Project Manager

Requirements:

6+ year of working experience .

Strong understanding of web fundamentals

Deeply technical with a track record of successful delivery.

Manage daily/weekly scrums.

Lead technical strategy and implementation for various team initiatives with an alignment with project / client expectations

Proven record of building project from scratch.

An entrepreneurial spirit combined with strong program and project management skills.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex plans and designs.

Excellent judgment, organizational, and problem-solving skills.

Excellent design and architecture knowledge.

Data-driven decision making.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Must have good analytical and problem solving skills.

Works as a Project Manager and reports directly to CTO/ VP

Manage daily/weekly scrums.

Able to perform and follow coding standards.

Perform R&D tasks if assigned and communicate with the Designer and UI team.

Taking leadership responsibilities and handling the team well

Strong Communication Skills.

Product Manager

Experience - 2 - 3 years 

Job Location - Vashi, Navi Mumbai

Skills Required - Product Management, Product Strategy, Product development, Business Analysis, Agile/Scrum, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) 

Role description: Primary responsibility of the role would be to define the product roadmap & backlog, work with business and functional teams to design and implement changes that drive user acquisition, user experience & monetization.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead a development team to implement product changes while working collaboratively with multiple stakeholders like Design, Sales, Operations & Management.
• Analyze data to derive product & business insights and use them to strategize changes. 
• Analyze data to derive product & business insights and use them to strategize changes. 
• Iteratively improve on the product by running tests.
• Be responsible for prioritization of features based on an assessment of business impact & effort.
• Report findings & periodic reviews with Management. 
• The ideal candidate would have the following qualities   
  
  
• Understanding and experience of Digital Product Development Life Cycle.
• Excellent business analysis & problem-solving skills.
• Result-driven, goal-oriented work ethic.
• Customer empathy, ability to think from the user's point of view.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including technical writing skills.
• Understanding of technology and exposure to software coding.
• Experience in Business Requirement Specification documentation/product backlog (Epics, User stories).
• Experience of working in an agile environment is preferred.
• Understanding of user experience (UI/UX).
• Product development experience including experience in digital product building/tech delivery is preferred. 

Primary Skills & Criteria [Mandatory]

• Technology Business Analyst
• Experience with Finance IT, EPM IT, ETL Processes
• Minimum Work Experience: 12+ years

Other Requirements [Good to have]

• Exposure to tools like Jira, Confluence, etc.
• Exposure to development and production support processes
• Exposure to EPM tools [e.g., HFM, FMDEE, etc.]
• Candidate should be able to lead and track technical developments/tasks independently and present status to management
• Candidate should be self-motivated and self-sufficient to work independently without much supervision
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Role Duties/Activities

The Technology “Agile Business Analyst” or “Business Analyst” is responsible for ensuring the team works within an Agile delivery method and that their backlog of requirements and analysis feed into Technology Projects and Programmes successfully.

This role will carry out some or all of the following activities:

• Assures delivery through the entire life cycle of the project of user requirements through to live
• Managing the capture, analysis, and documentation of business process (including IT processes)
• Designing solutions or change interventions
• Oversee change management activities which can include diverse tasks such as timeline planning to
• stakeholder engagement
• Manage or collaborate in change interventions such as training and communication
• Tracking and documenting progress and managing status reporting
• Managing implementation of solutions
• Risk identification, risk reporting and devising interventions to mitigating risks
• Budget management and forecasting
• Management of external service providers
• Support Technology teams to manage delivery proactively, balancing scope, schedule, resourcing, dependencies, communications, etc.
• Work with the Technology team and Product Owner to drive improvements in productivity through backlog management, maturity in the use of Agile methodologies (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, Lean), and corresponding management of dependencies
• Oversee the monitoring and reporting of progress, issues, dependencies, risks to the stakeholders
• Ensure adherence to standard controls and drives teams to achieve compliance and framework,
• capability management, Security controls and technology architecture designs

 

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.

 

MTX Group Inc. is seeking motivated Project Managers to join our team. MTX Group Inc. is a global implementation partner enabling organizations to become fit enterprises. MTX provides expertise across various platforms and technologies, including Google Cloud, Salesforce, artificial intelligence/machine learning, data integration, data governance, data quality, analytics, visualization and mobile technology. MTX’s very own Artificial Intelligence platform, mavQ, enables clients to accelerate processes and critical decisions by leveraging a Cognitive Decision Engine, a collection of purpose-built Artificial Neural Networks designed to leverage the power of Machine Learning. The mavQ Platform includes Smart Asset Detection and Monitoring, Chatbot Services, Document Verification, to name a few.

Eligibility:

• 7-12 Years of Project Management experience
• PMP certification is a must
• Prince2 / CSM is preferred. 

Responsibilities:

• Customer facing role & owns the entire project lifecycle from initiation through closure by establishing a project plan & milestones
• Monitors and manages project financials, scope, and schedule to ensure the project stays on track for assigned client projects
• Drives the implementation of high-quality cloud solutions by closely engaging with all project team members (Tech Leads, Business Analysts, Developers, QA, etc)
• Acts as a primary day-to-day point of contact for the client and the operational aspects of the project
• Facilitates or co-leads with customer project manager on regular status meetings with the project team, sponsors, and all stakeholders
• Generates and distributes weekly status reports to various stakeholders at various forums
• Prepare weekly financial summary and take care of management reporting to track cost and ensure the financial health of the project
• Proactively identify and manage issues/risks throughout the project
• Provides mentoring and guidance to project team members
• Manage project dependencies, represent project in a various cross-project forum
• Procure project team; establish necessary team procedures
• Participates actively in CoEs, Discussion forums, advocates the use of MTX best practices

What you will bring:

• Any recognized Project Management Certification as mentioned in eligibility criteria.
• Hands-on experience in delivering/leading a project delivery
• Expertise in using project management tools like Smartsheets, Lucid charts, Google Apps, MS Office, etc
• Hands-on experience of various software delivery methodologies like Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, etc
• Hands-on experience of basic data tools like Excel, Google Sheets etc
• Understanding of various project contract types like time and material, fixed-price, etc.
• Flexibility to support and meet onshore client expectations
• Should be able to work and support clients located in EST time zones

What we offer:

• Group Medical Insurance (Family Floater Plan - Self + Spouse + 2 Dependent Children)
• Sum Insured: INR 5,00,000/- 
• Maternity cover upto two children
• Inclusive of COVID-19 Coverage
• Cashless & Reimbursement facility
• Access to free online doctor consultation

• Personal Accident Policy (Disability Insurance) -

• Sum Insured: INR. 25,00,000/- Per Employee
• Accidental Death and Permanent Total Disability is covered up to 100% of Sum Insured
• Permanent Partial Disability is covered as per the scale of benefits decided by the Insurer
• Temporary Total Disability is covered

• An option of Paytm Food Wallet (up to Rs. 2500) as a tax saver  benefit
• Monthly Internet Reimbursement of upto Rs. 1,000 
• Opportunity to pursue Executive Programs/ courses at top universities globally
• Professional Development opportunities through various MTX sponsored certifications on multiple technology stacks including Salesforce, Google Cloud, Amazon & others

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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:

• Getting hands on with core development work! Yes you’ll lead and manage your own team, but you’ll also frequently get down to coding, testing, and designing solutions
• Full Stack Development! Whether it is building a new product or taking an existing one to the next level, you’ll be expected to work on full-stack application development whenever the situation calls for
• Juggling Business and Technology! We want someone who can understand the client’s business requirements and be able to map technology solutions to make these requirements work
• Leading from the front! Your charismatic leadership skills will help in leading and motivating your team through all stages of the product development lifecycle.
• Being a Mentor! Your team will constantly look up to you for guidance in challenging situations and we are looking for someone who can bring them up as tomorrow’s leaders
• Sound technical depth with over 6 years of experience in Java and open source technologies and managing the end to end product development life cycle
• Exceptional communication skills that can be leveraged in effectively communicating with teams, clients and business leaders within the company
• Stellar business orientation and the ability to link technology and business to devise apt solutions

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in core Java/J2EE 
• Minimum 4 years of experience as a Technical Lead mentoring team of 3 to 5 developers
• Strong knowledge of one the web application framework such as Spring, Struts
• Strong knowledge of UI frameworks (AngularJS 2.0/4.0, ReactJS, Javascript, HTML, CSS) 
• Strong knowledge of web services (Restful) 
• Possess advanced knowledge of object-oriented design, data structure, and data architectures
• Good knowledge of relation database, SQL and ORM 
• Curiosity and attention to detail 
• Strong communicator with visual, verbal, and writing skills to clearly articulate complex design problems and solutions 
• Adaptable to changing technology and restrictions, design challenges, deadlines, and project requirements. 

Product Manager 

Purpose of the role 
A Product manager at CarWale would be responsible to deliver world-class products that solve real-world problems around car buying, by working in an agile framework of iterative development and collaboration.

 

They have to deliver great business value through user research , intelligent prioritization , and working with Stakeholders throughout the product lifecycle to ensure a great return on investment.

Role description

Primary responsibility of the role would be to define the product roadmap & backlog, work with business and functional teams to design and implement changes that drive user acquisition, user experience & monetization.

 

 Key responsibilities:

• Lead a development team to implement product changes while working collaboratively with multiple stake holders like Design, Sales, Operations & Management.
• Analyze data to derive product & business insights and use them to strategize changes.  Iteratively improve on the product by running tests
• Be responsible for prioritization of features based on assessment of business impact & effort.
• Report findings & periodic reviews with Management.

The ideal candidate would have the following qualities

.

• Understanding and experience of Digital Product Development Life Cycle
• Excellent business analysis & problem-solving skills
• Result-driven, goal-oriented work ethic
• Customer empathy, ability to think from user’s point of view
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including technical writing skills
• Understanding of technology and exposure to software coding
• Experience in Business Requirement Specification documentation/product backlog (Epics, User stories)
• Experience of working in an Agile environment is preferred
• Understanding of user experiences (UI/UX)
• Product development experience including experience in digital product building/tech delivery is preferred

About the Company 

CarWale is India's largest auto media company. CarWale has always striven to serve car buyers and owners in the most comprehensive and convenient way possible. We provide a platform where car buyers and owners can research, buy, sell and come together to discuss and talk about their cars.

 

Our mission is to bring joy and delight into car buying and ownership. To achieve this goal, we aim to empower Indian consumers to make informed car buying and ownership decisions with exhaustive and un-biased information on cars through our expert reviews, owner reviews, detailed specifications and comparisons. We understand that a car is by and large the second-most expensive asset a consumer associates his lifestyle with.

 

Together with CarTrade & BikeWale, we are the market leaders in the personal mobility media space.

Roles and Responsibilities :- Analyze all projects, identify all risk and prepare risk mitigation strategies, manage all resources efficiently and assist the project team to resolve all requests from project members.- Ensuring that all projects are delivered on-time, within the scope and within budget, bringing the planned impact (ROI).- Amazingly great in getting last mile execution done.- Coordinates cross-functional teams through meetings and progress measurement activity which bring distinct, specific projects to completion both on time and within budget.- Develop and deliver progress reports, requirements documentation and presentations.- Measure project performance using appropriate systems, tools, and techniques- Effectively communicate project expectations to project team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion- Working with CTO/Product Owner to set, improvise and define best practices for development and champion their adoption.- Perform well in uncertainties and collaborate and work with unclear interfaces to other teams in our fast-paced environment.- Smooth collaboration inter and intra-team. Being Accountable for all cross-team activities.Desired Skills and Experience :- 5+ years of background with understanding or hands-on experience in product software development, web technologies or quality assurance also have worked with updated technologies and new stacks.- 8+ years direct work experience in a project management capacity, including all aspects of process development and execution,, preferably in a product company or startup environment.- Strong project management skills with proven ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.- Experience with Agile methodologies. PMP is a plus.- Strong analytical & analyst thinking- Effective at acquiring an understanding of a problem or situation, and developing an approach to interacting with the situation.- Applying standards - Effective in the application of relevant industry and process standards to all tasks undertaken.- Aggressive & target oriented with a flair for building relationships- Excellent personal. People & communication skills- Excellent English writing skills, strong vocabulary, good comprehension skills- Experience in organization-wide initiatives and change management.- Ability to make quick decisions in high-pressure environments with limited information.