Principal Product Manager - Learning & Assessment Solution - IIT/NIT/BITS

Associate Product Manager, TIFIN

Mumbai, India

WHO WE ARE:

TIFIN is a fintech platform backed by industry leaders including JP Morgan, Morningstar, Broadridge, Hamilton Lane, Franklin Templeton, Motive Partners and a who’s who of the financial service industry. We are creating engaging wealth experiences to better financial lives through AI and investment intelligence powered personalization. We are working to change the world of wealth in ways that personalization has changed the world of movies, music and more but with the added responsibility of delivering better wealth outcomes.

We use design and behavioral thinking to enable engaging experiences through software and application programming interfaces (APIs). We use investment science and intelligence to build algorithmic engines inside the software and APIs to enable better investor outcomes.

In a world where every individual is unique, we match them to financial advice and investments with a recognition of their distinct needs and goals across our investment marketplace and our advice and planning divisions.

OUR VALUES: Go with your GUT

● Grow at the Edge. We are driven by personal growth. We get out of our comfort zone and keep egos aside to find our genius zones. With self-awareness and integrity we strive to be the best we can possibly be. No excuses.

●Understanding through Listening and Speaking the Truth. We value transparency. We communicate with radical candor, authenticity and precision to create a shared understanding. We challenge, but once a decision is made, commit fully.

●I Win for Teamwin. We believe in staying within our genius zones to succeed and we take full ownership of our work. We inspire each other with our energy and attitude. We fly in formation to win together.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

We are seeking a motivated Associate Product Manager to join our dynamic team in Mumbai. This role requires exceptional organizational skills, a strong understanding of Agile methodologies (particularly Scrum), and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams across multiple time zones, including the US.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Product Planning & Development:
• Assist in defining and prioritizing product roadmaps based on market research, customer feedback, and strategic business objectives.
• Translate user needs and business requirements into well-defined user stories and feature specifications.
• Own and manage the product backlog, ensuring tasks are well-defined and prioritized.
• Project Management & Execution:
• Manage product development sprints using Scrum methodology.
• Track progress in Jira, ensuring timely updates, risk identification, and issue resolution.
• Clearly communicate project status, dependencies, and roadblocks to all stakeholders.
• Facilitate sprint planning, daily standups, retrospectives, and other necessary Scrum ceremonies.
• Cross-functional Collaboration:
• Partner closely with engineering, design, marketing, sales, and customer success.
• Work effectively across time zones to coordinate with US-based team members.
• Data Analysis:
• Assist in gathering and analyzing product-related metrics to inform decision-making.
• Monitor product performance, identify trends, and suggest areas for improvement.

REQUIREMENTS:

• 2+ years of experience in a product-related role (e.g., product management, project management, business analysis).
• Excellent understanding of Agile methodologies and Scrum practices.
• Proven experience with Jira or similar project management tools.
• Ability to work effectively with stakeholders across time zones, including coordinating with teams in the US.

Preferred:

• Experience in a tech or software development environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.

BENEFITS PACKAGE:

TIFIN offers a competitive benefits package that includes:

· Performance linked variable compensation.

· Medical insurance

·Tax saving benefits

· Flexible PTO policy and Company-paid holidays

· Parental Leave: 6 month paid maternity, 2 week paid paternity leave

·Access to our Wellness trainers, including 1:1 personal coaching

for executives and rising stars

 Company-sponsored events like Offsites, Events, Conferences,

Training  The ability to make a real impact in an incredibly fast-growing organization

A note on location. While we have team centers in Boulder, New York City, San Francisco, Charlotte, and Bangalore, this role is based out of Mumbai.  

TIFIN is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace and values the multitude of talents and perspectives that a diverse workforce brings. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.

Vakilsearch is the leading Legal, Tax and Compliance (LTC) company in India. We are here to revolutionize the way business work with the Government. We are working on exciting and transformative products to revolutionize the LTC space. At Vakilsearch, we believe the future of legal in India lies in great products. 

If you're passionate about real change, love building products and are curious about marketing and the overall customer experience, this is for you.

The product manager (PM) will manage the direction and market delivery of existing products and identifying new products, product features, product strategy, and relevant services.

In This Job, You Will:

• Work with Senior Engineers across multiple teams and business stakeholders to design and build highly available and scalable systems
• Use Lean Software Development processes such as Agile, Scrum, and Kanban
• Drive strategic upward product communications internally and externally
• Drive alignment on product features, business metrics, and business strategies
• Work and collaborate effectively with tech teams and launch to production
• Understand business context to decisions made within and across the organization

This Role Might Be for You If:

• You have experience in owning a suite of products and defining long-term product strategy and vision
• You possess strong business acumen with strategic, analytical, and critical thinking
• You understand technical software development life cycle and have knowledge on how to drive teams towards business solutions
• You excel in owning and driving the development of technical products
• You drive strategic product communications across organizations providing clarity in decisions

Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Translate business strategy into product strategy.
• Understanding user needs, knowing the difference between ‘wants’ and ‘needs’ and
  converting these into Products.
• Own the product roadmap and execute product strategy.
• Collect, manage and maintain traceability of requirements from all stakeholders across product releases.
• Write requirements – typically as user stories and epics.
• Maintain and prioritize the product backlog.
• Track releases.
• Building lean and agile Products, know how to accurately test hypotheses in the
  lightest way possible and be comfortable using lean UX techniques.
• Driving new features forward in weekly sprints.
• Balancing internal stakeholders’ requests & bugs.
• Monitor, report and improve product performance.
• Participate in scrum meetings, planning, reviews and retrospectives.
• Support the development team with any questions they may have.

II Experience:

• Nature of Experience:
• Experience in Agile development.
• Proven track record bringing innovation to on-demand SaaS software.
• Should be able to work and remain calm even under pressure situations, and should be able to address and resolve any relevant issues.
• Should be able to work with a diverse range of people and communicate with them effectively.
• High levels of confidence, maturity, and competence are required.

• Length of Experience: 4 - 8 years.
• 4+ years in Software or Saas Industry with 4+ years in Product Management.
• Formal Agile Training
• Programming, UI/UX, or QA experience preferred.
• Experience in Legal Industry or Legal Technologies is an added advantage.

III Skill Set & Personality Traits required:

• Good communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills.

• Organizational skills and ability to manage deadlines.

• Minimum 8+ years of experience working in a IT environment of which 5+ years as a  product manager/Product Owner for a web/mobile product
• Experience working with business, technical and external stakeholders to elicit inputs to draft out roadmaps
• Excellent communication skills ( written, verbal, presentation) 
• ability to create and present product roadmaps 
• Ability to breakdown the roadmap into Epics, detailed user stories, create backlog items. 
• Must be able to communicate business requirements to tech teams 
• Must be able to work in a team and also independently 
• experience in mobile game design will also be considered Extremely good when it comes to understanding usability issues and creating mock-up screens High intelligence, ability to conduct 
• Coding languages (ex: Java, Reactjs)  is a plus
• strong market research and come up with a well-articulated business plan Should be in regular touch with the latest happenings in the technology world Outstanding 
• communication skills both oral and written 
• Demonstrated ability to analyze business issues across multiple domains 

Profile summary:

‘Product Manager -1’ is to be an innovative and self-motivated product management professional who is to be responsible for enabling a seamless end-to-end experience, for our products, solutions, and services, across the various stages of a customer journey; and will influence future product feature-sets, with a continual strive for meeting marketplace requisites and to eliminate customer pain points. This role will work collaboratively with product management, UI/UX, operations, engineering, architecture, customer success, and other teams across the organization to identify, prioritize, design and deliver superior user experiences. The person in this role will be influencing the products roadmap, while leveraging customer insights, market dynamics, and technology trends, to drive a positively differentiated customer service/user experience, and to turn that knowledge into innovative and easy to-use products/features/ solutions.

‘Product Manager -1’ is to combine business knowledge, technical expertise, and creativity, to actualize use cases for maximizing the potential of our products, solutions, and services,  with ownership for discovering new products/improvements, revenue opportunities, and customer requirements, and for managing overall UX product experience. The individual in the role will be mapping the capabilities of technology solutions for marketplace positioning and for delivery of a customer oriented messaging, in terms of technologies, capabilities, and functionalities; articulate value propositions, and superior differentiators; and will support building marketing collaterals, conducts knowledge transfer and training for the customer facing workforce for functional expertise.  

Role & Responsibilities:

This position requires a combination of strong technical acumen and product management skills, with knowledge about the competitive landscape, and deep understanding of buyer personas; working collaboratively across the organisation to ensure revenue and client satisfaction goals are met. The role responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Develop deep understanding for our suite of products/solutions/services; and support evolution of the company's vision, strategy and product roadmap, securing leadership buy-in and support;
• Perform research and analyses that enables informed decision making on issues such as cost, utility, and timelines for products; and support creating user flows, wireframes, and prototypes
• Analyse, and map, the products/solutions/services, to customer requirements, and for newer use cases, and support discernments to highlight value propositions and differentiations for successes in marketplace
• Support customer acquisition efforts for strategizing and preparing responses to request for proposals, with right-fit solutioning, accentuating strengths and uniqueness, and drive regular awareness campaigns, as needed from time-to-time
• Drive product functional, and use case, documentation efforts; maintain indexed knowledge repositories for easy access for future references and ease of retrieval
• Identify opportunities and support signed off product ideas into actionable concepts, timelines, and projects that align to the overall product strategy
• Collaborate closely with customer facing teams understand client needs and ensure optimal go to market and acceptance of new and enhanced user functionality; and support customer acquisition and retention strategies
• Support to identify target client segments and markets, evaluate market trends and competition strategies to inform recommendations on product pricing and positioning;
• Perform tracking and monitoring the commercial success of products relative to business case/plan expectations and take remedial action if not meeting expectations
• Drive positively impactful user experience for our various products/solutions/services; understand the user's needs (both spoken & tacit) and identify current gaps, while ensuring that users and data are at the heart of decision making
• If needed, interface with external partners/aggregators/integrators/government bodies/financial institutions in order to get clarity on the path forward & collaborate with engineering, project management, to accelerate deliveries Input to and align with the UX strategy, including industry trends, best practices and standards, feasibility, innovation and ideation
• Participate in any other Product Management and UX team initiatives as required

General Requirements:

• B-Tech in computer science, or equivalent. Post-graduation in management, marketing, or product management, preferable. Additional certification in product management, business analytics, desirable
• Typically, 7 to 10 years’ experience in a dynamic product management and/or software requirements gathering role, in banking/FinTech areas,
• Demonstrable track record of successfully taking products to market, ideally a consumer facing product of significant scale, with successful delivering finely-tuned product marketing strategies
• Exceptional writing and editing skills combined with strong presentation and public speaking
• Strong interpersonal skills and a knack for productive collaboration across varying departments
• Experience with UI/UX design software and wireframe tools, and ability to Illustrate design ideas using storyboards, process flows and functional diagrams
• Detail-oriented and data-driven and well organized; and possess an encouraging, can-do attitude
• Proven problem solver, with ability to analyse market requirements and bridge communication between technology/engineering and marketing/sales teams
• Self-motivated, self-sufficient, effective, versatile and action-oriented
• Proven creative thinker with ability to work strategically and collaboratively across departments

About Mobileware:

An innovation centric product company, Mobileware thrives on the potential of a fast-paced financial landscape in India. Over the years, we @ Mobileware have made a “Digital” difference to all types of banks viz. PSUs, Cooperative and Urban & Rural banks. To know more about us, you can view our website at http://www.mobilewaretech.com">www.mobilewaretech.com.

Evaluate new use cases to identify product-market fit and evolve the value proposition of existing use cases through user feedback · Engage with customers and work with internal stakeholders like sales, solutions and engineering teams in creating innovative solutions · Create artefacts and run marketing campaigns to scale existing and new Go-to market initiatives · Enable sales, solutioning and marketing team to position the product in appropriate markets and channels.

You Are (behaviours to display - DRIVE) · Must be able to collaborate across stakeholders – Internally (Sales, Marketing, Solution Architects, Solutions Engg, Service Delivery and Assurance) and Externally (Customer forums, Partners, etc) · Understanding on Industry footprints & great product knowledge would be an additional advantage. · Highlight DRIVE behaviours – Accountability & Ownership, Collaboration, Innovation & Agility

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Certifications) · B.E. / B.tech with Masters Degree in Management from a premier institute with 2 - 6 years of enterprise product or technology roles. · Prefered experience: o Cloud, IT/SI/Telecom organizations o Experience in working with Large enterprise environment o Pro-active liaise with other company functions (e.g. Sales / Marketing / Solutions / Service

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Basically, we believe that startup life isn't about functional silos. It's about solving problems. If you are a problem-solver who gets excited by the thought of cracking something new frequently, this is for you.

Who We Are?

Wishup is India's leading remote employee platform helping US-based businesses in building highly efficient remote teams. Founded in the year 2015 by IITM & IIMA alumni and with a clientele of some of the hottest startups in the US,  Wishup is backed by marquee investors like Orios Venture Partners, Inflection Point Ventures, 500Startups, and we have been consistently rated as one of the most coveted places to work at.

We are witnessing phenomenal month-on-month growth and stand at a cusp of a revolution in the remote workforce industry. This is your chance to be a part of the revolution - we are inviting applications for our in-house position of Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR)

Work Responsibilities

- Lead, plan & execute new initiatives & projects

- Work closely with the founders in scaling up the organization

- Shaping the company's overall business strategy. Developing strategic plans and assessing company performance

- Responsible for assisting the Founders with developing, communicating, executing, and sustaining corporate strategic initiatives

- Building the new categories at Wishup and expanding the existing ones

- Conducting research and data analysis to inform business decisions

- Responsible for supporting all special projects needs of the Founders, acting as liaison with key stakeholders, analysis of market trends and internal performance, the analysis of data in collaboration with experienced data analysts, and the production of written reports and oral

What’s in it for you?

- Great Pay

- Be part of a 100x growth story - Wishup has grown 10x in the last 18 months

- High growth potential & impact - an early stage in Wishup’s journey 

- Work from home (or anywhere), forever!

What are we looking for?

• Minimum 2 years experience in a Startup (B2B, SAAS, VC companies are preferred) 
• Bachelor's degree for a Tier 1 institute (preferably IITs, BITS)
• Structured thought-process
• Experience in managing multiple priorities, administrative coordination, and logistics
• High Execution bias
• Creative problem-solving skills
• Well organized, detail-oriented, ability to multitask with great follow-up skills
• Impeccable communication skills

Job Prerequisites

- High-speed internet connection

- Laptop with integrated camera & a pair of headphones

- Quiet workspace

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**Responsibilities**

1. Active management right from the initial stage till the end of the product life cycle to deliver high-quality products.
2. Write, prioritize requirements, manage and facilitate the product development lifecycle from inception to release.
3. Specify market requirements for current and future products by conducting market research supported by ongoing visits to customers and non-customers.
4. Lead the product strategy through to development and deployment, working with leaders in business from sales, marketing, operations, and development.
5. Develop and implement a company-wide go-to-market plan, work with all the departments to execute.
6. Analyze potential partner relationships for the product.
7. Work with an engineering counterpart to define product release requirements.
8. Discover products as per customer need with current marketing trends.
9. Work with the marketing team to identify the requirements from the sales and create product requirement documents.
10. Interact with clients and the technology team.
11. Work with external third parties to assess partnerships and licensing opportunities.

**Skills**

1. Must have Effective oral and written communication skills.
2. Must have Excellent interpersonal skills and presentation skills.
3. Must have Organizational skills and the ability to understand detailed information.
4. Must have Knowledge of current marketing trends.
5. Must have People management & leadership.
6. Must be resourceful, innovative, self-motivated, and confident in high-stress situations
7. Must have Product Management, Product Development understanding.
8. Must have good analytical and troubleshooting skills with end-users / customers.
9. Must have competitive intelligence.

Perks and Benefits

The company provides medical insurance and other benefits.

• Someone who understands the difference between a user journey and a user flow.
• Crazy about building value for the end-user.
• Knows the importance of spending more time talking to customers and less time talking to management.
• Realizes the majority of the job is to identify, define and solve the right problems, fast.
• Dreads feature requests and just does not want to build new features till absolutely necessary.
• Can sell the product to the end customer.

Roles and responsibilities

• Own product strategy and roadmap for one of the core initiatives of the company ecosystem.
• Continuously work with a dedicated set of analysts and user researchers to understand user needs better.
• Generate detailed PRDs for feature proposals.
• Have a strong sense of product design and work with the UX team to convert requirements to product interfaces.
• Work with developers to ensure timely and high-quality delivery of user value.
• Track features, once in production. Work continuously for their success or take the call to remove them from the product.