Senior Product Manager

Designation: Creative Designer

● Location: Bandra West, Mumbai, India

● Position Type: Full-time, Permanent

Company Description

Brown Living (www.brownliving.in) is a platform focused on making Sustainable Living Easy, Accessible, and Affordable. As India's first plastic-free marketplace, we promote a sustainable and earth-friendly lifestyle. Our team curates a wide range of everyday-use products that are

ethically sourced and promote minimal waste. We support artisan groups and sustainable brands dedicated to creating a positive environmental impact. Through our platform, we are building India's largest ecosystem for sustainable living and empowering artisans, women entrepreneurs, and innovators to combat plastic pollution.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Creative Design & Strategy:

a. Conceptualize, strategize, and execute end-to-end design solutions for all marketing campaigns, ensuring alignment with brand objectives.

b. Develop creative assets including 2D, 3D designs, and motion graphics

(gifs, video edits) across various platforms.

c. Design emailers, newsletters, brochures, social media creatives, ad

creatives, and all marketing collaterals ensuring consistency and

alignment with brand guidelines.

d. Collaborate closely with the marketing team to design visually compelling assets that effectively communicate the brand’s message across all digital channels.

2. Website & UI/UX Design:

a. Design and maintain website UI, ensuring an intuitive and seamless user experience.

b. Conduct periodic UX reviews and provide actionable insights for

improvements.

c. Work closely with the tech team to implement UI/UX changes and

enhancements that drive user engagement and conversions.

3. Brand Management:

a. Manage and maintain Brown Living’s brand image and messaging across all platforms globally.

b. Ensure all creative outputs align with the brand’s ethos and guidelines,

maintaining a consistent and cohesive brand presence.

c. Create and maintain a brand asset library, ensuring all teams have access to up-to-date creative assets.

4. Campaign Planning & Execution:

a. Plan and execute multi-channel marketing campaigns, working in

tandem with internal teams and external agencies.

b. Develop comprehensive communication design strategies for various

digital platforms, ensuring that campaigns are creative, innovative, and

effective.

c. Track and analyze campaign performance, making data-driven

adjustments to strategies and creatives as needed.

d. Lead the creative process from concept to final execution, ensuring

deadlines and quality standards are met.

5. Market Research & Insights:

a. Conduct thorough market research to understand customer needs,

preferences, and trends.

b. Translate customer insights into compelling design strategies that

resonate with the target audience.

c. Stay updated with industry trends and best practices in design and digital marketing to continually refine and improve design strategies.

6. Collaboration & Communication:

a. Work collaboratively with the marketing, product, and tech teams to

ensure seamless execution of campaigns and projects.

b. Provide creative direction and guidance to junior designers, freelancers,

and external agencies, ensuring that all creative work aligns with brand

standards.

c. Communicate design concepts and strategies effectively to stakeholders, providing clear rationale and direction.

7. Continuous Improvement:

a. Regularly review and assess the effectiveness of creative strategies,

making necessary adjustments to improve outcomes.

b. Experiment with new design tools, techniques, and formats to keep

Brown Living’s creative output fresh and engaging.

c. Drive innovation in the design process, constantly seeking ways to

improve efficiency, creativity, and impact.

Key Result Areas (KRA):

1. Design Quality & Consistency:

a. Ensure all creative outputs are of high quality, align with brand guidelines, and are delivered on time.

b. Maintain a consistent brand image across all digital and offline platforms.

2. Campaign Effectiveness:

a. Measure the success of marketing campaigns through KPIs such as

engagement rates, click-through rates, and conversion rates.

b. Adjust design strategies based on performance data to optimize future

campaigns.

3. UI/UX Enhancement:

a. Improve website user engagement and experience through regular UX

reviews and design enhancements.

b. Increase conversion rates and reduce bounce rates by implementing

effective UI/UX strategies.

4. Brand Growth & Awareness:

a. Contribute to the growth of Brown Living’s brand awareness and

reputation through impactful design and communication strategies.

b. Ensure a positive and consistent global brand presence across all

marketing channels.

5. Innovation & Experimentation:

a. Continuously explore and implement new design trends, tools, and

technologies to keep the brand’s creative output innovative and ahead of

the curve.

b. Introduce at least two new creative approaches or tools each quarter to

improve campaign effectiveness.

6. Collaboration & Communication:

a. Foster effective collaboration between the design team and other

departments, ensuring clear communication and smooth workflow.

b. Provide timely and constructive feedback to junior designers and external agencies, ensuring high standards are maintained.

Qualifications:

1. Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, or a related field.

2. 3-5 years of experience in creative design, with a strong portfolio showcasing work across various media including 2D, 3D, video, and digital platforms.

3. Proficiency in design tools such as Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere Pro), Figma, Sketch, etc.

4. Strong understanding of UI/UX principles and experience in website design and optimization.

5. Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

6. Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple projects simultaneously.

7. A keen eye for detail and a passion for sustainability and mindful living.

Join us at Brown Living and be part of a mission-driven company that’s changing the way the world thinks about sustainable consumption.

How to Apply:

Interested candidates can apply online via the job application form available here - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdgb8MMrZX0STJb1Nt63jizdYccAxTQWbAmFAt4YcoAJBJlmg/viewform

Read More:

1. Website - https://brownliving.in/

2. About Brown Living’s Mission & Vision - https://brownliving.in/pages/about-us

3. Meet the Brown Living Team - https://brownliving.in/pages/our-team

4. Work with Us - https://brownliving.in/pages/work-with-us

5. The Brown Lens Curation Method - https://brownliving.in/pages/the-brown-lens

6. Brown Living’s Impact - https://brownliving.in/pages/our-impact-plastic-free-carbon-neutral-shopping

OBJECTIVE :

- The Product Development team within PayMate works with business to establish the overall strategy and priorities for the products and platforms. Based on the business strategy and overall priorities, the Product Development team creates product plan, including high level business requirements, solution designs, benefits definition and aligns with overall go to market rollout plan.

- We are looking to hire Product Managers with Payments background and Supply Chain Finance experience. You will engage existing and potential customers directly, and decide the future of the product based upon a strong understanding of the customer requirements. You will also collaborate with technology, marketing, sales and support to solve for the best customer experience.

- The candidate should be willing to accept a dynamic and multi-faceted role requiring to work across several teams and even geographies, while working with the core management team on the best way forward to help achieve our collective goals.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES :

- Build a scalable Payments Automation System

- Meet regularly with key customer facing teams to collect and analyse user feedback to shape new product ideas and user requirements.

- Implements usage tracking and analyse patterns to validate new feature requirement.

- Have strong solution skills in translating customer needs to product functionalities.

- Convert ideas to prototypes and demonstrate them to the key partners.

- Stay on top of the market and competition.

- Act like an owner for the success of your product.

- Will be responsible for the end to end product roadmap from features creation, prioritization, go live, onboarding process streamlining.

- Responsible for regular running of solutions and products - monitoring success through revenue

- Maintain communication among and between stakeholders - interacting with business managers to ideate the requirements , work with the technology teams to implement the solutions

- Collaborate and work with various internal departments and external vendors in the launch and implementation of the processing platform for specific clients in the specific markets and regions. This involves working with the technical teams for roadmap, feature and release management

- Definition of platform features include creating detailed user and process flows

- technical level designs and algorithms to satisfy the feature requirements

- Working with clients to define business requirements from the high level down to the detailed levels.

- Work with the technical development teams to review the solution and technical designs with an understanding of how the solution impacts the overall platform architecture

- Work with the technical testing teams to review the test cases and testing to ensure newly defined platform features are properly tested

- Some platform features require the development of new APIs for which field level designs are required.

- Collaborate and work closely with our external processing partners and vendors in the launch and implementation of the processing platform for all markets and regions.

- Work with our processing partners to ensure the card processor's platform has features that are needed for the specific markets in question and where there are gaps to draft up the solution in conjunction with our partners and have that delivered in a timely manner

- This role would require the person to work across geographies, time zones, cultures and competencies as well as internal teams who might not be very familiar with global payments & its intricacies

- Be willing to get your hands dirty - from writing feature stories, drawing swim lane diagrams to running sprint meetings, you will do it all

- You would be required to articulate & justify your vision & strategy behind you roadmap to domain experts & leaders again & again in a crowded & evolving payment stage

- Dealing with engineers & architects to design new flows, adapt systems to new market innovations while maintaining integrity & scalability of the platform is vital

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE :

- 5-7 years of experience in product management with 3 or more years in Payments background

- Strong customer centricity

- Ability to think creative and solve problem

- Familiarity in agile development framework will be preferable.

- Prior experience at fast growing fintech / B2B startups will be preferable

- Highly adaptable and aware. Comfortable in an evolving and dynamic environment.

- Good networker: persuasive with excellent interpersonal skills.

- You are comfortable working hands-on in a fast-paced start-up environment

- Problem-solving and detail orientation come naturally to you.

- Worked with banking & payments partners

- An engineering degree (a management degree is a bonus, not mandatory)

- Formal product management training - good to have

- Knowledge of Product Management tools like Trello, JIRA, Figma, MS Projects, Postman, etc.

About Us :

We are the largest and most active online platform for international education!

Yocket was established in 2015 with a mission to connect people to the world's best learning opportunities.

Today, Yocket is the largest community-driven online platform for international education. We help study abroad aspirants by connecting them to the best universities over the world. Till date, we have helped more than 10,00,000 students across countries pursue their higher education.

Every day thousands of students use our products to explore universities and connect with peers and alumni from renowned universities. Recently we were chosen as one of the Top 100 Indian Startups by Google and MeitY’s Appscale Academy Initiative !! We’re also ranked #18 on AppStore Top Charts - Education!

At Yocket, we strive to help our employees find passion and purpose. Join us in changing the way students make their decisions about education. If you wish to create an impact and help students get the best education by taking our vision ahead, we would love to have you on our team!

Job Description:

-The employee will be involved in direct sales.

- Will be responsible to build rapport with students and their parents.

- Needs to have an understanding of the student profile.

- Good to have CRM Knowledge

- Good target records

- Open to making from different sources

- Open to traveling

- Open to attending Virtual events and Physical events/seminars/Webinars

Requirements:

0- 1 year of experience in Sales

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

- Highly organized with excellent attention to detail.

- Prior experience in sales/knowledge of sales tools

Benefits :

* Medical Insurance

* 6 days a week and Flexible work timings

* No boss kinda culture (We have mentors, not bosses, bring your own idea to the table without any hesitation)

* Access to your personal psychological counselor (We take care of your mental well-being)

*Please note that the selected candidate will have to work from our Mumbai Office for 6 days*

• Mandatory skills: Spring boot, Hibernate, Microservice
• Strong Java skills including Java 8 features 
• Good understanding of Microservices-based architecture and the related ecosystem 
• Exposure to MS SQL Server, Sybase etc. and NoSQL databases like MongoDB is also preferred.
• Great OO skills, including strong design patterns knowledge 
• Strong knowledge of software best practices, like Test-Driven Development (TDD) and
• Continuous Integration (CI) 
• Strong Knowledge of Data Structures & Algorithms
• Experience in working with data-driven RESTful APIs using web frameworks like SpringBoot,etc. 
• Should be able to do data modeling
• Good understanding of ORMs like Hibernate, JPA, etc. 
• Strong debugging skills
• Familiarity with architectural/ design patterns
• Advanced knowledge of Agile methodology.

Job Area Engineering - Software

Location Remote

Job Description

This position is ideal for a Senior SW engineer who is passionate about solving challenging business problems and building security services that provide an excellent client experience. You will be an integral part of the vulnerability assessment product development team focusing on designing, coding, and testing new and enhanced security services for z/Linux. The successful candidate should be a self-motivated individual with expert software engineering skills and solid expertise with IBM mainframe technologies. Candidate must be flexible and willing to switch tasks based on team's needs.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
• 1+ years experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.
• Linux kernel and device driver development
• Experience with development boards such as DragonBoard
• Experience with python, perl, rust, shell scripting
• C programming and debugging skills

Preferred Qualifications

• CPU and cache architectures
• Experience with JTAG and GDB debuggers
• Linux Kernel upstream patch submission
• CPU performance and power analysis

• Independent and self-motivated problem solver and strategic thinker
• Proficient in Git for development and patch/branch management

Essential Functions

• Good planning, time management, decision-making, presentation, and organization skills
• Effective written and verbal communication
• Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills

• Managing digital/content marketing activities for our global clients.
• Content writing and updates.
• Influencer marketing and Blogger Outreach.
• Excellent writing and grammatical skills with the ability to write quickly, concisely, and accurately.
• Willingness to work in a dynamic environment and willingness to learn new things and styles.
• Ability to write compelling content on various topics.
• Convince others that your ideas are worth investing time and effort in. This role is at the core of the content marketing team, and others will rely on your work every single day.
• Search Engine Optimisation
• Influencer marketing and Blogger Outreach
• Social Media Marketing