Chief Product Officer - IIT/NIT/BITS/IIM/XLRI/FMS/MDI

Location : Mumbai

Experience : 10 - 15 Years

Function : Technology - IT & Systems

Vacancy : 1

Job Description :

Chief Product Officer

- 12-15 years of product mgmt. experience out of which 10 years spent in profitable digital content / entertainment business. 

- Should have led product development lifecycle from concept to release.

- Demonstrated ability to discover platform & product opportunities: define, develop & deliver them.

- Strong experience in implementing and monetizing ad-revenue based, multi-sided platforms.

- Should have experience-backed inputs on type of content that creates max. traction / viewership.

- Has implemented a data-driven method (such as A/B testing) to finalize product design.

- Ability to engage customers early on in the product strategy exercise and create products that capture the unstated needs of the customers through online and direct market research.

- Understand and articulate customer needs, conduct regular customer research, leverage internal knowledge and expertise, and prioritize market requirements.

- Experience in envisioning and articulating social network architecture - graph models &databases etc.

- Experience in cloud services like Iaas, PaaS, SaaS and platform deployment on AWS/Azure.

- Has implemented Mobile first product strategy.

- Have a very strong ability to work with UX teams and have a teachable point of view about UX even though she might not be a UX practitioner.

- Ability to hold on to a coherent point-of-view about the platform strategy and orchestrate the team of product managers to lay out the roadmap to achieve functional, design and monetisation goals.

- Hands-on experience in an agile development environment.

- Be custodian of the - business point of view- when leading multi-functional team. Have an ability to engage with senior software engineers and architects, giving them space for their expertise and yet having a strong persuasive ability to get the - business point of view- embedded into the platform.

- Ability to pivot & move to next opportunity when plan A does not create desired business outcomes.

- Strong ability to communicate, convince & influence various stakeholders: Communicate with engineering &cross-functional teams; present plans & roadmap to internal stakeholders &C-Level execs; pitch to diverse external audiences (customers, partners, and analysts);

- Entrepreneurial mindset, possess a high energy level to react to situations quickly and decisively, possessing self-confidence to be assertive when taking a position, not afraid to make decision.

Educational Qualification:

- Should have Technology based Degree such as Btech/BE/MCA/ME/MTech. Preferable from Tier 1 institutes but not Mandatory if they have MBA/PGDM from Tier 1 institute.