Airtel - Senior Product Manager - Music Platforms Squad

Product Owner for Music Platforms Squad

Larger purpose and impact of the role :

- Music listening is fast expanding beyond apps to multiple platforms like Echo, Google Home etc, and this is a great opportunity for us to offer our music services to users in these new listening environments. We envision a seamless, multi-platform music streaming experience that caters to the changing trends in Music Listening.

- The Product Manager for Platforms will help us build this reality by taking our music where our users are - across multiple platforms and devices.

- The person will be working on bringing the joy of seamless music listening across key platforms like Alexa, Google Home and Assistant, Android Auto, Echo, Android TV and others.

- The key task of this Product Manager would be to solve for music discovery, recommendation and playback in the context of these devices and its users

- The PM will define user experiences ground-up for these platforms, working from his knowledge of users and the capabilities offered by these platforms; and working closely with tech and design teams to ship our offering on these platforms

- Beyond presence on these platforms, the PM will be end-to-end owner of user KPIs on these platforms from acquisition to retention and develop & execute a backlog to improve user experience in each successive sprint.

Success factors and requirements :

A successful candidate will help us achieve the following objectives:

- Breadth : Integrations with as many user platforms

- Awareness : Driving user awareness of presence of Wynk Music on Alternative Platforms.

- Penetration : Increasing number of multi-device users of Wynk Music.

- Usage : Both in terms of number of users and usage - on these alternative platforms.

Requirements :

- A passionate product manager with 3+ years- experience of shipping end-to-end consumer products

- The candidate should preferably have a tech background with interest in current technology trends

- Someone with an entrepreneurial mindset who enjoys taking end-to-end ownership of the product and work across stakeholders to achieve the desired objectives for the product

- Strong analytical skills, ability to define KPIs, KPI dashboards and success metrics. He/she should also be conversant with executing effective A/B tests for hypothesis testing.

- User Centric Thinking- Ready to carry out first hand user research as well as dive into existing app usage data to back hypothesis for development on these platforms

- Prioritisation: The PM should be able to carry out effective prioritisation of user-features balancing between user experience, business requirements and resourcing.

Type of people who succeed in such a role :

- A PM in digital space who has worked on products with end-to-end ownership

- Someone who enjoys being tuned into the product and technology ecosystem across new apps, devices and technology trends

- Someone who loves to collaborate and can work closely with design, tech-teams, platform partners, marketing and brand teams and the core music product team to bring the platform experience alive.

- A customer advocate, who works in understanding our users through data and primary research and translates them to successful user facing features.