Product Manager

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.

II Experience:

• 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.

III Skill Set & Personality Traits required:

• Good communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills.

• Organizational skills and ability to manage deadlines.

Fynd is India's largest omnichannel commerce platform helping retail businesses accelerate growth.

Founded by Farooq Adam, Harsh Shah, and Sreeraman MG in 2012. The company is headquartered in Mumbai and currently employs 350+ spread across design, engineering, data science, operations and sales. Trusted by over 600 brands and 10,000 stores.

What will you be doing?

• Work directly with the Founders, Principal Architects and Growth Leads to help them with tricky new problems
• Study companies and sectors to identify trends for us to invest and build in
• Articulating the strategic vision of the organisation and help in it’s implementation
• Get your hands dirty on organisational priorities as set in our OKRs
• Work with the allied organisations and external consultants to achieve our long-term objectives

Who will be a good fit for this

• Entrepreneurs with proven track record
• Management Consultants with 5+ years of experience
• Engineers from top-tier institutes with 5+ years of operator experience at tech startups

What skills you should have

• Deep understanding and passion for all things technology. Widely read
• Detail oriented, above par attention to detail
• Very analytical in nature
• Superior written and oral presentation skills

This is a long-term role requiring many years of organisational commitment. This is not a remote role and candidate should be based in Mumbai or willing to relocate here

Compensation: Best-in-class. No bar for the right talent

Job Description – Product Manager (Fintech)

About US

Ula is reimagining how retail in emerging markets should work in the smartphone era. We’ve witnessed the rise of B2C e-commerce over the last decade in both India and Indonesia. But the small retailer, the heart and soul of retail, has been left largely underserved by e-commerce even though they’re spending hours every day on their smartphones. Ula provides a simple front-end app, powered by sophisticated back-end systems that determine everything from pricing to inventory to intelligent salesforce route planning. We are building many first of their kind technologies in the world and need your help in building the right systems.  

Ula is an under-the-radar, early-stage technology start-up with largest office in Jakarta and presence in Singapore and India, though we are quite flexible in terms of where our colleagues choose to work from. We are funded by Tier-1 Venture Capital — Sequoia Capital India, Lightspeed India, Quona Capital and B-Capital Group. It is also backed by prominent industry angels such as the founders of Udaan, Rahul Mehta of DST Capital and other established Indonesian angels.

We are a culturally diverse company with 38% women and 7 nationalities. We believe that the best minds are required to solve tough problems irrespective of where they come from.

About You

You are driven to solve tough problems with technology. Let’s take pricing for example. Imagine a world where each product in e-commerce were to be priced differently for each customer based on where they are located, how much they buy or where they prepay or pay-later. This leads to a massive optimization problem because pricing too low incurs opportunity cost while pricing too high means a competitor takes that business. This is just one example of how B2B and B2C e-commerce are different and why B2B offers the opportunity to innovate. Now couple this with routing for a sales agent. How should pricing work with a sales-person’s CRM app? Depending on how far you take it, it is a massive machine learning problem.

If you’re passionate about technology and its applications to business problems, you’re curious and imagine what a new world can look like, love working with global colleagues on global problems and don’t mind taking risks that move the needle and treat failure merely as an opportunity to improve and iterate, you’d be a good fit at Ula.

We are very ownership driven at Ula. We also believe in proactive mentorship. It’s an opportunity to learn and to mentor. Below is what we expect from you.

Responsibilities

• Be a voice of the customer; working to ensure the products we build solve a core unmet need, while exceeding their quality expectations to earn their trust
• Work collaboratively with engineering and business functions to launch features and iterate quickly
• Hands-on data-driven product development (understand the market, analyze the competition, empathize with your users through behavioural analytics)
• Ability to speak the language of business as fluently as the language of engineering
• Gain a deep understanding of customer experience, identify and fill product gaps and generate new ideas that grow market share, improve customer experience and drive growth
• Create buy-in for the product vision both internally and with key external partners
• Translate product strategy into detailed requirements and prototypes
• Scope and prioritize activities based on business and customer impact
• Drive product launches including working with stakeholder team, executives, and other product management team members
• Evaluate promotional plans to ensure that they are consistent with product line strategy and that the message is effectively conveyed
• Act as a product evangelist to build awareness and understanding
  
  

Requirements

• Proven work experience in product management
• Proven track record of managing all aspects of a successful product throughout its lifecycle
• Rich understanding of Indonesian consumer and B2B commerce markets
• Technical & data analysis background with understanding and/or hands-on experience in software development and web technologies preferred
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Skilled at working effectively with cross functional teams in a matrix organization
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Fluent in English and Bahasa.
• MS/BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent preferred

What You’ll Work On

• You will be building fintech products enabling financial inclusion and growth for small businesses
• Example problem statements that you can expect:
  • Build fintech products to increase frequency of order and create stickiness of users with Ula
  • Improve customer NPS by fuelling growth using fintech products
  • Drive users to order higher basket size to reduce logistics cost

ABOUT RIA

RIA is an InsurTech company on a mission to actively partner with our customers to improve their health and health outcomes. We are taking a very differentiated approach which is backed by how we use health data and digital health to keep our customers healthier.

To enable our mission, we are building our own core InsurTech platform in-house. This platform is cloud-native and on a microservices architecture. We’re building all our core components internally, such as - insurance APIs, an AI/intelligence layer, our own risk models, a health data platform, and a low-code insurance workflow automation platform. 

WHY JOIN US

We’re building the foundation of our team right now, and are looking for ambitious team members to join us and grow rapidly with us. The work environment is fast-paced and you would make a clear impact! 

You’ll partner with a stellar leadership team that comes from IIT Kanpur, Kellogg, MIT Sloan, IIT Guwahati, UChicago Booth, IIT Madras & University of Michigan. The team has also worked at companies such as McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, Max Bupa, Swiss Re, ICICI Lombard, ICICI Prudential, etc.

We’re a well-funded start-up, which has raised capital from top VCs, global insurers, and prominent Indian family offices. 

WHAT YOU WILL DO

The key objective of the VP of Product Management is to build RIA Symphony - our low-code insurance automation platform. In this role, you would:

• Be the Product Leader responsible for development of our RIA Symphony Platform - be responsible for conceiving, building, and launching a user-focused, high-quality product that drives automation across the insurance value chain
• Work closely with engineering, design, and business leadership to define the product vision and strategy, to deliver tangible business outcomes
• Hire, manage, and grow a team of Product Managers and help them to reach their potential
• Execute efficiently in a fast-paced, fluid start-up environment where change is constant and creativity is a must
• Write technical PRDs, manage technical backlogs, and effectively prioritize new features vs. tech debt. Work with a full-stack engineering team to build world-class products that eliminate workflow friction, maximize output, and improve user experience.

REQUIREMENTS

• 7+ years of direct Product Management experience with SaaS or Enterprise products
• A track record of building exceptional products that delight users and produce clear business impact
• Demonstrated ability to lead projects affecting many functions 
• Ability to direct major cross-functional initiatives with effective prioritization and influence
• Experience collecting both internal and external customer feedback and requests, empathizing with their challenges and opportunities, and prioritizing roadmaps to optimize results
• Passion for building tech products and teams from the ground up
• Any past experience in building automation platforms or business rules engines is a plus
• Direct experience as a developer at some point in your career is a huge plus

• Responsibilities will include understanding requirements, helping to define a product vision and strategy, and working with world-class engineers to execute it. Assume ownership of products including defining scope and developing requirements for new and advanced products as well as upgrades and progressive releases for existing products.
• Ownership of front end platforms – Android, iOS, msite and website. Have worked extensively in frontend and need to be able define and analyse numerous product metrics and know when and how to apply each in order to influence the success of the product.
• Conceptualize and build innovative Financial Products in Lending for platform users. Most of the products are being developed for the first time in India
• Proven ability to work in cross-functional environments including sales, marketing, business management, customer support and engineering teams.
• Track record of successful collaboration with a product development team or organization.
• Ability to solve complex issues to achieve objectives and deliver results on multiple projects in a complex, fastmoving environment.
• Strong business management and analysis skills.
• Contagious can-do attitude and self-sufficient work style
• Ability to manage a team of 6-10 smart product managers 

• Overall 12-14 years of experience.
• Minimum 7 years of strong consumer internet related Product and 2 years in fintech. Management background preferably in eCommerce /Technology/ Fintech / Banking industry. Understanding & having gone through the pain of what it takes to build a great product
• Passion for Results: High degree of commitment with bias for execution excellence
• Excellent academic background and records.
• Extra-ordinary skills in crisis management, inter-personal communication, collaboration and team work.
• Master of multiple tasking. Takes on initiatives and challenges.
• In short, we are looking for superstar leader to join a superstar team.

• Manage entire life cycle of the product from conception to final release and ensure that it can handle the complexities of the business
• Synthesize feedback,data,and company goals to develop a highquality and clear product roadmap.
• Define,measure,and share critical metrics to measure the success of the product in the market.
• Partner with design,engineering,and operations to scope and build features that solve and create new opportunities.
• Ensure that high standards of reliability,quality,usability,and measurement are adhere to throughouteachphaseofproductdevelopment,review,andadoptiont facilitate and align a successful product /featurerollout
• Regularly base line and track usage and impact of the product on business and product metrics to recommend strategies to improve.
• Partner with Leads on feature-related project priorities,milestones,and delivery dates.

• Developing new product features
• Working on developing product strategies
• Problem Solving 
• Communication
• Analytical
• Project Management

• As an APM, you will be reporting to Product Owners. Our product is at a very young age, and hence has a long way to go. As an APM, you get to work on the vision of the product and get direct involvement with the ideation and implementation of product features. The key responsibilities of this position will be:
• Collecting quantitative product data and metrics
• Synthesizing customer research
• Gathering product requirements and aligning them with business goals
• Coordinating with stakeholders to achieve the product vision

• Deeply understand what drives customer purchase decisions, what companies do today to meet those customer needs, and how 3D/AR technology can address current pain points.
• Ideate new formats for interactive 3D/AR commerce that deliver customer delight. 
• Build the engine that powers the next stage of interactive shopping experiences – current on smartphones and future on AR glasses.
• Build cutting-edge products with real-time computer vision, NLP, and other machine learning technologies.
• Ride the massive Augmented Reality wave with the introduction of AR glasses.
• Explore the trillion-dollar global potential of 3D and AR-powered commerce.

What we look for:

• Minimum of 4+ years of software product management experience, preferably in the Product based, e-Commerce, or Retail industry.
• Ability to solve complex problems using first principles thinking and translate these solutions for engineering teams to execute.
• Have solid execution capability and can inspire a team to deliver challenging projects with high-quality delivery. 
• Up to date with the latest developments in AR and AI technologies.
• Preferably with previous experience as a software engineer and moved to a product management role.
• Preferably have experience working on e-commerce product descriptions or brand pages.
• Preferably have experience building and launching deep learning AI (computer vision, NLP, etc) products.
• Someone who loves learning and can step out of your comfort zone to quickly pick up and apply new technologies and concepts.

What’s in it for you? 

• Join a highly energetic and innovative team 
• Be part of the key function of the business transformation 
• Competitive compensation and enjoy a workplace flexibility culture

The product manager will create new and interesting products and features for our B2B users, and will work with the best minds in the industry. The role will give you an opportunity to work with a cross-functional team from Business, Product and Design.

We are looking for someone who can:

- Develop and implement product strategies consistent with company vision

- Collect and analyze feedback from customers, stakeholders and other teams to shape requirements, features and end products

- Work with senior management to create product plans and roadmaps

- Lead product managers and coordinate cross-functional teams

- Produce and review product requirements documents (PRD)

- Ensure products and releases are launched correctly and on schedule

- Make creative recommendations to expand product base and vision

- Suggest ways to track product use and impact on end users

An ideal candidate will have:

- 4-7 years of work experience as a product manager, preferably in a start-up

- Proven experience as a Product Manager or similar role

- Experience in product lifecycle management

- Familiarity with Agile framework

- Excellent problem-solving skills

- The ability to own end-to-end responsibility
- A "Will Do" attitude


We have:

- A team of aces, from top-tier schools and start-ups, to work with
- A fast-paced, data-driven, and fun work environment
- A huge appetite for new, disruptive, creative, and implementable ideas
- An open work culture

We offer:

- Competitive salary
- Great working environment, opportunity to work directly with the founders on very exciting real-life problems.
- Opportunity to grow really fast.
- Opportunity to hire a team & mentor them in the future.
- ESOPs

If this is something that interests you, let's talk.