Product Manager

Role Overview

Summary of Role

We are looking for a passionate and skilled Product Manager, we expect you to bring a fresh pair of eyes for both product planning and product marketing. This includes managing the product throughout the Product Lifecycle, gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the product vision, and working to deliver winning products. 

Must Have Background for this Role:

• Min 5-12 years of strong experience in product management role
• Previous experience in Fintech domain 
• Bachelor’s degree (MBA preferred)

Required Skills for this Role: 

• Define the product strategy and roadmap
• Build innovative financial products in a cross-functional team. Deeply understand the needs and problems of our users. 
• Develop product positioning strategies.
• Work closely with engineering to ensure developers understand the required functionality and are building the right functionality to meet the market need and are easy to implement and maintain.
• Recommend and drive implementation of improvements to the product development process
• Document and manage the user experience.
• Proven problem-solving capabilities.
• Deliver a monthly revenue forecast.

Also Nice to Have Skills and Background: 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills 
• Excellent teamwork skills
• Demonstrated success defining and launching excellent products

• Understands business strategy and goals by studying the business function, collaborating with the client and gather business requirements.
• Documentation of formal requirements, use cases, user stories, User Journey which ensure that the UX solutions proposed are fit for purpose, meet business needs and are operationally sustainable.
• Ability to evaluate the data collected through task analysis, business process, surveys and workshops and derive meaningful insights
• Communicating effectively with UX team, external clients and internal teams to deliver product’s functional requirement.
• Manages the progress of projects by tracking activity, resolving issues, and recommending actions.
• Provides senior management and client stakeholders with regular updates on deliverable timeline and project status.
• Have complete ownership for project quality, delivery and timelines.
• Ability to manage team and multiple projects.
• Understanding of the business requirements, capture and track the details required to produce the end product, and document same in the form of user stories/use cases and process flow maps, content matrix
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and a self-starter. 
• Ability to take initiative and proactively offer suggestions and resolutions. 
• Proactive problem solver who, handle multiple complex projects and tasks.
• Great communication skills; the ability to clearly explain design decisions and processes to anyone in the company.
• Entrepreneurial mindset and self-starter who actively seeks ways to improve the customer experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Key Responsibilities:

• Creating and implementing efficient solutions to optimize the customer journey and experience
• Solid experience with customer journey mapping, process optimization, and process improvement
• Owning product implementation and contributing recommendations on product roadmap
• Defines the product vision, strategy, and roadmap.
• Monitor all projects and ensure achievement of all revenue objectives
• Achieve all business objectives and determine an effective strategy
• Coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of projects
• Manage changes to the project scope, project schedule and project costs using appropriate verification techniques
• Measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques
• Report and escalate to management as needed
• Track project performance, specifically to analyze the successful completion of short and long-term goals
• Campaign Management

Educational Requirements:

• 3+ years’ experience in the FinTech, product / project management
• Education: B Tech (Bachelor of Technology)

Skills:

• Strategy and Planning: Proficient in developing & implementing need-based plans
• Campaign Management
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• Excellent organizational and data analysis skills; ability to derive actionable conclusions from
• large data sets and statistical studies
• Maximizing profitability, Client Engagement, Revenue
• Products/promotions / discounts/ Cashback offers for B2C
• Customer Life Cycle Management
• Understanding the product Life cycle and sympathy towards customer pain points
• Works closely with stakeholders to ensure business case and customer satisfaction goals are met
• Measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques
• Excellent communication and writing skills
• Team player

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Computer Languages: Data Structure, Algorithms, DBMS (Conceptual), SQL DBA
• Software Packages: CleverTap (Mobile App Analytics Tool), MS office - Excel, PPT, Visio

Platform - Clevertap, Netcore

The role is responsible for building a vertical payments experience across all the payments for a Vehicle. All users are from cities in tier 2/3/4 who are mobile-first and have close to no exposure to digital payments

BlackBuck will be building a network of merchants across multiple categories and will be driving payments via in-house payment solutions and 3rd party integrations

• Own the strategic vision and product roadmap
• Create a clear career path for your managers and the team beneath. Nurture and grow them with regular and deep
• Contribute to product strategy, manage business goals and develop teams
• Define simple and easy to use digital payments experience for tier 2/3/4 customers
• Define user stories for end-to-end features
• Regularly coordinate with multiple 3rd parties for integrations
• Work closely with engineering teams and design teams to deliver the product to market on timelines
• Define metrics to measure the health and success of all features

• Have an entrepreneurial spirit and possess a total of 7 -8 years of experience and spent at least 4-5 years in product management of which must have spent at least 2 years in Indian payment ecosystem and a track record of creating innovative solutions
• Demonstrated success as product manager for large-scale consumer-facing products

Job Title: Product Manager

Location: Remote, Anywhere in India

Remote: Yes

Travel: No

About Us:

Frolick, Inc. is a community food delivery platform for healthy, delicious lunches from Michelin-star chef designed menus at an incredible value. We are reimagining weekday lunch. Unlike takeout with us what you see is what you pay: no ancillary fees or tips! We bring together machine learning, food production, last-mile logistics in a unique way to bring a fresh, chef-prepared meal to your office or home for less than the price of traditional takeout.

Backed by a strategic partnership and investment from one of the largest food-tech companies in the world, we are launching in the DC Metro area this fall and in a dozen cities next year.

The Opportunity:

As Product Manager you will be responsible for the product planning, development and execution throughout the Frolick’s lifecycle. This will include: gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the product vision, and working closely with engineering, sales, marketing and support to ensure KPI and OKR goals are met. 

Your role will be integral in articulating what success looks like by identifying our customer needs and ensuring that the product supports Frolick’s overall strategy and goals while collaborating with a team to turn that vision into action. As an early team member, you will get an unique opportunity to be in the driving seat of a high-growth startup and define its success story.

Your Responsibilities:

• Oversee and own the overall product development and delivery. This includes product's vision, strategy, and roadmap and identify big initiatives Frolick should make to drive user growth and engagement
• Create detailed product business requirements documents, user stories and functional specifications and synthesize key results that define the success of our products
• Incorporate market analysis, customer research and usability findings into requirements
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to understand goals and pain points, gather requirements and understand internal workflows in order to design the ideal experience
• Develop go-to-market strategies to drive awareness, education and selling partner adoption
• Establish metrics and key indicators that provide product insights based on performance, historical data and post-mortem analysis
• Identify new strategic product opportunities that will help us stay fresh and deliver on those opportunities
• Embody a “can do” and growth mindset, from experimentation and tinkering to constantly pushing your data/information analysis ability to better identify key drivers and understanding of what's going on

Requirements / Superpowers:

• 5-7 years of experience with minimum 2 years a product management, preferably some of it in last-mile logistics, or E-commerce
• Proven ability to influence others among a diverse group of leaders, fostering collaboration, and building a culture of excellence]
• Ability to drive metrics and key results to ensure continuous improvement 
• Experience managing multiple projects at once and prioritizing simultaneously
• Experience interpreting data and making recommendations
• Excellent and effective communication skills - whether it’s emails, summaries or decks - that are concise, inspiring, kind, articulate and unambiguous
• Experience working in a high-growth environment, preferably at a tech startup
• You are comfortable with ambiguity and highly entrepreneurial 
• Experience with last-mile food, grocery delivery will make you stand out among applicants
• You have a bias towards execution, a desire to execute, learn and iterate

What we offer:

• Competitive compensation package (including equity component)
• Medical and dental insurance
• A steep learning curve from day zero
• This is a ground floor opportunity. You will be shaping the growth of a business from the beginning. This also means the opportunities for you are limitless
• You will get to build something you are proud of, alongside a set of colleagues who are passionate, committed and are driven by a shared vision
• A transparent company culture with flat hierarchies, an environment to openly, frequently and respectfully challenge each other
• And, tons of great food!!

We are an equal opportunity employer, which means we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression. 

We embrace and celebrate diversity. We believe diversity makes us stronger and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

• Product planning and execution throughout the lifecycle, including: gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the product vision, and working closely with engineering, sales, marketing and support to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction goals are met. 
• Define the product strategy and roadmap, and own MRDs and PRDs with prioritized features
• Work with external third parties to assess partnerships opportunities
• Run beta and pilot programs with early-stage products and samples
• Be an expert with respect to the competition
• Create and articulate product development, improvement & further innovation (occasionally in front of investors or analysts), across internal and external client community
• Build, manage and retain team of high performing product managers
  
  

      Requirements:

• At least 10 years of experience, at least 5 years of product management experience in a tier-1 product firm in fields related to e-Commerce, hyperlocal services, content, financial services, etc.
• Great people skills paired with a high level of assertiveness and very good communication
• Strong analytical, strategic and coordinating skills
• Sound knowledge and understanding of the current trends in lending business and technology
• Engineering training with additional training in business administration is a big plus
• Experience in Fintech technologies is an added advantage