WeAreHolidays - Product Manager (2-4 yrs)
WeAre Hiring for the post of Product Managers.
Company profile & Job Description :
WeAreHolidays is one of India's fastest growing travel startups. WeAreHolidays (WAH Holidays Private Limited), a 2011 company, was founded with the vision of creating the largest marketplace offering vacation options for Indians traveling abroad.
Its founding team has extensive experience of working at MakeMyTrip, and includes Engineers (from IIT & other reputed institutes), Management graduates (from IIM & other reputed institutes) and numerous souls who've chosen the road less traveled on their entrepreneurial journeys.
It is a venture-funded company with Matrix Partners (Silicon Valley & India based) as the lead investor. Matrix Partners has invested in several market leaders in the consumer technology space including Quikr (online classifieds), Olacabs (cab marketplace), Stayzilla (stays marketplace), LimeRoad (social commerce marketplace), Mswipe (mobile POS), NewsHunt (local language mobile platform) and U2opia (social mobile apps) among others. The company also has Blume ventures as one of its investors. Blume Ventures has investments in some of the leading companies in the Indian internet space. It also has Rajesh Sawhney (Founder GSF accelerator), Sachin Bhatia (Co-Founder, MakeMyTrip.com) & Anupam Mittal (Founder, Shaadi.com) as investors.
Since its launch, WeAreHolidays has been in numerous national publications and media outlets including the Times of India, Mint, The Economic Times, CNBC Awaaz, Corporate Dossier, Your Story and many others. WeAreHolidays has thousands of customers and is growing at a phenomenal pace in India.
As someone who would be joining the team, you need to be a self-starter and show strong ownership/commitment and have experience in incubating and maturing a business in this fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment. Above all we're looking for an 'I Will' attitude over a 'We Shall' one.
Job description: Product Manager
Below is the job description for Senior Manager - Product of WeAreHolidays.com - One of India's fastest growing travel startup. It is a marketplace for customized vacation options for Indians traveling outside India. WeAreHolidays (WAH Holiday Private Limited), a 2011 company, was founded with the vision of creating the largest marketplace for vacation options for Indians. Its founding team has extensive experience of working at MakeMyTrip, and includes Engineers (from IIT & other reputed institutes), Management graduates (from IIM & other reputed institutes) and numerous souls who- ve travelled the road less travelled on their entrepreneurial journey.
Since its launch, WeAreHolidays has been in numerous national publications and media outlets including the The Economic Times, CNBC Awaaz, Corporate Dossier, Your Story, Tnooz, Medianama and others. WeAreHolidays has thousands of customers and is growing at a phenomenal pace in India. WeAreHolidays is a venture-funded company with leading VC fund (Silicon Valley & India based) and prominent angel investors in India backing it.The company has office in Gurgaon. As Senior Manager-Product, one of your challenges is to conceptualize and adapt the product to the Indian market, keeping in mind local travel patterns.
You need to be a self-starter with a passion for independent, creative problem-solving, show strong ownership/commitment, and have experience incubating and maturing a business in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment. Above all we- re looking for an - I Will- attitude over - We Shall- .
Key Responsibilities
Conducting customer and competitor research to develop a thorough understanding of market needs and the competitive landscape
Developing testable product hypotheses; working with UX designers, developers and analytics team to set up, execute and evaluate the results of your product tests
Monitor, conduct analysis and evaluate the impact of experiments and/or A|B tests using a combination of web analytics, user analysis, user surveys and internal tools
Writing specifications; breaking down functional requirements into prioritized chunks for development
Collaborate with design and engineering resources to translate requirements into features with disruptive, quantifiable business value.
Collaborate with sales, marketing and operations teams to ensure features enable the proper go- to-market and operational objectives.
Project management: shepherding your projects from idea conception through execution to validation
Define success metrics for the product, build in ability to measure & track them and religiously track the same for insights, opportunities and learnings
Work with Visual & Interaction Designers and UX team to map user flows, paper prototype interactions, wireframes, information architecture & layout
The ideal candidate for this profile will be someone
With excellent judgement; data-driven decision maker
Excellent problem solving and multitasking skills, with a creative and flexible attitude
Solid understanding of development processes, what's easy vs. hard to do technically
Passionate about delivering an outstanding user experience through obsessive attention to detail
Has a strong track record of shaping business strategy for technical products or services.
Has relentlessly high standards (is never satisfied with the status quo)
Is able to dive deep and is never out of touch with the details of the business. Thinks big, without losing the details.
Expects and requires innovation of her/his team
Has passion and convictions and the innate ability to inspire passion in others
Is a B.Tech / B.E. / M.E. / M.Tech / MCA from a reputed institute
Bonus - Is a MBA from a tier 1 institute
Bonus - Exposure to web technologies like Core Java, JSP, Java Servlets, Java Struts, Spring, &
Hibernate and mobile technologies like Android, iOS, Windows Mobile
Bonus points for previous start-up experience or contribution to any open source project.
This position will be based full time at Delhi.
Salary and perks will be no constraint for the right candidate.
If interested, please forward CV and do include a few lines on why you think you are the perfect fit for this role and can excel at it.
Looking forward to some really enthusiastic candidates.
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