Project Management Officer (PMO)

-An Associate Product Manager assists in the development and execution of product strategies.

-Responsibilities include market research, collaboration with cross-functional teams, assisting in product planning, and supporting the product lifecycle.

-Additionally, they may contribute to the creation of product roadmaps, gather and analyze user feedback, and aid in the coordination of product launches.

So, what do you do as a project manager? You are responsible to manage key client project in direction, coordination, implementation, execute, control and completion of project, while remaining aligned with strategy, commitments and goals of the organization. Oversee all aspects of projects, set deadlines, assign responsibilities and monitor and summarize progress of project. They make sure the scope of the project is clear, reporting regularly on the progress of the project and that it is staying on the approved schedule.

The successful candidate will work directly in client location to ensure deliverables fall within the applicable scope. You will coordinate with other teams & departments to ensure all aspects of each project are compatible. Enhance department and organization reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinate internal resources and Clients for the flawless execution of projects.
• Ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope.
• Develop a detailed project plan to monitor and track progress
• Manage changes to the project scope and schedule using appropriate verification techniques.
• Report and escalate to management as needed
• Manage the relationship with the client and all stakeholders
• Perform risk management to minimize project risks
• Establish and maintain relationships with Key clients.
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation
• Meet with clients to take detailed specifications and clarify requirements of each project.
• Track project performance, specifically to analyze the successful completion of short and long-term goals
• Develop comprehensive project plans to be shared with clients as well as other staff members
• Perform other related duties as assigned
• Develop spreadsheets, diagrams and process maps to document needs.

Desirable Skills:

• Proven working experience in project management
• Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multitasking skills
• Bachelor's Degree in appropriate field of study or equivalent work experience
• Demonstrated ability to successfully manage a full workload across multiple projects.
• A flexible attitude with respect to work assignments and ready to learn.
• Ability to manage multiple and varied tasks with enthusiasm and prioritize workload with attention to detail.
  
  

CORE Competency:

• Developing and Tracking the project
• Leadership
• Time Management
• Conflict Resolution
• Problem Solving skills
• Management skills
• Process Improvement
• Planning
• Outstanding Communication skills
• Teamwork
• Negotiation skills

Responsibilities:

• Work with the client from the start of each project to ensure you understand the project scope and vision
• Oversee the beginning of each turn-key project, including details like permit submission and design evaluations
• Create the schedule for each project and match talent to the job
• Process change orders
• Collaborate with the architect and construction crew to ensure feasibility of each project
• Conduct meetings on-site with architect, client and construction crew.
• Prepare and submit project estimates to clients

Profile summary:

‘Product Manager -1’ is to be an innovative and self-motivated product management professional who is to be responsible for enabling a seamless end-to-end experience, for our products, solutions, and services, across the various stages of a customer journey; and will influence future product feature-sets, with a continual strive for meeting marketplace requisites and to eliminate customer pain points. This role will work collaboratively with product management, UI/UX, operations, engineering, architecture, customer success, and other teams across the organization to identify, prioritize, design and deliver superior user experiences. The person in this role will be influencing the products roadmap, while leveraging customer insights, market dynamics, and technology trends, to drive a positively differentiated customer service/user experience, and to turn that knowledge into innovative and easy to-use products/features/ solutions.

‘Product Manager -1’ is to combine business knowledge, technical expertise, and creativity, to actualize use cases for maximizing the potential of our products, solutions, and services,  with ownership for discovering new products/improvements, revenue opportunities, and customer requirements, and for managing overall UX product experience. The individual in the role will be mapping the capabilities of technology solutions for marketplace positioning and for delivery of a customer oriented messaging, in terms of technologies, capabilities, and functionalities; articulate value propositions, and superior differentiators; and will support building marketing collaterals, conducts knowledge transfer and training for the customer facing workforce for functional expertise.  

Role & Responsibilities:

This position requires a combination of strong technical acumen and product management skills, with knowledge about the competitive landscape, and deep understanding of buyer personas; working collaboratively across the organisation to ensure revenue and client satisfaction goals are met. The role responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Develop deep understanding for our suite of products/solutions/services; and support evolution of the company's vision, strategy and product roadmap, securing leadership buy-in and support;
• Perform research and analyses that enables informed decision making on issues such as cost, utility, and timelines for products; and support creating user flows, wireframes, and prototypes
• Analyse, and map, the products/solutions/services, to customer requirements, and for newer use cases, and support discernments to highlight value propositions and differentiations for successes in marketplace
• Support customer acquisition efforts for strategizing and preparing responses to request for proposals, with right-fit solutioning, accentuating strengths and uniqueness, and drive regular awareness campaigns, as needed from time-to-time
• Drive product functional, and use case, documentation efforts; maintain indexed knowledge repositories for easy access for future references and ease of retrieval
• Identify opportunities and support signed off product ideas into actionable concepts, timelines, and projects that align to the overall product strategy
• Collaborate closely with customer facing teams understand client needs and ensure optimal go to market and acceptance of new and enhanced user functionality; and support customer acquisition and retention strategies
• Support to identify target client segments and markets, evaluate market trends and competition strategies to inform recommendations on product pricing and positioning;
• Perform tracking and monitoring the commercial success of products relative to business case/plan expectations and take remedial action if not meeting expectations
• Drive positively impactful user experience for our various products/solutions/services; understand the user's needs (both spoken & tacit) and identify current gaps, while ensuring that users and data are at the heart of decision making
• If needed, interface with external partners/aggregators/integrators/government bodies/financial institutions in order to get clarity on the path forward & collaborate with engineering, project management, to accelerate deliveries Input to and align with the UX strategy, including industry trends, best practices and standards, feasibility, innovation and ideation
• Participate in any other Product Management and UX team initiatives as required

General Requirements:

• B-Tech in computer science, or equivalent. Post-graduation in management, marketing, or product management, preferable. Additional certification in product management, business analytics, desirable
• Typically, 7 to 10 years’ experience in a dynamic product management and/or software requirements gathering role, in banking/FinTech areas,
• Demonstrable track record of successfully taking products to market, ideally a consumer facing product of significant scale, with successful delivering finely-tuned product marketing strategies
• Exceptional writing and editing skills combined with strong presentation and public speaking
• Strong interpersonal skills and a knack for productive collaboration across varying departments
• Experience with UI/UX design software and wireframe tools, and ability to Illustrate design ideas using storyboards, process flows and functional diagrams
• Detail-oriented and data-driven and well organized; and possess an encouraging, can-do attitude
• Proven problem solver, with ability to analyse market requirements and bridge communication between technology/engineering and marketing/sales teams
• Self-motivated, self-sufficient, effective, versatile and action-oriented
• Proven creative thinker with ability to work strategically and collaboratively across departments

About Mobileware:

An innovation centric product company, Mobileware thrives on the potential of a fast-paced financial landscape in India. Over the years, we @ Mobileware have made a “Digital” difference to all types of banks viz. PSUs, Cooperative and Urban & Rural banks. To know more about us, you can view our website at http://www.mobilewaretech.com">www.mobilewaretech.com.

Delivery Manager

Job Description

1. Review customer orders and plan and coordinate in the execution of projects and manage the client accounts
2. Develop scope and budget for projects
3. Ability to understand all technical aspects of the project and its requirements, articulate and communicate the same to internal stakeholders
4. Work with the Presales team to define the technical specification for features and functionalities and also determine the effort associated
5. Hands-on experience in creating SDD, SRS, Gantt Charts, etc.
6. Work closely with Engineering, Solutioning and Platform teams during requirement gathering and documentation phase to understand establish the scope of development work in projects
7. Provide suggestions on implementation approach, limitations/complexity around implementation with respect to the platform used, and recommendations for alternative solutions
8. Perform resource allocations and workload assignments according to project requirements.
9. Report project status to customers and develop required project documentation.
10. Serve as primary contact across all the projects being handled and concerns in assigned accounts

Must have skills:

1. 8+ years of experience leading and delivering projects to high standards and managing high-value accounts
2. Basic understanding of application development technologies like Python, ML, API Integration, etc.
3. Good understanding of server/storage configuration, API Integration, Cloud deployment, and configuration
4. Should have experience working with large government clients and/or large enterprises in BFSI, eCommerce, Healthcare, Retail, and other such verticals
5. Proven track record of building positive and productive working relationships with customers for business growth
6. Ability to analyze and troubleshoot issues in a timely fashion
7. Ability to identify process improvements to achieve cost-effectiveness and time-saving
8. Proven ability to operate with authority and take critical business decisions to meet customer expectations.
9. Should have exceptional communication skills (verbal and written) in English

Essential Personal Attributes:

1. Must be a strong relationship builder with experience within managing all stakeholders
2. Interest in emerging technologies and how they can be applied to drive business outcomes
3. Demonstrated commercial and business focus
4. Negotiation and influencing skills utilizing a consultative approach
5. Ability to multitask and prioritize work to meet timeframes
6. Ability to take ownership of tasks as allocated and raise issues or request resources as appropriate
7. Ability to communicate technical information to non-technical colleagues and clients.
8. Excellent stakeholder management and reporting skills
9. Must be able to translate technical environments into business language
10. Strong commercial acumen

Tailor and Circus is a progressive and unisex underwear brand in the Indian apparel space, at the forefront of E-commerce and product innovation. We have created India's most comfortable and responsible piece of underwear, offering the highest quality and selling direct-to-consumer. As a brand, we are India's first inclusive and body-positive underwear company. This has been part of the company's DNA since the inception, all our models and influencers who represent the brand are real people having real bodies.

Tailor and Circus is looking to hire suitable candidates for the Product Manager role who will handle user-facing product experience (website) and is very data-driven. The role will be based either in Bangalore or Coimbatore.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• You will be focused on building consumer-facing applications for the Tailor and Circus website.
• You will be responsible for conceptualizing and building user experience across the website and other customer touchpoints.
• Define and manage all critical user journeys and conversion funnels across website and other customer touchpoints.
• You will be responsible for launch and change management of features going live on apps/website.
• You will work closely with PMs responsible for all key business areas (Marketing, Design and Tech) to create a simple and delightful experience for our users.
• You will have a high degree of responsibility and ownership.
• You will drive the strategy, roadmap, execution, and growth of a product area.
• You will work closely with other product managers, engineers, designers, marketing, legal, analytics and do everything (defining requirements, prioritizing, testing, writing copy, tracking metrics and more.) to deliver high-quality products.

Apply If you:

• Minimum of 1-2 Years of Experience in Product & Marketing Management
• Can showcase your user-facing products experiences
• Have very high customer obsession
• Are a highly data-oriented person and have skills to analyze data using SQL
• Have an understanding of funnels, sprint & agile ways of working, PRDs & wireframes
• Have empathy towards users and colleagues, are creative and excited by ideating/ building new product features and functionalities.

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
   
   
   

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.