Director - Product Management - eComm

Director - Product Management (eCommerce)

About the client:

Top eCommerce company in India.

ROLE DESCRIPTION

As Director of Products for Consumer Experience with The client, you will be accountable for creating product vision, definition and prioritization, influencing product development and release planning, and supporting product ops and customer adoption. This is an important, high ownership and strategic role within the company, and our expectations are equally high. Responsibilities Work closely with the management team and business heads to understand business goals and translate them into product roadmap. Product line management comprising - innovation, planning, building and running the product.

- Strategy for end to end user experience across all devices and then driving execution .

- Proactively identify opportunities and make actionable recommendations to drive market leadership.

- Responsible for end to end product definition, work closely with engineering team to ensure timely delivery and communication regarding deliveries with all stakeholders.

- Measure impact of all deliveries and back it up with appropriate data. Constantly iterating on product offerings based on feedback & data.

- Lead and mentor Product Managers. Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise product managers, project team members and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work. Your scope may be for about 50 to 100 Engineers at The client.

- Define product vision and detail out scope and phases for iteratively shipping minimalistic but high impact product subset, which supports customer needs and business goals.

- Run and improvise the product development process working closely with all stakeholders to accelerate pace and quality of execution.

- Validate product direction interacting with customers and internal stakeholders in addition to analyzing market and product trends and competitive landscape.

- Prioritize product features, author or review MRDs (Market requirements document) and PRDs.

- Engage closely with engineering team to help determine the best technical implementation methods and reasonable execution schedule.

- Proactively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders. Identify, mitigate, communicate, escalate and manage risks early

- It’s important for you to be able to understand and talk technology, so most PMs have been developers in their past lives. Grown from a technology background is an added plus

- You are expected to be extremely focused on metrics, analytics and data driven.

Qualifications

- B.E/MS/MBA in or equivalent

- Highly consumer focused in all approaches.

- Experience in building consumer products across Desktop, Mobile, Tablet and an eye for future screens

- Strong Design background is preferred

- Strong problem solving, Strategy, Prioritization skills with an eye for detail.

- Strong understanding of technology and its application to solve business needs

- Product management experience, in a large scale consumer web environment. Experience of being in a start up will be an added plus.

- Hiring, managing and grooming people in the organization. You need to have a very sound "world view*" and a great ability to connect with all kinds of people.

- Proven experience of building successful consumer facing products.

- Ability to come up with lots of ideas and improvements on existing offerings

- Ability to think deeply through scenarios & offerings

- Experience building products from concept to launch and running successfully in production. Solid mix of technical, product and business skills.

Interested candidates can share their resume to me at rabi.a@careernet.co.in

Candidates who are currently out of India and want to come back are also welcome.

Also if you have any queries, please drop me a mail and I will try to clarify the same.

Rabi Agrawal | Lead Consultant |
http://in.linkedin.com/pub/rabi-agrawal/20/33/719
CareerNet Consulting | Salarpuria Soft Zone, Belandur Post, Bangalore - 560103.|