Product Manager

What we're looking for
We are looking to hire a smart product manager who is passionate about taking up ideas and bringing them to life. You will engage with our customer base directly, and decide the future of the product by working closely with founders. You will also collaborate with marketing and growth teams to ensure that word gets out to people and they get to see what you are building

Responsibilities
Work with founders to define product strategy and roadmap
Prioritise and plan features for development. Come up with prioritisation framework suited to company needs and balancing impact vs effort
Build strong customer empathy and incorporate same while working with UX and Design teams
Convert ideas to prototypes and demonstrate them to the key partners
Own product lifecycle from idea, design, research , competitive analysis, positioning, roadmap, development, go to market, launch and success
Define and measure success metrics for the product
Talk to customers, gather business insights and come up with new product ideas for a multi-product strategy
Be a product evangelist inside and outside the organisation. Represent company in product or domain specific conferences and events


Qualifications
Over 3 years of hands on experience in Product Management
Good understanding of web based architecture and APIs
Good understanding of UX framework and experience on UI design
Good analytical and problem solving skills
Ability to work independently and drive product with minimal direction
Collaborative approach with clear communication
Strong analytical and problem solving skills
Familiar with agile product development processes
Background in consumer apps is a plus


Benefits
An exciting and enriching work environment
Ability to work directly with founders to shape the company
Opportunity to become an expert in sustainability tech (expected to be redefine every industry over next 2-3 decades)
Opportunity to participate in the zero to one journey of building a startup
Ability to articulate and work on the most core problems that the customer faces
A competitive salary and comprehensive medical insurance coverage
Significant upside through an employee friendly ESOP policy

Vakilsearch is the leading Legal, Tax and Compliance (LTC) company in India. We are here to revolutionize the way business work with the Government. We are working on exciting and transformative products to revolutionize the LTC space. At Vakilsearch, we believe the future of legal in India lies in great products. 

If you're passionate about real change, love building products and are curious about marketing and the overall customer experience, this is for you.

The product manager (PM) will manage the direction and market delivery of existing products and identifying new products, product features, product strategy, and relevant services.

In This Job, You Will:

• Work with Senior Engineers across multiple teams and business stakeholders to design and build highly available and scalable systems
• Use Lean Software Development processes such as Agile, Scrum, and Kanban
• Drive strategic upward product communications internally and externally
• Drive alignment on product features, business metrics, and business strategies
• Work and collaborate effectively with tech teams and launch to production
• Understand business context to decisions made within and across the organization

This Role Might Be for You If:

• You have experience in owning a suite of products and defining long-term product strategy and vision
• You possess strong business acumen with strategic, analytical, and critical thinking
• You understand technical software development life cycle and have knowledge on how to drive teams towards business solutions
• You excel in owning and driving the development of technical products
• You drive strategic product communications across organizations providing clarity in decisions

Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Translate business strategy into product strategy.
• Understanding user needs, knowing the difference between ‘wants’ and ‘needs’ and
  converting these into Products.
• Own the product roadmap and execute product strategy.
• Collect, manage and maintain traceability of requirements from all stakeholders across product releases.
• Write requirements – typically as user stories and epics.
• Maintain and prioritize the product backlog.
• Track releases.
• Building lean and agile Products, know how to accurately test hypotheses in the
  lightest way possible and be comfortable using lean UX techniques.
• Driving new features forward in weekly sprints.
• Balancing internal stakeholders’ requests & bugs.
• Monitor, report and improve product performance.
• Participate in scrum meetings, planning, reviews and retrospectives.
• Support the development team with any questions they may have.

• Nature of Experience:
• Experience in Agile development.
• Proven track record bringing innovation to on-demand SaaS software.
• Should be able to work and remain calm even under pressure situations, and should be able to address and resolve any relevant issues.
• Should be able to work with a diverse range of people and communicate with them effectively.
• High levels of confidence, maturity, and competence are required.

• Length of Experience: 4 - 8 years.
• 4+ years in Software or Saas Industry with 4+ years in Product Management.
• Formal Agile Training
• Programming, UI/UX, or QA experience preferred.
• Experience in Legal Industry or Legal Technologies is an added advantage.

OBJECTIVE :

- The Product Development team within PayMate works with business to establish the overall strategy and priorities for the products and platforms. Based on the business strategy and overall priorities, the Product Development team creates product plan, including high level business requirements, solution designs, benefits definition and aligns with overall go to market rollout plan.

- We are looking to hire Product Managers with Payments background and Supply Chain Finance experience. You will engage existing and potential customers directly, and decide the future of the product based upon a strong understanding of the customer requirements. You will also collaborate with technology, marketing, sales and support to solve for the best customer experience.

- The candidate should be willing to accept a dynamic and multi-faceted role requiring to work across several teams and even geographies, while working with the core management team on the best way forward to help achieve our collective goals.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES :

- Build a scalable Payments Automation System

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

- Implements usage tracking and analyse patterns to validate new feature requirement.

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

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

- Stay on top of the market and competition.

- Act like an owner for the success of your product.

- Will be responsible for the end to end product roadmap from features creation, prioritization, go live, onboarding process streamlining.

- Responsible for regular running of solutions and products - monitoring success through revenue

- Maintain communication among and between stakeholders - interacting with business managers to ideate the requirements , work with the technology teams to implement the solutions

- Collaborate and work with various internal departments and external vendors in the launch and implementation of the processing platform for specific clients in the specific markets and regions. This involves working with the technical teams for roadmap, feature and release management

- Definition of platform features include creating detailed user and process flows

- technical level designs and algorithms to satisfy the feature requirements

- Working with clients to define business requirements from the high level down to the detailed levels.

- Work with the technical development teams to review the solution and technical designs with an understanding of how the solution impacts the overall platform architecture

- Work with the technical testing teams to review the test cases and testing to ensure newly defined platform features are properly tested

- Some platform features require the development of new APIs for which field level designs are required.

- Collaborate and work closely with our external processing partners and vendors in the launch and implementation of the processing platform for all markets and regions.

- Work with our processing partners to ensure the card processor's platform has features that are needed for the specific markets in question and where there are gaps to draft up the solution in conjunction with our partners and have that delivered in a timely manner

- This role would require the person to work across geographies, time zones, cultures and competencies as well as internal teams who might not be very familiar with global payments & its intricacies

- Be willing to get your hands dirty - from writing feature stories, drawing swim lane diagrams to running sprint meetings, you will do it all

- You would be required to articulate & justify your vision & strategy behind you roadmap to domain experts & leaders again & again in a crowded & evolving payment stage

- Dealing with engineers & architects to design new flows, adapt systems to new market innovations while maintaining integrity & scalability of the platform is vital

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE :

- 5-7 years of experience in product management with 3 or more years in Payments background

- Strong customer centricity

- Ability to think creative and solve problem

- Familiarity in agile development framework will be preferable.

- Prior experience at fast growing fintech / B2B startups will be preferable

- Highly adaptable and aware. Comfortable in an evolving and dynamic environment.

- Good networker: persuasive with excellent interpersonal skills.

- You are comfortable working hands-on in a fast-paced start-up environment

- Problem-solving and detail orientation come naturally to you.

- Worked with banking & payments partners

- An engineering degree (a management degree is a bonus, not mandatory)

- Formal product management training - good to have

- Knowledge of Product Management tools like Trello, JIRA, Figma, MS Projects, Postman, etc.

• 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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Key Responsibilities:

1.Take ownership of the entire product stack , which includes multiple android applications and backend modules.

2.To enhance each of them while bringing in innovation and latest market trends.

3.Bridge the gap between tech team and non tech team (operations, support, finance etc)

4.create automation and efficiency in the company.

5.Create detailed user stories and product principles via discussions with relevant owners and team.

6.Work with the Project Management team and assign tasks to the 50-member tech team and determine deadlines.

7.Work with UI-UX team to ensure wire framing and visual prototypes are captured as part of story board approval.

8.Drive product launches including working with the operations team to ensure knowledge transfer and training

9.Take deep understanding of Grabs business across all verticals to build a robust product line.

Eligibility:

1.Proven work experience in product management or as an associate product manager

2.Proven track record of managing all aspects of a successful product throughout its lifecycle

3.Proven ability to develop product strategies and effectively communicate recommendations to management

4.Strong problem solving skills and willingness to roll up ones sleeves to get the job

5.Skilled at working effectively with cross functional teams in a matrix organization

6.Excellent written and verbal communication skills

7.Education qualification from premier institute preferred

Desired Candidate Profile

• Qualification -B.E/ B.Tech and/or MBA
• Experience of 5-9 years in related industry/ product categories
• Keen interest/ knowledge of sourcing and procurement techniques as well as a dexterity in reading the market
• Exposure in developing and working with factories in China is essential
• Talent in negotiations and networking
• Aptitude in decision-making and working with numbers
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems

Product Manager at OneCard 

At Onecard, we're re-imagining the credit card for a new generation of users. Product development is an extremely collaborative effort between engineering, design, and customer-facing teams. You’d be joining a small team of experienced Product Managers who have helped build successful products at companies such as Gaana, Walnut, ICICI Bank among others. 

YOU MAY BE A GOOD FIT IF:

• You can think in terms of the big picture, but deliver on the details
• You observe users and talk to them to get insights for building products. 
• You have a nose for great products, and advocate for new features with qualitative and quantitative reasoning
• You do whatever it takes to make your product and team successful, whether that means writing a QA plan or hunting down the root cause of a user’s frustration. This is very important as we're rapidly growing. 
• You can turn incomplete, conflicting, or ambiguous inputs into solid action plans
• You communicate with empathy and exceptional precision
• You are technical enough to ask engineers good questions about architecture and product decisions alike
• Beyond just shipping new products, you obsess about continuous product improvement

REQUIREMENTS

• You’ve spent at least 3 to 5 years in product management, especially working on mobile apps. 
• You’ve built something with 100k+ users in a consumer facing application. If you've built something on your own - a blog or a website, please send us a link. 
• You’ve worked with design teams and software like Figma/Zeplin/Balsamiq. 
• Experience in Fintech and gaming is preferred. Especially working on reward programs. 

You’ve built something with 100k+ users in a consumer facing application. If you've built something on your own - a blog or a website, please send us a link. 

YOU SHOULD INCLUDE THESE IN YOUR APPLICATION:

A few words on...

• Why you’re interested in being a product manager at OneCard in particular
• The product you are most proud of shipping, and your role in its development
• The biggest product mistake you’ve made (we all have them!)

• 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