Sulekha.com - Associate Director/Director - Web Product Manager

Job Description & Expectations

We are looking for an Associate Director/Director - Web Product Manager who is passionate about the consumer experience for local services on the PC desktop & Mobile Web. We would like a deeply hands-on, experienced consumer internet/consumer mobile product development person to work and deliver on these job expectations:

Web Product Lifecycle, Execution & Engagement (~60%)

a. Web product roadmap: Map the short-term (quarter), annual and 3 year roadmap to build delightful products and features for Sulekha's PC website and mobile web - that are used in the tens of millions each month

1. Lead the product thinking for a long-term product evolution, while balancing short-term priorities of generating leads from consumers for SMB customers

b. Web user experience: Advocate and implement a superlative - PC desktop user experience- by implementing the product vision on PC and its related avatars like large screen tablets

1. Evolve the PC web user experience to be a far more nuanced and detail oriented - vis-- -vis the mobile web that may be markedly easier for different kinds of local services, based on the category

c. Web execution: Define the workflow of PC Web and Mobile web applications through wireframes, mockups, prototypes, ROCs and achieve feature/platform launches on time

d. User engagement: Drive multiple methods to make users engage with the product - and achieve greater delight

e. Testing & Feedback: Continuously test the mobile web product on a plethora of devices and platforms, besides looking at user experience data flowing through thousands of daily user experiences (and achieve significant standardization of user delight)

PC/Web Growth & Others (~40%)

a. Growth identification: Analyzing PC Web and Mobile web usage through both data and commissioned primary research to identify channels/avenues/sources of increasing growth in terms of new user acquisition (even if PC penetration is flat)

i. Working with both internal marketing and external marketing teams to influence them and achieve the mobile app growth objectives

b. Competitive Analytics: Measure and benchmark Sulekha performance against both existing Indian competitors and other local service providers in USA/Europe/Asia etc for the PC Web and Mobile Web separately.

Desired Skills

Professional

- Engineering/MBA from premier institutes

- Consumer mobile product development experience of at least 3+ years

- Hands-on coding experience of at least 2+ years in the past

- Project/Program management experience of at least 2+ years in the past

- Built products of repute in India/Abroad

- 4-8 years- experience with minimum 2-3 years in senior roles of PC/mobile product development.

Personal

- Track record of delivery, goal oriented along with ability to sets clear priorities and meets deadlines

- Positive, initiative driven, motivating and a natural leader

- Result oriented, entrepreneurial and self-motivated

- Ambitious and flexible

- Excellent communication and presentation skills

Please forward your updated profile and i will reach you in 48 hours.

Isaac K