Product Manager

Job Role and Responsibilities :

What you will be doing :

- Create use-cases, user stories, and detailed product requirements that clearly articulate the functionality of the product that will be developed and define Key KPIs

- Deeply understand the needs of current and target developers, customers, and partners through regular interactions and quantitative and qualitative research, and represent their voice to internal teams

- Monitor product metrics to identify how well the customers are using a particular feature and improve it accordingly

- Create world-class product documentation for all kinds of users. Create great In-product messaging that resonates with different personas

- Conceptualize and create educational product and solution content for a variety of platforms

- Collaborate with Engineering, Design, and Documentation teams to deliver an amazing product and an exceptional user experience time

- Meet regularly with key customer-facing teams to collect and analyse user feedback to shape new product ideas and user requirements

- Have strong solution skills in translating customer needs to product functionalities.

- Work with the leadership team in planning the product roadmap

- Convert ideas to prototypes and demonstrate them to the key partners

- Represent the company in product or domain-specific conferences and event

What we are looking for :

- 4+ years of relevant, hands-on Product Management experience at the leading Enterprise / B2B companies with a minimum of 5+ years of experience in SaaS

- 2+ years of Development/QA/Testing/Test Automation experience is a must

- Familiarity with at least a couple of Test Automation Frameworks/ Tools is a must

- Industry experience and familiarity with UI design and best practices, general programming languages, and concepts, including web and mobile application architectures and components, and software-as-a-service concepts

- Excellent strategic thinking and prioritization skills.

- Ability to make difficult trade-off decisions and yet create a roadmap to achieve business goals

- Strong organizational skills: prioritization, effective time management, conflict resolution, risk identification, and mitigation

- Excellent communication and cross-functional teamwork skills: Leader, express ideas easily and clearly, run productive meetings, and decisive

- Experience with SCRUM/Agile development process

We are hiring a Technical Business Analyst who wants to advance their knowledge and experience in Privacy & Security. The ideal candidate will have interest and experience in data privacy and application & data security. We will be providing training resources to ramp up on privacy & security, but candidates with technical background, and interest in privacy & security are preferred.

As the successful candidate, you will be required to: 

• Gathering and documenting needs and use of data from internal and external stakeholders, including privacy requirements based on laws & regulations, document security best practices and requirements.
• Research, analyze, and document business requirements. Prepare high quality analysis such as summarizing security best practices, privacy laws, business requirements specifications, functional and technical specifications, traceability matrices, etc.
• Create user stories based on functional requirements gathered from business teams.
• Work with developers and support teams to resolve defects and environment issues
• Creating data and process workflows.
• Good communication and problem-solving skills.
• Engage and work closely with development team and stakeholders, including attending scrum meetings.

To be eligible for this role, you should possess the following: 

• Bachelor’s or Engineering Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 4+ years of relevant experience as a Business Analyst.
• 2+ years of experience using JIRA and Confluence.
• Should have good communication and presentation skills with the ability to adapt to a range of audiences
• Must be self-driven, self-motivated with good soft skills.
• Must have good software engineering skills, thorough knowledge of SDLC, STLC.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Quick learner and attention to detail
• Portray strong analytical and problem-solving skills and the ability to work within a collaborative team environment; Ability to multi-task and manage multiple projects
• Open for new challenges and learning and flexible to work and support the team as per the business need
• Understand and analyze Business, Functional, and technical requirements of the project
• Knowledge in using any of the bug tracking tool like Bugzilla/Jira

Desired Candidate Profile

JOB DESCRIPTION

Position: Product Manager

We are looking for an experienced Product Manager with great technology background and impressive interpersonal skills. You need to be passionate about people and products. You will join a dynamic and fast-paced start-up environment and work with talented teams to design, build and roll-out products that deliver the company’s vision and strategy.

The Product Manager will be responsible 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 closely with engineering, to deliver winning products. It also includes working with sales, marketing, design and operations and support to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction. You also need to ensure that the product and marketing efforts support the company’s overall strategy and goals.

The Product Manager will need to act as the bridge between the CEO and the Team. He/She will act as a trusted advisor to the CEO. At the same time, you must build strong relationships with team members across the organization in order to maintain momentum and enable outcomes.

The Product Manager is expected to

• Support define the product strategy and roadmap and co-ordinate with various functions to translate product strategy into detailed requirements and prototypes. Run beta and pilot programs with early-stage products and prototypes.
• Improving the product innovation and management process and gaining consistency are top priorities. Needs to ensure the teams are not just aware of best-in-class approaches, but are also consistently following those frameworks
• Act as a leader within the company to work closely across teams and act as a champion for company culture. Should be able to drive home the culture and values of MMW.
• Work Closely with the CEO, to organize and align strategic priorities with members of the senior leadership team, act as a gatekeeper of tasks that can be resolved without direct involvement of the CEO. Organise follow up meetings to ensure that the decisions made in meeting rooms, make it into action. Language not in line with the rest of the document.
• Work closely with Engineering teams to optimize resources and deliver within turnaround time. Ensure smooth coordination amongst different engineering teams to deliver a seamless product
• Work closely with the Sales team to design product demos to be delivered to customers, deliver a monthly revenue forecast, develop sales tools and collateral, brief and train the sales force at quarterly sales meetings
• Work closely with the Operations team and propose an overall budget to ensure success. Ensure that the budget target is met.
• Work closely with the Marketing team to Develop product pricing, core positioning and messaging for the product. Brief press and analysts and go on press tours. Drive product launches including working with public relations team, executives, and other product management team members
• Gain a deep understanding technology, innovation and customer experience. Need to work with the Design team and identify and fill product gaps and generate new ideas that grow market share, improve customer experience and drive growth.

Requirements:

• Master’s degree from Tier-1 institute (IIT/IIM/BITS/ISB) in Business and/or Engineering. With a Bachelors degree of Engineering.
• 7+ Years of Experience in Product Management Roles
• Excellent teamwork skills. Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority. Skilled at working effectively in a matrix organization
• An analytical mindset driven by data, research and arithmetic. Not just by intuition.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to build world class presentations, excel sheets and reports
• Ability to build easy to understand dashboards and reports from complex systems
• Displays high degree of discipline, confidentiality, integrity and trust.
• A thorough understanding of the Impact of technology and AI on Innovation and Product Development. Is updated about and able to keep pace with evolving technologies across the globe.
• Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to roll up one’s sleeves to get the job done.

Product Manager

Who we are?

At Edge, we believe simplifying employee data will help large corporates solve sub-optimal talent management problems. This data is more critical after the pandemic, as managing a remote workforce has shifted from optional to essential.

We have spent our last eight years understanding the workforce from the IT and BFSI industries. We have used this employee data to create a sophisticated intelligence. This brain behind our AI-based products is called EdGE graph™. We have used 11 million job descriptions and more than 30 million profiles to build the graph.

Our products like Pathfinder, Recruit and Mobility are deployed in IT companies like Wipro, HCL, UST Global, etc. and help them upskill, invest, and maintain their existing people. It has helped organisations improve their workforce availability, billing, allocations and drive straight bottom-line impacts. The new order of talent decisions helps us define, identify, and plan for a future-ready workforce.

We build end-to-end talent management products for organisations so that they have a 360-degree view of their talent supply chain. This helps them make informed talent decisions efficiently and build an intelligent workforce.

We built Edge Networks in 2012 in an apartment in Bangalore and soon, were supported by the National Skill Development Corporation of India (NSDC). We are a part of the NASSCOM Product Council and have been recognized by Gartner, Deloitte, Equidam, NVIDIA, Amazon as an innovative tech HR startup in various titles.

At Edge, we understand that modern companies that put the employees at the center of their workings, backed with data, will make their organisation productive. This is how we, at Edge, use tech for good.

Role: Product Manager

Experienced Product Manager to own product lines in the B2B2C space and work in tandem with the other products that we have, all of which derive intelligence from the underlying AI/ML services as well as a SaaS ready platform that we have built. You will use data to guide your decisions and develop solutions to make analysis easier for teams. You will develop a hypothesis, conduct in depth user research, and experiments to inform your product design and strategies. You will establish your product viewpoints and share them with senior leaders, partners, and customers.

Traits that you have

A team player – I know we only win if we all win. I recognise and value the different perspectives and skills my squad mates bring. It is not about being a hero but jumping in and contributing to the successful delivery of our mission.

Data Driven – Build different metrics to evaluate the product performance.

An excellent communicator – I know and understand the importance of clear, on-time communication. My spoken and written communication skills stand out for clarity and conciseness.  

The customer’s biggest fan – I demonstrate a thirst for better understanding the customer and define the problem and develop solutions through their eyes as well as through the eyes of the Sales guys in the organization

 A collaboration champion – I work closely with my colleagues to ensure alignment and champion the    sharing of learning across teams.

Comfortable being uncomfortable – I am comfortable with uncertainty. I have the ability to effectively manage myself through ambiguity by making meaning, building relationships and creating clarity with my peers. I also have a willingness to unlearn where needed.

Continuous improvement focused– I constructively challenge the status quo, I look for better ways of doing things and passionately advocate continuous improvement, and I am able to re-pivot fast.

A problem solver – I am energised by tackling complex problems. I use my critical thinking, network, skills, knowledge, and available data to drive better outcomes for our customers and the product.

Commercially and Technologically curious – I have a wide-angle lens. I am curious about what is happening in the external market and in emerging trends and innovations (technological and otherwise) and how we use this information to better inform our decisions and actions.

Risk savvy – I build sustainable solutions that protect stakeholders and customers and proactively address risks by role-modelling improvements in the product’s overall risk and control environment.

Habitual Experimenter  – I learn by running experiments on a very frequent basis, with a framework to learn from these experiments and absorb the learnings into product management.

Responsibilities:

• Define the product roadmap and ensure its execution through cross-functional and cross-platform collaboration
• Work closely with horizontal product managers and align the product roadmap within the broader product framework.
• Closely monitor & analyze the product metrics and present related hypotheses to help make data-driven decisions.
• Work closely with engineering platforms to create data flow pipelines that aggregate the relevant data and present a holistic view of product performance.
• Work with the MIS & Reporting team to create relevant dashboards that provide transparency across the board

Role Skills:

• 2+ years in software product management, post MBA, with a consistent record of timely and quality delivery of products.
• Experience with Agile Project Management tools like JIRA.
• Familiarity with Wireframing tools like Adobe XD, Maze, so that the interactions with the UX Designer can be efficient
• High bias for action with demonstrable history of identifying and resolving cross-project interdependencies
• Ability to juggle several initiatives and shift priorities as needed
• Exceptional communication skills (verbal and written communication) with a knack for storytelling connecting the story to the underlying quant
• Data Driven with proficiency on data querying and analysis. Experience with tools like Analytics tools (i.e. Google Analytics ), SQL, Excel, Tableau, etc. is preferred.
• Experience in one or more of the following is a plus: SaaS, Marketing Automation, Data Analytics etc.
• MBA/equivalent courses from Tier -I institutes.

• Highly customer-obsessed thinking with a deep understanding of customerneeds and aspirations
• Own the product strategy and roadmap.- Partner with the business team tounderstand business goals and translate them into short term and long-term productroadmaps.- Comfortable in generating a 3-year strategic vision as well as a weekly statusupdate.
• Generate detailed Product Requirement Document (PRD) based oninputs from all key stakeholders.Integrate usability studies, research and market analysis intoproduct requirements to maximise user satisfaction.
• Work very closely with world-class Engineering, Data Sciences and QA teams throughout the product development life cycle.- Define the product acceptance testingcriteria, ensure that they are met.
• Stay abreast with new innovations and the latest technology trends andexplore ways of leveraging these for improving the product in alignment with the business.
• Attention to detail with an ability to work with user interfacedesigners and usability experts to deliver habit-forming products with a low learning curve