Product lead

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About the Company:

We at Opitblack are hiring for FieldAssist, a top-tier SaaS platform that specializes in optimizing Route-to-Market strategies and enhancing brand relationships within the CPG partner ecosystem.

We are proud partners with companies like Godrej Consumers, Haldiram’s, Eureka Forbes, Bisleri, Nilon’s, Borosil and Mamaearth among others.

About the role:

Product Managers at FieldAssist (FA) are responsible for identifying problems, prioritizing ideas, and solving them through product - right from problem discovery to conceptualization to launch.

In this specific role, you would be responsible for one or more Modules of the product. NorthStars for this role would be Customer Engagement, Upselling Revenue, and monthly active users.

Responsibilities:

• Product Strategy: Define both long term strategy and quarterly roadmap to achieve the product vision and create impact. 
• Conceptualize New Solutions: Product conceptualization with a problem first, data- driven, and test & iterate approach. Ensures conceptualization from a platform and a long-term view. Ensures value-based prioritization of product initiatives. 
• Build Products: Produce high-quality product specifications (User Stories) and effectively prioritize and manage the scope of each product launch to deliver key capabilities on time.
• Launch Products: Draft and execute a go-to-market plan in conjunction with Product Marketing. Be the internal and external authority and advocate for your given area of focus.

You will be a good fit for this role if:

• You understand technology, but love customer-first & business-first thinking
• You are comfortable working hands-on in a fast-paced start-up environment
• Problem-solving and detail orientation come naturally to you
• You have an analytical and data-driven approach in day-to-day work
• Energetic self-starter with the ability to work independently in a competitive and fast-paced environment

About Company

Our client is a brand co-creation platform that transforms powerful ideas into authentic, profitable, and experience-led brands that can define the future of brands in key consumption categories like fashion and lifestyle; food and FMCG, home and decor and beauty and wellness. They are a team of experienced entrepreneurs, marquee investors, and industry professionals who have expertise and experience in building some of the most popular brands in the country. They partner with passionate entrepreneurs to combine their collective learning and experience with data science, digital ethnography, and technology. platforms to build brands that connect to the new generation of Indian consumers.

What you’ll be doing

• Work with brand entrepreneurs to create and implement a forward looking product strategy. Influence technology choices and business strategy in creating multiple D2C brands across Food, Fashion, Home, Beauty and more simultaneously.

• Convert brand proposition into digital user experiences covering pre and post purchase journeys across channels such as D2C, Social Media, Whatsapp, Marketplaces and Metaverse by understanding business economics of brands in their first 1000 days.

• Raise the bar on customer empathy & quality of what we deliver, work with small & high performance teams to build products, managing a fast-paced agile delivery model.

• Analyse macro trends on user behaviour and adoption, predict technology shifts to identify innovative (sometimes first to market) product features and work with multiple tech startups to drive metrics and time to market.

• Talk the data language and drive a working environment fostering data driven decision making while running experiments, identifying gaps and prioritization.

Requirements

• Entrepreneurial mindset with acute understanding of product market fit for every brand with ability to decide when to scale or sunset experiments/initiatives.

• Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product and technology and come up with immediate & market first product propositions.

• End to end product development functional knowledge cutting across digital shopping journeys, marketing, contact centre operations, payments etc

• Track record of building and delivering high-quality digital products and complex roadmaps, ideally across multiple product categories with geo-distributed teams

• Ability to provide clarity, cut through clutter and being decisive on priorities and metrics.

• Ability to excite people through communication and presenting data in most the ambiguous situations.

• Ability to define short term goals & metrics (sometimes on a weekly basis) and align teams on how-lists.

• Passion for technology and pro-activeness in developing and/or integrating home developed or 3rd party applications.

Project Manager

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Develop relationships with various educational institutes including schools, colleges, and universities.

• School Acquisition- Reaching out to prospective schools through various lead sources and build a pipeline
• Develop project plans and implementation schedules
• Continually work to move projects to a successful completion
• Exhibitions to generate leads
• Passionate about working in the education sector
• Soft skills along with project management skills is a big asset
• Planned future events are visible & proactively coordinated
• Experience working in the EDU space is required (institutes, schools, Universities) and technology devices exp

Desired candidate profile:

Must be a graduate

Prior experience in project management ideally in Education industry (institutes,schools , Universities) will be an advantage

Great social and communication skills

Proven self-management and time management skills

Excellent client-facing communication skills

Strong leadership skills

Minimum of 2-3 years of experience in project management or as key account manager

Compensation is not a constraint for great candidates

Role- Product manager 

We are seeking a Product Manager who will have a passion for agile, creating new delivery processes. This role includes leading cross-functional resources necessary for successful product definition where you will provide relevant business context for Agile software development team and leading team through planning exercises designed to help select development work for timeboxed execution.

Experience range- 8-14 Years

Responsibilities

•   Create and ensure a shared understanding of product vision and strategy amongst all members of the team.
•  Define a product portfolio from a product strategy that balances business need, opportunity, feasibility, and achievability.
•  Demonstrate platform thinking by abstracting feature requests into “classes of problems” and creating an extensible product which can be used for a variety of current and future needs.
•  Should have experience in Pre-sales.
• Backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories
• Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum best practices and values
• Partnering with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI
• Create Product roadmap
• Understanding on NFR (Non-functional requirements.
• Understanding on Wireframing & Prototyping
• Lead the planning product release plans and set an expectation for delivery of new functionalities
• Providing an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals.
• Understanding knowledge of the market, the users, and the roadmap for the product.
• Represents the customer, interfaces and engages the customer
• Evangelize and market: communicate the value proposition and bring an emotional connection to the product to all stakeholders and team members.
• Drive research and competitive analysis to identify ways to transform the user experience, and create competitive opportunities.
• Reframe business solutions into actual business needs 
• Articulate how the product fulfils the business strategy and creates value to internal and external stakeholders (e.g. clients).
• Understand the technical aspects of software development – including software engineering, architecture, and technical tradeoffs – enough to ensure that technical choices don’t conflict with the product vision and strategy, but rather enable them.
• Partner with engineering leads and architects so that decisions on product and technology direction are not made in a vacuum.
• Make data-driven decisions: support portfolio choices with evidence from analytics and research.
• Align product strategies with other product managers, articulate how the product strategy fits into the broader ecosystem.
• Nurture regular communication and connection with business stakeholders to ensure that product strategy stays aligned with business priorities, and also to keep stakeholders abreast of learnings from customers that impact product direction.
• Always be “discovering” what customers and users need. Get out of the building: visit clients and speak with users/customers. Always be learning from user research conducted during product development cycles.
• Partner with Product Owners to ensure constant alignment with business and customer goals, and outcome expectations for delivery.

Requirements

• About 7+ years of overall exp and 3-4 years of relevant experience working as a Product Manager in a technology environment
• Solid Agile experience
• Understanding of technology; Language and Applications
• Additonal exp with API Banking Domain would be plus to the role
• Proven ability to define a set of requirements that pinpoint business challenges and identify technical and business changes required to address them.
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely across technology and the business teams.
• Experience supporting/rolling out initiatives to commercial teams
• Experience with demand generation, account/territory management, opportunity management and contact management capabilities, functionality and workflows.

• 2-7 years of total experience in Product Development.

• BE/BTech or any relevant degree with a background in consumer internet products
• 2-4 years’ experience delivering highly successful and innovative products with your fingerprints all over them - you’re extremely proud of what you’ve accomplished
• You carry the optimum blend of business, creativity (UI/UX) and technology.
• You are hands-on and go-getter to build & enhance your product through team work.
• You are on a constant drive to expand the product through research & stitching new partnerships.
• Person from a travel & accommodation background will be preferred.
• You’re expected to be a polymath who can bring ideas and analogies from different domains to solve a problem. You should be able to understand third or fourth level metrics.
• Stellar design instincts and product taste
• Finger-tippiness with data: you just go get the data you need with no muss/fuss and can whip it into an insightful story with no help. You know how to leverage data to make decisions without getting stuck in analysis paralysis.
• Grittiness: You never hesitate to roll up your sleeves and tackle something hands-on, you persevere when others fall away.

• Hands on experience on MS Excel is preferred.
• Most importantly, you should be fun to work with.

• You’ll be responsible for absorbing all the complexities of the domain and make simple, elegant and polished products for our users. You’ll have to learn and unlearn fast across domains.
• You’ll be working closely with the engineers, designers and analysts who care deeply about their product. You should be able to quickly build rapport with them. Persuasiveness is more valued here than authority.
• You’ll be owning product charters and would be responsible for every delivery. Your product charter will change as we evolve.
• You should be able to understand macro changes in the market and identify potential opportunities and risks. You should be able to plan features in smaller sprints while keeping an eye on the larger vision.
• You’ll be extremely meticulous and prudent in testing every feature that goes out. We ship high quality software.
• You’ll be the internal evangelist of the product who will go to everyone and help them understand why we should build a feature.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills. 
• Ability to work independently and meet tight deadlines.
• Team player who can adapt to new and evolving processes.

Product Manager - Chennai  
 

Who we are?  

Kaleidofin is a financial platform for the masses in India, which provides intuitive solutions tailored to the customer’s goals and provides a payments platform for digitizing payments across financial institutions. We are working towards creating fair and transparent financial solutions that can target millions of customers and enterprises in India that don’t have easy access to formal financial planning.  

In a very short time span, global investors such as Oiko Credit, Omidyar Network and Blume Ventures have supported Kaleidofin’s well thought out business model with $8 million in seed and Series A funding. The company was one of only ten startups chosen for the Google LaunchPad Accelerator program in 2019, was recognized as India's Most Innovative Wealth, Asset and Investment Management Service/Product by the Internet & Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and was selected to present at United Nations General Assembly Special Task Force Event.  

Kaleidofin aims to become a leading FinTech player bringing financial solutions to everyone. We have brought together a fantastic team with folks with prior experience at Google, Amazon, Oracle, Microsoft, IFMR, WebMD, that are all working towards this common mission together. 

To know more about Kaleidofin, do visit our site https://kaleidofin.com/">https://kaleidofin.com/ 

 
Key Responsibilities  

• Manage the execution of the entire product lifecycle management from concept through launch and beyond. 
• Break down the overall roadmap into specific components for you to own the backlog. 
• Grow the products and features for both existing and new products. 

• Own responsibility and accountability for the product experience and associated OKR’s. 
• Define, implement, and own metrics to monitor and communicate product performance, validate hypothesis, refine content and experience. 
• Analyze and educate the business on the market dynamics, trends and our competition.  

 
Requirements/Qualifications 

• 3+ years of experience in product management. FinTech market experience a strong plus.  

• Experience creating and contributing to a software product roadmap, evangelizing the product vision. 
• Experience working directly and cross-functionally with developers, product managers, and other related stakeholders 
• Excellent communication, presentation skills and ability to interact with all levels of the organization.  
• Strong work ethic. Self-starting personality with the ability to problem solve and develop creative solutions. Works well and stays focused under little supervision.  
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in work experience. 

• Define best strategies for product development 
• Product road maps 
• Wireframing 
• should have 15 plus years exp