Cleartrip.com - Senior Product Manager

Principal responsibilities:

The perfect candidate is a strategic thinker who is extremely analytical and detail oriented and great at multitasking and prioritizing, as well.

As a product manager, you will be responsible for building & honing the different products at Cleartrip. This would involve understanding the current state of products, identify linear and non-linear ideas to improve different product metrics, creating product requirements and drive the implementation.

Key Areas of Responsibility:

- Analyze the effectiveness of the current features and define ways to improve them in order to reduce failure rates, increase usage and improve booking conversion rates based on analytics data and good understanding of customer needs.

- Work closely with business stakeholders to help define the product strategy that meets the external & internal customers needs while satisfying scalability, reliability, performance, and resource costs.

- Work closely with the design & development teams to explain requirements of new features and change requests for current features.

- Closely manage rollout of all product requirements with focus on both quality and time to market.

- In charge of competitor analysis, market analysis, product analysis, business cases, product evolution, feature prioritization, high level requirement gathering, and product marketing.

- Understand the API definitions of the suppliers and map it with the business flow of Cleartrip to enable users have the same experience when purchasing any product from our site.

Desired Skills & Experience:

- Atleast 6 years of post PG experience, preferable in product management for consumer facing products

- Product Vision and Direction - Develop and drive it; Drive cross-functional teams around product vision

- Good Expectation Management - Strategic and Operational (email communication, prioritisation etc)

- Ability to identify key Impact projects

- Launch Planning; Product Marketing

- Perform following functions of a PM exceptionally well

- Metric-driven approach to product changes; Good handle to customers - micro-segments and their needs etc

- Clear documentation of product requirements; Lesser rework post kick-off

- Design sense & consistently working to get the UX better

- Follow through launches meticulously

- Drive clear deadlines and faster closure (be on top of things)

- Clear understanding of technical challenges involved in a product change

Other traits:

- Develop independent view of products, market scenarios, etc

- Work assignment and Mentoring of team

- Problem solving abilities - ability to deep dive, drive insights based on data, consumer insights - develop a sense of dependency of the business on your problem solving abilities

- Good Time Management - don- t do stuff that does not matter in the bigger scheme of things

- Good handle to engg resource requirements/constraints (either self or in conjunction with EM) to enable future resource planning

- Take the lead in crisis situations

- Influencing decision making (almost people need to take his/her word as the truth); Ability to convince people

- End to End understanding of business

- Hiring the right talent

Qualifications: B.E./B.Tech a must; MBA from Premier institutes Preferred