Who we are?

- At Edge, we believe simplifying employee data will help large corporates solve sub-optimal talent management problems. This data is more critical after the pandemic, as managing a remote workforce has shifted from optional to essential.

- We have spent our last eight years understanding the workforce from the IT and BFSI industries. We have used this employee data to create a sophisticated intelligence. This brain behind our AI-based products is called EdGE graph- . We have used 11 million job descriptions and more than 30 million profiles to build the graph.

- Our products like Pathfinder, Recruit and Mobility are deployed in IT companies like Wipro, HCL, UST Global, etc. and help them upskill, invest, and maintain their existing people. It has helped organisations improve their workforce availability, billing, allocations and drive straight bottom-line impacts. The new order of talent decisions helps us define, identify, and plan for a future-ready workforce.

- We build end-to-end talent management products for organisations so that they have a 360-degree view of their talent supply chain. This helps them make informed talent decisions efficiently and build an intelligent workforce.

- We built Edge Networks in 2012 in an apartment in Bangalore and soon, were supported by the National Skill Development Corporation of India (NSDC). We are a part of the NASSCOM Product Council and have been recognized by Gartner, Deloitte, Equidam, NVIDIA, Amazon as an innovative tech HR startup in various titles.

- At Edge, we understand that modern companies that put the employees at the center of their workings, backed with data, will make their organisation productive. This is how we, at Edge, use tech for good.

Role: Senior Product Manager

Experienced Product Manager to own product lines in the B2B2C space and work in tandem with the other products that we have, all of which derive intelligence from the underlying AI/ML services as well as a SaaS ready platform that we have built. We are looking for a person who was responsible for a product in a startup from concept to launch, and has insights on the market as well as how the product fared in the target market in terms of initial and sustained competitive advantage. The product this person owned would be a SaaS offering on the cloud, with AI and Analytics in the core, B2B or B2C on any domain.

Traits that you have:

- A team player - I know we only win if we all win. I recognise and value the different perspectives and skills my squad mates bring. It is not about being a hero but jumping in and contributing to the successful delivery of our mission.

- An excellent communicator - I know and understand the importance of clear, on-time communication. My spoken and written communication skills stand out for clarity and conciseness.

- The customer's biggest fan - I demonstrate a thirst for better understanding the customer and define the problem and develop solutions through their eyes as well as through the eyes of the Sales guys in the organization

- A collaboration champion - I work closely with my colleagues to ensure alignment and champion the sharing of learning across teams.

- Comfortable being uncomfortable - I am comfortable with uncertainty. I have the ability to effectively manage myself through ambiguity by making meaning, building relationships and creating clarity with my peers. I also have a willingness to unlearn where needed.

- Continuous improvement focused- I constructively challenge the status quo, I look for better ways of doing things and passionately advocate continuous improvement, and I am able to re-pivot fast.

- A problem solver - I am energised by tackling complex problems. I use my critical thinking, network, skills, knowledge, and available data to drive better outcomes for our customers and the product.

- Commercially and Technologically curious - I have a wide-angle lens. I am curious about what is happening in the external market and in emerging trends and innovations (technological and otherwise) and how we use this information to better inform our decisions and actions.

- Risk savvy - I build sustainable solutions that protect stakeholders and customers and proactively address risks by role-modelling improvements in the product's overall risk and control environment.

- Habitual Experimenter - I learn by running experiments on a very frequent basis, with a framework to learn from these experiments and absorb the learnings into product management

Responsibilities:

- You will lead all aspects of the product planning, management and marketing including definition of business & product metrics.

- You will work closely with the UX Lead to run experiments with target market segment

- You will iterative planning of the product definition and Epic and user story creation as well as work with the engineering team to plan sprints & get the product built by them

- You will work on positioning the product in the target market, as well as enabling the sales team with the right toolkit to sell to the product market fit.

- You will look at ways of building engagement with users at a B2C level thereby increasing adoption, and increasing the ROI for the B2B buyer.

- You will be responsible product planning, product management as well as product marketing aspects of the product, to evaluate positioning and pricing of the product.

Role Skills:

- Minimum 5 years of product management experience post MBA in customer facing roles.

- Proven track record in product planning, build and optimizing the product, with clear decision making structure for product capability decision making

- Desirable to have owned a product level P&L.

- Strong B2B2C product experience in bringing in quick pivots to features and usability thereby enhancing adoption, optimization of user journeys and minimization of customer and user churn.

- Definition of Product metrics aligned to the Business metrics, and has experience of doing A-B testing of the same.

- Good understanding on the UX linkage to extracting power of a feature

- Proven ability justifying product story with a data oriented approach to decision making at every stage of the iteration, backed by market insights and the ability to link the market insights to product metrics.

- Work with the Data Science team in understanding the capabilities and building product metrics and product features capitalizing on the AI/ML core capabilities

- Work on improving product positioning in the target segment.

- Clarity on documentation needed for the customer.

- Communication clarity - should be able to get requirements translated to user stories accurately without loss of meaning.

- Tactful at stakeholder engagement, working at equal ease with the exec team and end users

- Knowledge of workforce management practices, HR systems, HCM solutions etc. are desirable but not a must. If from other domain, there has to be proven ability of having picked up product management in a new domain.

- MBA/ Equivalent qualification from Tier-I institutes.

Interview Process:

Round 0: Screening call with Head of Products

Round 1: Technical Interview with current Product Managers in the Team

Round 2: Interview with Head of Data science

Round 3: Technical Interview with Head of Products (Round 0 and Round 3 are elimination round)

Assignment Round (Optional)

Round 4: Business round with Head of Operations

Round 5: Final round with CEO

Why should you join us?

We are concerned not only with the growth of the company, but each other's personal and professional growth, too. We are transparent, open and have a collaborative work environment. And above all, you need to bring your best. The rest does not really matter. With WFH becoming more normalized, you best believe we have been sharing our favorite ways to prioritize a healthy work-life balance at home (Netflix, anyone?).

Location - Bangalore

Type - Permanent, Full Time

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