Product Manager/Assistant Product Manager

About Merito :

Merito is a curated talent platform where we identify, assess, and connect candidates for matching job opportunities. We are working with the mission to change the way hiring is done. The company is founded by a team consisting of alumni from IIM Ahmedabad, McKinsey will more than 2 decades of experience in recruitment, training, and coaching.

About our Client :

Our client is one of the most innovative and fast growing InsureTech platform that offers contextual insurance in a blink.

We are a team of consumer obsessed & driven people. We want to reimagine insurance through a consumption lens for millions. We are a B2C and B2B2C platform that wants to simplify the way insurance is experienced with principles of transparency, trust and contextualize. The multiple ideas that we are building upon are all about an experience beyond the way insurance is understood or sold at present in India.

A sneak peak into the opportunity:

- 7+ million active customer base (Mostly acquired in last 6 months)

- 6+ million Insurance policies issued

- Created community for 2 & 4 Wheeler vehicle owners, in the beta version and onboarded 120K+ users in no time.

- A rapidly growing team in tech + product with some of the finest folks in the industry

- A rapidly growing team of PMs

- An opportunity to build products that influence insurance awareness and buying at the grassroot level.

Roles and Responsibilities:

We are creating various verticals such as acquisition, growth, partner integration (B2B2C) & community. You will have a very critical role to play as the leader of one or more of these verticals.

Being comfortable in the chaos of a fast-paced environment, dealing with ambiguity, penchant for innovation, an innate ability to get into details and drive execution excellence is essential to success in this profile.

As a senior product leader, you will interact frequently with other key stakeholders during the research, design, and development process to build the product vision, iterate the product and partner on execution. You will shape the product strategy and roadmap for your products, and guide your team to build innovative and scalable products and drive execution excellence.

In this role, you will report to the VP of Product and also work closely with the founder to help shape our overall product roadmap to build high impact Insurance solutions.

Preferred Qualifications :

- 4+ years proven experience at building high-impact products at scale, preferably in a fast-paced B2C internet/e-commerce company

- B.Tech / MBA or equivalent experience from premier schools

- Experience in building & leading high-performance teams

- Ability to operate in a very fast-paced, constantly changing and evolving environment

- Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product and technology and coming up with long term Product roadmaps aligned to the company strategic direction

- Good business smarts along with strong problem solving and metrics orientation

- Design thinking, user empathy and deep understanding of Indian customers

- Good technical understanding with an ability to be hands-on with Engineering teams for implementation and trade-offs

- Crisp written and verbal communication skills

- Ability to work with a diverse set of stakeholders and manage senior stakeholders

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.

Company Profile:

 

Astrum is a product-focused IT company, providing integrated cloud applications with feature modules made available as micro-services. The software applications we develop are owned and marketed by us under different product names. The two key sectors we focus on are international trade commerce and financial technology which have relevance to Exim trade, escrow services, export documentation, partnering LSPs,  fractional/token-based payment ecosystem, expense management, virtual payment instruments and financial accounting. We are focusing on b2b as our target audience, with applications that complement the existing ecosystem/technical infrastructure of any organization.

 

Our major development involves Asp.net MVC, React.js, JavaScript, MERN (MongoDB, Express.js, React Native, Node.js) framework. Please find the JD below which shall help you understand what kind of candidate profile we are looking for. We focus on trade (Export/Import), financial technology and financial accounting software application products.

 

Title: Technical Product Manager

 

We are looking for Technical Product Manager with expertise in multiple technologies such as C#, SQL, ASP.Net, MVC, .NET Core, Web API, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS, etc. and should be well versed with the concepts of Software Engineering. Knowledge of REACT shall be an added advantage. Experience working on trade, fintech or accounting software products would be beneficial.

 

The position requires day-to-day interaction with product management, including defining market requirements, product requirement documents and packaging the features into product releases. The TPM works closely with key customers, product architects and development, marketing, sales, and support to develop and manage new product releases and upgrades to customers.

 

Key Role & Responsibilities:

 

• Serve as primary product expert and evangelist
• Lead product design, development and release process for assigned products and maintain the product development road map
• Coordinate the collection, description, analysis and prioritization of requests for new product functionality from management, customers and prospects
• Create detailed use cases, business requirement
• Project reporting external and internal
• Support through leading the development and maintenance of various technical marketing collateral including application notes, FAQs, product notes, user guides, field training presentations, online marketing content and demos
• Develop hands-on, in-depth knowledge of competitive products and maintain technical analysis of competitive strengths and weaknesses
• Coordinate the beta testing of new products and features. Document and report problems and recommend solutions/improvements
• Adapting a project execution structure and process from a base
• Overseeing and ensuring validation on the technical architecture/specifications Actively participating in project sizing and resource requirements
• Establishing good project metrics, exit criteria by deliverable and project phase Establishing a Scope management process
• Managing the day-to-day team and personnel issues (onsite)
• Ensuring quality of the end deliverable
• Staging and executing User Acceptance of the end deliverable Establishing and executing the roll-out strategy

 

Additional responsibilities:

 

• Perform product demonstrations at trade shows, online seminars, and other events
• Document answers to customer technical questions that cannot be answered by sales staff or product support specialists using existing documentation.

 

Qualifications:

 

• 4-5 years of hands-on coding/development experience, 1-2 years of team leader experience
• Strong technical background is required (C#, SQL,ASP.Net, MVC, .NET Core, Web API, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS, REACT, Technical Architecture, Project Management & Project Delivery)
• Strong problem-solving skills along with excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Must be able to effectively interact and communicate with executive management

• Required education qualifications: MBA
• Past experience: Consumer Tech companies with 1-3 years experience/ 5-7 years’ experience
• Exp. level -5-8 Yrs/MBA from Premium institute and from Consumer tech companies only

Customer Obsession:

• Understand the customer needs and personas
• Seek input from users and Identify stated/unstated needs and opportunity areas
• Deep dive on identified opportunities to establish Product Market Fit
• Develop mechanisms to have a regular connection with users of the product
• Active listener who pays attention to detail

Innovation:

• Use data/anecdotes to generate new product/feature ideas against organizational goals
• Translate intangible ideas in ambiguous environments to tangible product definitions
• Curious to try a host of features; rigor to iterate even if ideas do not pick up

Execution excellence:

• Manage the Product roadmap and strive to meet key milestones
• Ability to slice ideas into epics and stories
• Prioritize the stories into backlog
• Partner with Design for product/feature definition & Engineering to deliver stories in a timely manner
• Track launched features against intended objectives/metrics and drive adoption
• Continuously iterate to improve the product incrementally but rapidly

Stakeholder Management-

• Seek inputs from relevant stakeholders for backlog creation and prioritization
• Align internal stakeholders on product prioritization, backlog and roadmap
• Anchor the Go-To-Market planning along with internal stakeholders to manage a smooth launch

 

 

 

What We’re building: https://scenes.avalonmeta.com/" target="_blank">https://scenes.avalonmeta.com/

We need someone to create reports and dashboards to help drive insights. Familiarity with a product analytics tool like Mixpanel, problem solving and analytical thinking are a must. Python, R, SQL proficiency are definitely a plus!

What We Are Looking For:

1. Experience levels: 0-4 years (fresher to mid level professional)
2. Strong problem solving ability – Candidate needs to exhibit structured thinking and process orientation
3. Highly Action Oriented – Avalon Meta has a culture of move quick, break things and learn.
4. Familiarity working with analytics tools such as Mixpanel, Amplitude or Heap.

Data Analyst Responsibilities:

1. Understand and analyze data to drive business insights
2. Help visualize data for easy consumption by stakeholders
3. Work with engineering/marketing teams on designing and deploying data analysis systems
4. Help drive change in the team’s processes and decision making backed by data

• 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

 

Associate Product Manager at Truebil As an Associate Product Manager at Truebil, you will assist in driving the product planning and conceptual definition, as well as the technical execution of the product from beginning to end. You should be keen for building and constantly improving the product using industry experience and feedback from customers. You possess a unique blend of business and technical savvy. You will work with the Technology team to define product release requirements. Your work will guide the Sales and Operations team as well as the marketing team to define the go-to-market strategy, helping them understand the product positioning, key benefits, and target customer. Key Responsibilities: • Assist product delivery - from the smallest bug fix to a feature release and hence in managing the whole product life cycle • Help define innovative yet simple and intuitive products • Act as liaison between business and technology teams and oversee the day-to-day analysis of all product related initiatives to make recommendations to optimize product's functioning to drive business and enhance customer experience • Leverage analytics data and conversion metrics to identify & resolve pain points in user flow • Close involvement in documentation, validation, verification of critical performance data, feedback and findings related to the customer buying funnel Requirements : • Product management or relevant work experience • Experience managing the entire product lifecycle • High-level conceptual thinking about product / user problems • Should be very comfortable with SQL and data analytics and an inclination for numbers with a keen eye for business metric • Experience designing simple and intuitive user interfaces through wireframes and mockups • Strong time management and prioritization skills • Good communication skills along with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross functional teams • Ability to articulate and defend product priorities and strategy for impact • Experience with Product Discovery, Design Thinking, Lean Product a plus • Experience as a designer, developer, data analyst or user researcher a plus

What will you be required to do? You will be responsible for determining customers' needs and desires by specifying the research needed to obtain market information. You will recommend the nature and scope of present and future product lines by reviewing product specifications and requirements; appraising new product ideas and/or product or design changes. You will have to continuously assesses market competition by comparing the company's product to competitors' products. You will be providing source data for product line communications by defining product marketing communication objectives. You will have to pioneer in bringing new products to market by analyzing proposed product requirements and product development programs; preparing returnon- investment analyses; establishing time schedules with engineering and business. You will be required to maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies. You will the complete owner of the product and will be responsible for detailing out each and every specification in the product document. Does this sound like you?  You have 3-8 years of experience in building a consumer facing product and have created an impact  You are transparent about your prioritization and roadmap process  You have the ability to Say “No,” but explain why in terms that stakeholders understand  You are a ruthless prioritizer while balancing the needs of customers and stakeholders  You bring evidence-based decision-making in your communication  You are able to communicate and derive the maximum out of the business leads  You have excellent leadership, communication and detailing skills  You hold a degree from a premium MBA college or engineering graduate from Tier 1 institutes  You are a research oriented self-starter with genuine curiosity of looking at the bigger picture - constantly seeking out ways to improve customer experience  Interest and background in technologies and the logistics sector are an added bonus  You hold a degree from a premium college, you will still be tested on IQ and SQ. We use this to filter but we don’t hold this against you.  You manage your day by work and not by watch.  If this sounds like the perfect opportunity for you, get in touch with us. We can’t wait to hear from you!