Project Manager - Technical

Position Title:   Scrum Master 

Experience :    6-10 Years

Location :       Hyderabad

Working Mode:  Hybrid

Primary Skills:    Scrum Master, Agile, Enterprise SAAS Application

Qualification:    BCA, MCA, B.Tech, M.Tech

Job Overview:

• Experience : 6 to 9 years
• 4-5+ years of Scrum master experience
• Scrum Master Certification (SAFe certification preferred)
• 5+ years of Agile Software Delivery experience using methodologies like Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• 5+ years of experience as a scrum master 
• 5+ years of experience in running agile teams delivering features/functions related to Enterprise applications such as Salesforce, Netsuite, Workday, etc.

• As a founding member of the Product team, you will be responsible for managing the roadmap, features and manage the product lifecycle of the Niro credit applications.

• Setup data-driven experiments to optimize for key metrics, conversions etc.

• Communicate extensively with users and stakeholders to understand their pain points and eliminate those.

• Define clear and well-scoped requirement documents.

• Work with engineers and designers and ship features and product improvements.

• 4+ years experience in Product Management and working closely with designers and engineering team members to ship products.

• Passion for solving consumer problems.

• Excellent communication skills.

• High affinity for making decisions with data.

• Prior Fintech experience and/ or experience in shipping delightful products is a plus.

• Prior experience with product experimentation is a plus.

• To work with smart, talented, fun people all around you.

• To work for a well-funded, fintech company with a good comp and benefits.

• Generous ESOP with no nasty clauses.

• Unlimited sick leave

• A learning wallet to upgrade your skills

ROLE
Associate Product Manager

WHY SHOULD YOU JOIN US?
At Vidyakul, you will have the opportunity to impact 60 million state board students’ lives by growing India’s first truly vernacular e-learning platform for 9-12 class state board students.

WHO ARE WE and WHAT IS OUR MISSION?
● Vidyakul is a pre-Series A funded EdTech startup based out of Gurgaon, that is truly democratizing education for the masses.
● Our Investors:
○ We Founder Circle - Backed marquee brands such as BluSmart & Zypp Electric
○ JITO Angel Network - Backed Finance Peer, largest lender of EdTech
○ Dholakia Ventures - Backed by the Diamond King of Surat
● Our Founders:
○ Tarun Saini - 3X founder, 8 years experience in Sales & Marketing
○ Raman Garg - 3X founder, 7 years experience in Ecommerce and Tech
● We are bridging the gap between the villages and quality education at an affordable cost.
● We are growing fast (3X Q-o-Q) and wish for you to be part of this rocketship!

WHAT IS THE ROLE?
About the Role: This role requires someone who would:

- Be responsible for creating and delivering on the product roadmap - Interface with design, engineering, business and growth teams and drive the desired outcome
- Understand user behaviour and champion consumers needs and strive to deliver the absolute best consumer experience

- Grow product adoption and key app metrics

Expectations/Requirements:

- A passionate APM / Senior Product Associate with 3+ years of experience in Product Management

- Someone with an entrepreneurial mindset who enjoys taking end-to-end ownership of the product and work across stakeholders to achieve the desired objectives for the product

- A keen eye for understanding the end user and creating product-led solutions to bridge user need gaps

- Strong analytical skills, ability to define KPIs, KPI dashboards and success metrics.

- Prioritization: The PM should be able to carry out effective prioritization of user stories balancing between user experiences, business requirements, tech debts and resourcing. Superpowers/ Skills that will help you succeed in this role:

- Love for simplifying - Knowledge of product development processes - Being a leader and an inspiration to your entire team - Ability to take internal and external stakeholders along

• Ideate & gather requirements from key stakeholders for new product development, including enhancement of the existing products.
• Create, maintain, and monitor product management processes to ensure excellence in execution during product development.
• Drive Product development/projects from inception to completion, identifying and managing risks, while navigating hurdles and resolving issues in real time to successfully complete projects on time.
• Managing the product backlog and prioritizing them based on changing requirements
• Continually evolve the project management process to ensure optimal efficiency and timeliness.
• Develop strong relationships and work collaboratively with the engineering teams/ external partners by defining joint roadmaps and managing multiple product development workflows simultaneously.
• Business Analyst (Agile), product management life cycle, sprint ceremonies, Backlog refinement

Ideal Candidate should have:

• 5+ years of experience; 2+ years as a product owner
• A Masters Degree (B.Tech+MBA is preferred)
• Strong experience in agile product development. A certification (Scrum/SAfe/PO) is preferred 
• Expertise in Business documentation &translating functional requirements into technical specifications.
• Extensive experience working in a scrum/Kanban environment
• Extensive experience defining agile requirements (Epics/stories), including functional and technical in a product/services organization
• Experience with Project Management Tool such as AzureDevOps/Jira

About Softobiz 

Innovation begins with like-minded people aiming to transform the world together. We invite you to become a part of an organization that has been helping clients transform their business by fusing insights, creativity, and technology. At Softobiz, we embrace a diverse mix of talented people who come here to stay and do their best work. Softobiz, a team of 250+ technology enthusiasts have been trusted by the leading enterprises around the globe for last 15+ years

At Softobiz, we transform passionate individuals into proficient professionals dedicated to exploring new frontiers in Software development. Here you will get the opportunity to work with technical craftsmen that are pioneer in latest technologies. We promote a culture of equality, learning, collaboration, and creative freedom so that our employees grow.

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Job Description:

• Understand business model and create project roadmap. Break down the big requirements into smaller chunks and prioritize as per the business outcome
• Actively work with product and technology team in a seamless manner
• Coordinate with the User Experience team to design the final intuitive UI and define the overall tech solution along with the IT team
• Leading project planning sessions
• Managing project progress and adapt work as required
• Ensuring projects meet deadlines
• Managing relationships with clients and stakeholders
• Conducting project review and creating detailed reports for executive staff
• Optimizing and improving processes and the overall approach where necessary
• Create User Journey as per Business expectations along with well-defined user cases, wire frames and workflow diagram
• Own the overall product and feature development projects

• Analyse user data & develop innovative growth hacks to drive user growth and engagement via all channels

Requirement / Desired Skills:

• Proven ability to lead, collaborate with cross-functional teams and manage interactions across Project life Cycle
• Hands on experience in creating user stories, user journey wire frames and workflow and defining acceptance criteria and success matrix
• Strong product design skills from both a technical API integration and user interface design perspective
• Excellent Project Management skills and experience working in Agile fashion
• Excellent communication skills to handle both executive-level discussions as well as functional/technical deep dives
• Demonstrate analytical and quantitative skills over performance matrices such as engagement, retention, conversion funnel, etc.

• Experience in a fin-tech domain is a plus.

A Technical Project Manager is responsible for providing project planning and management for established initiatives on behalf of company with all publisher partners. He/She will  ensure that projects are managed and completed to specification, within an established time frame. He/She will represent company as expert regarding technology concerns raised by partners. Individuals who work well in a collaborative environment and pay meticulous attention to detail tend to excel in the position of Technical Project Manager. Preferably have experience of working with SSP/ DSP.
 

Responsibilities
• Support Manager/Director in owning and developing strong relationships with the partners and key stakeholders at all levels
• Manage partner onboarding and implementation process including product, channel and partner activation, campaign launches, and ad-hoc projects
• Coordinate resource management and allocation and control activities across teams to ensure projects are delivered on-time and on budget
• Serve as the main point of contact for delivery and activation questions from the partner and issue resolution as needed. (i.e. communication and expectation setting, raising tickets)
• Understand and communicate relevant new products, features, and capabilities as they become available and ensure successful deployment and activation with your partners
• Lead Client Training (facilitating training programs, if required along with Directors)

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• 4+ years of work experience
• Understanding of adtech platforms and ideally have had hands on exposure with a DSP & SSP
• Experience with marketing campaign design, campaign management, and analysis preferred
• Diligent work ethic. Must be self-motivated and able to take the initiative to get the job done
• Collaborative mindset - able to partner with partners externally
• Strong customer facing communication skills, both written and verbal