Product Manager

About the role

As a UX designer, you will work with folks in the product team to envisage the end-user experience for various financial services products in a competitive space to bring an engaging and delightful customer experience. You will use market analysis, customer feedback, and insights from data to iteratively refine the design and achieve excellence. As an early member of this team, you’ll also have the opportunity to define the UX guidelines, design language, and information architecture for various products across the organization.

What will you do if you join us?

• Develop mockups for our development and design team
• Coordinate with the UI design team on issues like navigation, page routing, product page design, and more
• Conduct competitive analyses of other websites & apps that operate in the same space
• Conduct usability tests on each independent type of page on the website and create a report showcasing your findings
• Prepare customer analyses based on our target demographic and initial transactions
• Participate in creating a content development strategy

You should have

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Design, Development, or Engineering required
• Proficiency in design tools such as InDesign, Illustrator, or Figma
• Understanding of the B2B2C marketplace and the functions of the Fintech market
• Experience preparing detailed competitive and consumer analyses

About ANAROCK and myHQ

Founded in 2017 by industry veterans, ANAROCK is India's fastest-growing prop-tech company.

ANAROCK is now launching India's largest aggregation platform for Indian real estate brokers and developers to transform how real-estate transactions happen. By providing real-time inventory and accurate information for thousands of properties, - the platforms aim to assist real-estate brokers in the entire transaction journey and helping them increase productivity.

myHQ (by ANAROCK) is India’s largest flexible workspace platform – present across 20 cities. myHQ is changing the way commercial real-estate works by providing on demand / remote workspace solutions to individuals and enterprises.

About the role

We are looking for experienced, enthusiastic product manager to join our product team. You will be leading development of new prop-tech platforms within the ANAROCK Group – Broker Platform and myHQ. Here at ANAROCK, you’ll take on responsibility of building new products ground up as part of new initiatives charter

If you join us, you’ll be an early team member in helping shape:

• Our company culture & product practices
• People that we hire
• The direction & focus of our products

This is an exciting opportunity if you are looking to grow your career and working at a growth stage product company. You will be given complete autonomy and the right team to hit your metrics.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify and fill product gaps and generate new ideas that grow market share, improve customer experience and drive growth
• Translate product strategy into product goals, its road-map and delivers goals in line with product strategy
• Creating elaborate mock-ups and wireframes with industry standard prototyping tools
• Defining success metrics and analysing product performance
• Managing the entire product life cycle from strategic planning to day-to-day operations in the product life-cycle.
• Working closely with the Engineering team to deliver on the agreed timelines and removing internal/external hurdles
• Groom and manage a team of product managers and analysts

Desired Skills/ Experience

• 4+ years of experience in product management
• First principle thinking and a strong execution mentality
• Data driven with strong analytical and quantitative skills - ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations.
• Familiarity with iterative development principles and practices - breaking complex problems into small, achievable slices for early and frequent delivery.
• Experience with usability studies and user research.
• Strong collaboration & effective communication skills.
• Comfortable with analytics tools like Firebase, MixPanel, CleverTap, etc. and knowledge of SQL

Nice to have

• Any previous experience with software development
• Built products from scratch or previous experience at working at a start-up

People & Culture

• Freedom to execute, an open culture with passionate and smart co-workers
• Performance oriented team driven by ownership and open to experimentation

Anarock in the news

• https://inc42.com/buzz/real-estate-consultant-anarock-buys-75-stake-in-flexible-workspace-platform-myhq/">Anarock acquires 75% stake in flexible workspace platform myHQ
• https://www.thehindu.com/business/anarock-acquires-tech-platform-apnacomplex/article33612285.ece">Anarock acquires tech platform ApnaComplex
• https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/anarock-to-launch-ai-led-proptech-tool-to-boost-housing-sales-11626763491487.html">Anarock to launch AI-led proptech tool

Key Team Members

• https://in.linkedin.com/in/sunil-mishra-74610915">Sunil Mishra – CSO, Anarock Group
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/utkarshkawatra/">Utkarsh Kawatra – CEO, myHQ
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/vinayak-agrawal-b2003958/">Vinayak Agarawal – CTO, myHQ

Other Perks / Benefits

• Comprehensive term and health insurance for you and your dependents
• Paid maternity / paternity leave to let you spend valuable time with your loved ones

Description of Skills/abilities:

We are looking for a Python Web Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application; therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.

Responsibilities:

1. Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code.
2. Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.
3. Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server side logic.
4. Implementation of security and data protection.
5. Integration of data storage solutions may include databases, key-value stores, blob stores, etc. Experience administering innovation with methodologies such as design thinking.
6. Experience working on Agile Scrum and DevOps aligned delivery teams.
7. Interest and ability to learn other coding languages as needed.
8. Strong communication skills and great product sense.
9. Proficient communication skills verbal and written.
10. Understanding of accessibility and security compliance depending on the specific project.
11. Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments.
12. Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
13. Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python, using of Pycham.
14. Understanding of the differences between multiple deliveries platforms, such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform.
15. Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes.
16. Strong unit test and debugging skills.

Skills:

1. Expert in Python, with knowledge in Python web framework such as Django, Flask depending on technology stack.
2. Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries.
3. Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system.
4. Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture.
5. Good understanding of server-side templating languages such as Jinja 2, Mako, etc depending on your technology stack.
6. Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, Typescript, react, react hooks, HTML5, and CSS3.
7. Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git, Mercurial or SVN.

Skill Set:

1. 4+Years Full stack Python Developer - exposure to web frameworks like Django, Flask and Falcon.
2. Experience building APIs for a rapidly iterating product and restful APIs and development of services layer using Pythons Flask framework and should be proficient in writing unit test cases using Pytest package.
3. Database level programming using both SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle) and No SQL (Mongo DB/Casandra) and designing the database level stored procedures and persistence logic.
4. HTML/CSS/JavaScript and JavaScript framework and knowledge on React JS is a plus.
5. Experience in developing Arduino libraries is an added advantage.
6. Experience working with two or more from the following: Web Application development, Unix/Linux environments, mobile application development, distributed and parallel systems, machine learning, information retrieval, natural language processing, networking, developing large software systems, and/or security software development

Responsibilities:

* 3+ years of Data Engineering Experience - Design, develop, deliver and maintain data infrastructures.

* SQL Specialist – Strong knowledge and Seasoned experience with SQL Queries

* Languages: Python

* Good communicator, shows initiative, works well with stakeholders.

* Experience working closely with Data Analysts and provide the data they need and guide them on the issues.

* Solid ETL experience and Hadoop/Hive/Pyspark/Presto/ SparkSQL

* Solid communication and articulation skills

* Able to handle stakeholders independently with less interventions of reporting manager.

* Develop strategies to solve problems in logical yet creative ways.

* Create custom reports and presentations accompanied by strong data visualization and storytelling

We would be excited if you have:

* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

* Ability to meet deadlines and manage project delivery

* Excellent report-writing and presentation skills

* Critical thinking and problem-solving capabilities

Must have:

• Knowledge on design, development and deployment of applications based on CMS and Dot Net technology framework
• Strong Analytical, Logical Reasoning and Problem-Solving skills
• Strong in SDLC concepts, RDBMS concepts and SQL/PL-SQL, Data Structures
• Ability to effectively work with a highly technical and virtually located team

Good to have:

• Considerable knowledge in the following: Drupal, .NET MVC, PHP, CSS, Angular, jQuery, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, DevOps, Agile software development 
• Exposure to mobile application development using any one of the mobile development platforms (iOS, Android, Windows)

Soft skills:

• Ability to co-ordinate among various user groups and internally within the team. This is a critical skill
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize
• Deliver on commitments
• Self-Starter and willing to learn many new skills on the job
• Willing to work flexible hours as the job demands
• Excellent trouble shooting skills
• Ability to think through various business issues and come up with solid design solutions that will stand the test of time
• Good listening and influencing skills; a strong customer focus is a must

Must have:-

Locust
jMeter
Core Java
Selenium Webdriver with java
Rest Assured Library
API Testing - using postman & Rest Assured Library
SQL

Hands on experience REST service.

Experience Level:- 2.5 to 4.5 years