Senior Technical Manager for Dubai location

We are on a mission to enable businesses to build agile and accountable technology teams that can deliver results in a secure and scalable way. You will be working in one such technology team for a client based out of US.

We are looking for a Technical Project Manager to join our awesome team and deliver a streamlined user experience. We want a team member who is well versed and comfortable spanning the full development lifecycle, from requirements identification and prototyping, through design and implementation. We want a team member who Leads projects and teams. Participates in and supports initiatives outside of the main area of responsibility.

Engineering and Delivery

• Responsible for the quality and quantity of the engineering output.
• Responsible for the continuous, iterative improvement of our engineering team.
• Responsible for the overall planning, execution, and success of complex technical projects.
• Work closely with the client & product management team to ensure we are building the best products & team is aligned to product goals.
• When necessary, act as Programmer, QA, Architect, PM, etc for short periods of time.

Managing and Directing

• Talk to engineers to tease out concerns early, then fix them when possible.
• Resolve conflicts or performance problems with engineers.
• Embody the engineering culture and contribute to its advancement, inspiring everyone to live up to it.
• Maintainer and contributor to our company engineering internal and public artifacts such as our quality standards and guidelines.
• Represent the engineering with other departments and ensure we provide engineering support wherever necessary in the company.
• Support team happiness. :)

Hiring and Training

• Attract, nurture, coach, and retain talent.
• Ensure every assigned engineer has a career progression plan with regular check-in points and real-time feedback.
• Ensure engineers are provided with continuous and valuable learning opportunities.
• Contribute to determining engineering salary ranges and adjustments.
• Contribute to defining and building the vision for our engineering organization.
• Contribute to defining quality standards for our work.
• Contribute to creating training and learning material and opportunities for engineers.

Strategy and Consulting

• Run and/or participate in project kick-offs.
• Work with your team to select and design the software architecture, tools, and platforms used to deliver client projects.
• Define quality standards for client projects.

• BSc/BE/BTech in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
• 8+ years Experience with  at least one scripting language: Ruby, Nodejs, Python, AppleScript, Unix shell or similar
• Good knowledge of operating systems and networking concepts
• Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem solving skills
• Startup mentality, high willingness to learn, and hardworking
• Critical thinker and problem-solving skills
• Team player
• Good time-management skills
• Great interpersonal and communication skills
• Good to have - Experience with Google Maps API
• Good to have - Familiar with testing frameworks (Ex. Jasmine)

•  Maintaining an updated status of projects that are underway.
•  Tracking utilization of resources and maintaining plan for them.
•  Manage Invoicing.
•  Prepare and track project progress and ensure all project activities are completed on-time.
•  Track project work times and keep accurate timesheets.
•  Run project status meetings, daily stand-ups, and other team   meeting.
•  Data collection and preparation of templates.
•  Coordinate between various internal teams/clients.
•  Document the needs for client.
• Change management if there are any new requirements or proposed changes.
• Knowledge of Project tracking software (Jira ) would be added advantage.
• Experience in handling large volume of data in Excel and Google Spreadsheets.
•  Adherence to the expected roles and responsibilities w.r.t ISMS and QMS.
•  Gathering and analyzing project data to identify its weaknesses and resolve any time-related or budgetary snags.

About Bikayi

• Founded by Ex-Microsoft & Zenefits engineers, Bikayi aims to empower Indian MSMEs to take their business online and realize their true potential.
• We want every local entrepreneur to easily start selling online with technology being an enabler, not a barrier.
• Already adopted by 50 lakh+ merchants
• We are backed by Y-combinator and Mantis Capital in our $2mn seed round and have closed a $11mn Series A led by Sequoia capital

For more information about the company please refer to the link below

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SWo_MrxfcP4H5pYA-jUfh8LRMkiH6T-o/view?usp=sharing

Responsibilities

• Ownership of business growth goals: You will be responsible for the success / failure of your product vertical. Metrics like merchant leads, merchant acquisition, CAC would fall under you.
• Team Coaching: Lead and mentor a direct team of Junior Product Managers and Product Analysts
• Customer Obsession : You will be spending a lot of time interacting with potential customers, stakeholders and potential product partners. You need to have empathy towards customers and ability to lead stakeholder/ partner conversations.
• Strategy : Develop strategy for your product verticals along with the KPIs. Collaborate and develop a 3-6 month long product roadmap which is backed by qualitative and quantitative research.
• Responsible for delivery: Executing with speed would be important. In a high growth startup we need someone who can get things done at a fast pace. Working with engineering / design / marketing and sales  leaders to make sure that things are on track.
• A flavor of problems/solutions: Leverage free trials for user conversion funnels. Referrals and affiliate networks to drive low cost acquisition.

Requirements

• Past experience of working for tier 1 / vc funded companies. 4+ years of core B2C/B2B product development experience. Overall 6+ years of experience
• Continuous past experience of delivering impact/outcomes in product management
• Ability to take pressure coming from multiple stakeholders and customers
• Experience of having managed a direct reporting team of Junior product managers
• Goal driven and Winning together attitude
  
  

Role- Product manager 

We are seeking a Product Manager who will have a passion for agile, creating new delivery processes. This role includes leading cross-functional resources necessary for successful product definition where you will provide relevant business context for Agile software development team and leading team through planning exercises designed to help select development work for timeboxed execution.

Experience range- 8-14 Years

Responsibilities

•   Create and ensure a shared understanding of product vision and strategy amongst all members of the team.
•  Define a product portfolio from a product strategy that balances business need, opportunity, feasibility, and achievability.
•  Demonstrate platform thinking by abstracting feature requests into “classes of problems” and creating an extensible product which can be used for a variety of current and future needs.
•  Should have experience in Pre-sales.
• Backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories
• Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum best practices and values
• Partnering with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI
• Create Product roadmap
• Understanding on NFR (Non-functional requirements.
• Understanding on Wireframing & Prototyping
• Lead the planning product release plans and set an expectation for delivery of new functionalities
• Providing an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals.
• Understanding knowledge of the market, the users, and the roadmap for the product.
• Represents the customer, interfaces and engages the customer
• Evangelize and market: communicate the value proposition and bring an emotional connection to the product to all stakeholders and team members.
• Drive research and competitive analysis to identify ways to transform the user experience, and create competitive opportunities.
• Reframe business solutions into actual business needs 
• Articulate how the product fulfils the business strategy and creates value to internal and external stakeholders (e.g. clients).
• Understand the technical aspects of software development – including software engineering, architecture, and technical tradeoffs – enough to ensure that technical choices don’t conflict with the product vision and strategy, but rather enable them.
• Partner with engineering leads and architects so that decisions on product and technology direction are not made in a vacuum.
• Make data-driven decisions: support portfolio choices with evidence from analytics and research.
• Align product strategies with other product managers, articulate how the product strategy fits into the broader ecosystem.
• Nurture regular communication and connection with business stakeholders to ensure that product strategy stays aligned with business priorities, and also to keep stakeholders abreast of learnings from customers that impact product direction.
• Always be “discovering” what customers and users need. Get out of the building: visit clients and speak with users/customers. Always be learning from user research conducted during product development cycles.
• Partner with Product Owners to ensure constant alignment with business and customer goals, and outcome expectations for delivery.

Requirements

• About 7+ years of overall exp and 3-4 years of relevant experience working as a Product Manager in a technology environment
• Solid Agile experience
• Understanding of technology; Language and Applications
• Additonal exp with API Banking Domain would be plus to the role
• Proven ability to define a set of requirements that pinpoint business challenges and identify technical and business changes required to address them.
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely across technology and the business teams.
• Experience supporting/rolling out initiatives to commercial teams
• Experience with demand generation, account/territory management, opportunity management and contact management capabilities, functionality and workflows.

Project Manager

Who we are?

Searce is  a niche’ Cloud Consulting business with futuristic tech DNA. We do new-age tech to realise the “Next” in the “Now” for our Clients. We specialise in Cloud Data Engineering, AI/Machine Learning and Advanced Cloud infra tech such as Anthos and Kubernetes. We are one of the top & the fastest growing partners for Google Cloud and AWS globally with over 2,500 clients successfully moved to cloud.

What we believe?

• Best practices are overrated

• Implementing best practices can only make one n .

• Honesty and Transparency

• We believe in naked truth. We do what we tell and tell what we do.

• Client Partnership

• Client - Vendor relationship: No. We partner with clients instead. 
• And our sales team comprises 100% of our clients.

How we work?

It’s all about being Happier first. And rest follows. Searce work culture is defined by HAPPIER.

• Humble: Happy people don’t carry ego around. We listen to understand; not to respond.

• Adaptable: We are comfortable with uncertainty. And we accept changes well. As that’s what life's about.

• Positive: We are super positive about work & life in general. We love to forget and forgive. We don’t hold grudges. We don’t have time or adequate space for it.

• Passionate: We are as passionate about the great street-food vendor across the street as about Tesla’s new model and so on. Passion is what drives us to work and makes us deliver the quality we deliver.

• Innovative: Innovate or Die. We love to challenge the status quo.

• Experimental: We encourage curiosity & making mistakes.

• Responsible: Driven. Self motivated. Self governing teams. We own it.

Are you the one? Quick self-discovery test:

1. Love for cloud: When was the last time your dinner entailed an act on “How would ‘Jerry Seinfeld’ pitch Cloud platform & products to this prospect” and your friend did the ‘Sheldon’ version of the same thing.
2. Passion for sales: When was the last time you went at a remote gas station while on vacation, and ended up helping the gas station owner saasify his 7 gas stations across other geographies.
3. Compassion for customers: You listen more than you speak.  When you do speak, people feel the need to listen.
4. Humor for life: When was the last time you told a concerned CEO, ‘If Elon Musk can attempt to take humanity to Mars, why can’t we take your business to run on cloud?’

Do you cloud?

1. Expertise driving infrastructure engineering projects & transform initiatives from deep-tech startups to 42,000U (1,000 42U racks) loaded enterprises.
2. Have you tandem-jumped at least 50 times taking along a trusted business having on-prem workloads to safe-land onto a public cloud with a soft touchdown?
1. Do you understand the innards of Apache web servers on Linux and Sharepoint Server Farms alike?
2. Do you speak CloudFormation? Terraform? Do you speak JSON? 
3. Do you love automating everything possible leveraging Python / Powershell / Bash?
3. Are you a voracious reader fascinated by the latest & greatest innovations on public cloud?

Introduction

We welcome *really unconventional* creative thinkers who can work in an agile, flexible environment. We are a flat organization with unlimited growth opportunities, and small team sizes – wherein flexibility is a must, mistakes are encouraged, creativity is rewarded, and excitement is required.

1. This is an entrepreneurial project management position that challenges the client status quo by helping them re-imagine the art of what is possible using consulting mindset and business strategy skills.
2. This position requires fanatic iterative improvement ability - ability to coordinate with Sales - Presales - Delivery - MS and get project delivery done. 
3. This position is for hard-core-geek-turned--engineer-turned-Tech enthusiast -turned-Project Manager.

What we are NOT looking for: Buzzword Bozos (BB) or Certification Chasers (CC).

What we seek is an AA (Awesome Attitude to Learn, Improve & Coach).

Not just a BB or CC? Quick self-discovery test:

When was the last time you thought about how GAN (Generative Adversarial Networks) can help auto-create new building designs for an architect or new jewellery designs for a designer OR passionately convinced a friend that Google Video Intelligence API or AWS Rekognition can now auto-video-screen an applicant with 90+% confidence level almost automating 75+% efforts of a recruiter, OR leverage Google Vision API to do e-KYC? If this is what you constantly get blamed for & your friends have made a strip for you on xkcd, you are probably the right-fit for what we are looking for.

Your bucket of Undertaking :

This position will be responsible to consult with the clients and propose architectural solutions to help move & improve infra from on-premise to cloud or help optimize cloud spend from one public cloud to the other.

1. Be the first one to experiment on new age cloud offerings, help define the best practise as a thought leader for cloud, automation & Dev-Ops, be a solution visionary and technology expert across multiple channels.
2. Continually augment skills and learn new tech as the technology and client needs evolve
3. Use your experience in Google cloud platform, AWS  or Microsoft Azure to build hybrid-cloud solutions for customers.
4. Provide leadership to project teams, and facilitates the definition of project deliverables around core Cloud based technology and methods.
5. Define tracking mechanisms and ensure IT standards and methodology are met; deliver quality results.
6. Participate in technical reviews of requirements, designs, code and other artifacts
7. Identify and keep abreast of new technical concepts in google cloud platform

Education, Experience, etc.

1. Is Education overrated? Yes. We believe so. However there is no way to locate you otherwise. So unfortunately we might have to look for a Bachelor's or Master's degree in engineering from a reputed institute or you should be programming from 12. And the latter is better. We will find you faster if you specify the latter in some manner. Not just degree, but we are not too thrilled by tech certifications too ... :)

1. To reiterate: Passion to tech-awesome, insatiable desire to learn the latest of the new-age cloud tech, highly analytical aptitude and a strong ‘desire to deliver’ outlives those fancy degrees!
2. 3 - 5 years of experience with at least 1 - 2 years of hands-on experience in delivering Cloud Consulting(AWS/GCP/Azure) projects in a global enterprise environment.
3. Good analytical, communication, problem solving, and learning skills.
4. Knowledge on programming against cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform and lean development methodologies.

A quick self-discovery test below:

1. How you treat yourself & others?
1. You listen more than you speak.  When you do speak, people feel the need to listen.
2. You have ‘one’ life - no work life or personal life. You are the same at both places.
3. You are generally happy and passionate about life. When shit does happen you know how to tell your heart ‘All is well’.
4. You are compassionate to yourself, you love your work, your company, your country, and are generally a person people like to be around.
2. How you work & live?
1. You make difficult & complex decisions in an environment filled with lack of well defined constraints and uncertainty.
2. You are able to admit to your team that you were shit scared while making those decisions.
3. You are able to juggle conflicting priorities and remain composed as the client keeps on changing requirements. :)
4. You are genuinely passionate about developing great software, learning a lot, helping others learn and  having loads of fun while doing so.
3. What you love?
1. You love things. You are passionate. You care for your self, family, country and Big Bang Theory (and this is a must!).
2. You love to organize, index, and improve things around you - Yes you are Sheldon’ish’ at times and ‘Leonard’ish’ the other times.
3. You are passionate about improving processes and you truly feel satisfied by making things better.
4. You love Google. And AWS. And Terraform. And CI - CD pipelines. And linux.

Product Manager 

Purpose of the role 
A Product manager at CarWale would be responsible to deliver world-class products that solve real-world problems around car buying, by working in an agile framework of iterative development and collaboration.

They have to deliver great business value through user research , intelligent prioritization , and working with Stakeholders throughout the product lifecycle to ensure a great return on investment.

Role description

Primary responsibility of the role would be to define the product roadmap & backlog, work with business and functional teams to design and implement changes that drive user acquisition, user experience & monetization.

 Key responsibilities:

• Lead a development team to implement product changes while working collaboratively with multiple stake holders like Design, Sales, Operations & Management.
• Analyze data to derive product & business insights and use them to strategize changes.  Iteratively improve on the product by running tests
• Be responsible for prioritization of features based on assessment of business impact & effort.
• Report findings & periodic reviews with Management.

The ideal candidate would have the following qualities

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• Understanding and experience of Digital Product Development Life Cycle
• Excellent business analysis & problem-solving skills
• Result-driven, goal-oriented work ethic
• Customer empathy, ability to think from user’s point of view
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including technical writing skills
• Understanding of technology and exposure to software coding
• Experience in Business Requirement Specification documentation/product backlog (Epics, User stories)
• Experience of working in an Agile environment is preferred
• Understanding of user experiences (UI/UX)
• Product development experience including experience in digital product building/tech delivery is preferred

CarWale is India's largest auto media company. CarWale has always striven to serve car buyers and owners in the most comprehensive and convenient way possible. We provide a platform where car buyers and owners can research, buy, sell and come together to discuss and talk about their cars.

Our mission is to bring joy and delight into car buying and ownership. To achieve this goal, we aim to empower Indian consumers to make informed car buying and ownership decisions with exhaustive and un-biased information on cars through our expert reviews, owner reviews, detailed specifications and comparisons. We understand that a car is by and large the second-most expensive asset a consumer associates his lifestyle with.

Together with CarTrade & BikeWale, we are the market leaders in the personal mobility media space.