Product Management (Intern)

Role Overview

Summary of Role

We are looking for a passionate and skilled Product Manager, we expect you to bring a fresh pair of eyes 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 to deliver winning products. 

Must Have Background for this Role:

• Min 5-12 years of strong experience in product management role
• Previous experience in Fintech domain 
• Bachelor’s degree (MBA preferred)

Required Skills for this Role: 

• Define the product strategy and roadmap
• Build innovative financial products in a cross-functional team. Deeply understand the needs and problems of our users. 
• Develop product positioning strategies.
• Work closely with engineering to ensure developers understand the required functionality and are building the right functionality to meet the market need and are easy to implement and maintain.
• Recommend and drive implementation of improvements to the product development process
• Document and manage the user experience.
• Proven problem-solving capabilities.
• Deliver a monthly revenue forecast.

Also Nice to Have Skills and Background: 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills 
• Excellent teamwork skills
• Demonstrated success defining and launching excellent products

We build a cloud-based business platform where manufacturers & traders can network with each other and discover trusted buyers and suppliers on the network. Our team consists of generalist engineers who work on building modern websites (SPA & Isomorphic), mobile apps for Android & iOS, REST APIs and servers, internal tools, and infrastructure for all our users.

 

What do I need?

Graduation/Post-Graduation in any stream (Mandatory Pedegree)

2-5 years experience in Product Management in any company Strong in data analysis with hands on experience in MS Excel and SQL

Strong problem solving skills and willingness to roll up one's sleeves to get the job Skilled at working effectively with cross functional teams in a matrix organization

Willingness to learn and read about new technologies

Product Management, Product Strategy, Analytical Skills, Data Analytics, SQL, MS-Excel, Microsoft Excel, Innovation and Product innovation What will I be doing?

Take ownership of key company metrics assigned to him/her such as Retention, Activation, Growth Regularly interact with customers, customer success team and industry experts to come up with ideas to drive their metrics

Be very proficient in studying and analysing the usage and product data to understand customer behaviour

Work closely with the technology team to ensure their ideas are quickly tested in production environment with frequent iterations Ensure successful ideas get implemented in the product in a scalable and optimized manner

Assesses market competition by comparing the company's product to competitors' products

Work closely with the Growth Team to understand the type of customers we are targeting and their needs and If required, PM can help the growth team in fine tuning the target market and buyer profiles

Work closely with the Customer Success Team to ensure customer delight and success

Identify growth hacks to exponentially increase product usage and adoption by delivering more value to customers

2-3 years in core product 
Pedegree is must (IIT, IIM)
B2C
Fintech
Journey from Product Analyst to product manger
Bussiness side growth

Product Management

Are you passionate about solving problems through technology, customer obsessed, flexible, smart and analytical, strategic yet execution focused, passionate about mobile and e-commerce ? If yes, a Product Manager role gives you a chance to be a part of the Health-tech revolution in India & build products for scale.

As a Product Manager you will be expected to :

- Develop a vision & roadmap for your Product area for the next phase of hyper growth in the Health- tech segment.

- Drive execution on the roadmap, partnering with your development team, design, qa and cross-functional stakeholders.

- Always think customer backwards, collect insights & work on products / solutions that delight our customers.

- Analytical and data-driven, you love digging into the data to understand what's happening and define & measure success on every project

- Recruit & Mentor other product managers, providing them with guidance and mentorship to maximize their potential.

- Communicate confidently & clearly both written & verbal.

Responsibilities :

We are looking for a Product Leader to own the customer experience across platforms (Mobile Web, DWeb, Mobile Apps). The objective of this role is to define & drive experiences for consumers which give a delightful experience & build long term loyalties. You will also work to identify, prioritize and fix areas of improvement across the conversion funnel, and improve new customer acquisition and retention. The specific focus would also be on identifying the needs of customers that are new-to-online or new-to-ecommerce, and build solutions to address those needs.

What are we looking for ?

- 5 to 8 years of hands-on experience in product management in high scale consumer internet environments with 2+ years in managing consumer Apps / Web platforms.

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering. Management degree from a top Business school is a plus.

- Solid track record of building and shipping multiple products with a high business impact.

- Experience of working with multiple stakeholders and demonstrate a high degree of influence across several teams/functions.

- Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, and communication skills. Highly customer obsessed thinking with deep understanding of customer needs and aspirations.

- Deep understanding of technology.

- Hands on experience of working on contemporary tools on Analytics, A/B, CLM & Agile.

- Previous start-up experience is a strong plus

Manage a games team and the products throughout the product lifecycle
Define the product vision and compose written specifications, ensuring functional requirements for new products and features are defined in detail
Evaluate the quality of ongoing project work efforts and ensure production proceeds according to schedule
Gather and prioritise product and customer requirements
Work closely with the Development Team to deliver winning products
Define long-term, short-term and daily work priorities to guide the efforts of the Development Team working in the Scrum approach
Support Evolution Gaming’s Marketing and Sales Departments in their efforts to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction goals are met
Ensure new products and features are evaluated for usability and performance, employing focus group testing, when necessary analyse trends in the gaming market and continuously review the competitive landscape

Job Description:

Working as part of the Aurum PropTech digital team, the right candidate will spearhead our digital product proposition as a product manager and will be responsible for product planning, delivery and marketing throughout the product lifecycle. The right candidate will develop a strategy, vision and roadmap for the product based on input from internal stakeholders, customers, market research and their industry insight. They will work closely with Development/Engineering and other teams to deliver products that align with this vision, meet market needs and are delivered to a consistently high-quality standard. They will develop a forecast for the product based on input from marketing, sales, market analysts and their own experience and manage its delivery. They will identify the key benefits and value of products. This will be used to create and maintain marketing plans and collateral (including web updates, product training materials, pricing strategy and sales training).
The role will work with our leadership and management team across all relevant commercial and operational functions, to understand commercial objectives, gather and evaluate ideas and feedback, and define product features. There are several product initiatives at differing stages of development, and the role will ensure these are managed and delivered successfully, whilst becoming a key contributor to the ongoing product strategy.

Product Manager Responsibilities:

• Define the product strategy and roadmap for our flagship digital products; Develop the business case for new products, improvements to existing products, and business ventures.
• Manage the product throughout its lifecycle from concept to end-of-life
• Collect, manage and maintain traceability of requirements from all stakeholders across product releases
• Write the business case for investments and gain internal approval
• Propose a product marketing plan and budget and then deliver against it
• Write Product Requirements and Market Requirements documents
• Work with internal stakeholders and third parties to assess and establish partnerships
• Be the recognized expert in the business on the product, the market, relevant technology and the competition.
• Develop core positioning and messaging for the product
• Perform product demos to customers and develop relationships with key clients for the B2B segment
• Be a key stakeholder as part of the product team to ensure delivery of agreed objectives
• Set pricing to meet revenue and profitability goals
• Monitor, report and improve product performance
• Brief analysts and the press
• Run trials and MVPs, develop and deliver go-to-market launch plans
• Channel management and support
• Commission market and competitor research
• Promote the product to sales teams through sales training sessions, webinars, newsletters and other mechanisms
• Develop and deliver training to technical sales support
• Manage development and marketing projects to deliver to plan
• Collate feedback from sales and customers, & brief and train the sales force at quarterly sales meetings
• Represent the voice of the customer in senior-level management meetings
• Evangelize the product internally and externally
• Be recognized as a leader in the business and build relations with business stakeholders
• Deliver regular (e.g. monthly) volume, revenue and profit forecasts
• Brief press and analysts and go on press tours
• Runs pilot programs during the qualifying phase with almost final products and samples, in an agile environment.

What we are looking for:
Essential Skills

• Minimum of 5+ years experience as a Product Manager or Product Marketing Manager
• Proven experience in Agile product development
• Demonstrated success defining and launching excellent products
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Technical background, with experience in API and SaaS product development, desired.
• Excellent teamwork skills
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
• Examples and at least one sample of an effective document delivered in the past
• Experience in a B2C / B2B SaaS Business (Industrial experience of working in PropTech would be a major advantage)
• Experience in a client-facing role
• Results and data-driven mindset, a self-starter that is excellent at multi-tasking
• This is a great opportunity for a Product Manager who loves disruptive technology in a business that is scaling rapidly - Opportunities to work for a profitable startup do not come around often!

Qualifications

➢ Bachelor's Degree
➢ MBA preferred

Development Values

New technology is exciting, but at Aurum PropTech we recognize that people are the key to our successful digital transformation. We are creating a workplace where they can focus on high-value, strategic work, high-rewarding career paths and be inspired to enhance our client’s digital services - with an Agile mindset.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a fluid and fast-paced organization offering an attractive working environment both in terms of work type, technologies and projects. It’s somewhere you can thrive, grow and be challenged. The program is currently at its nascent stage and will entail owning a challenging and fulfilling role using cutting-edge technology. We will be willing to invest in relevant training for the right candidate.
COME JOIN US as we empower our teams with digital skills.

• Graduate degree with a strong academic performance from a top tier university
• You can think in terms of the big picture but deliver on the details
• You have an instinct for great product design and are an 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 testing plan, analyzing large data sets, or hunting down the root cause of a user’s frustration
• You can turn incomplete, conflicting, or ambiguous inputs into solid action plans
• You communicate with empathy, precision, and clarity
• 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
• While we generally value attitude over skills, we expect that you’ve spent at least five years in a fast-paced product management role

What you will be doing:

• Grow an efficient, collaborative team of data scientists, data engineers, and BI developers by hiring, coaching, mentoring, and sharing feedback that preserves company culture and values
• Prioritize work for your team, making rational tradeoffs on priorities based on business constraints, ensuring on-time deliverables and high-quality solutions
• Working with our Engineering teams to improve and advance our development practices based on a data-driven and analytical approach
• Collaborate and maintain a high level of interaction and cooperation with technical and non-technical stakeholders across Gelato
• Partner closely with our product team and stakeholders to improve planning and prioritization
• Drive the analytics and data science roadmap in Gelato
• Work in European time zones
• Who you are

 

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!)

• 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 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

 

Roles and Responsibilities:

Roadmap : Understanding the requirements from relevant stakeholders and devising the product/ features and creating a roadmap

Planning : Plan and execute product roadmap to meet goals via a regular deployment cycle. Measure performance and adjust.

Strategy : Work with the marketing team on the development and implementation of go-to-market strategies, ensuring successful launch execution and clear consumer messaging of key product roll-outs.

Quick prototyping : Be able to prototype a product quickly to demonstrate value

Launch Great Products Work closely with the engineering teams, Sales, Marketing, Design, QA, Support teams to ensure timely launch and high product quality

Data Driven : the product design and direction should be based on data (customer behavior analytics, business metrics etc.). Solicit and embrace critical feedback.

Skills / Qualification / Experience :

- 3+ years in product management preferably from product based company.

- Experience of driving a mobile app from scratch to launch.

- Strong depth and breadth knowledge in optimization, prototyping.

- Research and prioritize user requirements, strategic and business requirements, and functional requirements

- Stellar design instincts.

- Ability to leverage data to make decisions without getting stuck in analysis paralysis and a never ending desire to grow and learn

- Translating customer experiences/issues into the product

- Ability to work on cross-functional teams in both leadership and member roles

- Experience working on gaming/retail/e-commerce would be added advantage.

- Ability to Provide review and input into other deliverables as appropriate (e.g. visual designs or technical specifications )

- Bachelors in engineering preferably Computer Science from top institutes along with an MBA (preferred).

Job Perks :

- A platform to learn and innovate with likeminded peers.

- Complete autonomy & freedom. Just deliver.

- We like solving challenging problems without blaming each other.

- And any other than you may suggest within rational limits :)