Sales-BDM/BDE

As a Product Manager at Brainstorm Force, you’ll be at the forefront of shaping the direction of our WordPress products and SaaS applications, bridging the gap between stakeholders, development teams, and customers.

From conducting market research and defining product roadmaps to overseeing feature delivery, acceptance testing, and post-launch optimization, you’ll play a pivotal role in driving product innovation, enhancing user experiences, and achieving business objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

Product Vision and Strategy:

• Define the overarching vision and strategic goals for our product portfolio.
• Conduct market research, competitor analysis, and gather customer feedback.
• Identify opportunities for product differentiation and innovation.

Roadmap Planning and Prioritization:

• Develop product roadmap, prioritize features based on business objectives and customer needs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment (development, support and marketing)

Product Mockups:

• Work closely with the team to plan product features and create mockups.
• Ensure that product designs align with user needs and business objectives.

Feature Definition:

• Work closely with the team to define user stories, acceptance criteria, and feature specifications.
• Prioritize features based on their impact on users, revenue and market competitiveness.

Feature Acceptance:

• Conduct final acceptance testing to ensure that features meet quality standards.
• Provide the final go-ahead for product releases based on acceptance testing results.
• Ensure adherence to timelines.

Stakeholder Engagement and Communication:

• Engage with stakeholders and align customers satisfaction with business goals.
• Communicate product vision, roadmap, and progress to internal teams and external stakeholders.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• In-depth knowledge of WordPress ecosystem and familiarity with relevant technologies.
• Understanding of user needs and business objectives
• Ability to prioritize features based on their impact on user satisfaction and business goals.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate data insights into actionable strategies and plans.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage with stakeholders.
• Experience working in tools like Jira, Linear, etc for backlog management.
• Proven track record of product planning, acceptance testing, and product design.

Your Success:

Your success will be measured by following KPIs that reflect the impact of your contributions:

Product Growth and Revenue:

• Market share or penetration of the product compared to competitors.
• Revenue generated by the product.
• Percentage growth in product revenue over time.

Customer Satisfaction and Retention:

• Net Promoter Score (NPS) or customer satisfaction survey results.
• Customer retention rate or churn rate.
• Customer feedback and sentiment regarding overall product experience.

Product Performance and Market Positioning:

• Market share or competitive positioning of the product.
• Customer perception of product differentiation and value proposition compared to alternatives.

Innovation and Product Roadmap Execution:

• Rate of new feature delivery or innovation.
• Percentage of product roadmap milestones achieved on schedule.
• Adoption rate of new product features or enhancements.

Team Collaboration and Alignment:

• Feedback from cross-functional teams regarding collaboration and alignment with product strategy.
• Team morale and satisfaction with product direction and leadership.
• Effectiveness of communication and alignment with stakeholders.

What your day job looks like at GroupM:

• Develop strong relationships with counterparts in GroupM regional teams (Europe, U.S., Asia)
• Support the training and growth of your team
• Enforce retail/ecomm. best practices with a focus on platform expertise, consistency, and quality of work delivery
• Be accountable for consistent work delivery to GroupM regional teams by ensuring a high quality of output
• Serve as point of escalation for your team and take ownership of resolving any issue
• Provide career development and coaching for your team
• Line manage 2-5 direct reports
• Provide timely and actionable feedback to the team to aid in their development, improvement, and progress. Provide awareness and recognition for jobs well done
• Present strong and effective communication across all levels

What you’ll bring:

• You are proficient in English
• You have 5+ year experience of planning and managing retail Search campaigns
• You have a high-level knowledge of retail Search platforms and third-party tools (Google Merchant Centre (Shopping Campaigns), Helium10, AMS, Kroger, Walmart, Pacvue, Instacart)
• You have expertise of handling online portal sellers on multi-channel, multi-platform model
• You have a strong hold on feed creation, feed management, Listing of products on all platforms, maintaining hygiene across all portals
• You possess strong analytical skills and a natural affinity for numbers to optimize for results
• You can examine raw data, draw conclusions and develop actionable recommendations as needed
• You have experience maintaining quality standards at scale
• You have experience providing service to local teams from a centralized location
• You have a passion for everything digital, with an active interest and understanding of online advertising industry trends
• You have excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• You are proficient in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets

3 to 7 years of Overall testing experience.

 Test Automation Experience with the tool Selenium or Katalon.

 Should have experience in Test Automation Framework like TestNG and Cucumber

Framework.

 Able to manage test activities in medium to large projects.

 Demonstrates appropriate interpersonal skills required to establish effective working

relationships with clients and/or business partners.

 Should be familiar with the Software Testing tools, techniques and market trends.

 Should review user and functional requirements and provide feedback; they will

Informally test early versions of functionality and develop increasingly complete test

scripts and traceability.

 Participate in test execution and monitor the progress of execution.

 Proactively engage with all team members including developers, business users and

business analysts.

 Writes, reviews and executes formal test scripts including setup and data

requirements, procedures and expected results

 Able to provide direct input to project estimates and documentation (Project Plan

document, URS, FRS, Design docs)

 Reviews project requirements, plans and prototypes and providing input.

 Agile/ Scrum experience.

 Katalon Tool knowledge is preferable.

 Clinical domain knowledge is preferable.

• You have experience with two or more development languages preferably Java or Python and React, etc 
• You can skillfully write high-quality, well-tested code and you are comfortable with Object-Oriented programming
• Comfortability with Agile methods, such as Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum and/or Kanban
• Bonus points if you have working knowledge of cloud technology such as AWS, Azure, Kubernetes and Docker

• Be the analytical expert in Kaleidofin, managing ambiguous problems by using data to execute sophisticated quantitative modeling and deliver actionable insights.
• Develop comprehensive skills including project management, business judgment, analytical problem solving and technical depth.
• Become an expert on data and trends, both internal and external to Kaleidofin.
• Communicate key state of the business metrics and develop dashboards to enable teams to understand business metrics independently.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across teams to drive data analysis for key business questions, communicate insights and drive the planning process with company executives.
• Automate scheduling and distribution of reports and support auditing and value realization.
• Partner with enterprise architects to define and ensure proposed.
• Business Intelligence solutions adhere to an enterprise reference architecture.
• Design robust data-centric solutions and architecture that incorporates technology and strong BI solutions to scale up and eliminate repetitive tasks.

• Experience leading development efforts through all phases of SDLC.
• 2+ years "hands-on" experience designing Analytics and Business Intelligence solutions.
• Experience with Quicksight, PowerBI, Tableau and Qlik is a plus.
• Hands on experience in SQL, data management, and scripting (preferably Python).
• Strong data visualisation design skills, data modeling and inference skills.
• Hands-on and experience in managing small teams.
• Financial services experience preferred, but not mandatory.
• Strong knowledge of architectural principles, tools, frameworks, and best practices.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills to communicate and collaborate with all levels of the organisation.
• Preferred candidates with less than 30 days notice period.