Sr. Product Manager

Function: → Project Management

• Project Management

Responsibilities:

• Would be responsible for Program Management - Manage multiple challenging projects concurrently from initiation through execution and closure.
• Monitor project progress throughout the project life cycle, and communicate project status effectively to senior management through reports, presentations, and individual meetings.
• Build and provide direction to project teams, create and foster communication among team members
• Manage Kick- Meetings (geographical multi-vertical Fortune 1000 Global customers)
• Customer Engagement - coordinating with Internal and external stakeholders.
• Would enable Presales & Pilots for Tech Wins.
• Would support contract & SOW reviews & address prospect concerns during the sales process.
• Identify resource needs, constraints, and interdependencies.
• Capture and manage project risks and issues and associated mitigation strategies.
• Proactively engage other members and collaborate with the organization with specific subject knowledge to resolve issues or provide assistance.
• Monitor and control project budgets.
• Provide project management training, assistance, and mentoring on project management methodologies, tools, and techniques.
• Utilize analytical skills to make critical decisions and recommendations to solve project-related problems.
• Resource Planning & mentoring the internal team.
• Lead New Initiatives - Enable brainstorming sessions with the team to gather innovative approaches.

Requirements:

• Hands-on experience in project management roles and delivering multiple and complex projects.
• (Operations / Transitions / Migrations/ Supply Chain/ Procurement-S2P, P2P and S2C).
• Candidates having enterprise software background in the initial career phase and gradually moving to Project Management role.
• Experience in handling complex large projects and risk management.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills.
• Project artifacts Documentation and sign-off.
• Good at Team Management
• Excellent oral & written communication skills
• Should be proficient in client interactions.

F22 Labs Global Private Limited is a startup studio based out of Chennai. We like to think of ourselves as mean MVP machines. We help founders go from idea to product in under 6 weeks.

What will you work on?

• Define product strategy and roadmap
• Helping the product owner and development team to achieve customer satisfaction
• Analyzing potential partner relationships for the product. 
• Define feature roadmap for F22 Labs Global Private Limited products based on business opportunities and market research 
• Propose an overall product budget to ensure success.
• Gain a deep understanding of customer experience, identify and fill product gaps and generate new ideas that grow market share, improve customer experience and drive growth
• Create buy-in for the product vision both internally and with key external partners
• Develop product pricing and positioning strategies
• Scope and prioritize activities based on business and customer impact
• Act as a product evangelist to build awareness and understanding
• Work closely with founders, tech, design, marketing, customer support team to build world class products.

Do you fit in?

• Proven work experience in product management
• Proven track record of managing all aspects of a successful product throughout its lifecycle
• Proven ability to develop product, strategies and effectively communicate recommendations to executive management
• Solid technical background with understanding and/or hands-on experience in software development and web technologies
• Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to roll up one’s sleeves to get the job

What you can expect?

• Flexible work timings
• Work from Home policy
• Medical Insurance- self and immediate family
• Intensive performance linked incentives
• Optimized Learning Culture
• Approachable and helpful founders a.k.a leaders to guide your career

and much more…

Internship Program Details:

Our Internship Program is designed to offer hands-on experience to students who are eager to explore the dynamic world of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and business Intelligence (BI). This program will provide participants with a unique opportunity to work on real-world projects, gain exposure to cutting-edge technologies, and collaborate with our talented team of experts.

Key Program Highlights:

Duration: 6 months, full time

Eligibility: MBA student with a keen interest in the dynamic fields of Business Intelligence (BI), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Machine Learning (ML)

Location: Guindy, Chennai

Mentorship: Each intern will be assigned a dedicated mentor for guidance and support

Projects: Interns will work on live projects with tangible outcomes

Certificate: Upon successful completion, interns will receive a certificate of participation

About Company

Our client is a luxury home décor brand. It’s nothing less than a revolution in home décor industry- where technology enables world class home interior design.  

They are looking for someone who can build an e-commerce system which will give their clients all developments on their projects in a more systematic and organized manner.

Roles & responsibilities:

• Manage product lifecycle from ideation to launch and beyond, use data, creativity, and experimentation to constantly improve the product
• You will be responsible for leading a team of high performing individuals who own the entire product lifecycle from strategy to evaluation
• You will also work cross functionally to complete product roadmaps and discover new opportunities
• Create business models and analyze competitive landscape
• Develop and monitor data-driven analytics
• Mentor team to help them achieve individual & team objectives

• Create and manage a process that drives toward a scalable product portfolio that will in turn drive the organization’s product profitability

• Transforming the product ideas from their most formidable stages into actionable concepts, timelines, and projects while maintaining a serious consideration of the financial implications, and the overall objectives of the business
• Building and executing of new initiatives and roadmaps on the store front, understand the market, customers and build business cases for new product opportunities

Requirements:

• Master’s/Bachelor’s in software/computer engineering from a premier institute
• Well-versed with state of the art tech and its trends
• Must have 3-6 years of hands-on product experience working on building products or problem-solving in start-up e-commerce companies 
• One who understands products and working of the commerce ecosystem in depth and have a good understanding of funnels, sprint & agile ways of working, PRDs & wireframes.
• Are comfortable with ambiguity, believe in first principles and have the skill to transform broad ideas into action plans
• Proven record in product development, analytics, computer programming, and design.
• Superior ability to conceptualize, prioritize, and manage multiple projects with ease
• Critical thinker, Problem solver
• Should be a technical expert with an Entrepreneurial mindset

Senior Product Owner (Digital Transformation)

Executive Summary
Are you looking to level up? The Senior Product Owner (Digital Transformation) role at FirstPrinciples and the partner that you will be staffed with is a multi-million dollar digital transformation initiatives on web and mobile with one of the largest large Luxury Home Builders in the United States.

About FirstPrinciples & The Role

FirstPrinciples is a Tech Holding company with a Venture Studio as part of its holdings. One part of the Venture Studio business at FirstPrinciples is about working with large enterprises on long-term digital transformation initiatives within their organization. The position that we are currently hiring for involves a multi-million dollar digital transformation initiatives for one of the largest Luxury Home Builders in the United States. Our scope involves working as expert consultants to advice and execute on upgrading the IT & Tech different internal and stakeholder facing systems within their organization. We are working on both web and mobile platforms. 

Who is This For

This is for an experienced Product Owner/Manager who is looking to take their career to the next stage by working on a large scale initiative that will challenge and extend their current capacities.

At FirstPrinciples, we truly act as a Tech Strategic Consultant along with having the operational capacity to implement the suggested recommendations. This role is for someone who is able to provide recommendations to the client while having the ownership of the end deliverables. While we have technical leaders also staffed within this partnership, we are looking for someone who can talk the talk with senior engineers and tech architects and understand their recommendations and its implications. 

Requirements

• One of the following certifications (PRINCE2, CSP, CAPM, CBAP (BABOK), Agile, CSP, CSPO, PMPO)
• Experience in independently managing, End-to-End Business Analysis, Product Analysis, Project Management for complex IT Projects and Products / Apps
• Working with Client to understand provide Consulting or Business Solutions, Problem Solving Approach and Skills, Strong Analytical Skills, should be able to read between the lines
• Managing scope via release management and planning and creating User-Stories, Running Sprints Cycle and Experience working with a team of 15-20 resources
• Requirements Gathering, Requirements Analysis, Requirements Management, Requirements Elicitation, Requirements Matrix (RTMs)
• Experience in Developing Low-Level and High-Level Prototyping using Wireframes tools (using any of the latest wireframing tools, such as JustInMind, Adobe XD, MockFlow, etc)
• Ownership of the Product Backlog & Deliverables and developing the User Stories & Release Planning
• Experience in Writing and Maintaining Business Requirement Documents (BRD) or PRDs and Functional Specification Document (FSD), Software Requirements Specification (SRS)
• Should have experience in creating Project Budgeting, Creating Efforts Estimations (EE), Presentation Decks, and Clean Documentation 
• Experience in Writing Test Cases and Managing UAT and Deployment 
• Analysis: GAP, Fish-bone Analysis, RCA (Root Cause Analysis), MoSCOW
• Experience in Consulting clients on Problem Statements V/s Solution Building based on AS-IS and TO-BE
• Experience converting Business Cases to Technology case and Building Products from scratch thus Translating Business Requirements into Software Requirement Specifications
• Interacting with the Technical team to ensure Delivery and Implementation of the Software Solution/Projects
• Client Relationship Management, Excellent at English Speaking, and Written Communication
• Understanding of Change Management, Risk Management and Project Management

Management Skills

1. Excellent Written and Oral Communication Skills and Etiquettes
2. Excellent Presentation Skills 
3. Experience in working with Onshore and Offshore Teams and Experience handling Cross-Functional Projects, Resources and Clients
4. Experience dealing with Pressure and Meeting strict Project Deadlines
5. Leadership and Motivational Skills to ensure the Work is being done by the Resources on time and within the specified budget
6. Conflict and Resolution Management
7. Prior experience in operations management - good to have 
8. Experience working with US Clients

TechStack & Platform

1. MEAN Stack (Web)
2. Native iOS & Android (Mobile)
3. AWS
   
   
   

Title 

ML Product Manager

Reporting to 

Sr. Director of Product Management

About the role

We are looking for a Product Manager for our AI/ML Product team that is responsible for delivering ML powered products and applications such as Campaign recommendations and personalization.

As part of the team, the candidate will lead the full product lifecycle of the product, including market research, competitive analysis, gathering requirements, developing specifications, and getting the product developed and delivered to customers. 

You will help transform ideas into AI products for our customers and drive adoption working with cross functional teams.

What You'll Do

• Own product feature from market research, execution, go-to-market and impact evaluation.
• Review customer feedback, analyze impact and prioritize it, and convert into clearly defined product requirements to create a feature backlog
• Write product specs, define product UI with the UX team, review test plans.
• Collaborate with Engineering in product development, validating builds and driving releases to meet target dates.
• Be the product champion. Document product functionality and train the organization on new features. Define the value proposition of your products and guide marketing / sales in selling your products. 
• Facilitate in data-driven decision making and create the telemetry and metrics required to evaluate the success of the products you launch.
• Define and drive internal and external pilots prior to releases to gather early feedback and ensure adoption of new features and functionality. 

What You'll Need

• 4+ years of Product Management experience in an enterprise B2B/B2B2C SaaS company building products in one or more of the following domains: marketing cloud products, such as Campaign Management, Segmentation, Marketing Automation
• Experience working on AI/ML projects and applications, Data & Analytics
• Experience working in Agile development environment  
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong communication skills 
• Self-starter, detail-oriented
• Technical background required. MBA is a strong plus.

Bonus Points if You Have

• Familiarity with multi-cloud environments
• Familiarity with Enterprise Data Platforms, CDP and Enterprise Integrations 

• Drive the execution of all product lifecycle processes for the growth of Factory Acquisition product, including product research, market research, competitive analysis, planning,
• positioning, roadmap development, requirements development, and product launch
• Identify, Plan and execute side Product Hacks to speedup Factory Acquisitions
• Assess current competitor offerings, seeking opportunities for differentiation
• Analyze consumer needs, current market trends, and potential partnerships from an ROI and build vs. buy perspective
• Create product strategy documents that describe business cases, high-level use cases, technical requirements, revenue, and ROI
• Translate product strategy into detailed requirements for prototype construction and final product development by engineering teams
• Build product flows for seamless factory onboarding at scale
• Collaborate closely with engineering, production, marketing, and sales teams on the development, QA, and release of products and balance of resources to ensure success for the entire organization
• Drive the Factory CAC Metric
• Implement, and maintain production timelines across multiple departments
• Appraise new product ideas and strategize appropriate to-market plans
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• Engineering or an MBA graduate from a reputed university
• 4+ years of product management experience, preferably with consumer and/or b2b startups that have attained scale
• Experience identifying business opportunities, building a product strategy, and influencing deliver against a multi-year roadmap
• Understands core technologies utilised in their product domain and is fluent in pros and cons of technical alternatives
• Good understanding of acquisition and retention funnels
• Demonstrated ability to achieve goals in a fast paced and an unstructured environment. Thrives in ambiguity and rapidly changing environment
• Hands-on experience of both qualitative and quantitative research methods such as AB testing, data analytics, and user research
• Robust understanding of complex and scalable technical architecture for web and mobile applications
• Problem solver with strong analytical skills and comfort with data
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills