Product lead - digital transformation - Mauritius

About this role

CareerNinja is a personalised learning platform, that leverages AI to create customised learning environments for a learner based on their goal and background.
It curates the right content & connects to the right industry mentors & job opportunities to enable youth to learn in an experiential manner & achieve their next career goal.
We are ultimately working to productise learning & career goal achievement so as to make the same accessible to anyone at mass-global scale.

Your role, very simply put, is to work with the Founder directly & make this happen. Along with the design & dev teams, you will drive product right from understanding the users, designing the right experience & interface to make it happen & ensuring it is shipped on time & of course continuously iterated. This is an opportunity to literally own and build a product from it's early days & see it to scale given the fast growth. Ultimately you will also drive product monetisation & growth.

If you grow well you will be the one leading all things product, thus this is an exciting leadership role.

Responsibilities

1. Understand markets, competition, and user requirements in depth.
2. Work collaboratively with the UX/UI and engineering team.
3. Define a roadmap for the development team.
4. Explore and integrate monetisation strategies and evolve business models
5. Execute on that roadmap to ensure resiliency and reliability of the product.
6. Work closely with engineering to solve problems and build elegant solutions.
7. Work closely with design and content team to ensure you’re enriching the end-customer experience.
8. Learn, understand and predict user interactions.

Experience

1. 1-4 years of product management experience.
2. Knowledge of multiple functional areas such as Product Management, Engineering, UX/UI, Growth and Business. Marketing understanding is a definite plus
3. Successful track record in planning, developing and executing a strategy for a product while collaborating cross-functionally.
4. Solid engineering fundamentals & strong expsoure to technology.
5. You’re entrepreneurial and are comfortable working in a complex and fast-paced environment.
6. Analytical and data-driven, you love digging into the data to understand what’s happening and define & measure success on every project.
7. You’re passionate about your customers and always bring questions back to what will serve them best.
8. You’re a confident communicator.
9. Experience driving the product vision, go-to-market strategy, and design discussions.
10. Experience as a software engineer/developer or a designer and working with distributed teams is highly desired.

Benefits

Working with us could be your best decision if you're looking for learning, growth and wide exposure. You will be given real responsibilities, freedom to make decisions and come up with ideas and work closely with the founder and the core team, all in a flexible, casual and young (everyone under 30) work environment.
Flexible work, free snacks, board game breaks, etc are just a regular part of our work life.

What is the role?

As Product Manager for Compass, you will be responsible for the product portfolio, including all product planning and release execution throughout the lifecycle of the product portfolio. This includes defining and prioritizing product roadmap, listening to customers, creating business requirements, driving functional requirements, prioritization, driving this through development, and successfully launching new product features. To read more about the kind of qualities we are looking for in this role, please check this link <https://a16z.com/2012/06/15/good-product-managerbad-product-manager/>;

Key responsibilities

1. Strategic planning and managing all stages of Product Life Cycle
2. Develop business cases for each product feature to demonstrate feasibility including target pricing and margin, addressable and realizable market, SWOT analysis, estimated development, implementation, and support costs etc.
3. Planning execution of  roadmap & managing end to end product delivery
4. Work extensively on feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
5. Help define the value proposition of the product for the Sales & Marketing teams and help with the GTM strategy
6. Research and understand competitive offerings in your sector

Who will you work with?

You ll report to the head of product development. 

What are we looking for?

1. 5+ years of product management function in a product company
2. B2B SaaS experience with multiple Stakeholder management would be preferred
3. Self-starter with a passion for independent, creative problem-solving, strong ownership, high commitment and strong business judgment.
4. Enjoy working in a startup environment, with a proven ability to innovate and work customer backwards
5. Ability to think strategically and prioritize in an ambiguous environment.
6. Analytical thinking, project management skills, attention to detail, and exceptional organizational skills are essential

What can you look for?

Challenging opportunity, tough problems and a very good growth path. An excellent opportunity to work with a team of highly talented young professionals. We also offer a whole load of benefits to make your stay enjoyable with Compass?.

We are,

We at Compass strive to make selling fun with our SaaS incentive gamification product.  Compass is the #1 gamification software that automates and digitizes Sales Contests and Commission Programs. With game-like elements, rewards, recognitions, and complete access to relevant information, Compass turbocharges an entire salesforce. Compass also empowers Sales Managers with easy-to-publish game templates, leaderboards and analytics to help accelerate performances and sustain growth.

We are a fun and high-energy team, with people from diverse backgrounds - united under the passion of getting things done. Rest assured that you shall get complete autonomy in your tasks and ample opportunities to develop your strengths.

Way forward,

If you find this role exciting and want to join us at Bangalore, India, then apply by clicking below. Provide your details and upload your resume. All received resumes will be screened, shortlisted candidates will be requested to join for a discussion and on mutual alignment and agreement, we will proceed with hiring.

Job Description :

• Develop and define product roadmaps and feature concepts
• Work with engineering, design, marketing, business sales, and QA team to come up with time estimates and adhering to external commitments
• Identify new products, gather requirements, build and ship new products.
• Scope and prioritize activities based on business and customer impact
• Talk regularly with our customers and improve the product based on the feedback
• Define and continuously analyze metrics for the success of the product
• Be familiar with industry best practices for product management and explore improving processes at KredX
• Engage with multiple stakeholders within the organization
• Identifying all barriers to feature adoption (awareness, legal, regulatory, training, customer usage) and ensuring systematic elimination of the same
• Manage project delivery to ensure timely product launches
• Identify and unblock short term issues and hurdles while always keeping eyes on the long term prize

Requirements :

• 3+ years of product management experience
• First-principle thinking
• Prior experience in working on web and mobile apps
• Relentless focus on customer experience
• Ability to pull data using basic SQL queries and ask the right questions of data
• Ability to hack solutions using low-code / no-code approaches (like Zapier, Zoho Creator, AWS Honeycode, or any of such 100s of tools etc..)
• Keen interest in financial and investment landscape of India
• Prior experience in Fintech or Finance/Investment domain is a plus but not mandatory

Job Description

• ​Research and identify potential new product features and functions
• Gather stakeholder and customer input
• Define requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria for product functions and features
• Clearly communicate the status of projects on the product roadmap and in development
• Create user documentation in coordination with stakeholders
• Create and maintain competitive and strategic analysis matrix
• Oversee implementation and release workflow and deadlines
• Hold regular project reviews with Development and QA teams ensuring that the product meets business requirements
• Draft release notes for launches and work with Product Marketing to create and execute a GTM plan
• Measure adoption, usage data, and business results from product launches
• Gather market feedback from users and buyers via Win/Loss calls, interviews, and other feedback loops

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in software marketing / product management or writing requirements for technical projects
• Basic understanding of software development process from concept through implementation and delivery
• Prior experience with web based application development and maintenance a plus
• Understanding of UX design principles and experience working with customers and stakeholders as part of a design process
• Ability to plan, prioritize, and excel in developing a dynamic high paced cross functional team environment
• Must be detail oriented
• Excellent time management skills
• Must be a problem solver
• Excellent communication skills