Product Manager - GTM

We stand apart while looking at things from an entirely different angle. Leadership at Molecular Connections is lucid, clear and humble. Fortunately, complacent bureaucracy and labyrinthine hierarchy do not excite us. 

We can't wait to cherish your value and enrich your CV. We are launching a state-of-the-art publishing platform, keeping a keen eye on the growing demand of the publishing industry that is undergoing a sea of change. 

At Molecular Connections we cherish the happening culture, look forward to intriguing ideas and give you an ocean of new skills to drench yourself in! We are excited to hand out opportunities that would help enhance personal and global growth. Groundedness, humbleness and straightforwardness in a person does not fail to entice us!  So, come aboard with us to look at things from a different angle! 

Act as product owner for the Molecular Connection’s  Publishing Platform - 

• You will support our business teams by providing them with continuously improving communication capabilities that help them reach their target groups with relevant features and content while providing a powerful and easy-to-use publishing experience. 

In this role you will: 

• Be responsible for the Molecular Connection’s  Publishing platform management and development, tactical plans and operational excellence including changes, new requirements and business support

• Ensure that the Molecular Connection’s platform contributes to the business capabilities within the areas of Communication, Co-worker Experience, Concept Description, Culture and Learning while aligning it with the business processes and initiatives. 

• Act as a trusted and knowledgeable business partner, weighing and judging all development requests and opportunities against your holistic view of user experience, road map, capacity, architecture, and simplicity. 

• Conduct SEO analysis and improve search visibility and results through technical means while working with content creators.

• Create and implement structures for the best possible content optimisations, such as internal links, meta-tags, image optimisations etc.  

• Ideate new targeting strategies by collaborating with internal stakeholders and thorough analysis.

• Be the top Agile and DevOps supporter and cheerleader! As PO, you lead, support, and strengthen your (offshore) expert product teams to deliver quality and value ceaselessly. You advocate for Agile & DevOps principles and ways of working for your teams and internal stakeholders. 
•  Participate in relevant SCRUM ceremonies and be available to the team as the main voice of business and user needs. 

•  Organise and perform training sessions for publishers.

• Align the product vision, delivery road map and prioritisation (epics, features, user stories) for the products with the stakeholders. 

•  Lead and work with the Shared Data and Technology organisation and through Inter Molcon Group to strengthen and contribute to a strong and relevant content experience for co-workers and the public. 

• As PO, be solely accountable for all aspects of your products, including budget and financial frames. 

• We look forward to a proven experience in product management as a product owner or search optimisation specialist.

• 10 years of leadership experience in best-practice digital product development and technical experience in Publishing platforms

• Exceptional knowledge of digital technology, digital infrastructure, IT services and digital steering frameworks

• Outstanding experience in setting a clear vision for your area, working in an Agile or DevOps set-up, proven analytical skills and experience in making decisions based on hard and soft data

• A sincere team player with strong communication and collaboration skills with keen business acumen, and a strategic mindset

• A person who would enjoy working in a high-paced environment encompassing many international stakeholders, taking key decisions as a true leader that will protect our users and result in an outstanding impact on Molecular Connection’s Publishing

• 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.

Work with a world-class fin-tech maverick that is focusing on creating a powerful future-focused infrastructure with sophistication and transparency.

Our client is a cross border payment platform started in 2014, with a vision to simplify the cross-border payments experience for consumers. It later expanded and scaled its offerings to meet the needs of SME’s, Financial Institutions, Enterprises, and other payment service providers. It is currently accessible in 90 countries dealing with 63 currencies, developing cutting-edge products and solutions that solve the most crucial problems in the FinTech space.

As a Product Manager, you will join the Consumer product team and lead the implementation of global products in our journey towards making remittances accessible and affordable for all.

In this role, you’ll work with cross functional teams to build product strategy and roadmap to grow our consumer business vertical.

What you will do:

• Solving issues through consumer web/ apps platform & improving the overall experience of for the consumers.
• Coordinating such that product development is an extremely collaborative effort between engineering, design, analytics and customer-facing teams.
• Working with a group of experienced Product Managers with a track record of successfully building large-scale business and consumer products that are collectively impacting millions of users around the world
• Being responsible for new product ideation, product development cycle and launch.
• Building a market excelling product line, offering best in class services and user experience that contributes to the product vision and business strategy
• Proactively identifying gaps in the market and leading the effort to develop products that drive business value
• Closely involving in documentation, validation, verification of critical performance data, feedback and findings related to the customer journey
• Working closely with a team of engineers, architects, designers, experimentation team to deliver excellence and setting the high-level mission, vision, and roadmap for the platform and the team
• Working with the design team to constantly improve the UI/ UX of the consumer facing app/ web and white-labelled platforms basis data.
• Understanding the blend between Interaction, UX and usability
• Being responsible for incorporating feedback from consumers, data inputs, market intelligence, research, competitor analysis and designing features/ functionalities to keep always miles ahead of competition
• Gathering post-launch client feedback, measuring performance and quickly capturing learnings to adapt the product.

• Partner with the product team, co-founders, and business heads to define the product vision for all our verticals (Demand, Supply, Advisory)
• Lead and mentor a team of Product Managers (PMs) to build an impactful roadmap and make it a reality in collaboration with engineering, design, and business teams.
• Define and communicate key performance indicators (KPIs), objectives, and key results to measure success; Regularly interface with ground teams, farmers, traders, etc. to get feedback on product strategy for your product area.
• Regularly share progress with execs and the larger teams against quarterly and annual goals.
• Foster a product culture for PMs, Analysts, Designers, Operations Teams, and Business teams.
• Work with engineering leadership to envision and prioritize improvements to our core product offering that is in line with our quarterly and annual goals.

• 4+ years of experience in core product management.
• Experience leading and mentoring in a product management organization.
• Experienced working with highly technical engineering and design teams and driving complex projects from ideation to successful launch.
• Expertise in setting, aligning and measuring success KPIs for large products
• All-around leader: you can create a product vision that others want to follow.
• Customer obsession: you genuinely care for our customers and deeply understand the needs of the customer ( end users, ground teams, and internal teams) and make sure that those needs are well understood by your teams.
• Problem solver: loves to figure out complex problems and constantly think about how to make processes more efficient.
• Great with data: you are data-focused, and drive the team to take decisions based on data
• A track record of partnering with cross-functional teams.
• Ability to communicate to engineers and executives in the same breath.

Role- Product manager 

We are seeking a Product Manager who will have a passion for agile, creating new delivery processes. This role includes leading cross-functional resources necessary for successful product definition where you will provide relevant business context for Agile software development team and leading team through planning exercises designed to help select development work for timeboxed execution.

Experience range- 8-14 Years

Responsibilities

•   Create and ensure a shared understanding of product vision and strategy amongst all members of the team.
•  Define a product portfolio from a product strategy that balances business need, opportunity, feasibility, and achievability.
•  Demonstrate platform thinking by abstracting feature requests into “classes of problems” and creating an extensible product which can be used for a variety of current and future needs.
•  Should have experience in Pre-sales.
• Backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories
• Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum best practices and values
• Partnering with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI
• Create Product roadmap
• Understanding on NFR (Non-functional requirements.
• Understanding on Wireframing & Prototyping
• Lead the planning product release plans and set an expectation for delivery of new functionalities
• Providing an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals.
• Understanding knowledge of the market, the users, and the roadmap for the product.
• Represents the customer, interfaces and engages the customer
• Evangelize and market: communicate the value proposition and bring an emotional connection to the product to all stakeholders and team members.
• Drive research and competitive analysis to identify ways to transform the user experience, and create competitive opportunities.
• Reframe business solutions into actual business needs 
• Articulate how the product fulfils the business strategy and creates value to internal and external stakeholders (e.g. clients).
• Understand the technical aspects of software development – including software engineering, architecture, and technical tradeoffs – enough to ensure that technical choices don’t conflict with the product vision and strategy, but rather enable them.
• Partner with engineering leads and architects so that decisions on product and technology direction are not made in a vacuum.
• Make data-driven decisions: support portfolio choices with evidence from analytics and research.
• Align product strategies with other product managers, articulate how the product strategy fits into the broader ecosystem.
• Nurture regular communication and connection with business stakeholders to ensure that product strategy stays aligned with business priorities, and also to keep stakeholders abreast of learnings from customers that impact product direction.
• Always be “discovering” what customers and users need. Get out of the building: visit clients and speak with users/customers. Always be learning from user research conducted during product development cycles.
• Partner with Product Owners to ensure constant alignment with business and customer goals, and outcome expectations for delivery.

Requirements

• About 7+ years of overall exp and 3-4 years of relevant experience working as a Product Manager in a technology environment
• Solid Agile experience
• Understanding of technology; Language and Applications
• Additonal exp with API Banking Domain would be plus to the role
• Proven ability to define a set of requirements that pinpoint business challenges and identify technical and business changes required to address them.
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely across technology and the business teams.
• Experience supporting/rolling out initiatives to commercial teams
• Experience with demand generation, account/territory management, opportunity management and contact management capabilities, functionality and workflows.

• Required education qualifications: MBA
• Past experience: Consumer Tech companies with 1-3 years experience/ 5-7 years’ experience
• Exp. level -5-8 Yrs/MBA from Premium institute and from Consumer tech companies only

Customer Obsession:

• Understand the customer needs and personas
• Seek input from users and Identify stated/unstated needs and opportunity areas
• Deep dive on identified opportunities to establish Product Market Fit
• Develop mechanisms to have a regular connection with users of the product
• Active listener who pays attention to detail

Innovation:

• Use data/anecdotes to generate new product/feature ideas against organizational goals
• Translate intangible ideas in ambiguous environments to tangible product definitions
• Curious to try a host of features; rigor to iterate even if ideas do not pick up

Execution excellence:

• Manage the Product roadmap and strive to meet key milestones
• Ability to slice ideas into epics and stories
• Prioritize the stories into backlog
• Partner with Design for product/feature definition & Engineering to deliver stories in a timely manner
• Track launched features against intended objectives/metrics and drive adoption
• Continuously iterate to improve the product incrementally but rapidly

Stakeholder Management-

• Seek inputs from relevant stakeholders for backlog creation and prioritization
• Align internal stakeholders on product prioritization, backlog and roadmap
• Anchor the Go-To-Market planning along with internal stakeholders to manage a smooth launch