Product Manager

Job responsibilities: 

 

• Partner closely with Product Design, Engineering, and Product Management to understand requirements and deliver product features and roadmap as envisioned by stakeholders.
• Own end-to-end user journey and all aspects of design execution from ideation, to prototyping, to user acceptance testing of product design tasks assigned.
• Conduct user interviews, user testing sessions, card sorting, and affinity mapping, conduct both qualitative and quantitative tests, and analyze the data.
• Design high-impact, functional responsive interfaces for web and mobile
• Collaborate with other designers and participate in our design critique process, to receive and provide feedback on design work

 

Skills you bring to the table:

 

• Experience in designing SaaS products with large customer bases
• Deep expertise using Figma/Xd/Sketch, and familiarity with design systems
• Knowledge of Carbon - IBM's Design system or experience building a design system from scratch is a plus.
• Fundamental understanding of the end-to-end iterative UX design process — research, ideation, information architecture, prototyping, validation, and refining solutions into pixel-perfect deliverables.
• Ability to articulate design decisions throughout the user-centered design process.
• Ability to update and engage with stakeholders like product managers and engineers.
• Relevant fundamental knowledge of front-end technologies to collaborate with UI engineering teams will be an advantage.

 

If you are interested in working for a fast-growing SaaS company operating in an exciting new space, this one is for you!

 

Prepare, maintain, and evangelize the product & features roadmap for short-
and long-term releases, based on business opportunities and market research.

● Work with cross-functional product teams to accomplish product objectives,
overseeing timelines and meeting deadlines for product releases.
● Validate detailed specifications and development costing versus market potential and future predictable revenue.
● Responsible for product launch and release plans. Coordinates internal and external product launches working with Marketing Support and Training
teams.
● Collaborate with technology to create strategies by which technology will be developed or adapted to meet market needs and leverage opportunities. (e.g.,
Buy/Build decisions)
● Monitor and analyze new technologies and inform the team of their potential applications to our business. Conduct and lead forward looking research
studies.
● Create and maintain profit and loss documentation for products and services.
● Act as liaison between Marketing, Technology, and Customer Experience teams to support product positioning and customer demand as part of new
product development

• As Director of Product, you are at the helm of the Product function of the organization. Your position overlooks the entire product organization right from cultivating a high growth team, overseeing the day to day management of ongoing projects to strategizing with CTO/founders, and planning the execution of upcoming projects/initiatives. 
• You are responsible for recruiting and mentoring product teams, setting up proper team structures, and keeping everyone aligned with the Vision at all times. 
• You are also required to maintain and oversee the design and data functions within the product org and build scalable structures for efficient output.
• You're expected to be involved in decisions (with Founders/CTO) that are to be taken in driving New Product initiatives and plan their execution and keep the management updated on the progress.

·  In the end, you're expected to be great at execution as well as management.

What is the role?

As Product Manager for Empuls you will be responsible for the product portfolio, including all product planning and release execution throughout the lifecycle of the product portfolio. This includes defining and prioritizing product roadmap, listening to customers, creating business requirements, driving functional requirement, driving this through development and successfully launching new product features.To read more about the kind of qualities we are looking for this role,

Key responsibilities

• Strategic planning and managing all stages of Product Life Cycle
• Develop business cases for each product feature to demonstrate feasibility including target pricing and margin, addressable and realizable market, SWOT analysis, estimated development, implementation, and support costs etc.
• Develop functional, technical and designs specifications for the product
• Help define the value proposition of the product for the sales team and help develop the sales tools that support the selling process of your products
• Research and understand competitive offerings in your sector

What are we looking for?

• An enthusiastic individual with 5+ years of experience in product management.
• We would prefer candidates from Fintech, ecommerce, rewards, loyalty and incentives.
• We'll look forward to technical skills required for a product role along with soft skills required to manage multiple stakeholder roles. Rest we can explore together during our interactions. If you find yourself to be someone that fits this requirement then read on.

Whom will you work with?

You will closely work with technology, design, sales and customer care teams. You will report to the head of product development.

What can you look for?

A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment that will enable you to juggle between concepts, yet maintain the quality of content, interact and share your ideas and have loads of learning while at work. Work with a team of highly talented young professionals and enjoy the comprehensive benefits that Xoxoday offers.

We are

A fast-growing SaaS commerce company based in Bangalore with offices in Delhi, Mumbai, SF, Dubai, Singapore, and Dublin. We have three products in our portfolio: Plum, Empuls and Compass. Xoxoday works with over 1000 global clients. We help our clients in engaging and motivating their employees, sales teams, channel partners and consumers for better business results.

Way forward

We look forward to connecting with you. As you may take time to review this opportunity, we will wait for a reasonable time of around 3-5 days before we screen the collected applications and start lining up job discussions with the hiring manager. We assure you that we will attempt to maintain a reasonable timeframe for successfully closing this requirement. The candidates will be kept informed and updated on the feedback and application status.

Thrive is currently looking out for a rockstar Product Manager. S/he will be a very important person in Thrive's growth story. An ideal candidate will be someone who is highly data driven and understands the Indian consumer well. This person will be involved in the entire product development life-cycle; from concept through release.This person will also work directly with the founders of the company.

 

Responsibilities

• Manage entire product development life-cycle from conception to design, development and roll-out
• Conduct market research, users survey's (qualitative & quantitative) to understand changes in market requirements
• Build & maintain Product Requirement Documents, and contribute to product road-map
• Liaison between Business Development, Design and Engineering teams to keep everyone up-to date on product road-map and release schedule's
• Conduct A/B testing of new features/updates launched within the product to identify the right path forward
• Co-ordinate with Design and Engineering team to ensure timelines are being met on both sides; whilst keeping all relevant stakeholders upto date; Utilize JIRA for work and workflow visualization to optimize work.
• Perform competitor analysis and bench-marking
• Track progress of market specific product improvements and measure impact

Skills & Requirements

• 3+ years of experience developing web products with a background in technical product management or web development.
• An academic background in Computer Science or related engineering discipline.
• Experience working in startups or successful entrepreneurial adventures
• Strong quantitative capabilities; an an ability to understand analytics platforms
• Strong communication skills and intuition for communication strategy at every level -- within teams, within the company, to users, and other audiences.
• Experience working with MySQL;
• Experience working with Google Analytics, HotJar, Google Tag Manager is a Plus!
• Self-driven, comfortable with a fast-paced, always-on, highly ambiguous environment

As a Product Manager- Fintech Risk, you will be responsible for owning Fintech Fraud Risk products across account opening and account and activity monitoring.

What you will do:

• Owning Fintech Fraud Risk products across account opening and account and activity monitoring
• Defining OKRs for success such as % approvals, bp in losses, good customer friction, precision/ recall etc.
• Thinking out of the box and identifying opportunities where we can build world class Fraud Risk solutions either in-house or via partnerships
• Working with Engineering to create risk capabilities, analytics and decisioning logic to identify, analyze and prevent suspicious activities, including but not limited to: Identity Fraud, Account Takeover/ Abuse Fraud, Transactions Risk, Unauthorized Chargeback Risk etc.
• Driving Proof of Concepts and Demos to illustrate the company's capabilities
• Working with Sales, Business Operations and Engineering to meet internal and external stakeholder needs
• Researching emerging issues impacting Fintech players and ideating on solving their digital risks through innovation
• Validating supply partnerships to be used in solutioning, where needed
• Collaborating with external partners and clients and standardizing integration strategy for the company's input/ output and client feedback loops

 

Desired Candidate Profile

What you need to have:

• 5-7 years of experience in Product Management, preferably in Financial Fraud Risk
• Career concentration in Fintechs, Payments or Risk Service Providers
• Experience in developing requirements for Risk score-based rules engines, Classification and Regression models etc.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher, preferably in Maths, Statistics or an area of Technology
• Strong quantitative abilities, distinctive problem-solving and excellent analytics skills
• Strong organizational, communication, presentation and project management skills
• Experience with analytical/ statistical tools like SQL, SAS, Altair Knowledge Studio, R or Python preferable
• Experience in experimentation and A/B testing a plus
• Strong sense of product design and customer empathy    

 

What you would be doing • Own & Head the product roadmap for the marketing website (www.upgrad.com) - work with business teams to deliver launch of new programs, new program configurations and program portfolio pages • Conceptualise and build new products for increasing visitor conversion • Design and execute multiple A/B and multivarate tests to optimise conversion across different steps of the acquisition funnel from landing pages to conversion • Analyze and track funnel performance – use different analytics products to analyse and interpreting trends and provide actionable insights • Produce meaningful Funnel KPI dashboards and deliver monthly, cross channel performance reports with actionable insights for product, marketing and business teams What we are looking for:· • Bachelors in Computer Science, EE, Mathematics or related work experience • Excellent problem solving skills with strong ability to break down problems and prioritise based on ROI • 6+ years of experience in shipping growth products or working in growth teams preferable • Strong analytical skills, comfort with handling data sets and deriving insights or building attribution models using the data • Experience with analytics tools such as Google Analytics, Clevertap/ Mixpanel etc

Qualifications
● Proven track record of customer obsession and innovation in high-growth companies from
ecommerce/fintech/gaming domains
● Demonstrated ability to think both strategically and tactically including the ability to formulate
data-driven and result-oriented decisions.
● Ability to prioritize in an ambiguous environment.
● 5+ experience of product management/consulting/marketing highly preferred
● Exceptional interpersonal, communication (spoken and written) and influencing skills and an
ability to navigate a complex and unstructured cross-functional environmen

Roles and Responsibilities:

Roadmap : Understanding the requirements from relevant stakeholders and devising the product/ features and creating a roadmap

Planning : Plan and execute product roadmap to meet goals via a regular deployment cycle. Measure performance and adjust.

Strategy : Work with the marketing team on the development and implementation of go-to-market strategies, ensuring successful launch execution and clear consumer messaging of key product roll-outs.

Quick prototyping : Be able to prototype a product quickly to demonstrate value

Launch Great Products Work closely with the engineering teams, Sales, Marketing, Design, QA, Support teams to ensure timely launch and high product quality

Data Driven : the product design and direction should be based on data (customer behavior analytics, business metrics etc.). Solicit and embrace critical feedback.

Skills / Qualification / Experience :

- 3+ years in product management preferably from product based company.

- Experience of driving a mobile app from scratch to launch.

- Strong depth and breadth knowledge in optimization, prototyping.

- Research and prioritize user requirements, strategic and business requirements, and functional requirements

- Stellar design instincts.

- Ability to leverage data to make decisions without getting stuck in analysis paralysis and a never ending desire to grow and learn

- Translating customer experiences/issues into the product

- Ability to work on cross-functional teams in both leadership and member roles

- Experience working on gaming/retail/e-commerce would be added advantage.

- Ability to Provide review and input into other deliverables as appropriate (e.g. visual designs or technical specifications )

- Bachelors in engineering preferably Computer Science from top institutes along with an MBA (preferred).

Job Perks :

- A platform to learn and innovate with likeminded peers.

- Complete autonomy & freedom. Just deliver.

- We like solving challenging problems without blaming each other.

- And any other than you may suggest within rational limits :)