Product Manager

Responsibilities

• Translate product strategy into detailed Requirement Documents and Prototypes
• Set up, gather, and analyze User data, conduct user interviews and competition studies to suggest the best ways to solve a problem.
• Articulate Customer Problems, create detailed scope documents, and groom them with the Tech team and Product Owner.
• Meet regularly with all stakeholders, including Product Managers, Account Managers, Developers, Marketing and Customer service to collate feedback on Product
• Drive adoption of Features in Beta at Client Side
• Conduct User Acceptance Testing for Product Releases
• Identify the need for new features based on customer feedback, industry trends, and business goals.
• Define the market research objectives, such as understanding customer preferences, identifying market gaps, or evaluating competitors.
• Identify the market need or customer pain point that the new module aims to address.
• Schedule meetings with clients to discuss their requirements, pain points, and desired outcomes.

You will be a good fit for this role if:

* B.E/B.Tech with a minimum of 2.5 years of overall experience with hands-on experience in a Product Role.

* Product Management Experience - min 2.5 years.

* Excellent Written & Verbal Communication & presentation skills

* Strong orientation towards data gathering, problem solving, experimenting, and iterating with the results, to arrive at the right solution

* Prior experience in a mobile/internet SaaS product startup preferred.

* User-centric and problem-solving mindset.

* Entrepreneurial mindset

Skillset Required:

* Product Management

* Problem Solving

* Google Analytics

* Product Development

* Business Analyst

Role/ Responsibilities:

Design and own product roadmap. Ensure steady execution of product life cycle processes from idea to final launch.

Gain a deep understanding of customer experience, identify and fill product gaps and generate new ideas that grow market share, improve customer experience and drive growth

Create buy-in for the product vision both internally and with key external partners

Translate product strategy into detailed requirements and prototypes Scope and prioritize activities based on business and customer impact Manage product team and guide whenever necessary.

Work closely with engineering teams to deliver quick time-to-market and optimal resources.

Drive product launches including working with the public relations team, executives, and other product management team members Evaluate promotional plans to ensure that they are consistent with product line strategy and that the message is effectively conveyed

Act as a product evangelist to build awareness and understanding Assist in developing Product Strategy and Product Roadmap.

Define and create metrics to measure the success of the product. Work on continuous enhancements at each stage of the product life cycle Ability to conceptualize, manage and prioritize tasks

Requirements:

5+ work experience in product management.

Proven ability to develop product and marketing strategies and effectively communicate recommendations to executive management

Solid technical background with understanding and/or hands-on experience in software development and web technologies

Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to roll up one’s sleeves to get the job

Skilled at working effectively with cross-functional teams in a matrix organization

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Should have hands-on knowledge with A/B Testing, Data Analysis & User Research.

Should be well-versed with Market Trends

What will I be doing?

• Ideate with key stakeholders, do market research and translate business goals to the product roadmap
• Define the product release process and coordinate all the processes required to bring the product to market
• ● Interview and understand customer needs, problems, and experiences, document and report insights
•  Coordinate with other teams/ stakeholders to deliver the product in a continuously evolving environment. 
• Identify and track key success metrics for all the products. Generate strategies to improve usage and take it to
• Prioritize features against what matters most to achieve the strategic goals and initiatives.
• Define requirements of the features from desired business use cases and write software requirement specifications - technical (database design, architecture)
• Coordinate with developers and outsourcing agencies to develop the products, guide developers, and review code if required.
• Anticipate possible issues in the future when the product is deployed to scale and take preventative steps for high uptime.
• Prepare product impact reports and present them to funders at regular intervals.

What skill do I need?

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience is a must in IT/Computer Engineering.
• Min 3 years of end-to-end software development experience and knowledge of tech stack (Angular, PHP, NodeJS, Android, and React) technical.
• Experience as a Product manager/owner in one of the business domains in Agriculture, Media& Advertisement, Healthcare, Payment
• Interested and curious to work at the intersection of multiple functional areas such as Product Management,
• Excellent communication (written and oral) and presentation
• Manage the product development process from conception through design, build, release, experimentation, analysis, and iteration
• Communicate the business values to the field and customers
• Proven organizational skills; ability to multi-task and work on several assignments concurrently but still be detail oriented.

1. Defining the category roadmap globally for digital products like Gift Cards, Vouchers, Experiences, Fintech instruments, Donations, Subscriptions, etc.
2. Product, place, price, and promotions of the category portfolio.
3. Manage supplier relationships for a range of global categories.
4. Good understanding of consumer demand and macro-economic trends in the categories.
5. Good analytical skills with the ability to draw insights from large data sets, forecasting, budgeting, etc.
6. Work with marketing, sales, and product teams to market, sell and build a seamless user experience.
7. End-to-end management of product i.e. from supplier to customer. You should be responsible for cataloging, quality, CSAT, and revenue for the categories.

1. You should have at least 3 years of experience in global category roles, preferably digital categories.
2. Good communication skills are key for this role.
3. Good analytical skills along with sales/marketing knowledge.
4. MBA from reputed colleges would be preferred for the role.
5. Team management experience will be a plus.
6. A strategic thinker along with a growth mindset ll be a good fit for the role.

A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment will enable you to juggle between concepts yet maintain the quality of content, interact, share your ideas, and have loads of learning while at work. Work with a team of highly talented young professionals and enjoy the benefits of being at Plum.‍

A fast-growing SaaS commerce company based in Bangalore with offices in Delhi, San Francisco, and Dublin. We have three products in our portfolio: Plum, Empuls, and Compass. Plum works with over 1000 global clients. We help our clients engage and motivate their employees, sales teams, channel partners, or consumers for better business results.

We look forward to connecting with you. As you may take time to review this opportunity, we will wait for a reasonable time of around 3-5 days before we screen the collected applications and start lining up job discussions with the hiring manager. However, we assure you that we will attempt to maintain a reasonable time window for successfully closing this requirement. The candidates will be kept informed and updated on the feedback and application status.

Thrive is currently looking out for a rockstar Product Manager. S/he will be a very important person in Thrive's growth story. An ideal candidate will be someone who is highly data driven and understands the Indian consumer well. This person will be involved in the entire product development life-cycle; from concept through release.This person will also work directly with the founders of the company.

Responsibilities

• Manage entire product development life-cycle from conception to design, development and roll-out
• Conduct market research, users survey's (qualitative & quantitative) to understand changes in market requirements
• Build & maintain Product Requirement Documents, and contribute to product road-map
• Liaison between Business Development, Design and Engineering teams to keep everyone up-to date on product road-map and release schedule's
• Conduct A/B testing of new features/updates launched within the product to identify the right path forward
• Co-ordinate with Design and Engineering team to ensure timelines are being met on both sides; whilst keeping all relevant stakeholders upto date; Utilize JIRA for work and workflow visualization to optimize work.
• Perform competitor analysis and bench-marking
• Track progress of market specific product improvements and measure impact

Skills & Requirements

• 3+ years of experience developing web products with a background in technical product management or web development.
• An academic background in Computer Science or related engineering discipline.
• Experience working in startups or successful entrepreneurial adventures
• Strong quantitative capabilities; an an ability to understand analytics platforms
• Strong communication skills and intuition for communication strategy at every level -- within teams, within the company, to users, and other audiences.
• Experience working with MySQL;
• Experience working with Google Analytics, HotJar, Google Tag Manager is a Plus!
• Self-driven, comfortable with a fast-paced, always-on, highly ambiguous environment

1. Know customer needs through research and market data. Develop product lines and appraise new ideas for market viability. Assess competition by comparing products. Create product marketing communications objectives. Work with the sales director to create product sales strategies.

• 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