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Our client is a B2B2C tech firm backed by India’s largest retailer and tech venture capitalist founded by founders - IITB Graduates who are experienced in retail, ecommerce and fintech

It aims to become one app to manage all your brand's loyalty points, cashback and coupons. It will have additional content and discovery layer for customers and brands for further engagement and commerce.

Role description:

In this role, you will report to the Senior Product Manager and also work closely with the founder to help shape our overall product roadmap to build high-impact web/mobile platform

Preferred Qualifications :

● 2-3 years proven experience at building high-impact products at scale, preferably in a fast-paced B2C internet/e-commerce company

● B.Tech / MBA or equivalent experience from premier schools

● Experience working as a part of high-performance teams

● Ability to operate in a very fast-paced, constantly changing and evolving environment

● Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product and technology and coming up with long term Product roadmaps aligned to the company strategic direction

● Good business smarts along with strong problem solving and metrics orientation

● Design thinking, user empathy and deep understanding of Indian customers

● Good technical understanding with an ability to be hands-on with Engineering teams for implementation and trade-offs

● Crisp written and verbal communication skills

● Ability to work with a diverse set of stakeholders and manage senior stakeholders

·        Prepare and manage project plans (project, release, sprint) with clear achievable milestones

·        Identify risks and dependencies for the projects he manages.

·        Ensure the project is implemented on time within contractual obligations.

·        Responsible for scope management and change management.

·        Follow-up with customers to resolve any dependencies and help manage issues/bottlenecks in implementation.

·        Conduct regular project review meetings.

·        Be an escalation point for implementation team to coordinate with various partners to eliminate any bottlenecks or mitigate any risks.

·        Communicate status to senior management and customers regularly.

·        Should have the ability to manage multiple projects in parallel for various customers.

·        Able to identify impact on project plan due to new changes coming up during the project execution.

·        Interface with customers and understand functional requirements and objectives

·        Working closely with customer’s / business analysts / technical architects for ensuring that right design and architecture is agreed up on for the projects.

·        Escalate issues to senior management or customer if required appropriately

·        Able to influence and implement the best practices of Agile across project teams

·        Ensure compliance with development standards, development process and the documentation requirements.

·        Continuous learning to keep abreast with developments in technology.

·        Provide guidance on functional and technical matters to all the members in the team, if required take support from external team members.

·        Participate in presentations and demonstrations of the software to customers.

·        Identify training needs for the project team to improve productivity and quality of delivery

·        Build a strong team to manage and execute the projects

·        Work with team continuously to resolve conflicts or roadblocks they have to accomplish their tasks

·        Have a periodic 1 x 1 discussion with the team members provide support where required and nominate team/peer for their achievements

·        Understand employee grievances and take initiatives to address and resolve them

·        Participate in any proposal activities as part of pre-sales activities

·        Develops excellent customer relationship and delivers great customer satisfaction

·        Displays good subject matter and technical expertise

·        Displays good people management skills

·        Retention of the key team members with high motivation

·        Demonstrates ability to follow the existing processes and strives to improve and adapt to new processes

·        Show great productivity and excellent quality deliverables.

·        Provides excellent managerial and technical leadership to the team

Looking for a Product Head who will have full ownership for multiple areas of the product, including product roadmap and release planning. Responsibilities include listening to customers, creating business requirements, defining user stories, building prototypes, collaborating with the engineering team for product development, and ensuring the launch and adoption of these solutions. The detailed list of responsibilities are captured below:

• Own the strategy and roadmap for designated product areas. Be an advocate for the customer and keep a close eye on the competition and industry to build the roadmap in alignment with the long-term product vision.
• Plan and manage all stages of the product life cycle, from ideation to launch, adoption/growth, and sunsetting.
• Develop business cases for each product initiative to demonstrate customer need, feasibility, pricing, addressable and realizable revenues, competitive positioning, implementation plan, and support costs, etc.
• Work with the product design team to iteratively develop highly usable, intuitive, and pixel-perfect designs and prototypes.
• Collaborate with the sales and marketing teams to build a strong GTM strategy and be the spokesperson for the product within the industry by hosting webinars, events, etc.
• Mentor other junior product managers and product designers on the team.
• Lastly, but most importantly, work closely with the engineering team to build a repeatable and efficient process for product delivery including but not limited to backlog grooming, prioritization, and sprint planning.

• Who is a good fit for this role?

  Consider yourself a good fit for this role if you have these characteristics. Don’t worry if you don’t check every item on the list below. If you have the attitude to constantly challenge and upskill yourself, you might still be a good fit.

  • Full product funnel ownership - You have 8+ years of product management experience for a consumer or B2B SaaS service, with multiple launches under your belt.
  • Deep empathy for user needs - You love talking to users, and you have multiple approaches for understanding what matters to them and why.
  • Ability to communicate effectively - You can clearly communicate with different internal stakeholders and external stakeholders. You are comfortable speaking the language of engineers on one end and customers, executives, or other business stakeholders on the other end. You thrive on ambiguity. You are as comfortable articulating vision and strategy as you are writing detailed product requirements.
  • Attention to detail - You obsess about the smallest product details, from color to positioning and tone of language. You benchmark yourself against the best in the industry and aim to build the best. You are able to build systems that enable the team to maintain a high bar for quality.
  • You ask and answer the right questions - You develop smart hypotheses and have a knack for designing research and experiments to prove them. You love data, and the know-how to interpret and think critically about results.
  • Understanding of technology frameworks and concepts - You can work closely with the engineering team, to understand tradeoffs and make decisions around prioritization and scope.
  • Team orientation - You go above and beyond to make your product and team successful, whether it’s filing bugs or organizing team offsite. You believe and understand that strong products are built by closely-knit teams. You are naturally inclined towards owning criticism and deflecting praise to the team.

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  What can you look for?

  The opportunity to shape and build a product through its very early stages, a wide breadth of responsibilities, and an opportunity to challenge yourself every day. The product is one of the prominent solutions in the Indian geography and witnessing rapid adoption and growth across multiple world geographies including the US and Europe. You get the chance to collaborate with a highly skilled team with a good mix of experience and a can-do attitude.

  We are

  A fast-growing SaaS commerce company based in Bangalore with offices in Delhi, Mumbai, SF, Dubai, Singapore, and Dublin. Empuls works with over 1000 global clients. We help our clients in engaging and motivating their employees, sales teams, channel partners, or consumers for better business results.

  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.

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What is the role?

As Product Manager for Compass, you will be responsible for the product portfolio, including all product planning and release execution throughout the lifecycle of the product portfolio. This includes defining and prioritizing product roadmap, listening to customers, creating business requirements, driving functional requirements, prioritization, driving this through development, and successfully launching new product features. To read more about the kind of qualities we are looking for in this role, please check this link <https://a16z.com/2012/06/15/good-product-managerbad-product-manager/>;

Key responsibilities

1. Strategic planning and managing all stages of Product Life Cycle
2. Develop business cases for each product feature to demonstrate feasibility including target pricing and margin, addressable and realizable market, SWOT analysis, estimated development, implementation, and support costs etc.
3. Planning execution of  roadmap & managing end to end product delivery
4. Work extensively on feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
5. Help define the value proposition of the product for the Sales & Marketing teams and help with the GTM strategy
6. Research and understand competitive offerings in your sector

Who will you work with?

You ll report to the head of product development. 

What are we looking for?

1. 5+ years of product management function in a product company
2. B2B SaaS experience with multiple Stakeholder management would be preferred
3. Self-starter with a passion for independent, creative problem-solving, strong ownership, high commitment and strong business judgment.
4. Enjoy working in a startup environment, with a proven ability to innovate and work customer backwards
5. Ability to think strategically and prioritize in an ambiguous environment.
6. Analytical thinking, project management skills, attention to detail, and exceptional organizational skills are essential

What can you look for?

Challenging opportunity, tough problems and a very good growth path. An excellent opportunity to work with a team of highly talented young professionals. We also offer a whole load of benefits to make your stay enjoyable with Compass?.

We are,

We at Compass strive to make selling fun with our SaaS incentive gamification product.  Compass is the #1 gamification software that automates and digitizes Sales Contests and Commission Programs. With game-like elements, rewards, recognitions, and complete access to relevant information, Compass turbocharges an entire salesforce. Compass also empowers Sales Managers with easy-to-publish game templates, leaderboards and analytics to help accelerate performances and sustain growth.

We are a fun and high-energy team, with people from diverse backgrounds - united under the passion of getting things done. Rest assured that you shall get complete autonomy in your tasks and ample opportunities to develop your strengths.

Way forward,

If you find this role exciting and want to join us at Bangalore, India, then apply by clicking below. Provide your details and upload your resume. All received resumes will be screened, shortlisted candidates will be requested to join for a discussion and on mutual alignment and agreement, we will proceed with hiring.

Responsibilities :

- Build the product strategy and roadmap in line with customers problems and company's vision

- Lead a set of cross functional teams by translation of the product strategy into detailed requirements and prototypes to drive the product development goals

- Identify market opportunities with research and competitive analysis and integrate it into product requirements to enhance user satisfaction

- Analyze complex use cases with experience in using analytics platforms to understand product usability and break them down to simplify user experience

- Design simple and intuitive user interfaces through wireframes and mock-ups

- Listen to the clients on an ongoing basis, be a trusted advisor and work towards aligning our offerings to their expectations

- Develop and launch new products while enhancing the existing products on a timely basis

- Communicate the product solutions and offerings effectively internally and externally

- Be persistent and professional in pursuit of all product deliverables and documentation such as PRD and Knowledge Base

- Be updated with the emerging trends in IT and technical architecture

Requirements :

- Masters Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Management, Statistics or related field

- 3+ years of experience managing web and mobile products with a background in technical product management or engineering

- 7+ years of experience in building global enterprise SaaS products

- Prior experience in logistics, supply chain, e-commerce or transportation domain is a plus

- Proven ability to drive large scale products with deep understanding of agile, high collaboration and leadership in a highly accelerated work environment

- Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills with a fair understanding of what makes a good user experience and beautiful design

- Spontaneous, quick thinker and a self-starter with key organizational skills that includes attention to detail and multi-tasking

Experience and Educational Requirements:

• 7 years of experience as a Solutions Architect/Developer, designing and implementing global cloud-based solution architectures for PaaS, IaaS or SaaS.
• Experience with structured Enterprise Architecture practices, hybrid cloud deployments, and on-premise-to-cloud migration deployments and roadmaps.
• Experience with distributed computing, software development, big data analytics, cloud computing, virtualization, hosted services, multi-tenant cloud, storage systems or content delivery as well as security protocols.
• Experience developing the User Interface and User Experience for complex software solutions deployed globally
• Experience with all major programming languages and SaaS database technologies
• Experience in building and scaling up the development function and a proven ability to attract, inspire, motivate and retain top tier talent
• Experience working with large multi-national distributed teams
• Experience articulating complex topics to senior stakeholders in both business and IT teams effectively .
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

• Build and implement strategies to ensure continuous growth of customer engagement leading to better retention and lifetime value of customer
• Own and monitor all key customer growth metrics. Build a robust analytics infrastructure to track these metrics
• Employ advanced data and statistical tools to build intelligent solutions around customer and business problems
• Advocate for what should be the priority and align stakeholders while solving for any concerns.
• Get things done by working with cross-functional teams displaying ability to collaborate, multitask and drive best possible decisions and outcomes

• Overall 5+ years of professional experience with 3+ years in product management in internet industry. Software engineering experience will be preferred.
• Engineering graduate from premium institute. Post graduate will be preferred.
• Experience building solutions using data science/big data/machine learning a big plus
• Experience with Agile and lean processes a plus
• Should display traits of a good leader, with empathy for customers and stakeholders
• Ability to thrive with ambiguity in a dynamic environment is a must

Product Manager - Chennai  
 

Who we are?  

Kaleidofin is a financial platform for the masses in India, which provides intuitive solutions tailored to the customer’s goals and provides a payments platform for digitizing payments across financial institutions. We are working towards creating fair and transparent financial solutions that can target millions of customers and enterprises in India that don’t have easy access to formal financial planning.  

In a very short time span, global investors such as Oiko Credit, Omidyar Network and Blume Ventures have supported Kaleidofin’s well thought out business model with $8 million in seed and Series A funding. The company was one of only ten startups chosen for the Google LaunchPad Accelerator program in 2019, was recognized as India's Most Innovative Wealth, Asset and Investment Management Service/Product by the Internet & Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and was selected to present at United Nations General Assembly Special Task Force Event.  

Kaleidofin aims to become a leading FinTech player bringing financial solutions to everyone. We have brought together a fantastic team with folks with prior experience at Google, Amazon, Oracle, Microsoft, IFMR, WebMD, that are all working towards this common mission together. 

To know more about Kaleidofin, do visit our site https://kaleidofin.com/">https://kaleidofin.com/ 

 
Key Responsibilities  

• Manage the execution of the entire product lifecycle management from concept through launch and beyond. 
• Break down the overall roadmap into specific components for you to own the backlog. 
• Grow the products and features for both existing and new products. 

• Own responsibility and accountability for the product experience and associated OKR’s. 
• Define, implement, and own metrics to monitor and communicate product performance, validate hypothesis, refine content and experience. 
• Analyze and educate the business on the market dynamics, trends and our competition.  

 
Requirements/Qualifications 

• 3+ years of experience in product management. FinTech market experience a strong plus.  

• Experience creating and contributing to a software product roadmap, evangelizing the product vision. 
• Experience working directly and cross-functionally with developers, product managers, and other related stakeholders 
• Excellent communication, presentation skills and ability to interact with all levels of the organization.  
• Strong work ethic. Self-starting personality with the ability to problem solve and develop creative solutions. Works well and stays focused under little supervision.  
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in work experience.