Product Manager

Roles & Responsibilities

• We are looking for someone who loves a challenge, is ambitious, super tenacious, and persistent. S/he is
• a self-starter, thrives in a dynamic, small start-up environment, has a knack for understanding customer
• needs, and loves to get sh*t done! If you check these boxes - we want to talk to you!

The opportunity:

• Solve a complex $300+ billion problem at the cutting edge of Fintech innovation, and make a tangible difference to the small business landscape in India
• Join a high performance, dynamic and collaborative work environment that throws new challenges on a daily basis
• Be part of the early founding team and be directly responsible for driving the company's success

Key Role and Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the Founder/CEO and to define and build the Cashflo platform
• Identify customer problems, latent needs & devise product roadmap
• Communicate and evangelize product output through low-fidelity designs
• Collaborate with Sales and Customer Success to understand and eliminate obstacles to adoption and usage
• Work with Marketing to bring new features to life on various communication touch points
• Collaborate with engineers and designers to arrive at the detailed solutions to problems Execute
• Own the roadmap for one or more parts of the product
• Work with engineering and design to plan launch scope
• Together with engineering and design, break-down scope into launch iterations
• Deliver product features as per timelines

Skills/ Qualities Required:

• Strong problem solving – Structured thinking, data-driven analysis and a strong ability to synthesize findings
• Strong communication (written & verbal) and interpersonal skills
• You should have worked at a startup or started your own company that shipped a product
• An engineering / technical background that will allow you to reason about product trade-offs and make good choices without significant input from engineers
• At least 5 years of experience in a Product Management role
• Attention to detail - great products are all about the details
• Passion for getting the job done – A combination of grit, hustle and problem-solving skills todeliver results on time

Nice to haves:

• ● Prior exposure to Fintech landscape and understanding of trends in financial services

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We are currently scouting - Insurance SME / Senior Manager (Product)

Location - Remote/Bhubaneshwar (Orissa)

About:-

Our customer is Access to quality primary healthcare at affordable prices is a pronounced pain point for most of rural India. Founded in 2021 3Founders. It enables the last-mile distribution of primary healthcare services by leveraging technology and a network of eClinics that make quality healthcare accessible to people in small towns and villages. We use a hybrid model to schedule appointments, provide teleconsultations, deliver medicine, address the diagnostic needs of patients, and facilitate admission for tertiary care at partner hospitals via a transparent booking model and concierge services. At present, they have partnered with 15 hospitals and three national laboratory chains, and have 15 eClinics across multiple remote districts and villages of Odisha and have helped over 10,000 patients in areas where immediate medical facilities are not easily available.

Investors:-

Elevar Equity featured with The EconomicTimes.com, Live Mint & Inc42

Job Responsibilities:-

-Design and set up the entire insurance product for company

-Candidate will be responsible for managing the complete product life cycle including product ideation, product development, filing and approval process with the regulator

-Work on creating end-to-end policies for our insurance SME business

-To monitor the new product development process project plan, collaborate with the stakeholders for timely launch of the product as per the timelines agreed with the stakeholders and ensure regulatory compliance for filing of new products

-To prepare and monitor the new product development process project plan

- To collaborate with various stakeholders and ensure timely launch of the product as per the plan agreed with the channel

- To ensure proper documentation and provide timely response to the regulatory queries for faster product approval

- To develop market intelligence and share the competition tracker on with the sales and management

- To interact with the training and content development team for preparing the product launch pack

- To prepare a product launch plan in agreement with the channel

- To ensure timely and successful launch plan of the products in line with business expectations

What the role outcomes will the person provide and must have’s:-

- Good knowledge of Financial products- The different types of instruments that apply to the management of cash flow that are available on the market, such as shares, bonds, options or funds

- Types of insurance- The various types of risk or loss transfer policies that exist and their characteristics, such as health insurance, car insurance or life insurance

- At least 10+ years of experience into Insurance SME

- Confidence, determination, persistence and zeal to learn & ready to work for a start-up

- Planning, analytical and organizational skills

- A flexible approach to work in order to adapt changes, for example in the healthcare system or product and drug formularies

- Must be willing, dedicated and success-oriented

- Should acquire basic knowledge of drugs and Pharma market

- Excellent spoken and written communication skills

Key Benefits that the company offers:-

-Becoming a part of the early core team

-Competitive salary

-Work with colleagues from strong backgrounds & hungry to succeed

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

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.

Company Profile:

Astrum is a product-focused IT company, providing integrated cloud applications with feature modules made available as micro-services. The software applications we develop are owned and marketed by us under different product names. The two key sectors we focus on are international trade commerce and financial technology which have relevance to Exim trade, escrow services, export documentation, partnering LSPs,  fractional/token-based payment ecosystem, expense management, virtual payment instruments and financial accounting. We are focusing on b2b as our target audience, with applications that complement the existing ecosystem/technical infrastructure of any organization.

Our major development involves Asp.net MVC, React.js, JavaScript, MERN (MongoDB, Express.js, React Native, Node.js) framework. Please find the JD below which shall help you understand what kind of candidate profile we are looking for. We focus on trade (Export/Import), financial technology and financial accounting software application products.

Title: Technical Product Manager

We are looking for Technical Product Manager with expertise in multiple technologies such as C#, SQL, ASP.Net, MVC, .NET Core, Web API, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS, etc. and should be well versed with the concepts of Software Engineering. Knowledge of REACT shall be an added advantage. Experience working on trade, fintech or accounting software products would be beneficial.

The position requires day-to-day interaction with product management, including defining market requirements, product requirement documents and packaging the features into product releases. The TPM works closely with key customers, product architects and development, marketing, sales, and support to develop and manage new product releases and upgrades to customers.

Key Role & Responsibilities:

• Serve as primary product expert and evangelist
• Lead product design, development and release process for assigned products and maintain the product development road map
• Coordinate the collection, description, analysis and prioritization of requests for new product functionality from management, customers and prospects
• Create detailed use cases, business requirement
• Project reporting external and internal
• Support through leading the development and maintenance of various technical marketing collateral including application notes, FAQs, product notes, user guides, field training presentations, online marketing content and demos
• Develop hands-on, in-depth knowledge of competitive products and maintain technical analysis of competitive strengths and weaknesses
• Coordinate the beta testing of new products and features. Document and report problems and recommend solutions/improvements
• Adapting a project execution structure and process from a base
• Overseeing and ensuring validation on the technical architecture/specifications Actively participating in project sizing and resource requirements
• Establishing good project metrics, exit criteria by deliverable and project phase Establishing a Scope management process
• Managing the day-to-day team and personnel issues (onsite)
• Ensuring quality of the end deliverable
• Staging and executing User Acceptance of the end deliverable Establishing and executing the roll-out strategy

Additional responsibilities:

• Perform product demonstrations at trade shows, online seminars, and other events
• Document answers to customer technical questions that cannot be answered by sales staff or product support specialists using existing documentation.

Qualifications:

• 4-5 years of hands-on coding/development experience, 1-2 years of team leader experience
• Strong technical background is required (C#, SQL,ASP.Net, MVC, .NET Core, Web API, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS, REACT, Technical Architecture, Project Management & Project Delivery)
• Strong problem-solving skills along with excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Must be able to effectively interact and communicate with executive management

• Product Manager leads multiple inter-dependent work-streams, each with massive business potential and scale, immediately:
• Complete end-to-end product design for web-based Ed-Tech Platform with blockbuster in-market results as we go from MVP to scaled product.
• Lead complexity of creating a platform that should be absolutely delightful for kids 6-14 while delivering perceived academic value to parents.
• Have a global aesthetic—the product will expand globally in 3 months time and aesthetic should transcend cultural boundaries to deliver a true global experience.
• Have strong detail orientation—the product will have inter-dependent flows on both front-end as well as teacher/admin/ops back-end.

• 7-10 years of experience with at least 6 years of experience as a Product Manager
• Scaled consumer product experience
• Building a product from scratch and grown to 2x or 3x.
• Good to have candidates from IIT/NIT/BITS Pilani and Top colleges