Senior Product Manager

Responsibilities: 

• Responsible for monitoring project deliverables on day to day basis 
• Required to update relevant stakeholders or team members on the project's progress. 
• Assist, train, and ensure project team members with tasks that you have assigned to them. 
• Test the product modules and manage the change request, bug reports, etc. 
• Assist project managers in the planning, execution, and monitoring of projects Develop and maintain project plans, timelines, and progress reports. 
• Facilitate communication between intern stakeholders, clients, vendors, and management. 

Qualifications:

•  Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience. 
• 3+ years of relevant Project Management experience. 
• Strong verbal, written, and organizational skills for documentation, user stories, etc. 
• Proficient in MS Excel, and Presentation. Proficient in Jira, Confluence, and Notion is a plus. 
• Excellent organizational and time-management skills. 
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written. 
• Ability to work well in a team environment. 
• Experience with project management tools and software. 
• Ability to identify project risks and issues, and develop mitigation plans.

• 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    

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.

• Building instranal dashboards to measure execution success of programs
• Identifying and build automated solutions for manual processes using data insights
• Supervising efficient working of all phases of product development.
• Administering the lifecycle of products from conceptualization to implementation, analyzing all business requirements and translating it into production
• Working closely with design, operations, engineering and testing teams in an agile environment to launch products with new features. 
• Determine the product requirements through user engagement, translate requirements to detailed, crisp business requirements and user stories that can be used to create product specifications and architecture. 
• To drive strategic projects aimed at improving the adoption of products/ services or their individual features 
• Driving operational efficiency by continually refining operational processes and influencing Product/engineering teams to enable automation and scale
• Providing directions to the team on technical, deployment procedures, operational process & communication areas.
• Analyzing reports and following up process and results, and monitoring meetings to identify and suggest product improvements and trends
• Managing different teams and complex business processes and working across internal and external stakeholders
• Suggest product enhancements to improve user experience
• Perform quality assurance controls on products
• Prioritize the implementation of new features and set specific timelines
• Create support and training documents for internal and external users

VP engineering would be leading the technology (engineering) team of 25 (and counting) to build a world-class SAAS product that is serving 7000+ businesses (or 50,000 users) across the globe. The person would be responsible to oversee the product development and technology research ensuring scalability and effectiveness. The core role would involve leading development, managing team & processes leading to effective technology products as an outcome.

The person would be responsible for leading the product development to scale to a million businesses over the next ten years or 25K businesses in the next 3 years. The person should be able to build a team & process accordingly to ensure a smooth growth path for the product and company. The mission would be to build fully horizontal architecture & micro services with robust security.

• Leading the technology development by learning and researching the best upcoming technology. Analyzing current technology gaps in the system and evangelizing for better state of art technology development.

• Evaluating technology architecture, gaps, and improvisation requirements. Building new architectures for further product development along with elaborated documentations.

• Leading the team of software engineers to guide them with the best technology and process practices. Coaching and motivating the team to ensure enhanced performance across teams. 

• Engaging with Product teams to shape the product roadmap. Working with the tech support team to analyze open issues and bugs and ensure an efficient process for fixing the same.

• Building processes for product development, security audits, new recruitment, technology research, technical documentation, etc. 

Responsibilities :

- Build the product strategy and roadmap in line with customers problems and company's vision

- Lead a set of cross functional teams by translation of the product strategy into detailed requirements and prototypes to drive the product development goals

- Identify market opportunities with research and competitive analysis and integrate it into product requirements to enhance user satisfaction

- Analyze complex use cases with experience in using analytics platforms to understand product usability and break them down to simplify user experience

- Design simple and intuitive user interfaces through wireframes and mock-ups

- Listen to the clients on an ongoing basis, be a trusted advisor and work towards aligning our offerings to their expectations

- Develop and launch new products while enhancing the existing products on a timely basis

- Communicate the product solutions and offerings effectively internally and externally

- Be persistent and professional in pursuit of all product deliverables and documentation such as PRD and Knowledge Base

- Be updated with the emerging trends in IT and technical architecture

Requirements :

- Masters Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Management, Statistics or related field

- 3+ years of experience managing web and mobile products with a background in technical product management or engineering

- 7+ years of experience in building global enterprise SaaS products

- Prior experience in logistics, supply chain, e-commerce or transportation domain is a plus

- Proven ability to drive large scale products with deep understanding of agile, high collaboration and leadership in a highly accelerated work environment

- Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills with a fair understanding of what makes a good user experience and beautiful design

- Spontaneous, quick thinker and a self-starter with key organizational skills that includes attention to detail and multi-tasking

Experience and Educational Requirements:

• 7 years of experience as a Solutions Architect/Developer, designing and implementing global cloud-based solution architectures for PaaS, IaaS or SaaS.
• Experience with structured Enterprise Architecture practices, hybrid cloud deployments, and on-premise-to-cloud migration deployments and roadmaps.
• Experience with distributed computing, software development, big data analytics, cloud computing, virtualization, hosted services, multi-tenant cloud, storage systems or content delivery as well as security protocols.
• Experience developing the User Interface and User Experience for complex software solutions deployed globally
• Experience with all major programming languages and SaaS database technologies
• Experience in building and scaling up the development function and a proven ability to attract, inspire, motivate and retain top tier talent
• Experience working with large multi-national distributed teams
• Experience articulating complex topics to senior stakeholders in both business and IT teams effectively .
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.