Program Manager - Incubation & Acceleration

What will I be doing?

• Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint, release planning, demos and other project related meetings
•  Defining resource requirements and managing resource availability & allocation both internal and third party           
• Preparing a detailed project plan to schedule key project milestones, workstreams & activities.
• Managing delivery of the project according to this plan.
• Tracking projects and providing regular reports on project status to project team and key stakeholders.
• Managing and adjusting for any changes in project scope, schedule and / or budget.
• Identifying and mitigating potential risks.
• Managing the relationship and communication with the client and all stakeholders, ensuring the project is delivered to their satisfaction
• Oversee all aspects of projects. Set deadlines, assign responsibilities and monitor and summarize progress of the project. Prepare reports for upper management regarding status of project
• Should be well versed with project management domains: Initiating, planning, executing, controlling and closing

What skill do I need?

• Experience in IT industry with 3+ years of proven delivery managing increasingly complex projects
• Proficient in Agile methodology with an ability to adapt quickly to changing technology requirements
• Document the development process, architecture, and standard components.
• Experience as a PHP/Node/Java developer or other technologies to lead a team of PHP programmers Workflow Management, design and implementation in all its stages 
• Remove team impediments on a daily basis to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables.
• Leadership competencies for team building, client relations, Negotiation, decision making, problem solving and conflict management
• Proven organizational skills; ability to multi-task and work on several assignments concurrently but still be detail oriented

Required Qualification :

• Bachelor's degree in business or related field of study. 
• Three years of experience in a related IT field
• Exceptional verbal, written, and presentation skills
• Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
• Experience using computers for a variety of tasks.
• Competency in Microsoft applications including Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Knowledge of file management, transcription, and other administrative procedures
• Ability to work on tight deadlines.
• Hands Knowledge of utilities such as MS Teams, Zoom, Slack
• Analytical and problem-solving skills • Self-motivator and should be able to work in a team.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, self-directed environment under deadline pressures
• Ability to manage own workload independently, multi-task and prioritize effectively
• Detail oriented and proactive
• Excellent time management skills, plan, prioritize, and manage development tasks for on-time delivery with quality as primary criteria. Requirements

• Reads through or listens to material in Japanese language mainly, ascertains understanding of the meaning and context of that material, and converts it into a second language, making sure to preserve the original meaning

• Translates online, video, and other media by providing subtitles

• Consults with subject matter experts and other colleagues in order to understand specialised concepts and translate them appropriately

• Prepare internal and external corporate documents for team members and industry partners

• Schedule meetings, appointments and manage other related works

• Maintain an organized filing system of paper and electronic documents

• Uphold a strict level of confidentiality

• Develop and sustain a level of professionalism among staff and clientele

• Translates a variety of documents including literary, legal, research, technical, scientific,

educational, and commercial materials

Xoxoday is looking for an AVP of Empuls product. Empuls is an employee engagement SaaS platform focussed on USA & EMEA markets. The Empuls product is going through a 10X to 100X growth journey and we are looking for a seasoned product professional who has experience of taking products from 10X to 100X growth journeys. This role ll report to the CTO of the Empuls product. 

As an AVP Product you will be responsible for the product roadmap, product metrics, feature details, designs and GTM, . This includes defining and prioritizing product roadmap, listening to customers, creating business requirements, driving functional requirements, driving this through development teams, and getting the go-to-market for various product features.

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• Develop business cases for each product feature to demonstrate feasibility including target pricing and margin, addressable and realizable market, SWOT analysis, RICE metrics and go to market. 
• Solve customer problems and build functional, technical, and design specifications for the solution.
• Map the user journey for various customer profiles - simplify and bring more structure and clarity to problem statements which translate into product solutions. 
• Have strong systems thinking - understanding the impact of process/technology decisions and trade-offs in order to achieve the best possible outcomes to solve the problem.
• Holistic approach covering all aspects including edge cases and future possibilities.
• Abreast with the latest Innovations happening in the Employee Experience, Employee Benefits & Workplace culture domain. Experience in the HR Tech industry will be important in this role. 
• Help define the value proposition of the product for the sales team and work closely with the sales-marketing team for GTM and SaaS revenues.

• An enthusiastic individual with 8+ years of product management function in a product or SaaS company.
• Have experience in leading product management of fast-growing products (or) major modules of fast large products (or) been an entrepreneur in the past.
• Strong desire to disrupt, re-invent, and optimize existing processes to build next-generation Enterprise solutions.
• We'll look forward to the technical skills required for a product role along with the soft skills required to manage multiple stakeholder roles.
• Candidates should have strong experience in problem solving, UI/UX, analytics, team management, customer success & sales enablement. 
• Candidates from HR Tech, rewards, and employee benefits experience will be preferred.
• Candidates from IIM, IIT, NIT, BITS, NSIT, and other premier engineering colleges will be preferred.
• Experience in managing onboarding, customer success, and support functions preferred.

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 competitive salary and a whole load of benefits to make your stay enjoyable with Xoxoday.

You will closely work with technology, design, sales and customer care teams. You will report to the CTO of Empuls. You will provide constant updates to the stakeholders of the product.

Xoxoday is a rapidly growing fintech SaaS firm that propels business growth while focusing on human motivation. Backed by Giift and Apis Partners Growth Fund, Xoxoday offers a suite of three products - Plum, Empuls, and Compass. Xoxoday works with more than 3500 clients across 10+ countries and over 2.5 million users. Headquartered in Bengaluru, Xoxoday is a 400+ strong team with four global offices in Bangalore, San Francisco, Dublin, Singapore, Dubai.

We look forward to connecting with you. Once we review your resume, the next step will be a discovery call followed by detailed interview rounds. There will be three rounds of interviews. We will prefer candidates who are located in Bangalore and ready to work in hybrid work arrangements (partly in office, partly WFH). 

• Handling product and process development, nutrition profiling, claims development, shelf life testing, manufacturing scale up
• Managing projects - working with team on product, process, packaging development, regulatory, nutrition, manufacturing scaling up
• Being the point of contact for client - weekly project tracking, working with the client and other stakeholders to ensure on time in full delivery of the project

Desired Candidate Profile

RELEASE MANAGER

Bangalore/Pune

Full Time

We are seeking a collaborative, organized, process and detail oriented Release manager to drive high quality, on-time deployment of quarterly product releases by designing, implementing and executing effective release management processes in a collaboration with global Engineering, Operations, Product Management, services and Technical Support teams.

Responsibilities

•  Managing risks and resolving challenges that impact release scope, quality, and
• schedules
• Planning release windows and cycles across portfolios, components
• Managing relationships working on interrelated processes
• Communicating crucial release plans and changes
• Measuring and monitoring progress to achieve a timely software release within
• defined budgetary limits and defined quality standards
• Producing deployment, implementation, and run books plans
• Conducting release readiness and milestone reviews
• Maintaining release schedules for every core service and ensuring it aligns with major vendors and other stakeholder. Qualifications
• Mid-Senior: 7-12+ years of experience
• Experience as a release manager leading a substantial feature/product in the enterprise
• space
• Curiosity to learn + Extreme ownership + EQ/interpersonal skills
• Enjoys streamlining complex engineering processes and wants to gain mastery ∙
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent analytical skills
• Structured thinking
• Experience in coordinating cross-functional work teams up to task completion.

We have a passion for excellence. We love what we’re doing and have fun doing it. We value great minds, but we’re also humble enough to rally around the best solution, regardless of whose idea it was. We appreciate talent, and we are always on the lookout for the right people to join us. dial for info nine one zero one four double three eight one two.

Attention: We are looking for Immediate joiners!

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 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

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.