Product Manager

Associate Product Manager, TIFIN

Mumbai, India

WHO WE ARE:

TIFIN is a fintech platform backed by industry leaders including JP Morgan, Morningstar, Broadridge, Hamilton Lane, Franklin Templeton, Motive Partners and a who’s who of the financial service industry. We are creating engaging wealth experiences to better financial lives through AI and investment intelligence powered personalization. We are working to change the world of wealth in ways that personalization has changed the world of movies, music and more but with the added responsibility of delivering better wealth outcomes.

We use design and behavioral thinking to enable engaging experiences through software and application programming interfaces (APIs). We use investment science and intelligence to build algorithmic engines inside the software and APIs to enable better investor outcomes.

In a world where every individual is unique, we match them to financial advice and investments with a recognition of their distinct needs and goals across our investment marketplace and our advice and planning divisions.

OUR VALUES: Go with your GUT

● Grow at the Edge. We are driven by personal growth. We get out of our comfort zone and keep egos aside to find our genius zones. With self-awareness and integrity we strive to be the best we can possibly be. No excuses.

●Understanding through Listening and Speaking the Truth. We value transparency. We communicate with radical candor, authenticity and precision to create a shared understanding. We challenge, but once a decision is made, commit fully.

●I Win for Teamwin. We believe in staying within our genius zones to succeed and we take full ownership of our work. We inspire each other with our energy and attitude. We fly in formation to win together.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

We are seeking a motivated Associate Product Manager to join our dynamic team in Mumbai. This role requires exceptional organizational skills, a strong understanding of Agile methodologies (particularly Scrum), and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams across multiple time zones, including the US.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Product Planning & Development:
• Assist in defining and prioritizing product roadmaps based on market research, customer feedback, and strategic business objectives.
• Translate user needs and business requirements into well-defined user stories and feature specifications.
• Own and manage the product backlog, ensuring tasks are well-defined and prioritized.
• Project Management & Execution:
• Manage product development sprints using Scrum methodology.
• Track progress in Jira, ensuring timely updates, risk identification, and issue resolution.
• Clearly communicate project status, dependencies, and roadblocks to all stakeholders.
• Facilitate sprint planning, daily standups, retrospectives, and other necessary Scrum ceremonies.
• Cross-functional Collaboration:
• Partner closely with engineering, design, marketing, sales, and customer success.
• Work effectively across time zones to coordinate with US-based team members.
• Data Analysis:
• Assist in gathering and analyzing product-related metrics to inform decision-making.
• Monitor product performance, identify trends, and suggest areas for improvement.

REQUIREMENTS:

• 2+ years of experience in a product-related role (e.g., product management, project management, business analysis).
• Excellent understanding of Agile methodologies and Scrum practices.
• Proven experience with Jira or similar project management tools.
• Ability to work effectively with stakeholders across time zones, including coordinating with teams in the US.

Preferred:

• Experience in a tech or software development environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.

BENEFITS PACKAGE:

TIFIN offers a competitive benefits package that includes:

· Performance linked variable compensation.

· Medical insurance

·Tax saving benefits

· Flexible PTO policy and Company-paid holidays

· Parental Leave: 6 month paid maternity, 2 week paid paternity leave

·Access to our Wellness trainers, including 1:1 personal coaching

for executives and rising stars

 Company-sponsored events like Offsites, Events, Conferences,

Training  The ability to make a real impact in an incredibly fast-growing organization

A note on location. While we have team centers in Boulder, New York City, San Francisco, Charlotte, and Bangalore, this role is based out of Mumbai.  

TIFIN is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace and values the multitude of talents and perspectives that a diverse workforce brings. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.

Job Description

1. The candidate will work on building whatsapp as a communication layer for Heyo.

2. The use-cases include building whatapp chatbot for support, helping merchants to send automated communication to their customers and other chat related use-cases

3. Its a hand-on role, so the person should be good in wirting PRDs, interacting with design and engineering teams

4. The candidate should be on top of the updates by whatsapp and should be able to think of use-cases around it

Requirements

1. Have 3-7 years of PM experience

2. Have worked on whatsapp business APIs and built chatbots in the past

3. Working as a hands-on person

• 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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Responsibilities:

• Conceptualize and define product vision, create the roadmap and drive its execution
• Define, track and improve the key product metrics
• Think analytically about workflows and the impact of product features on conversion
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams like product managers, developers, designers, marketing and SEO to drive the product execution
• Develop and provide thought leadership in the user experience across devices.
• Leverage available insights like market analysis, customer feedback, site metrics, and usability findings
• Prioritize the features based on user requirements and cost benefit analysis
• A keen, flexible and aggressive intellect with superb conceptual thinking, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work with diverse teams across the organization
• Be the brand custodian and ensure design guidelines are followed for digital communications
• Design sprints and conduct daily scrums with the team

Requirements:

• Excellent understanding of product development life cycle
• Deep understanding of how your products work, know every step of the funnel.
• You'll be expected to delve deep into datasets, build dashboards and design and accurately measure experiments
• Excellent experience in creating product roadmap, optimization chart & prioritization sheet
• Good knowledge of tech, design, SEO & marketing
• Strong hand on analytical tools like Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Clevertap, Redash etc
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate upwardly to top management and downward to a wide range of audiences, especially tech teams
• Must be self-directed and motivated and able to multitask in a fast paced environment
• Excellent skills in prototyping tools such as Balsamiq, Adobe XD, Just In Mind, etc
• SQL knowledge is a must
• Ability to rapidly visualize/prototype concepts
• Ability to AB test prototypes and conduct experiments
• Ability to provide deliverables within specified deadline with a quality bar
• Excellent team orientation and communication skills
• Experience in hospitality domain is a plus Experience
• 4+ years of product management experience
• 6+ years of overall experience
• Programming knowledge is a plus
• Bachelors' degree in Engineering
• MBA is a plus
• Salary range is flexible based on interview performance and relevant experience

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    

We are looking for an experienced product leader to join us to work on leveraging products to rapidly accelerate community growth and personalization. 

Responsibilities

• Define the product strategy and roadmap for BabyChakra suite of products
• Partner with engineering to build products and customer experiences that delight our users and partners 
• Define feature visions and roadmaps, gathering requirements from the community and business stakeholders
• Drive measurable business impacts working closely with cross-functional teams across the GoodGlamm group 
• Actively prioritize backlogs that are optimized against benefit tradeoffs
• Write agile user stories and validate product ideas with stakeholders
• Make data-driven decisions with developers, QA, product designers and analysts to constantly deliver incremental and tangible value to the customer
• Be the internal voice and advocate of the customer and domain subject matter expert

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience building products across community and commerce; side projects are welcome! 
• Comfort with ambiguity and ability to take ownership to build 0-1 systems that have large scale impact
• Demonstrated experience of having managed an entire product life cycle from Business & Consumer insights, PRDs, UI/ UX oversight, stakeholder alignment to execution
• Proven ability to adopt a creative and data-driven approach to solving problems. 
• Inspiring & strong communicator, excited to collaborate with cross functional stakeholders
• Obsessed with user experience / journeys to understand and create a global product
• An intense curiosity about all things technology to include IoT, Data Science, UX and more