Technical Product Manager

Role Overview

Summary of Role

We are looking for a passionate and skilled Product Manager, we expect you to bring a fresh pair of eyes for both product planning and product marketing. This includes managing the product throughout the Product Lifecycle, gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the product vision, and working to deliver winning products. 

Must Have Background for this Role:

• Min 5-12 years of strong experience in product management role
• Previous experience in Fintech domain 
• Bachelor’s degree (MBA preferred)

Required Skills for this Role: 

• Define the product strategy and roadmap
• Build innovative financial products in a cross-functional team. Deeply understand the needs and problems of our users. 
• Develop product positioning strategies.
• Work closely with engineering to ensure developers understand the required functionality and are building the right functionality to meet the market need and are easy to implement and maintain.
• Recommend and drive implementation of improvements to the product development process
• Document and manage the user experience.
• Proven problem-solving capabilities.
• Deliver a monthly revenue forecast.

Also Nice to Have Skills and Background: 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills 
• Excellent teamwork skills
• Demonstrated success defining and launching excellent products

About Vakilsearch

 

Vakilsearch is India's largest online legal, tax and compliance provider. Vakilsearch, through its products and end-to-end workflow automation journey has revolutionized how Start-ups/ Small & Medium Enterprises register, seamlessly run and comply with Government regulations. On our mission to provide one-click access to individuals and businesses for all their legal and professional needs, we have helped over 4 Lac start-ups/ small and medium enterprises to date.

Why Join Us

Vakilsearch is a people-first organisation that thrives on the enthusiasm of our team to execute our mission to the satisfaction of our customers. Towards this end, we stress on creating an optimal work-life balance and inculcating a strong sense of team spirit that stems from enthusiasm and good vibes. When you work at Vakilsearch, you don't just become an employee, you become family, and we always coalesce around each other to ensure a strong sense of family.

We, at Vakilsearch, are strengthening our product team and below are the criteria's that are specific for this role.

Key responsibilities: Leading, developing and scaling the Vakilsearch Product Platform to be capable of on-boarding, nurturing and fulfilling requirements over 70 Million Small and Medium Enterprises, and
handling the legal needs of India's Internet ready population.

Responsibilities
● Predict and guide Business goals through a product first approach to business growth
● Product Roadmap: Align product roadmap to business priorities and define roadmap for
integration of existing product suite as well as for new product development.
● Drive a fail fast, learn quickly and ship rapidly culture where high quality products are delivered
at pace with an iterative model of development
● Grow and foster a mission-driven product and customer experience team to solve the
challenges of legal, tax and compliance in small and medium enterprises.
● Platform based acquisition: Align with Sales & Marketing leadership on the ideal customer
acquisition paths for target customer segments, and then build out a world class user
experience to support those acquisition paths.
● Fulfilment and retention: Productize seamless customer journeys for a range of services with a
key focus on customer experience and customer retention. Drive increase in average revenue
per customer.
● Scale products based on key market and customer insights/ data analytics.
● Innovation: Leverage experimentation and develop rapid go-to market products relevant for
our customer segments.

Experience
● 5-8 years with track record of leading B2B/ B2B products to successful revenue outcomes.
Atleast 5 years of building and scaling product teams.
● Demonstrated proficiency in product led growth, pricing, and self-service purchasing
experience best practices
● Formal Agile Training- Programming, UI/UX, or QA experience preferred.
● Experience in Legal, Insurance, Finance/fin-tech, Reg or Compliance Tech industries an added
bonus

Sr. Finance Manager is a diverse and challenging position with its broad scope of responsibilities and high accountability. You will play a central role in driving insights which would form the basis for key strategic and business decisions. This role will be a precursor to several long-term exciting opportunities within the organization.

 

 Responsibilities:

• 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
• Translate product strategy into detailed requirements and prototypes
• Scope and prioritize activities based on business and customer impact
• Work closely with engineering teams to deliver with quick time-to-market and optimal resources
• Drive product launches
• Evaluate promotional plans to ensure that they are consistent with product line strategy and that the message is effectively conveyed
• Act as a product evangelist to build awareness and understanding
• Represent the company by visiting customers to solicit feedback on company products and services

 

Requirements:

• Proven work experience in product management or as an associate product manager
• Proven track record of managing all aspects of a successful product throughout its lifecycle
• Proven ability to develop product and marketing 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
• Skilled at working effectively with cross functional teams in a matrix organization
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• MS/BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent preferred

 

 

We are looking for individuals who have the following skillset:

• Adaptable and flexible
• Problem-solving skills
• Detail orientation
• Ability to establish strong client relationship
• Agility for quick learning

 

Nice to haves:

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to multitask and work on a range of requirements.
• Experience in analysing very large, complex, multi-dimensional data sets.
• Penchant for business, curiosity about numbers, persistence to work with data and passion for uncovering insights out of that

• Define and document detailed requirements detailing market opportunities and associated technical integrations in collaboration with architects, engineers, and key stakeholders with ISVs and strategic partners.
• Drive product execution across a large set of engineers, product designers, and product managers.
• Collaborate with Product Marketing on company Platform collaterals and sales tools such as articles, datasheets, white papers, blogs, how-to videos, demos, etc.
• Conduct usability testing interviews to gather feedback on Product integration prototypes.
• Identify market opportunities and conduct customer/user research interviews in conjunction with lead Product Managers.
• Deliver product management analysis, including market requirements, and customer experience artifacts.
• Develop a deep understanding of the RDBMS competitive market landscape and product analysis.
• Own the roadmap of active and future projects and maintain the backlog of features and priorities.
• Be outcome and KPI drove to achieve growth of your products and take the right actions accordingly.
• Work with the engineering and product team to ensure proper investment and execution in support of your strategy.
• Communicate regularly with senior leadership on status, risks, and change control.

Requirements:

• Have 5+ years of relevant experience in a technical role, with at least 3 years of those in a product management role.
• Have experience defining a roadmap and managing incremental execution through successful launches.
• Detail-oriented and able to understand the bigger picture by using your technical expertise and problem-solving abilities to prioritize and manage blocking issues.
• Thrive in the dynamic environment that comes with being part of a fast-moving startup. That means flexibility as well as dealing with ambiguity.
• Experience working across organizations with Sales, Marketing, Support, Product, Engineering, and Design.
• 2+ years experience in data infrastructure or related IaaS products and/or services; AWS and/or Google Cloud background preferred.
• Strong communication skills, analytical skills, and data-driven product decision-making mindset.
• Experience with product management planning and design tools - Confluence, JIRA, Balsamiq, AHA!

Nice to have:

• Strong proficiency in the big data ecosystem e.g. Kafka, Spark, or similar technologies.
• Technically savvy and experienced with the cloud, APIs, enterprise software.
• Worked on data platforms or streaming applications.

 

jumpingMinds.ai, a first of its kind Mental Health DeepTech startup, provides an anonymous safe space designed to make someone under stress feel better instantly. We're growing rapidly with 100k+ community, best in class metrics and aim to be the market leader by 2022! 

So, we are looking for amazing product managers like yourself, self-motivated and driven to build products with a massive impact on society. You get to work closely with IIT/IIM alumni to build India's next biggest community!

PS: Recently, jM Android App won #GooglePlayBestOf2021 Hidden Gem Award. Join us in our mission to spread #1BillionSmiles and become #GooglePlayAppOfTheYear 2022. 

Relevant links:
- Website: jumpingminds.ai
- Instagram Page: instagram.com/jumpingminds.ai
- #GooglePlayBestOf2021 Award: jumpingminds.ai/googleplaybestof2021
- Founders:
1. Ariba Khan - linkedin.com/in/ariba-khan-ab8a2944/
2. Piyush Gupta - linkedin.com/in/piyushgupta27/

The Product Delivery Manager will be the backbone of our world-class Recruiting & Assessment platform (http://glider.ai/" target="_blank">GLIDER.AI) and works closely with all the teams including Product Development, Onboarding, and Customer Success. The individual will play a pivotal role by partnering with multiple stakeholders, thereby giving the individual a 360 view into the entire product life-cycle and an opportunity to tackle the most impactful problems.

The ideal candidate is comfortable understanding varied processes and requirements and is able to convert them to simple workflows. The candidate is a systems thinker and is able to understand how to build systems and also comfortable looking at data to make decisions and build business cases.

Responsibilities

- Work with key stakeholders to solve for the biggest impediments to scale
- Build a process that is easy to execute and monitor to handle the complexities of product success.
- Lower processing times and drive process excellence by building tools and processes that leverage intelligence and automation

Qualifications

- 4 years or more experience as a product manager or project manager is highly preferred
- Prior experience as a manager for a product is a must.
- Demonstrated ability to think both strategically and tactically, including the ability to formulate data-driven and result-oriented decisions.
- Ability to prioritize in an ambiguous environment.
- Exceptional interpersonal, communication (spoken and written) and influencing skills and an ability to navigate a complex and unstructured cross-functional environment.  

Product Manager

 

Who we are?

 

At Edge, we believe simplifying employee data will help large corporates solve sub-optimal talent management problems. This data is more critical after the pandemic, as managing a remote workforce has shifted from optional to essential.

 

We have spent our last eight years understanding the workforce from the IT and BFSI industries. We have used this employee data to create a sophisticated intelligence. This brain behind our AI-based products is called EdGE graph™. We have used 11 million job descriptions and more than 30 million profiles to build the graph.

 

Our products like Pathfinder, Recruit and Mobility are deployed in IT companies like Wipro, HCL, UST Global, etc. and help them upskill, invest, and maintain their existing people. It has helped organisations improve their workforce availability, billing, allocations and drive straight bottom-line impacts. The new order of talent decisions helps us define, identify, and plan for a future-ready workforce.

We build end-to-end talent management products for organisations so that they have a 360-degree view of their talent supply chain. This helps them make informed talent decisions efficiently and build an intelligent workforce.

 

We built Edge Networks in 2012 in an apartment in Bangalore and soon, were supported by the National Skill Development Corporation of India (NSDC). We are a part of the NASSCOM Product Council and have been recognized by Gartner, Deloitte, Equidam, NVIDIA, Amazon as an innovative tech HR startup in various titles.

 

At Edge, we understand that modern companies that put the employees at the center of their workings, backed with data, will make their organisation productive. This is how we, at Edge, use tech for good.

 

Role: Product Manager

 

Experienced Product Manager to own product lines in the B2B2C space and work in tandem with the other products that we have, all of which derive intelligence from the underlying AI/ML services as well as a SaaS ready platform that we have built. You will use data to guide your decisions and develop solutions to make analysis easier for teams. You will develop a hypothesis, conduct in depth user research, and experiments to inform your product design and strategies. You will establish your product viewpoints and share them with senior leaders, partners, and customers.

 

Traits that you have

 

A team player – I know we only win if we all win. I recognise and value the different perspectives and skills my squad mates bring. It is not about being a hero but jumping in and contributing to the successful delivery of our mission.

 

Data Driven – Build different metrics to evaluate the product performance.

 

 

An excellent communicator – I know and understand the importance of clear, on-time communication. My spoken and written communication skills stand out for clarity and conciseness.  

 

The customer’s biggest fan – I demonstrate a thirst for better understanding the customer and define the problem and develop solutions through their eyes as well as through the eyes of the Sales guys in the organization

 

 A collaboration champion – I work closely with my colleagues to ensure alignment and champion the    sharing of learning across teams.

 

Comfortable being uncomfortable – I am comfortable with uncertainty. I have the ability to effectively manage myself through ambiguity by making meaning, building relationships and creating clarity with my peers. I also have a willingness to unlearn where needed.

 

Continuous improvement focused– I constructively challenge the status quo, I look for better ways of doing things and passionately advocate continuous improvement, and I am able to re-pivot fast.

 

A problem solver – I am energised by tackling complex problems. I use my critical thinking, network, skills, knowledge, and available data to drive better outcomes for our customers and the product.

 

Commercially and Technologically curious – I have a wide-angle lens. I am curious about what is happening in the external market and in emerging trends and innovations (technological and otherwise) and how we use this information to better inform our decisions and actions.

 

Risk savvy – I build sustainable solutions that protect stakeholders and customers and proactively address risks by role-modelling improvements in the product’s overall risk and control environment.

 

Habitual Experimenter  – I learn by running experiments on a very frequent basis, with a framework to learn from these experiments and absorb the learnings into product management.

 

 

Responsibilities:

 

• Define the product roadmap and ensure its execution through cross-functional and cross-platform collaboration
• Work closely with horizontal product managers and align the product roadmap within the broader product framework.
• Closely monitor & analyze the product metrics and present related hypotheses to help make data-driven decisions.
• Work closely with engineering platforms to create data flow pipelines that aggregate the relevant data and present a holistic view of product performance.
• Work with the MIS & Reporting team to create relevant dashboards that provide transparency across the board

 

 

Role Skills:

 

• 2+ years in software product management, post MBA, with a consistent record of timely and quality delivery of products.
• Experience with Agile Project Management tools like JIRA.
• Familiarity with Wireframing tools like Adobe XD, Maze, so that the interactions with the UX Designer can be efficient
• High bias for action with demonstrable history of identifying and resolving cross-project interdependencies
• Ability to juggle several initiatives and shift priorities as needed
• Exceptional communication skills (verbal and written communication) with a knack for storytelling connecting the story to the underlying quant
• Data Driven with proficiency on data querying and analysis. Experience with tools like Analytics tools (i.e. Google Analytics ), SQL, Excel, Tableau, etc. is preferred.
• Experience in one or more of the following is a plus: SaaS, Marketing Automation, Data Analytics etc.
• MBA/equivalent courses from Tier -I institutes.

Job Responsibilities:

1. End to End responsibility of multiple product and features 2. Coordinating with the engineering department (Tech Team) to deliver functional solutions 3. Suggesting product enhancements to improve user experience 4. Performing quality assurance controls on products 5. Conduct research to identify customer needs and market gaps 6. Prioritize the implementation of new features and set specific timelines 7. Liaise with the Marketing department to ensure proper advertisement and positioning of new products 8. Monitor and report on users’ reactions after launching 9. Create support and training documents for internal and external users

Perfect Fit candidate for the above role?

1. Academic background: Engineering Only. Non-Engineers are not eligible to apply for this role. 2. Familiarity with market research, consumers’ behavior and marketing techniques. 3. Candidates who have run their own start-up, worked in a start-up or were co-founder in another startup are preferred although not a necessity. 4. Strong time management skills 5. Good communication skills along with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross functional teams.

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