Director - Product Management - Online Travel

Our client is one of India's biggest online travel organisation has scaled 10x in a span of 3 years. We are looking for Director Product Management from a dominant internet brand in the past who has a strong experience in managing multi product porfolios

Roles & Responsibilities :

Product Strategy :

- Understand the product's current and evolving business goals and translate them into a scalable product vision.

- Alignment of product roadmap with market and competitive trends and customer demands.

- Lead and develop product strategy and end state planning in partnership with customers.

- Competitive product positioning - Market & customer analysis, competitive / benchmarking analysis and feature parity analysis.

PDLC management (Product Development Life Cycle) :

- Establish and deploy robust requirement-gathering processes to define product requirements as well as build continuous feedback proactively identify issues impacting the product line and recommend next steps/solutions.

- Support and lead the common PDLC tools and processes that the Product Management organization will adopt.

- Continuously improve the product development process, incorporating lessons learned and best practices

- Create Product and feature collaterals including product layout, user experience, value proposition etc.

- Coordinate closely with internal and external stakeholders to ensure product features meet identified and agreed upon exit criteria.

Internal stakeholder management :

- Work closely with Customer Services, Sales and Marketing teams to help identify trends and new business opportunities.

- Build industry presence through participation/presence in industry for a, technology/domain panels to enhance our client's market-presence.

People responsibilities :

- Lead a team of product management professionals, to ensure successful product launch and positioning.

- Evangelize a product management culture within the organization, including establishment of product development gating processes, best practices, and policies.

- Mentor and coach the team members and drive internal convergence where necessitated through consultative leadership.

Desired Skills :

- Well-versed in the entire life-cycle of an internet / e-commerce product, from concept, to opportunity assessment, to requirement documents and feasibility assessments, prototyping to wire-frames and through execution, and be comfortable working across teams of producers, content strategists, designers and business stakeholders.

- The product Management Director must have dual capability to have a broad, strategic vision for the business and at the same time, be willing and able to roll up their sleeves and set strong system.

- A constant look-out for disruptive innovation and an eye on value creation are must-have qualities.

- The individual sets a high bar for performance for self and team and must adopt and perpetuate a non-hierarchical style of management.

- Should be obsessed with data.

An Ideal Candidate should be :

- An Engineer, comp science engineer + MBA from a premier Business School.

- Overall 10 to 12 years experience, with At least 6 years of experience from either Consumer/Tech companies who have had experience in building brands or worked as Tech product managers.