Product Manager - IT/Software

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

1) Lead a team of 6-10 Product Managers and Design team members to build cutting-edge Vision products for the AI Cataloging space.

2) Create a world-class Self Serve SaaS Product experience with data analysis at its center.

3) Lead the Web, Mobile and API experience of the AI product stack.

4) Talk to users - Large and Small to better understand their needs and motivations.

5) Project management to align the technology team and ship products.

6) Stay up to date with the latest research in Computer vision and best product practices and bring the most important features

7) Prioritization and Roadmap Management, Work alongside all stakeholders to represent a true picture of priorities and future initiatives.

8) Diving deeper into the data to identify opportunities and learnings.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

1) BTech/MBA degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject from a Tier-1 institute (Mandate)

2) 3+ years of experience leading Product team in high growth Product companies

3) 5+ years of Product Management experience in growth startups or Product companies

4) Extremely self-motivated and autonomous. You'll be given direction but it's on you to figure out how to proceed.

5) Analytical. You should have plenty of experience looking at the data to inform your decisions.

6) Strong product intuition. You need to have an informed opinion to build a product from scratch.

7) Systems thinker. You should understand how even the smallest change affects the entire system.

8) Super detail-oriented. Small errors or oversights should jump off the screen for you.

9) Team champion. We're serious about our work, but that doesn't mean we can't have fun together. :)


Education Mandatory: IIM, IIT, BITS

• Minimum 8+ years of experience working in a IT environment of which 5+ years as a  product manager/Product Owner for a web/mobile product
• Experience working with business, technical and external stakeholders to elicit inputs to draft out roadmaps
• Excellent communication skills ( written, verbal, presentation) 
• ability to create and present product roadmaps 
• Ability to breakdown the roadmap into Epics, detailed user stories, create backlog items. 
• Must be able to communicate business requirements to tech teams 
• Must be able to work in a team and also independently 
• experience in mobile game design will also be considered Extremely good when it comes to understanding usability issues and creating mock-up screens High intelligence, ability to conduct 
• Coding languages (ex: Java, Reactjs)  is a plus
• strong market research and come up with a well-articulated business plan Should be in regular touch with the latest happenings in the technology world Outstanding 
• communication skills both oral and written 
• Demonstrated ability to analyze business issues across multiple domains 

As a Salesforce Product Owner, you will lead the product intake, backlog prioritization, strategy, and roadmap of the Salesforce platform. Furthermore, you will lead the team with discovery to create a development-ready story to be handed off to the development team. The company is looking for a candidate with Salesforce and Agile framework experience.

• The role requires strong leadership across multiple teams and departments, the ability to communicate with influence, and a technical aptitude
• The ideal candidate will have proven Salesforce product knowledge as well as the ability and experience to demonstrate how they have improved efficiencies in product management using their product expertise.

The Product Owner will work with business groups:

• To understand demand
• Collaborate with the business to develop detailed requirements
• High-level design and technical architecture
• They will also lead many of the Agile ceremonies and will ensure the team meets its goals on time and within budget.
• Managing integration across the platform is also a key role

This role is a strategic, senior-level individual contributor who will own a portfolio of products/initiatives as well; including:

• Owning reporting and analytics on product work,
• Establishing and maintaining metrics to measure the performance of work,
• Creating and sustaining relationships with other organizations (IT, industry teams, etc.),
• Facilitating working sessions/steering committees to drive performance and
• Communicating directly with Senior Leaders from different areas of the organization.

The position also serves:

• To define scope and benefits
• Create user stories
• Develop a roadmap
• Track budget performance
• Validate IT related design and development work
• Partner with the business to ensure end-user acceptance testing
• Monitor an initiative post-launch to ensure benefit realization.

Additional job duties/responsibilities may include but are not limited to:

• Identify and ability to negotiate with Vendors for IT Sub-contracting
• Working closely with key stakeholders and internal partners throughout the organization to gather requirements
• Creating, maintaining, and prioritizing the product backlog according to business value for the life of the project
• Developing & conveying the vision of what is to be built
• Acting as the key product feature decision-maker., maximizing the value of the product
• Communication of product backlog priorities
• Handoff of development-ready stories to the development team
• Assisting with the elaboration of epics, themes, and features into user stories that are small enough, or granular enough, to be achieved in a single sprint
• Decisions on release dates and content
• Participating in daily scrum, as needed
• Participating in sprint planning meetings, reveals, and retrospectives – inspecting the product progress at the end of every sprint to accept or reject the work that has been done by the development team
• Acting as the voice of the team, communicating status to stakeholders and internal partners

Basic Qualifications

• Four year Bachelor’s degree preferably in marketing, computer science, information systems, engineering, or related field
• 5+ years experience as a product owner
• 5+ years experience leading a technical team while simultaneously managing multiple projects
• 3+ years experience with the Agile methodology

Top candidates will also have:

• Salesforce development experience
• Salesforce Sales & Service Cloud experience
• Demonstrated ability to communicate to ensure a team’s success
• Strong accountability planning/organization and teamwork
• Highly developed interpersonal skills to deal with sensitive, emotional or potentially controversial situations.
• Experience managing projects using Agile software tools such as JIRA, Team Services, Rally
• Knowledge of the software development lifecycle
• Background in Information Technology

• Driving team coordination, team building, team alignment and team productivity in all domains including dev, design, content, delivery & support
• Keeping an overall eye on progress of every aspect of the product to steer in the right direction
• Suggesting and improving product solution over time based on user insight, competitive landscape
• Developing and enhancing product management systems in all aspects
• Carrying a result oriented and business focused attitude
• Ensuring all features, deliverables and user requirements to be fulfilled as per business needs
• Taking ownership of the product and its way forward as per the product vision and roadmap

Desired Candidate Profile

• Deep Tech Understanding, Tech Product Handling Skills
• Ability to Integrate Development, Testing, Content, Design, User Tracking and Support into a seamless product growth process
• Product Roadmap & User Management Skills
• Data Crunching Skills, User Analytics, User Engagement Tracking & a User Centric Growth Approach
• Great Communication Skills in all formats, Documentation and Coordination Capabilities
• Sincerity & Dynamism for Problem Solving & taking proactive product responsibilities
• Grip and Focus on Testing, Stability & Performance of Apps
• Love for building awesome tech products for universal reach and scale

What you would be expected to do:

• Gather, prioritize and refine requirements while keeping team members well informed
• Create Use Cases, Flow Charts, Mock Screens, PRDs for business requirements, user requirements, functional & non-functional requirements and system requirements
• Rolling out of new products/apps/automations and resolving stakeholder queries/issues
• Automate business processes using tools like Zapier/Google Scripts, other automation tools
• Collaborate with cross-functional groups and assist in the entire product lifecycle from design to development to launch
• Responsible for testing of applications/solutions/web panels at various stages of the lifecycle
• Working with the development team/or independently on integrations (using 3rd party tools to create mobile applications)
• Travel as per company requirement to places including but not limited to Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Myanmar and Tanzania

You might be a strong candidate if you:

• The ability to structure and analyze ambiguous problems
• The ability to communicate ideas clearly through workflows, feature descriptions etc.
• Proactive and willingness to get hands dirty
• Attention to detail

What we offer (in addition to compensation and statutory benefits):

• An opportunity to grow as a professional in a dynamic, fast growing, high impact industry; 
• The chance to work in an open minded, collaborative culture surrounded by enthusiastic Greenlighters who are driven by the challenge of continuously innovating and growing a smart, sustainable business with profound impact on the world 
• A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds 
• Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Greenlight Academy

Product Manager

Who we are?

At Edge, we believe simplifying employee data will help large corporates solve sub-optimal talent management problems. This data is more critical after the pandemic, as managing a remote workforce has shifted from optional to essential.

We have spent our last eight years understanding the workforce from the IT and BFSI industries. We have used this employee data to create a sophisticated intelligence. This brain behind our AI-based products is called EdGE graph™. We have used 11 million job descriptions and more than 30 million profiles to build the graph.

Our products like Pathfinder, Recruit and Mobility are deployed in IT companies like Wipro, HCL, UST Global, etc. and help them upskill, invest, and maintain their existing people. It has helped organisations improve their workforce availability, billing, allocations and drive straight bottom-line impacts. The new order of talent decisions helps us define, identify, and plan for a future-ready workforce.

We build end-to-end talent management products for organisations so that they have a 360-degree view of their talent supply chain. This helps them make informed talent decisions efficiently and build an intelligent workforce.

We built Edge Networks in 2012 in an apartment in Bangalore and soon, were supported by the National Skill Development Corporation of India (NSDC). We are a part of the NASSCOM Product Council and have been recognized by Gartner, Deloitte, Equidam, NVIDIA, Amazon as an innovative tech HR startup in various titles.

At Edge, we understand that modern companies that put the employees at the center of their workings, backed with data, will make their organisation productive. This is how we, at Edge, use tech for good.

Role: Product Manager

Experienced Product Manager to own product lines in the B2B2C space and work in tandem with the other products that we have, all of which derive intelligence from the underlying AI/ML services as well as a SaaS ready platform that we have built. You will use data to guide your decisions and develop solutions to make analysis easier for teams. You will develop a hypothesis, conduct in depth user research, and experiments to inform your product design and strategies. You will establish your product viewpoints and share them with senior leaders, partners, and customers.

Traits that you have

A team player – I know we only win if we all win. I recognise and value the different perspectives and skills my squad mates bring. It is not about being a hero but jumping in and contributing to the successful delivery of our mission.

Data Driven – Build different metrics to evaluate the product performance.

An excellent communicator – I know and understand the importance of clear, on-time communication. My spoken and written communication skills stand out for clarity and conciseness.  

The customer’s biggest fan – I demonstrate a thirst for better understanding the customer and define the problem and develop solutions through their eyes as well as through the eyes of the Sales guys in the organization

 A collaboration champion – I work closely with my colleagues to ensure alignment and champion the    sharing of learning across teams.

Comfortable being uncomfortable – I am comfortable with uncertainty. I have the ability to effectively manage myself through ambiguity by making meaning, building relationships and creating clarity with my peers. I also have a willingness to unlearn where needed.

Continuous improvement focused– I constructively challenge the status quo, I look for better ways of doing things and passionately advocate continuous improvement, and I am able to re-pivot fast.

A problem solver – I am energised by tackling complex problems. I use my critical thinking, network, skills, knowledge, and available data to drive better outcomes for our customers and the product.

Commercially and Technologically curious – I have a wide-angle lens. I am curious about what is happening in the external market and in emerging trends and innovations (technological and otherwise) and how we use this information to better inform our decisions and actions.

Risk savvy – I build sustainable solutions that protect stakeholders and customers and proactively address risks by role-modelling improvements in the product’s overall risk and control environment.

Habitual Experimenter  – I learn by running experiments on a very frequent basis, with a framework to learn from these experiments and absorb the learnings into product management.

Responsibilities:

• Define the product roadmap and ensure its execution through cross-functional and cross-platform collaboration
• Work closely with horizontal product managers and align the product roadmap within the broader product framework.
• Closely monitor & analyze the product metrics and present related hypotheses to help make data-driven decisions.
• Work closely with engineering platforms to create data flow pipelines that aggregate the relevant data and present a holistic view of product performance.
• Work with the MIS & Reporting team to create relevant dashboards that provide transparency across the board

Role Skills:

• 2+ years in software product management, post MBA, with a consistent record of timely and quality delivery of products.
• Experience with Agile Project Management tools like JIRA.
• Familiarity with Wireframing tools like Adobe XD, Maze, so that the interactions with the UX Designer can be efficient
• High bias for action with demonstrable history of identifying and resolving cross-project interdependencies
• Ability to juggle several initiatives and shift priorities as needed
• Exceptional communication skills (verbal and written communication) with a knack for storytelling connecting the story to the underlying quant
• Data Driven with proficiency on data querying and analysis. Experience with tools like Analytics tools (i.e. Google Analytics ), SQL, Excel, Tableau, etc. is preferred.
• Experience in one or more of the following is a plus: SaaS, Marketing Automation, Data Analytics etc.
• MBA/equivalent courses from Tier -I institutes.