Product Manager

Role & Responsibilities

Product Strategy & Planning-

• Align product initiatives with the organization’s strategic goals.
• Develop and execute product strategies and long-term roadmaps.
• Conduct market research and competition analysis to identify opportunities.

Product Development & Delivery-

• Oversee the full product lifecycle from ideation to deployment.
• Ensure product delivery within timelines while maintaining quality standards.
• Work closely with engineering teams developing applications using Angular and ASP.NET Core.

Team Leadership-

• Lead and mentor a team of developers and product professionals.
• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and accountability.
• Motivate and challenge the team to achieve product and business goals.

Customer & Stakeholder Management-

• Ensure high levels of customer satisfaction through continuous product improvement.
• Maintain effective communication with internal and external stakeholders.
• Collaborate with business development and sales teams to support growth initiatives.

Product Innovation & Improvement-

• Introduce new product features and cross-product functionalities.
• Continuously gather customer feedback to improve product offerings.
• Drive innovation to enhance product value and market competitiveness.

Ideal Candidate

• Strong Senior Product Manager with past development experience profile.
• Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have 12+ years of overall experience, with 3+ years as a Product Manager in the recent career (last 3 years)
• Mandatory (Experience 2) – Must have 3+ years of hands-on technical background in software development (Dot net and Angular stack preferred)
• Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must have end-to-end product lifecycle experience, including product strategy, roadmap, development, and delivery
• Mandatory (Education) – Candidate must have B.Tech / M.Tech (Engineering background)

Mandatory(Note) – This is a tech-heavy Product Manager role, not a purely managerial/coordination role

• Minimum 8+ years of experience working in a IT environment of which 5+ years as a  product manager/Product Owner for a web/mobile product
• Experience working with business, technical and external stakeholders to elicit inputs to draft out roadmaps
• Excellent communication skills ( written, verbal, presentation) 
• ability to create and present product roadmaps 
• Ability to breakdown the roadmap into Epics, detailed user stories, create backlog items. 
• Must be able to communicate business requirements to tech teams 
• Must be able to work in a team and also independently 
• experience in mobile game design will also be considered Extremely good when it comes to understanding usability issues and creating mock-up screens High intelligence, ability to conduct 
• Coding languages (ex: Java, Reactjs)  is a plus
• strong market research and come up with a well-articulated business plan Should be in regular touch with the latest happenings in the technology world Outstanding 
• communication skills both oral and written 
• Demonstrated ability to analyze business issues across multiple domains 

ROLE
Associate Product Manager

WHY SHOULD YOU JOIN US?
At Vidyakul, you will have the opportunity to impact 60 million state board students’ lives by growing India’s first truly vernacular e-learning platform for 9-12 class state board students.

WHO ARE WE and WHAT IS OUR MISSION?
● Vidyakul is a pre-Series A funded EdTech startup based out of Gurgaon, that is truly democratizing education for the masses.
● Our Investors:
○ We Founder Circle - Backed marquee brands such as BluSmart & Zypp Electric
○ JITO Angel Network - Backed Finance Peer, largest lender of EdTech
○ Dholakia Ventures - Backed by the Diamond King of Surat
● Our Founders:
○ Tarun Saini - 3X founder, 8 years experience in Sales & Marketing
○ Raman Garg - 3X founder, 7 years experience in Ecommerce and Tech
● We are bridging the gap between the villages and quality education at an affordable cost.
● We are growing fast (3X Q-o-Q) and wish for you to be part of this rocketship!

WHAT IS THE ROLE?
About the Role: This role requires someone who would:

- Be responsible for creating and delivering on the product roadmap - Interface with design, engineering, business and growth teams and drive the desired outcome
- Understand user behaviour and champion consumers needs and strive to deliver the absolute best consumer experience

- Grow product adoption and key app metrics

Expectations/Requirements:

- A passionate APM / Senior Product Associate with 3+ years of experience in Product Management

- Someone with an entrepreneurial mindset who enjoys taking end-to-end ownership of the product and work across stakeholders to achieve the desired objectives for the product

- A keen eye for understanding the end user and creating product-led solutions to bridge user need gaps

- Strong analytical skills, ability to define KPIs, KPI dashboards and success metrics.

- Prioritization: The PM should be able to carry out effective prioritization of user stories balancing between user experiences, business requirements, tech debts and resourcing. Superpowers/ Skills that will help you succeed in this role:

- Love for simplifying - Knowledge of product development processes - Being a leader and an inspiration to your entire team - Ability to take internal and external stakeholders along

• Ideate & gather requirements from key stakeholders for new product development, including enhancement of the existing products.
• Create, maintain, and monitor product management processes to ensure excellence in execution during product development.
• Drive Product development/projects from inception to completion, identifying and managing risks, while navigating hurdles and resolving issues in real time to successfully complete projects on time.
• Managing the product backlog and prioritizing them based on changing requirements
• Continually evolve the project management process to ensure optimal efficiency and timeliness.
• Develop strong relationships and work collaboratively with the engineering teams/ external partners by defining joint roadmaps and managing multiple product development workflows simultaneously.
• Business Analyst (Agile), product management life cycle, sprint ceremonies, Backlog refinement

Ideal Candidate should have:

• 5+ years of experience; 2+ years as a product owner
• A Masters Degree (B.Tech+MBA is preferred)
• Strong experience in agile product development. A certification (Scrum/SAfe/PO) is preferred 
• Expertise in Business documentation &translating functional requirements into technical specifications.
• Extensive experience working in a scrum/Kanban environment
• Extensive experience defining agile requirements (Epics/stories), including functional and technical in a product/services organization
• Experience with Project Management Tool such as AzureDevOps/Jira

About Softobiz 

Innovation begins with like-minded people aiming to transform the world together. We invite you to become a part of an organization that has been helping clients transform their business by fusing insights, creativity, and technology. At Softobiz, we embrace a diverse mix of talented people who come here to stay and do their best work. Softobiz, a team of 250+ technology enthusiasts have been trusted by the leading enterprises around the globe for last 15+ years

At Softobiz, we transform passionate individuals into proficient professionals dedicated to exploring new frontiers in Software development. Here you will get the opportunity to work with technical craftsmen that are pioneer in latest technologies. We promote a culture of equality, learning, collaboration, and creative freedom so that our employees grow.

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THIS IS FOR YOU, IF YOU:

1. Love technology and have an innate interest in coding and building products.
2. Aren’t afraid of taking ownership and accountability. You love challenges and won’t stop till you haven’t found a solution.
3. Possess knowledge of Software development industry best practices.
4. Have hands-on experience and expertise in the technical competencies needed for the job, so that you can work independently.
5. Are passionate about the travel/hospitality space and can understand the nuances of hotel operations.
6. Know how to have fun and smile often.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Identify potential product ideas/features based on market research and discussions with
   customers and other stakeholders.
2. Design and drive the roadmap for the product – vision & strategy, feature definition, and milestones.
3. Manage end to end product – from concept, to design, development, testing to deployment/launch.
4. Manage Product Backlog
5. Competitive Benchmarking
6. Define success criteria for products and review usage/metrics.
7. Be responsible for Product Improvement and Innovation based on technology and market trends, as well as customer needs and feedback.

QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE:

1. B.E./B.Tech + MBA (preferred but not mandatory).
2. At least 10+ years of total experience with 5+ years of relevant experience.
3. Excellent communication skills (active listening, verbal and written) - ability to comprehend and translate vague requirements into clear, detailed documentation.
4. Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills.
5. Excellent planning, organizational, and time management skills.
6. Solid understanding of technology. Preferably past experience working as an engineer.

• Drive the execution of all product lifecycle processes for the growth of Factory Acquisition product, including product research, market research, competitive analysis, planning,
• positioning, roadmap development, requirements development, and product launch
• Identify, Plan and execute side Product Hacks to speedup Factory Acquisitions
• Assess current competitor offerings, seeking opportunities for differentiation
• Analyze consumer needs, current market trends, and potential partnerships from an ROI and build vs. buy perspective
• Create product strategy documents that describe business cases, high-level use cases, technical requirements, revenue, and ROI
• Translate product strategy into detailed requirements for prototype construction and final product development by engineering teams
• Build product flows for seamless factory onboarding at scale
• Collaborate closely with engineering, production, marketing, and sales teams on the development, QA, and release of products and balance of resources to ensure success for the entire organization
• Drive the Factory CAC Metric
• Implement, and maintain production timelines across multiple departments
• Appraise new product ideas and strategize appropriate to-market plans
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• Engineering or an MBA graduate from a reputed university
• 4+ years of product management experience, preferably with consumer and/or b2b startups that have attained scale
• Experience identifying business opportunities, building a product strategy, and influencing deliver against a multi-year roadmap
• Understands core technologies utilised in their product domain and is fluent in pros and cons of technical alternatives
• Good understanding of acquisition and retention funnels
• Demonstrated ability to achieve goals in a fast paced and an unstructured environment. Thrives in ambiguity and rapidly changing environment
• Hands-on experience of both qualitative and quantitative research methods such as AB testing, data analytics, and user research
• Robust understanding of complex and scalable technical architecture for web and mobile applications
• Problem solver with strong analytical skills and comfort with data
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Build Products for Factories that help them in improving their Customer Retention on the Platform
• Drive the Customer Retention Metric both at a Platform and at the Factory Level
• Improve Product Discovery on the Retailer App to enhance new retailer Acquisitions for factories
• Drive the execution of all product lifecycle processes for the growth of Factory
• Distribution product, including product research, market research, competitive analysis, planning, positioning, roadmap development, requirements development, and product launch
• Assess current competitor offerings, seeking opportunities for differentiation
• Analyze consumer needs, current market trends, and potential partnerships from an ROI and build vs. buy perspective
• Create product strategy documents that describe business cases, high-level use cases, technical requirements, revenue, and ROI
• Translate product strategy into detailed requirements for prototype construction and final product development by engineering teams
• Collaborate closely with engineering, production, marketing, and sales teams on the development, QA, and release of products and balance of resources to ensure success for the entire organization
• Implement, and maintain production timelines across multiple departments
• Appraise new product ideas and strategize appropriate to-market plans

• Engineering or an MBA graduate from a reputed university
• 4+ years of product management experience, preferably with consumer and/or b2b startups that have attained scale
• Experience identifying business opportunities, building a product strategy, and influencing deliver against a multi-year roadmap
• Understands core technologies utilised in their product domain and is fluent in pros and cons of technical alternatives
• Good understanding of acquisition and retention funnels
• Demonstrated ability to achieve goals in a fast paced and an unstructured environment. Thrives in ambiguity and rapidly changing environment
• Hands-on experience of both qualitative and quantitative research methods such as AB testing, data analytics, and user research
• Robust understanding of complex and scalable technical architecture for web and mobile applications
• Problem solver with strong analytical skills and comfort with data
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills