Look for 10 – 15 years experience,
Director/Associate Director of Product /Solutioning
Demonstrated expertise ..
1. Customer validation – understanding “day in the life of customer”, how customer does it currently, and what are alternate options,,; how are we different
2. Architecture and interface understanding
3. Solutioning skills (at an overall level)
4. Stakeholder management
§ Customer Map – Customer stakeholders, both users and sponsors and executive mgmt..
§ Internal Product Manager
§ UX team
§ Delivery team, QA ,
§ Customer success team.
§ Project Management
5. Not an IC, should have some direct team reports.
Preferred – B2B (enterprise .. )..
Target companies..
- Rategain
- Axtria
- Nucleus
- NewGen
How much weightage to
a. Financial background – SME requirement, and not for Product management.
b.
c. Infrastructure companies (Indus, BIL etc) – we are building solutons for them, and this can be solved by customer SME – we may not find Product Managers here.
d.
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Product Manager (Software Solutions)
Job Title: Associate Director - PMG
Education: MBA, B.E/B.Tech or equivalent
Job Description:
Key Responsibilities / Functions / Role:
Senior Product Manager (7+ years) Looking for a Product Manager who is passionate about solving high impact problems in a fast-paced environment with a high degree of autonomy. This is inherently a cross-functional role where you will work closely with teams such as Engineering, Design, Marketing, Operations, Sales, etc to build cohesive product as well as customer experiences
Responsibilities
· Take end-to-end ownership of the product vision, writing feature specs, analyzing key performance metrics and driving business results.
· Ownership of all related roadmaps and active projects
· Gain a deep understanding of customer experience, identify and fill product gaps and generate new ideas that improve customer experience and drive growth.
· Define the product vision, strategy and roadmap.
· Gather, manage, and prioritize market/customer requirements.
· Work with stakeholders to shape up business requirements
· Formulating growth and sales strategy using product management & analytics skills
· Continuous improvement: Work and strive towards optimizing product, product flows and processes in order to provide operational efficiency.
· Build unique and delightful product experiences for consumers as well as business users
· Play an active role in defining the UX of the products
· Work closely with the engineering team to continually optimize the product requirements as well as time to market
· Responsible for timely shipping out products/features with no compromise in quality
· Inspire and motivate your team and get everyone to work in the same direction. You need to become a leader of your product as well as your people.
· Guide and manage a team of Product managers/Product owners.
· Ensure complete synchronization among the various products.
Qualifications
· Outstanding written, oral, and organizational ability.
· Passion to self-motivate, the guile to sell your ideas to other stakeholders, and the drive to execute those ideas cross-functionally.
· Overall experience of 7+ yrs. with at least 5+ yrs. in product management in a technology company
· Fast learner that can quickly synthesize ideas, information, and options into a strategy, plan, or response and effectively communicate it
· Experience with product management of a digital product, ideally product-led growth
· Person having experience with financial or billing product will be good to have
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