Product Manager

Vision: Designing and Developing products and features based on data and advanced

analytics.

- leverage business knowledge and data to uncover the potential of the data

- data science applications development

- hypothesis testing and modelling

- evaluate performance of various ML/DS models

- and much more

Role: The role is to define big ‘Why’ and ‘What’? Ideate and build products and features

using advanced data science and machine learning models which can help internal/external

stakeholders along with customers. It requires you to experiment on multiple hypothesis

using statistical and machine learning algorithms and bring better decision making to the

table. The role requires you to work closely with business and machine learning/data

science team.

Responsibility:

- Define and solve the problem that exist in the market and solve by using data

- Writing Product requirement documents with user stories

- Monitor products and feature’s performance

- Make strong communication and feedback loop with customers and

stakeholders

- Bring best product practices to the table

Autonomy:

- Create product roadmap for data products

- Daily decision making about product

Requirements:

- Graduate/ Post graduate degree in Marketing, Business Administration,

Engineering etc.

- 4+ Years of Product Management experience in high growth tech start up

- Strong knowledge of Excel and Database

- Analyzing data and model performance

- Knowledge of latest technology and innovation trends

- Working knowledge of application development process and hands on product

management systems JIRA, Aha etc.

- Comfortable in programming language like R and Python

- Sound knowledge of cloud-based architecture

- Ability to develop hypothesis and testing models

Job Description

Certa is recruiting a Product Manager, who is passionate, strategic, and driven for developing a world-class no-code SaaS product. As a key member of the Product Management team, you will work closely with UX, technology, and business. This role will allow you to set product strategies, identify new business opportunities, solve complex problems, and work with a smart innovative team.

Requirements

• A natural collaborator with a proven ability to work across teams to get things done.
• You have structured problem-solving abilities and a clear communication style.
• Familiar and comfortable with Agile development.
• Results-oriented. You know how to ‘get it done; you drive results with your team. Exceptional problem-solving, teamwork, and leadership skills. Handle details accurately and promptly
• Customer Focused. Dedication to customer success. Demonstrated ability to deliver SaaS software solutions to customers.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage expectations and customer demands. You know how and when to influence customers to adapt to smarter operational techniques of Certa’s platform
• Ability to work with remote teams.
• You show you care about quality and driving strategy to build innovative products.
• You are an effective communicator and know how to adjust your management style to help coach and lead at all levels in the organization.
• Ability to manage multiple challenges, competing for priorities simultaneously.
• Identifying and validating new business and product opportunities.
• Creating and analyzing new product ideas, testing the ideas, and translating that into the product roadmap
• Orchestrating the execution of the roadmap in a look-ahead timeline approach
• Managing the product life cycle from strategic planning to tactical product management activities. This includes acting as product owner on one or more scrum teams.
• Acting as the subject matter expert on the product for the company.
• Working in an outbound capacity to provide domain expertise in support of sales and partner opportunities.
• Working closely with engineering and UX teams to provide the input needed to guide the product development effort.
• Developing business cases as needed for major new product initiatives while working with the sales/business development team to understand the best use-case scenarios and spot possible feature development opportunities proactively
• Prioritizing product requirements for new features by conducting market and customer research supported by ongoing communications with customers, prospects, and with internal customer-facing organizations.
• To execute your responsibilities, you will interface with customers and prospects to understand user needs and customer use cases. You will interface with engineering and UX teams to execute the product roadmap, as well as work with marketing to ensure alignment with external communication in terms of target markets, go-to-market strategy, product positioning, and key benefits. You will also serve as an internal and external evangelist for your product offering.
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Technical Skills:

• Familiar and comfortable with Agile development, wireframing tools, Jira for user stories Figma, and MIRO.
• Product manager for no code SaaS product
• ERP, Coupa, Anaplan, ServiceNow

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.

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.

Headquartered in Bangalore, our client is the world's first cross-border neobank that focuses on credit and banking requirements of those migrating from India to the US. This revolutionary startup helps you apply for a bank account and a high-limit credit card with minimal documentation and absolutely no application fee while you are still in your home country.

The company is truly simplifying the financial world by making global financial products easily accessible to global citizens. Their mission is backed by tier 1 VCs and they have already raised in excess of 55 mn dollars within the last one year.

As a Head of Product, you will be responsible for strategic planning and management of the entire product portfolio.

What you will do:

• Defining and aligning of the vision, strategy and roadmap
• Identifying opportunities that lead to product growth through innovation while still maintaining the fundamental business goals/ priorities
• Overseeing the innovation and improvement of the business’s product to suit the consumers’ needs
• Defining, monitoring of the company relevant KPIs and controlling of the measures to achieve the objectives set
• Building the product team and hiring across product roles
• Managing and taking ownership of product end-to-end: including defining scope, developing requirements for product launch
• Analyzing customer needs/ markets, competitive offering and user requirements in depth
• Coordinating with various functions to ensure product roll-out within defined timelines, understanding product priorities and implementing a product governance framework
• Conceptualizing innovative features, designing wireframes/ prototypes and documenting PRDs to enhance app usability
• Working collaboratively with various teams including marketing, business, UX, customer support and engineering teams etc.

What you need to have:

• MBA/ B.Tech from Tier 1 Colleges (IIM/ ISB/ IIT/ BITS)
• 12+ years of B2C product experience at a product company
• Solid Leadership background coupled with excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Prior experience in handling and managing teams
• Comfort diving into data and deriving tangible insights
• Proven track record of shipping several high impact features, end-to-end
• Prior startup & fintech experience is a plus
• Prior experience in tech roles is a plus    

Attention: We are looking for Immediate joiners!

Executive Summary

Are you looking to level up? The Senior Product Owner (Digital Transformation) role at FirstPrinciples and the partner that you will be staffed with is a multi-million-dollar digital transformation initiatives on web and mobile with one of the largest Luxury Home Builders in the United States.

About FirstPrinciples & The Role

FirstPrinciples is a Tech Holding company with a Venture Studio as part of its holdings. One part of the Venture Studio business at FirstPrinciples is about working with large enterprises on long-term digital transformation initiatives within their organization. The position that we are currently hiring for involves a multi-million-dollar digital transformation initiatives for one of the largest Luxury Home Builders in the United States. Our scope involves working as expert consultants to advice and execute on upgrading the IT & Tech different internal and stakeholder facing systems within their organization. We are working on both web and mobile platforms.  

Who is This For?

This is for an experienced Product Owner/Manager who is looking to take their career to the next stage by working on a large-scale initiative that will challenge and extend their current capacities.

At FirstPrinciples, we truly act as a Tech Strategic Consultant along with having the operational capacity to implement the suggested recommendations. This role is for someone who is able to provide recommendations to the client while having the ownership of the end deliverables. While we have technical leaders also staffed within this partnership, we are looking for someone who can talk the talk with senior engineers and tech architects and understand their recommendations and its implications.  

Requirements

• One of the following certifications (PRINCE2, CSP, CAPM, CBAP (BABOK), Agile, CSP, CSPO, PMPO)
• Experience in independently managing, End-to-End Business Analysis, Product Analysis, Project Management for complex IT Projects and Products / Apps
• Working with Client to understand provide Consulting or Business Solutions, Problem Solving Approach and Skills, Strong Analytical Skills, should be able to read between the lines
• Managing scope via release management and planning and creating User-Stories, Running Sprints Cycle and Experience working with a team of 15-20 resources
• Requirements Gathering, Requirements Analysis, Requirements Management, Requirements Elicitation, Requirements Matrix (RTMs)
• Experience in Developing Low-Level and High-Level Prototyping using Wireframes tools (using any of the latest wireframing tools, such as JustInMind, Adobe XD, MockFlow, etc)
• Ownership of the Product Backlog & Deliverables and developing the User Stories & Release Planning
• Experience in Writing and Maintaining Business Requirement Documents (BRD) or PRDs and Functional Specification Document (FSD), Software Requirements Specification (SRS)
• Should have experience in creating Project Budgeting, Creating Efforts Estimations (EE), Presentation Decks, and Clean Documentation 
• Experience in Writing Test Cases and Managing UAT and Deployment 
• Analysis: GAP, Fish-bone Analysis, RCA (Root Cause Analysis), MoSCOW
• Experience in Consulting clients on Problem Statements V/s Solution Building based on AS-IS and TO-BE
• Experience converting Business Cases to Technology case and Building Products from scratch thus Translating Business Requirements into Software Requirement Specifications
• Interacting with the Technical team to ensure Delivery and Implementation of the Software Solution/Projects
• Client Relationship Management, Excellent at English Speaking, and Written Communication
• Understanding of Change Management, Risk Management and Project Management

Management Skills

1. Excellent Written and Oral Communication Skills and Etiquettes
2. Excellent Presentation Skills 
3. Experience in working with Onshore and Offshore Teams and Experience handling Cross-Functional Projects, Resources and Clients
4. Experience dealing with Pressure and Meeting strict Project Deadlines
5. Leadership and Motivational Skills to ensure the Work is being done by the Resources on time and within the specified budget
6. Conflict and Resolution Management
7. Prior experience in operations management - good to have 
8. Experience working with US Clients

TechStack & Platform

1. MEAN Stack (Web)
2. Native iOS & Android (Mobile)
3. AWS

• 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

Responsibilities :

- Build the product strategy and roadmap in line with customers problems and company's vision

- Lead a set of cross functional teams by translation of the product strategy into detailed requirements and prototypes to drive the product development goals

- Identify market opportunities with research and competitive analysis and integrate it into product requirements to enhance user satisfaction

- Analyze complex use cases with experience in using analytics platforms to understand product usability and break them down to simplify user experience

- Design simple and intuitive user interfaces through wireframes and mock-ups

- Listen to the clients on an ongoing basis, be a trusted advisor and work towards aligning our offerings to their expectations

- Develop and launch new products while enhancing the existing products on a timely basis

- Communicate the product solutions and offerings effectively internally and externally

- Be persistent and professional in pursuit of all product deliverables and documentation such as PRD and Knowledge Base

- Be updated with the emerging trends in IT and technical architecture

Requirements :

- Masters Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Management, Statistics or related field

- 3+ years of experience managing web and mobile products with a background in technical product management or engineering

- 7+ years of experience in building global enterprise SaaS products

- Prior experience in logistics, supply chain, e-commerce or transportation domain is a plus

- Proven ability to drive large scale products with deep understanding of agile, high collaboration and leadership in a highly accelerated work environment

- Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills with a fair understanding of what makes a good user experience and beautiful design

- Spontaneous, quick thinker and a self-starter with key organizational skills that includes attention to detail and multi-tasking

Experience and Educational Requirements:

• 7 years of experience as a Solutions Architect/Developer, designing and implementing global cloud-based solution architectures for PaaS, IaaS or SaaS.
• Experience with structured Enterprise Architecture practices, hybrid cloud deployments, and on-premise-to-cloud migration deployments and roadmaps.
• Experience with distributed computing, software development, big data analytics, cloud computing, virtualization, hosted services, multi-tenant cloud, storage systems or content delivery as well as security protocols.
• Experience developing the User Interface and User Experience for complex software solutions deployed globally
• Experience with all major programming languages and SaaS database technologies
• Experience in building and scaling up the development function and a proven ability to attract, inspire, motivate and retain top tier talent
• Experience working with large multi-national distributed teams
• Experience articulating complex topics to senior stakeholders in both business and IT teams effectively .
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.