JOB DESCRIPTION :

Position Title : Senior Manager/ Lead - Product Management

Reports To : Lead - Technology and Business Development

Company :

- Grow Indigo (GI), a Joint Venture (JV) between Indigo Ag Inc and Mahyco Grow aims to bring holistic, cutting-edge, digital agriculture products/platform and microbial innovation to South Asian Farmers. GI leverages Indigo's industry-leading digital and microbial portfolio and Mahyco Grow's robust developmental platform, strong grower relationships, and well-established path to market.

- GI will provide products and treatments for a wide range of crops, across geographies and will help tackle the challenges Indian farmers face every day. Indigo Ag, listed as Number 1 2019 CNBC Disruptor and fastest growing tech startup in the world, improves grower profitability, environmental sustainability, and consumer health through the use of natural microbiology and digital technologies.

- The company's scientific discoveries and digital innovations have amplified new value from soil to sale, benefiting more than 10,000 growers to date. It is also the company behind The Terraton Initiative, a global effort to drawdown one trillion tons of atmospheric carbon dioxide by unlocking the potential of agricultural soils. Headquartered in Boston, MA, Indigo has additional offices in Memphis, TN; Research Triangle Park, NC; Sydney, Australia; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Basel, Switzerland; and So Paulo, Brazil. Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Company Private Limited (Mahyco) is focused on research and development, production, processing, and marketing of seeds for India's farming fraternity.

- Founded in 1964, Mahyco is the pioneer of high quality hybrid and open pollinated seeds. Despite its growth and expansion, the company remains unchanged at its core. It is still driven by a visionary zeal and the belief that it is possible to improve the lives of farmers by using science to develop superior quality agricultural products.

GrowIndigo is looking for an experienced Product leader to build and manage digital product(s) that can serve different stakeholders in the agri value chain.

Key Responsibilities :

Platform :

1. Develop deep understanding of existing and planned platform solution and capabilities

2. Analyze competitive landscape and present to Technology leadership

Product :

1. Collaborate with multiple teams across the indigo organization to help determine the business impact and short and long-term vision for your product

2. Define and create product detailed product roadmap

3. Create and prioritize use cases

4. Evaluate partner strategy (internal and external)

5. Understand market competition and product positioning Process

1. Assume primary Product Ownership responsibilities (roadmap, user stories, prioritization, stakeholder buy-in)

2. Participate in agile software product management and development best practices definition and execution, inculcating and championing those best practices at Indigo

3. Institute and execute stakeholder review meetings for product or product line at agreed-to cadence

4. Work closely with all internal product related teams to ensure alignment across Product Development processes

5. Mentor and coach other Product Managers on product management and agile best practices

6. Execute customer-driven culture in how we prioritize and allocate our Technology investment Communication

1. Establish clear and concise communications channels with stakeholders within the organization (i.e. Business, Engineering, Marketing) to provide visibility into product or product line decisions and process for decision making

2. Establish trust with internal external customers to allow for a regular cadence of communication which helps to get design feedback early and often

3. Clearly articulate product value to senior management

Competencies :

1. Able to balance customer- centricity, stakeholder expectations and technical feasibility for software product or product line, clearly articulating tradeoffs

2. Able to define, gain buy-in from stakeholders and drive product vision for a specific software product or product line

3. Excellent cross-functional communicator, able to work with a diverse set of internal and external stakeholders

4. Able to translate business needs into product roadmap and technology specifications and use cases

5. Highly aligned and deep understanding of company strategy, mapping strategy to execution

6. Process orientation with strong time-management skills and demonstrated ability to change course, as needed

7. Decisive and well-informed decision-maker

8. Excellent listening skills

9. Demonstrates ability to effectively work as a member of a team, with great listening and oral and written communication skills

10. Able to structure and process qualitative and quantitative data and draw insightful conclusions

11. Demonstrates tenacity and willingness to deliver on agreed-to outcomes in the agreed-to timeframes

12. Proactively brings new ideas to the table, spanning people, process and product

We are looking for:

Qualification :

- 6-8 years Product Management Experience

- Track record of building and delivering excellent customer-facing software products

- Experience working with software engineering teams in an agile/lean development environment

- Experience building product that delights customers

- Active Communication skills (communicating out and listening successfully)

- Market-facing launch experience

Position details - Full time

Start date: ASAP

Location: Mumbai, India

Salary Offered : 15-25 LPA

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