Ad Element is hiring for Product Manager
Location- Pune, Maharashtra
Responsibilities
The Product Manager is responsible for delivering a differentiated product that addresses a business need and represents a viable business opportunity. A key component of this role is ensuring that the product supports the company s overall strategy and goals. The Product Manager is ultimately responsible for managing the product throughout its lifecycle conception through end-of-life:
Define the product vision, strategy, and roadmap
Work closely with the business and engineering teams to optimize the ad-spend for maximum reach and return on ad-spend (ROAS)
Gather, manage, and prioritize business requirements and develop business case for new development of in-house Ad-Spend tracking and management
Work with business and technology teams to enable development of personalisation engine and audience segmentation for targeting and
with the data science team to plan experimentation roadmap
Keenly observe how ad-tech ecosystem is evolving, and how that impacts our future roadmap
Be the scrum master and the product owner (define stories and detailed specifications) in engineering sprints
Run beta and pilot programs with new products and features along with regular reviews with business teams to ensure that it meets the expectations
Sample Goals
Define the product roadmap (3 months, 6 months, 1 year) in the ad-tech space
Set up framework for analyzing effectiveness of ad-spend
Build low-touch processes, self-serve solutions, automation to eliminate the involvement of engineering in business-as-usual (BAU) activities - reduce engineering time spent in BAU activities to
Develop internal platform and operational dashboards for marketing managers for effective ad-spend management
Skills and Experience
Demonstrated success defining and launching excellent products
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Technical background
Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
Passion to answer Product/Engineering questions with data
Overall 2+ years of experience with at least 2+ years in product management role
Capable of tackling very loosely defined problems
Prior experience with ad-tech spend management platforms, integration with Google, FB ad-platforms, development of internal dashboards for ROAS optimization, SEO
Subodh Popalwar
Software Engineer, Memorres
About AdElement
AdElement is an online advertising startup based in Pune. We do AI driven ad personalization for video and display ads. Audiences are targeted algorithmically across biddable sources of ad inventory through real time bidding. We are looking to grow our teams to meet the rapidly expanding market opportunity.
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Locations: Gachibowli, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bangalore and Delhi (Remote).
Job Type: Fulltime
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- Aligning product roadmap with delivery goals to ensure prioritizations of resources and tasks during sprints
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- Resourcing availability and allocation
- Developing a detailed project plan to monitor and track progress
- Managing changes to the project scope, project schedule using appropriate verification techniques
- Measuring project performance using appropriate tools and techniques
- Performing risk management to minimize project risks
- Creating and maintaining comprehensive project documentation
- Tracking project performance, specifically to analyse the successful completion of short and long-term
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- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in IT
- 3+ years as Technical Project Manager
- Experience with Agile development (Scrum/ Kanban) is must
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