Senior Product Manager

Vakilsearch is the leading Legal, Tax and Compliance (LTC) company in India. We are here to revolutionize the way business work with the Government. We are working on exciting and transformative products to revolutionize the LTC space. At Vakilsearch, we believe the future of legal in India lies in great products. 

If you're passionate about real change, love building products and are curious about marketing and the overall customer experience, this is for you.

The product manager (PM) will manage the direction and market delivery of existing products and identifying new products, product features, product strategy, and relevant services.

In This Job, You Will:

• Work with Senior Engineers across multiple teams and business stakeholders to design and build highly available and scalable systems
• Use Lean Software Development processes such as Agile, Scrum, and Kanban
• Drive strategic upward product communications internally and externally
• Drive alignment on product features, business metrics, and business strategies
• Work and collaborate effectively with tech teams and launch to production
• Understand business context to decisions made within and across the organization

This Role Might Be for You If:

• You have experience in owning a suite of products and defining long-term product strategy and vision
• You possess strong business acumen with strategic, analytical, and critical thinking
• You understand technical software development life cycle and have knowledge on how to drive teams towards business solutions
• You excel in owning and driving the development of technical products
• You drive strategic product communications across organizations providing clarity in decisions

Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Translate business strategy into product strategy.
• Understanding user needs, knowing the difference between ‘wants’ and ‘needs’ and
  converting these into Products.
• Own the product roadmap and execute product strategy.
• Collect, manage and maintain traceability of requirements from all stakeholders across product releases.
• Write requirements – typically as user stories and epics.
• Maintain and prioritize the product backlog.
• Track releases.
• Building lean and agile Products, know how to accurately test hypotheses in the
  lightest way possible and be comfortable using lean UX techniques.
• Driving new features forward in weekly sprints.
• Balancing internal stakeholders’ requests & bugs.
• Monitor, report and improve product performance.
• Participate in scrum meetings, planning, reviews and retrospectives.
• Support the development team with any questions they may have.

• Nature of Experience:
• Experience in Agile development.
• Proven track record bringing innovation to on-demand SaaS software.
• Should be able to work and remain calm even under pressure situations, and should be able to address and resolve any relevant issues.
• Should be able to work with a diverse range of people and communicate with them effectively.
• High levels of confidence, maturity, and competence are required.

• Length of Experience: 4 - 8 years.
• 4+ years in Software or Saas Industry with 4+ years in Product Management.
• Formal Agile Training
• Programming, UI/UX, or QA experience preferred.
• Experience in Legal Industry or Legal Technologies is an added advantage.

Product Manager | Keka

We are looking for a product manager that is strong in Tech, UX, and Marketing to work on our SaaS platform, which is now ranked top HR platform in India.

The product space we are in poses engineering challenges of an ERP and yet, demands a user experience of a consumer platform. While accommodating the myriad and varying business needs of thousands of customers, we still need to provide the best user experience without complicating the product. Such holistic marriage of engineering and UX excellence is where our competitors struggle and Keka thrives. As a product manager, you'd be leading this effort. We are looking for the following traits in you. 

A Visual thinker:

This is the first and foremost important trait we need in you. A visual thinker who can cut through myriad pieces of information and create sense in a clear and concise way.

More about Visual thinking below: 

http://www.xplaner.com/visual-thinking-school/ 

https://www.lifehack.org/275993/7-things-only-visual-thinkers-will-understand 

A keen sense of design:

There are two people: Those who understand design and those who don't. While wireframing is a good start, a keen sense of visual design and aesthetics is a must. You don't have to be a great visual designer, but you should contrast between a good design and a bad design and pick what is right for your product working with a UX designer. 

Empathetic:

Understanding customers, their pain points, and success factors require empathy. In your role as a Product Manager, working with various stakeholders, constantly mediating and forging compromises between different viewpoints, it is easy to lose track of customers. Empathy towards customer needs serves as your north star there. You must successfully represent the customer’s needs, who is never present during internal decision-making but is the most essential stakeholder. 

Biased towards execution:

All talk and intellect without execution are useless if it doesn't translate to the outcome. A strong bias for execution and getting things out the door, therefore, is a must.  

Tech Background is a big plus:

A Product manager from a tech background is quick in independent decision making and will feel most comfortable working with engineers. Not to mention, we are in the enterprise SaaS space where platform thinking and technical integrations are very much part of the product. 

Roles & Responsibilities: 

• Understand overall market, competitive space, determine market segmentation, positioning
• Understand user needs, pain points, and success factors
• Create a vision/strategy for the product that responds to these user and market needs
• Convey the strategy in form of short- and long-term product roadmap, prioritize features based on priority and execution time.
• Coordinate and support different teams all through the product life cycle
• Business, engineering, design, sales, marketing, and support teams
• Manage end to product development and delivery by conducting scrums, managing feature release, and developing sales and marketing content for the releasing features

Save time and do not apply:

• if, you don’t have B2B SaaS product experience
• if, you haven’t worked end to end from concept to successful rollout
• if, you haven’t sold a product or faced customers
• if, you don’t like writing or storytelling
• if, you can’t handle sales or engineering push back. 

• Driving the entire vision and delivery of new products, features to keep the business relevant and competitive
• Conducting market and product research to identify potential features or releases
• Managing the roadmap, prioritizing product opportunities, refining feature ideas and maintaining existing features to drive business goals
• Maintaining and updating existing features
• Producing high-level product requirements, iterating with your design and engineering teams
• Engaging stakeholders in leadership, research, data and support
• Coordinating across teams to maintain product and strategy alignment
• Coordinating go-to-market strategies when launching a new product or feature

Desired Candidate Profile

• Bachelor degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience
• Technical background will be a plus
• 10+ years’ experience in fintech product management and market strategy
• Relevant experience in a Fintech Company, especially in the Payments, Digital Banking, Open banking and API banking
• Well-versed with Fintech Innovations in the South East Asian Market
• Proven track record of working with designers, engineers and various stakeholders to coordinate, plan, execute and track product releases from beginning to end
• Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to think outside the box and roll up one’s sleeves to get the job done
• High energy, hands-on, detailed-oriented and ability to work independently
• High degree of self-initiative
• Ability to think outside the box
• Good organizing skills
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Team handling skills
• Ability to work and thrive within a fast paced, culturally diverse and hands-on environment    

• Deeply understand what drives customer purchase decisions, what companies do today to meet those customer needs, and how 3D/AR technology can address current pain points.
• Ideate new formats for interactive 3D/AR commerce that deliver customer delight. 
• Build the engine that powers the next stage of interactive shopping experiences – current on smartphones and future on AR glasses.
• Build cutting-edge products with real-time computer vision, NLP, and other machine learning technologies.
• Ride the massive Augmented Reality wave with the introduction of AR glasses.
• Explore the trillion-dollar global potential of 3D and AR-powered commerce.

What we look for:

• Minimum of 4+ years of software product management experience, preferably in the Product based, e-Commerce, or Retail industry.
• Ability to solve complex problems using first principles thinking and translate these solutions for engineering teams to execute.
• Have solid execution capability and can inspire a team to deliver challenging projects with high-quality delivery. 
• Up to date with the latest developments in AR and AI technologies.
• Preferably with previous experience as a software engineer and moved to a product management role.
• Preferably have experience working on e-commerce product descriptions or brand pages.
• Preferably have experience building and launching deep learning AI (computer vision, NLP, etc) products.
• Someone who loves learning and can step out of your comfort zone to quickly pick up and apply new technologies and concepts.

What’s in it for you? 

• Join a highly energetic and innovative team 
• Be part of the key function of the business transformation 
• Competitive compensation and enjoy a workplace flexibility culture

What problems will you be working on: 

• Work with community leaders to closely understand their behaviour
• Reimagine users flows for assisted behaviour of community leaders
• Gamify community leader journey to grow on CityMall platform
• Integrate workflows between WhatsApp, CL app and End Cx App

Desired skill sets :

• Engineering or MBA from Tier 1 colleges (IITs / IIM)
• 5+ years of experience in product in high growth startup
• Supreme problem solving ability
• Location - Gurgaon

We are looking for experienced and entrepreneurial product leaders with a “co-founder” mindset,to help build and scale a world-class product organization in Bangalore. If you are excited about fintech, zero to one products, working with and learning from a phenomenal team of product,engineering, research, design, operations, and business leaders, this is the role for you.


KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
- Ideal product manager will be passionate and will deliver an unparalleled customer and user experience
- The product manager would stand for customers and identify key insights from customer research, interviews, surveys etc.
- The product manager will create a strategy and bottom up roadmap with ruthless prioritization to lead an area end to end within the product org
- The product manager will hustle and do whatever it takes to get things done

- Ship fast without sacrificing quality (MVP driven approach); then leverage data and feedback for iterations
- The product manager will own the go to market of the product, will measure the impact of the various products that are launched

- Align key stakeholders on the problem, solution, setting expectation and communicate effectively

- Must be an innovative, strategic thinker and must be able to work in a fast-paced dynamic environment with changing priorities

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE/ QUALIFICATIONS
The ideal candidate profile will be:
- Overall experience of 5+ yrs with at least 3+ yrs in product management in a tech-led company (consumer internet space is preferred)
- Exceptional problem-solving skills based on first principles thinking 

- Have solved complex & ambiguous problem at scale to create significant impact
- Adopt a structured approach to identify what problems need to be solved and break them down into smaller chunks
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to justify requirements, features and drive management of a product.
- Proven ability to deliver first class customer experiences with a deep understanding of UX best practices.
- High attention to detail and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously with minimal supervision.
- Ability to scale a product post launch and drive adoption, track metrics and plan next steps

• Overall 9-16 years of experience.
• Minimum 7 years of strong consumer internet related Product and 2 years in fintech.
• Management background preferably in eCommerce /Technology/ Fintech / Banking industry.
• Understanding & having gone through the pain of what it takes to build a great product
• Passion for Results: High degree of commitment with bias for execution excellence.
• Excellent academic background and records.
• Extra-ordinary skills in crisis management, inter-personal communication, collaboration and team work.
• Master of multiple tasking.
• Takes on initiatives and challenges.
• In short, we are looking for superstar leader to join a superstar team.