Product Manager

Job Description:

Working as part of the Aurum PropTech digital team, the right candidate will spearhead our digital product proposition as a product manager and will be responsible for product planning, delivery and marketing throughout the product lifecycle. The right candidate will develop a strategy, vision and roadmap for the product based on input from internal stakeholders, customers, market research and their industry insight. They will work closely with Development/Engineering and other teams to deliver products that align with this vision, meet market needs and are delivered to a consistently high-quality standard. They will develop a forecast for the product based on input from marketing, sales, market analysts and their own experience and manage its delivery. They will identify the key benefits and value of products. This will be used to create and maintain marketing plans and collateral (including web updates, product training materials, pricing strategy and sales training).
The role will work with our leadership and management team across all relevant commercial and operational functions, to understand commercial objectives, gather and evaluate ideas and feedback, and define product features. There are several product initiatives at differing stages of development, and the role will ensure these are managed and delivered successfully, whilst becoming a key contributor to the ongoing product strategy.

Product Manager Responsibilities:

• Define the product strategy and roadmap for our flagship digital products; Develop the business case for new products, improvements to existing products, and business ventures.
• Manage the product throughout its lifecycle from concept to end-of-life
• Collect, manage and maintain traceability of requirements from all stakeholders across product releases
• Write the business case for investments and gain internal approval
• Propose a product marketing plan and budget and then deliver against it
• Write Product Requirements and Market Requirements documents
• Work with internal stakeholders and third parties to assess and establish partnerships
• Be the recognized expert in the business on the product, the market, relevant technology and the competition.
• Develop core positioning and messaging for the product
• Perform product demos to customers and develop relationships with key clients for the B2B segment
• Be a key stakeholder as part of the product team to ensure delivery of agreed objectives
• Set pricing to meet revenue and profitability goals
• Monitor, report and improve product performance
• Brief analysts and the press
• Run trials and MVPs, develop and deliver go-to-market launch plans
• Channel management and support
• Commission market and competitor research
• Promote the product to sales teams through sales training sessions, webinars, newsletters and other mechanisms
• Develop and deliver training to technical sales support
• Manage development and marketing projects to deliver to plan
• Collate feedback from sales and customers, & brief and train the sales force at quarterly sales meetings
• Represent the voice of the customer in senior-level management meetings
• Evangelize the product internally and externally
• Be recognized as a leader in the business and build relations with business stakeholders
• Deliver regular (e.g. monthly) volume, revenue and profit forecasts
• Brief press and analysts and go on press tours
• Runs pilot programs during the qualifying phase with almost final products and samples, in an agile environment.

What we are looking for:
Essential Skills

• Minimum of 5+ years experience as a Product Manager or Product Marketing Manager
• Proven experience in Agile product development
• Demonstrated success defining and launching excellent products
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Technical background, with experience in API and SaaS product development, desired.
• Excellent teamwork skills
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
• Examples and at least one sample of an effective document delivered in the past
• Experience in a B2C / B2B SaaS Business (Industrial experience of working in PropTech would be a major advantage)
• Experience in a client-facing role
• Results and data-driven mindset, a self-starter that is excellent at multi-tasking
• This is a great opportunity for a Product Manager who loves disruptive technology in a business that is scaling rapidly - Opportunities to work for a profitable startup do not come around often!

Qualifications

➢ Bachelor's Degree
➢ MBA preferred

Development Values

New technology is exciting, but at Aurum PropTech we recognize that people are the key to our successful digital transformation. We are creating a workplace where they can focus on high-value, strategic work, high-rewarding career paths and be inspired to enhance our client’s digital services - with an Agile mindset.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a fluid and fast-paced organization offering an attractive working environment both in terms of work type, technologies and projects. It’s somewhere you can thrive, grow and be challenged. The program is currently at its nascent stage and will entail owning a challenging and fulfilling role using cutting-edge technology. We will be willing to invest in relevant training for the right candidate.
COME JOIN US as we empower our teams with digital skills.

Senior Product Owner (Digital Transformation)

 

Executive Summary
Are you looking to level up? The Senior Product Owner (Digital Transformation) role at FirstPrinciples and the partner that you will be staffed with is a multi-million dollar digital transformation initiatives on web and mobile with one of the largest large Luxury Home Builders in the United States.

About FirstPrinciples & The Role

FirstPrinciples is a Tech Holding company with a Venture Studio as part of its holdings. One part of the Venture Studio business at FirstPrinciples is about working with large enterprises on long-term digital transformation initiatives within their organization. The position that we are currently hiring for involves a multi-million dollar digital transformation initiatives for one of the largest Luxury Home Builders in the United States. Our scope involves working as expert consultants to advice and execute on upgrading the IT & Tech different internal and stakeholder facing systems within their organization. We are working on both web and mobile platforms. 

 

Who is This For

This is for an experienced Product Owner/Manager who is looking to take their career to the next stage by working on a large scale initiative that will challenge and extend their current capacities.

At FirstPrinciples, we truly act as a Tech Strategic Consultant along with having the operational capacity to implement the suggested recommendations. This role is for someone who is able to provide recommendations to the client while having the ownership of the end deliverables. While we have technical leaders also staffed within this partnership, we are looking for someone who can talk the talk with senior engineers and tech architects and understand their recommendations and its implications. 

 

Requirements

• One of the following certifications (PRINCE2, CSP, CAPM, CBAP (BABOK), Agile, CSP, CSPO, PMPO)
• Experience in independently managing, End-to-End Business Analysis, Product Analysis, Project Management for complex IT Projects and Products / Apps
• Working with Client to understand provide Consulting or Business Solutions, Problem Solving Approach and Skills, Strong Analytical Skills, should be able to read between the lines
• Managing scope via release management and planning and creating User-Stories, Running Sprints Cycle and Experience working with a team of 15-20 resources
• Requirements Gathering, Requirements Analysis, Requirements Management, Requirements Elicitation, Requirements Matrix (RTMs)
• Experience in Developing Low-Level and High-Level Prototyping using Wireframes tools (using any of the latest wireframing tools, such as JustInMind, Adobe XD, MockFlow, etc)
• Ownership of the Product Backlog & Deliverables and developing the User Stories & Release Planning
• Experience in Writing and Maintaining Business Requirement Documents (BRD) or PRDs and Functional Specification Document (FSD), Software Requirements Specification (SRS)
• Should have experience in creating Project Budgeting, Creating Efforts Estimations (EE), Presentation Decks, and Clean Documentation 
• Experience in Writing Test Cases and Managing UAT and Deployment 
• Analysis: GAP, Fish-bone Analysis, RCA (Root Cause Analysis), MoSCOW
• Experience in Consulting clients on Problem Statements V/s Solution Building based on AS-IS and TO-BE
• Experience converting Business Cases to Technology case and Building Products from scratch thus Translating Business Requirements into Software Requirement Specifications
• Interacting with the Technical team to ensure Delivery and Implementation of the Software Solution/Projects
• Client Relationship Management, Excellent at English Speaking, and Written Communication
• Understanding of Change Management, Risk Management and Project Management

Management Skills

1. Excellent Written and Oral Communication Skills and Etiquettes
2. Excellent Presentation Skills 
3. Experience in working with Onshore and Offshore Teams and Experience handling Cross-Functional Projects, Resources and Clients
4. Experience dealing with Pressure and Meeting strict Project Deadlines
5. Leadership and Motivational Skills to ensure the Work is being done by the Resources on time and within the specified budget
6. Conflict and Resolution Management
7. Prior experience in operations management - good to have 
8. Experience working with US Clients

TechStack & Platform

1. MEAN Stack (Web)
2. Native iOS & Android (Mobile)
3. AWS
   
   
   

The ideal candidate is an analytical team player who will be responsible for getting things done, identifying the critical issues within the existing product, skilled in problem solving, planned execution and finally evaluating the solution. Ability to work with a team of high performing individuals, also work cross-functionally to complete product roadmaps and discover new opportunities.

Work Responsibilities:

1. Work closely with senior leadership in Product, Technology, Business, Marketing and Design team to articulate business needs to actionable product requirements.
2. Take complete ownership of the products, refining the existing features in the product. Working on new features, identifying the user requirements and ultimately improving the lifetime of the users using our product.
3. A basic understanding of qualitative and quantitative methods for user research. Establish a closed feedback loop with users & Synthesizing user needs and insights into simple yet delightful experiences.
4. Periodically conduct user-research, industry analysis, competitor mapping and ideate on what to build next. Compile information from various sources to formulate a current picture of the company and market.
5. Improving the user journey, reducing the drop-off rates.
6. Obsess with data, define and track key metrics and draw actionable insights using data. Establish KPIs, and conduct quality assessments
7. Help define Product Roadmap for new offerings aligned with the broader company vision and yearly targets
8. Work with cross-functional team to take something from idea to hands of users
9. Maximize the efficiency of all business procedures, Dissect product analytics and user behavior patterns into meaningful insights that grow the product.

 

Skills Required:

• Tech background with a good understanding of technology, data and building products. 2-6 years of experience in Product Management, Software Development, Analytics or similar roles in a consumer internet product set-up.
• A strong product sense, attention to the little big details, and eye for good visual design.
• Capable of taking business metrics, requirements or user problems and breaking them into workable product requirements, and leading the development of identified features
• Excellent presentation & communication, problem-solving, organizational and analytical skills to get the team on board with your vision
• Able to multitask, prioritize, work autonomously and with great time management skills
• Prior track record of working with product team from research phases through engineering to success would be highly preferred.

• Graduate degree with a strong academic performance from a top tier university
• You can think in terms of the big picture but deliver on the details
• You have an instinct for great product design and are an advocate for new features with qualitative and quantitative reasoning
• You do whatever it takes to make your product and team successful, whether that means writing a testing plan, analyzing large data sets, or hunting down the root cause of a user’s frustration
• You can turn incomplete, conflicting, or ambiguous inputs into solid action plans
• You communicate with empathy, precision, and clarity
• You are technical enough to ask engineers good questions about architecture and product decisions alike
• Beyond just shipping new products, you obsess about continuous product improvement
• While we generally value attitude over skills, we expect that you’ve spent at least five years in a fast-paced product management role

What you will be doing:

• Grow an efficient, collaborative team of data scientists, data engineers, and BI developers by hiring, coaching, mentoring, and sharing feedback that preserves company culture and values
• Prioritize work for your team, making rational tradeoffs on priorities based on business constraints, ensuring on-time deliverables and high-quality solutions
• Working with our Engineering teams to improve and advance our development practices based on a data-driven and analytical approach
• Collaborate and maintain a high level of interaction and cooperation with technical and non-technical stakeholders across Gelato
• Partner closely with our product team and stakeholders to improve planning and prioritization
• Drive the analytics and data science roadmap in Gelato
• Work in European time zones
• Who you are

 

We are looking to hire multiple Technical Product Manager at different levels for our team in Bangalore. If you are excited about building products that will be used by millions of consumers worldwide, building products for brands that you can be proud to show to your family and friends - you need to join us! This position reports to: Director of Product and Program.

 

What you will be doing:

 

Building product strategy with a strong technology mindset.

Work closely with business team in their pitch and proposals through user research and evaluating emerging technologies to foster innovation in shaping product ideas.

Lead Product Definition phase by driving user research, story mapping, technical feasibility study to generate solutions for client's problems/user needs.

Define, develop and execute product roadmap through till delivery by ruthlessly prioritizing the backlog.

Leverage analytics and user research to envision and propose product improvements.

Define, analyze, and communicate product metrics to guide new features and enhancements.

Serve as the Scrum Product Owner for development teams, including all responsibilities like roadmap definition, feature prioritization, story writing with detailed acceptance criteria.

 

What You Will NOT Be Doing:

 

Project and people management.

Owning and driving engineering decisions.

 

Requirements.

 

A highly talented and driven technical product owner with 8+ years of overall experience and 5 years actively as technical product manager/owner.

Solid technical background with understanding and/or hands-on experience in mobile development and web technologies (CMS, Angular React).

Has excellent analytical and communication skills with proven ability to influence and negotiate with clients and internal stakeholders.

Experience defining product strategy from scratch with implementation success in previous roles is a must.

Proven experience one or more of mobile/healthcare/fintech domains or startup space.

Technical background in building mobile/cloud/ML/AI/SaaS products and bring own point of view in proposing the solutions to client requirements.

Act as product evangelist with deep curiosity on technology trends and being able to go deep into technology and relate technical enhancements to build product vision.

Experience with cloud ecosystem or related technologies.

Groom and prioritize the work in the backlog according to business value.

 

Nice to Have

 

Extensive experience working in an Agile Scrum methodology.

Multi-tasker with ability to support at least 2 products in parallel.

Experience with Rally/Jira/Azure Devops or similar Agile Project Management tools.

Proficiency with at-least in one language Python, Swift, Kotlin etc.

Ability to use story splitting techniques to break larger stories and deliver in small increments.

Experience using workshop techniques to foster story mapping and ideation sessions.

Job Description – Product Lead

Company Information
SugarBox is a first-of-its-kind platform in the world that empowers users without an internet connection to use Apps
and enables Apps to work even in places with bad or no internet / network coverage.
We are working on making internet services more available, reliable, affordable, and contextual for everyone. Over the
next 2 years, our goal is to transform the travel experience for 300 mn commuters monthly, unlocking over 2.5 billion
hrs of digital consumption, where otherwise Apps don’t work reliably, due to unstable or inexistent cellular
connectivity.
Position: Product Lead
Location: Mumbai / Bangalore
Role Type: People Manager
Responsibilities
● Obsessed with the consumer and create solutions matching his needs.
● Ability to think out of the box and create solutions that will be path breaking.
● Ability to mine data and unearth pain points, to arrive at solutions.
● A hustler who can wear multiple hats and likes chaos.
● Ability to define product roadmap – short/ medium / long term.
● Person understands business and drives a function output independently including the P&L of it.
● Ability to handle the entire product life cycle right from conceptualization to the success of the product in the
market.
● Manage a multi-faceted team of developers, PM’s, QA resources and designers to deliver a functional product
which creates impact matching wide org level goals.
Education Requirements
● Engineering graduate with Network or a Software degree.
● MBA is a plus though not a mandate.
Experience and Skill Requirements
● Good people and partner management skills.
● Excellent communication skills.
● 8+ years of Product Management experience with 3+ years leading a team of 3+ PM’s.
● Must have handled at least 1 entire product lifecycle affecting 1million+ users.
● Proven record of driving business metrics including acquisition, retention, and P&L.
Any Other Requirements
● Startup experience will be a plus.
● Candidates from top institutes (Tier 1) only apply.

● Consumer internet B2B, B2C experience preferable with companies like Freshdesk, Hotstar, Cisco, Nokia,
Zoho, Akamai

Role: 1. Determine customers' needs and desires by conducting the required research and reaching out to existing/potential customers 2. Prepare key strategic insights to assess the overall market opportunities, partnerships, competitive landscape and product offerings to targeted segments 3. Develop partnerships with SAAS API and other players to enhance company’s product capabilities faster. 4. Develop the product roadmap to disrupt the traditional methods in Banks/NBFCs 5. Coordinate with the design and engineering teams to ensure timely technology releases on multiple product initiatives and release impeccable products 6. Develop the mobile product strategy to acquire and service MSME customers. Desired Profile: 1. Minimum 2+ years of active product management experience. 2. Graduation from Tier 1/Tier 2 Institutes. 3. Data lover who is good in Data Collection, Extraction and Analysis 4. Good with Experimentation (A/B Testing) 5. Good with Interactive Prototyping 6. Knowledge of different types of tech stack 7. Interest in fintech/lending domain 8. Entrepreneurial mindset.

Job Responsibilities:

1. End to End responsibility of multiple product and features 2. Coordinating with the engineering department (Tech Team) to deliver functional solutions 3. Suggesting product enhancements to improve user experience 4. Performing quality assurance controls on products 5. Conduct research to identify customer needs and market gaps 6. Prioritize the implementation of new features and set specific timelines 7. Liaise with the Marketing department to ensure proper advertisement and positioning of new products 8. Monitor and report on users’ reactions after launching 9. Create support and training documents for internal and external users

Perfect Fit candidate for the above role?

1. Academic background: Engineering Only. Non-Engineers are not eligible to apply for this role. 2. Familiarity with market research, consumers’ behavior and marketing techniques. 3. Candidates who have run their own start-up, worked in a start-up or were co-founder in another startup are preferred although not a necessity. 4. Strong time management skills 5. Good communication skills along with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross functional teams.

PRODUCT MANAGER ABOUT THE POSITION Do you believe technology can make simplify choices in an effective way? Are you excited about the potential for virtual coaches, suggested content and new curation paradigms to reduce the burden of choice? Do you believe we can use the same persuasive technology techniques that Facebook, Instagram & Pinterest use to change how students learn? If you believe these things, you belong at Vidyanext. We know that good products change lives. And good PMs create team that deliver, no matter the obstacles. Vidyanext is seeking a Product Manager who is passionate about incredible user experiences and technology to anticipate users’ needs. The role calls for leading the customer experience to evolve our current products through data-driven insights, user-centric design strategies, and a product manager whom differentiates themselves by being able to create predictability in uncertainty. WHY APPLY? Do you value the people you work with? Do you care about having a growth-mindset team? Do you value your own growth? Do you want to be more? Do you want a life path that is different? Have you always been that guy or girl, out of all your friends? Come meet your new friends. Efficiency is our watchword at Vidyanext. We are building products that save time. We are re-defining tuitions to be a place that students and tutors learn things once and remember them. ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 1.Understand user needs and mind-set as they start using the product. Collaborate with user experience designers, education coaches, and use user interviews, prototypes and user studies to gain deeper understanding of user needs. 2.Understand how to drive adoption to different user types and run experiments to improve the first mile experience for the user. 3.Be the product owner focused on Growth. Drive requirements, groom stories and drive the implementation of scalable infrastructure and experiments by working with Design, Engineering and Marketing 4.Launch products / updates on a predictable basis. 5.Enable development of internal and external training and product demos. 6.Actively contribute to our team's culture of having fun, embracing change, and delivering. 7.Remain current on market, mobile app and event technology trends DESIRED SKILL SET 1.Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science/ Engineering/ Design/ Business or equivalent 2.3+ years professional experience in product management, engineering, design or related disciplines. 3. Strategic and action-oriented. Develop long-term vision, but also create near-term executable plans with innate sense of urgency for supporting teams & product managers.
 4.Ability to balance quantitative and qualitative analyses to inform product decisions. 5.Obsession for great user experiences and experience in working with design teams from ideation to delivery 6.Excellent verbal, written communication and presentation skills. 7. Team oriented with strong proactive communication skills and an ability to work collaboratively.
 8.Good product manager instincts, such as saying "no" to most things to allow extreme focus on the critically important things. 9.Ability to negotiate without being adversarial.