
Vice President (Product Management) - Y Combinator backed Shopify-like platform
About Merito :-
- Merito is a curated talent platform where we identify, assess, and connect candidates for matching job opportunities.
- We are working with the mission to change the way hiring is done.
- The company is founded by a team consisting of alumni from IIM Ahmedabad, McKinsey with more than 2 decades of experience in recruitment, training, and coaching.
About Our Client :
- Our client is headquartered in California and Y Combinator backed Shopify-like platform for creators & knowledge professionals (coaches, instructors, experts, artists etc.) to launch, manage and grow their business online.
- Founded by IIT/ IIM/ BITS/ Yale/ BCG Alumni and 3X Entrepreneurs, they are well funded and backed by top Indian VC firms along with start-up veterans like Kunal Shah (CRED). The company is founded by alumni from top IITs, IIMs, BITS, Yale including ex-entrepreneurs and from firms such as BCG, Hike, Dunzo and P&G.
- Since the launch of its first version in December 2020 they have grown 25X. Creators have earned more than $1 Million since launch through the platform.
- We have just closed our series A (yet to announce) and are looking to build out our leadership team across functions.
Job Description :-
Here we're shaping the future of the creator economy to realize our dream of creating a world with no boring jobs.
We are looking for an experienced Vice President, Product Management to lead and own our Product strategy and execution to drive our business goals. As our VP, Product, you will lead the product management team to determine priorities across PODs, develop the product roadmap, and lead its execution, in partnership with our Product Development, Engineering, Sales and Marketing teams.
Our work environment is fast-paced, with a collaborative atmosphere. We are passionate about delivering innovations that empower Creators to become Entrepreneurs and realize their full potential. We are looking for a Product leader to bring in and instill a philosophy for how we work and deliver world-class products.
Our Product Management team's core mission is to delight customers resulting in Product Led Growth. We obsessively seek to understand customers' perspectives, have a bias toward data-driven action, and can break down complex problems into steps that drive product roadmaps. Product managers also serve as product owners, leading product teams and driving cross-functional collaboration on a day-to-day basis.
We value the following traits in our product management leaders:
- Stewards: We put the needs of our customers and our business ahead of our own egos
- Leaders: We lead by example, inspiring and motivating those around us
- Hi-Lo: We are both strategic and hands-on, detail-oriented when necessary.
- Generalists: We are equally comfortable working on all parts of the product stack
- Evidence-driven: We base our ideas on data and measure the results of those ideas.
- Resource-aware: We are resource-efficient in everything we do.
Responsibilities :-
- Lead and evangelize as we execute on our product vision and product strategy across the company
- Set up processes that ensure smooth coordination between the Product team with other teams
- Drive growth product initiatives to existing services
- Review business and product results regularly with leadership, suggesting changes to the business or product plans.
- Manage, motivate, coach, and develop a team of product managers.
- Coordinate roadmaps across teams
- Manage requirement and design reviews
- Collaborate with cross-functional peers to solve complex problems.
Requirements :-
- Passion and alignment with our core vision of A world with no boring jobs
- 3+ years product management experience, ideally with previous VP-level responsibilities
- Work history in both core product development (e.g. product/market fit) and growth product initiatives (e.g. SEO, funnel optimization)
- Consumer SaaS product experience as well as experience in one of the following areas: E- Commerce and E-Learning, digital content and community.
- Experience with SEO, growth product execution, content strategy development

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- Develop relationships as a subject matter expert, consultant and business advisor for our customers for employee engagement, RnR & workplace culture.
- Develop and deliver compelling, highly narrative and engaging business case materials and presentations to senior HR and business audiences.
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What can you look for?
A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment that will enable you to juggle between concepts, yet maintain the quality of content, interact, and share your ideas and have loads of learning while at work. Work with a team of highly talented young professionals and enjoy the benefits of being at Xoxoday.
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Way forward
We look forward to connecting with you. As you may take time to review this opportunity, we will wait for a reasonable time of around 3-5 days before we screen the collected applications and start lining up job discussions with the hiring manager. We however assure you that we will attempt to maintain a reasonable time window for successfully closing this requirement. The candidates will be kept informed and updated on the feedback and application status.
Strategy Development:
- Develop and implement a comprehensive social media strategy that aligns with our marketing goals.
- Identify target audiences and tailor content to specific platforms and demographics.
- Stay up-to-date on social media trends, best practices, and emerging technologies.
Content Creation and Curation:
- Create engaging and visually appealing content, including text, images, and videos.
- Develop a content calendar and ensure consistent posting across all platforms.
- Curate relevant content from external sources to share with our audience.
- Ensure all content aligns with brand voice and standards.
Community Management:
- Monitor and respond to comments, messages, and mentions across all social media channels.
- Build and foster relationships with our online community.
- Engage with influencers and other relevant accounts.
- Handle online reputation.
Analytics and Reporting:
- Track and analyze social media metrics to measure the effectiveness of campaigns.
- Generate regular reports on social media performance and provide insights for optimization.
- Use social listening tools to monitor brand mentions and industry trends.
Campaign Management:
- Plan and execute social media campaigns to promote products, services, and events.
- Manage social media advertising budgets and optimize campaigns for maximum ROI.
- Collaborate with marketing and other teams to ensure campaign alignment.
Responsibilities:
- Creating a positive onboarding experience for new clients.
- Manage daily activities and tasks for clients by Line Manager
- Regularly interacting with clients through telephone calls, email communications, or face-to-face meetings.
- Responding to clients' requests as they arise in real time
- Maintaining an accurate record of all necessary documents pertaining to the brand.
- Coordinate with various internal teams to deliver Creative, Data Analytics, Tech and Operational Services
- Develop a relationship with clients and manage their expectations (Kudos if you can balance the two together!)
- Upsell! Always be on the lookout to identify opportunities and convert them to grow revenue
- Ensure that projects are completed on time and within budget.
- Coach and support team members to help them meet departmental goals
- Take responsibility for the quality of work, the accuracy of the brief, and the team’s output
- Maintain weekly, fortnightly, and monthly reports
- Meeting clients to discuss strategy and report on progress
- Keep ahead of the industry’s developments and apply best practices to areas of improvement
- Maintain an orderly workflow according to priorities
BECOME A PEOPLE’S PERSON!
- Exhibit strong leadership skills and inspire your team members
- Stick to the client’s brief and the agreed process to deliver effectively
- Utilize your team’s productivity keeping the Scope Of Work and allocated budget
- Be all ears to Account Managers and mentors to get the best performance possible
IMPROVE THE PROCESS!
- Relentlessly work on improving the internal processes while solving problems along the way
COMMUNICATE AND COLLABORATE!
- Manage all business communications
- Become a link for the internal team and make sure the process is consistently followed until the project is completed as per the client’s brief
SKILLS WE DESIRE
- Develop and maintain existing client relationships.
- Excellent organizational and time management skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Effective communication skills.
- A+ presentation skills (making PPTs included)
- Natural attention to detail
- Financial management and commercial acumen
- Advanced software skills including Word
Strong hands-on experience with ReactJS, Redux, TypeScript, HTML, Bootstrap, Material UI, CSS3/SCSS, Webpack, NPM, NVM, Visual Studio Code
Knowledge/Experience on Restful APIs integration.
Unit testing with Jasmine or an equivalent framework
Experience or Knowledge in developing complex reusable component libraries such as complex grids, spreadsheet components etc.,
Strong in UI/UX standards implementation
Understanding of browser fundamentals and Page Optimizations
Experience working with Git and Azure
Are you an experienced, ambitious Software Developer looking for a challenging role where you can learn lots more?
We are looking for a motivated PHP Developer with skills in other PHP-based frameworks to come to join our fast-paced, fun, and rewarding agile team of professionals.
If you are passionate about technology, constantly seeking to learn and improve your skillset, then you are the type of person we are looking for!
We are offering superb career growth opportunities, great compensation, and benefits.
Software Developer duties and responsibilities
- Experience with PHP MVC frameworks (Laravel, CodeIgniter, Zend, Drupal etc.)
- Writing back-end code and building efficient PHP modules.
- Developing back-end portals with an optimized database.
- Troubleshooting application and code issues.
- Troubleshoot, test, and maintain the core product software along with the databases to ensure strong functionality and optimization.
- Contribute to all the software development phases.
- Develop and deploy the latest features that facilitate the relevant tools and procedures if required.
- Convey effectively with all task progress, evaluations, suggestions, schedules along with technical and process issues
Software Developer requirements and qualifications
- 1+ years of experience as PHP Developer, Software Developer, Web Developer, or related roles.
- Proficient in PHP, HTML5, JavaScript, JQuery Expert
- Experience with PHP MVC frameworks (Laravel, CodeIgniter, Zend, Drupal etc.)
- Experience in implementing the common 3rd party APIs such as Facebook, Google, etc.
- Knowledge of developing web services will be preferred.
- Should possess a passion for coding practices and best designs.
- User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
- Experience with building restful JSON web services
- Knowledge of APIs, such as Twitter, Facebook, Google maps, Instagram, etc.
- Understanding of responsive design frameworks such as bootstrap
Perks & Benefits
- Work from home / Hybrid working model
- 5 days working
- Leave compensations
- Flexible working hours
- Exposure to the international market
- Medical Insurance
- Experienced in creating microcopy that will drive visitors towards taking the right actions across our website
- Experienced in writing technical documents like product sheets, product manuals, technical guides, tutorials, etc
- Experienced in proofreading and editing content copies
- Experienced in creating content as per our Ideal Customer Profile
- Work with the marketing team for generating fresh content ideas
- Should have basic knowledge of search engine optimization
- Experienced in creating concise, eye-catching, and innovative headlines and a body of technical documents.
- Experience- 5-10years
- Salary -5-15lpa
* Excellent selling, communication & negotiation skills.
* Time management and organizational skills.
* Ability to create and deliver presentations tailored to audience needs.
* Relationship management skills and openess to feedback.
Role – SDET
Experience – 4+ years
Location - Bengaluru
Key Skills - API test automation, Java, Rest Assured
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Minimum 3+ years of API test automation experience
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Strong Programming experience on Java using OOPs, collections, exception handling, and strong debugging skills
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Strong testing and test design skills like scenario identification, test case identification, defect identification with a focus on test coverage
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Strong experience in testing of API / webservices
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Excellent experience and skill in the development of API test automation suites using Rest Assured
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Good experience of working on Jenkins and other CI-CD tools
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Knowledge of Dockers
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Strong knowledge of SQL and experience in database testing is desirable
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Good communication skills (verbal and written) is a must
We are looking for experienced and entrepreneurial product leaders with a “co-founder” mindset,to help build and scale a world-class product organization in Bangalore. If you are excited about fintech, zero to one products, working with and learning from a phenomenal team of product,engineering, research, design, operations, and business leaders, this is the role for you.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
- Ideal product manager will be passionate and will deliver an unparalleled customer and user experience
- The product manager would stand for customers and identify key insights from customer research, interviews, surveys etc.
- The product manager will create a strategy and bottom up roadmap with ruthless prioritization to lead an area end to end within the product org
- The product manager will hustle and do whatever it takes to get things done
- Ship fast without sacrificing quality (MVP driven approach); then leverage data and feedback for iterations
- The product manager will own the go to market of the product, will measure the impact of the various products that are launched
- Align key stakeholders on the problem, solution, setting expectation and communicate effectively
- Must be an innovative, strategic thinker and must be able to work in a fast-paced dynamic environment with changing priorities
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE/ QUALIFICATIONS
The ideal candidate profile will be:
- Overall experience of 5+ yrs with at least 3+ yrs in product management in a tech-led company (consumer internet space is preferred)
- Exceptional problem-solving skills based on first principles thinking
- Have solved complex & ambiguous problem at scale to create significant impact
- Adopt a structured approach to identify what problems need to be solved and break them down into smaller chunks
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to justify requirements, features and drive management of a product.
- Proven ability to deliver first class customer experiences with a deep understanding of UX best practices.
- High attention to detail and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously with minimal supervision.
- Ability to scale a product post launch and drive adoption, track metrics and plan next steps






