Product Manager

• Setting and owning vision, strategy, and roadmap for the products and translating it to detailed requirements.
• Analyzing consumer needs, market trends, and competitor offering and build a winning formula for product success.
• Building PRDs with a business case, detailed use cases, and technical requirements.
• Prioritizing features based on business and consumer impact.
• Owning and growing activation, engagement, and retention of users.
• Working closely with engineering, sales, and marketing teams and meeting product timelines.
• Maintaining constant communication with all internal and external stakeholders and ensuring buy-in throughout the product lifecycle.

• Proven background in managing all aspects of a successful product throughout its lifecycle.
• Obsessive about data-driven product decisions.
• Proven experience in optimizing funnels.
• Experienced in running product-led growth experiments.
• Solid understanding of web & mobile technologies.
• Must have worked in high growth startups for a minimum of 5 years.
• Computer science background preferred, but not mandatory.
• This opportunity is a remote working opportunity till the organisation decides to resume office keeping Covid situation in view. Tentatively, that is up to end of February.

• Continually assessing the needs of sellers, market trends, competitive opportunities and threats in defining and evolving the product strategy for upcoming sellers.
• Defining both long term strategy and short term plans to achieve the product vision and deliver business results.
• Conceptualizing and building a rapidly scalable payment and lending platform.
• Understanding and planning based on the market and competitive landscape benchmarks.
• Conceptualizing products by utilizing India Stack – Aadhaar, DigiLocker, UPI etc.
• Having a strong understanding of customer segment and profile. Identifying and filling product gaps and generating ideas that grow market share, improve customer experience and drive growth.
• Driving product innovation to improve self-service capabilities for sellers to achieve and grow online sales.
• Driving innovations to all elements of the seller experience to improve their business results post-implementation.
• Build the product strategy to achieve business objectives.
• Creating a roadmap for the entire product lifecycle management, from ideation to launch and beyond.
• Being responsible for creating the business requirement documents to ensure appropriate coordination between product and engineering teams.
• Collaborating with the engineering team for the implementation of the product requirements.
• Building the appropriate UI/ UX for each product and their subsequent enhancement along with the Marketing, Inside Sales and Customer Experience teams.
• Working closely with the data science team to ensure appropriate data-related interventions and to ensure a better customer experience.
• Building the GTM plan for each product being rolled out to the users with the Marketing, Inside Sales and Customer Experience teams.
• Being responsible for overall P&L of the products being rolled out for both Store and EPS.
• Understanding the market and build business cases for new product opportunities.
• Working closely with the cross-functional team to execute the business goals and end-user needs.

• Business Acumen:

1. Exposure to managing product lifecycle right from ideation to launch.
2. Understanding of how to track the market, competition, emerging trends etc.
3. In-depth understanding of technology and tools like CRM etc.
4. User-centric, UI/ UX led approach.
5. Analytical - Hands-on expertise in statistics, SQL and modelling in Excel.

• Team Management:

1. Experience in building and scaling the product team.
2. Experience in leading a team of Business Analysts and/or Product Managers.
3. Ability to align teams to ensure collaboration and growth.
4. Ability to inspire the team about the product stack the company is building.

• Start-up mindset: 

1. Encourages engagement, feedback sharing, transparency and inspires developers to produce their best work.
2. Comfort with being the hustler to get things done.
3. Ability to work in a fast-paced, anti-bureaucratic, albeit highly chaotic environment.

• Qualification: 

1. MBA/PGDM from Tier 1 B – School
2. Experience of working in hyper-growth start-up
3. Between 10-15 years of experience in Product development/ management role, out of which at least 2 years as a Product Head.
4. Market place and /or Payments expert with strong domain knowledge.
5. Prior background in building tech products at scale.
6. Proven ability to drive business metrics using technology and product.
7. Passion for creating seamless and engaging user experiences.
8. Curious about metrics, execution processes, macro trends.

About us

Job Description

• Liaise with clients and other stakeholders involved to determine and document the Scope of the project. 
• Create project plans from the scope. 
• Define the objectives, goals, timelines, and milestones. 
• Track project plans to ensure milestones are met on a consistent basis. 
• Work closely with the client POC / Project Manager, clients and the internal project team ensuring effective exchange of information so that the project is delivered on time and within budget. 
• Draft proposals for existing clients (addendum or additional scope) and new clients (RFP’s). 
• Work closely with the management team to improve existing processes. Provide support to Business Development efforts and build long term relationships with both new and existing clients. 
• Communicate project status with management, team members and other stakeholders on an ongoing basis. Manage changes to the scope, schedule, costs, and timelines for the project. 
• Be responsible for reporting to the management of the health and profitability of the project. 

• Being able to comprehend project financials, profit and loss, and the ability to create and adhere to a project budget.
  
• Furthermore, learning to lead is essential. Communicating clearly (face-to-face and in writing) and resolving conflicts are just some of the particularly useful leadership skills.
  
• Finally, team-building skills are great to have, since a project manager qualifications doesn’t only guide a project—they’re responsible for their team. Motivating the team to communicate and colla​borate, and boosting their morale, are tasks a project manager will likely find themselves doing.