in Product Management
• You are in love with Bangalore weather and would enjoy working here :)

Why should you work with us?

• Work in one of the most exciting start-up sectors
• Opportunity to create impact for the blue-collar workforce
• Unique and unsolved problems for the unique customer segment to work on
• The non-hierarchical, flat, and transparent culture where we also have lots of fun
• Pay at par with market salaries

 

We are looking for experienced and entrepreneurial product leaders with a “co-founder” mindset,to help build and scale a world-class product organization in Bangalore. If you are excited about fintech, zero to one products, working with and learning from a phenomenal team of product,engineering, research, design, operations, and business leaders, this is the role for you.


KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
- Ideal product manager will be passionate and will deliver an unparalleled customer and user experience
- The product manager would stand for customers and identify key insights from customer research, interviews, surveys etc.
- The product manager will create a strategy and bottom up roadmap with ruthless prioritization to lead an area end to end within the product org
- The product manager will hustle and do whatever it takes to get things done

- Ship fast without sacrificing quality (MVP driven approach); then leverage data and feedback for iterations
- The product manager will own the go to market of the product, will measure the impact of the various products that are launched

- Align key stakeholders on the problem, solution, setting expectation and communicate effectively

- Must be an innovative, strategic thinker and must be able to work in a fast-paced dynamic environment with changing priorities

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE/ QUALIFICATIONS
The ideal candidate profile will be:
- Overall experience of 5+ yrs with at least 3+ yrs in product management in a tech-led company (consumer internet space is preferred)
- Exceptional problem-solving skills based on first principles thinking 

- Have solved complex & ambiguous problem at scale to create significant impact
- Adopt a structured approach to identify what problems need to be solved and break them down into smaller chunks
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to justify requirements, features and drive management of a product.
- Proven ability to deliver first class customer experiences with a deep understanding of UX best practices.
- High attention to detail and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously with minimal supervision.
- Ability to scale a product post launch and drive adoption, track metrics and plan next steps