Lead Product Manager / Senior Product Manager- Job Marketplace

Description :

About Apna (https://linktr.ee/apnahq)

Founded in 2019, Apna is India's largest professional networking platform dedicated to helping India's burgeoning working class to unlock unique professional networking, and skilling opportunities. We're one of the fastest growing unicorns currently operating in 50+ cities of 20+ states.

Backed by marquee investors like Tiger Global, Lightspeed, Sequoia, Owl Ventures, Greenoaks Capital & few more with solid $190Mn+ funding. Apna is on a mission to enable livelihoods for billions in India. With over 22Mn users from 60 cities and 200,000+ employers that trust the platform - India has a new destination to discover relevant opportunities.

Road Ahead :

Apna has grown 125x over the past 15 months and is currently conducting 18mn interviews each month. In the future the company plans to use the proceeds to further strengthen its presence in 58 cities and expand pan-India by the end of 2021 to help accelerate India's economy. The team plans to double down on their edtech platform for skilling and invest in hiring exceptional talent and building world class engineering and product capabilities. Apna plans to build a global enterprise by venturing into new markets such as the USA, South East Asia, and Middle East & Africa starting in 2022.

Role :

You will build products that directly impact and connect to the overall vision of connecting candidates to opportunities, improving matchmaking and elevating hiring experiences of both candidates and recruiters. Against this background, you would be responsible for all features related to in-app and off-app workflows, working cross PODs. With fast paced growth, you will also get an opportunity to grow your team.

This is a unique opportunity to own and drive the experience and retention of millions of users.

Requirements :

Responsibilities :

- Work with PMs, data scientists, AI, applications, and infrastructure engineers to lay out a comprehensive roadmap

- Aligning product strategy and candidate/employer experience with model objectives through measurable metrics

- Understand and lead analyses of the competitive environment, customers, and product metrics to determine the right set of features to drive engagement and usage on Apna

- Drive global product requirements definition, product planning, and product design (including writing PRDs) of new features and enhancements

- Clearly communicate product and platform benefits to our users and internal stakeholders

Skills :

- 4 + years of experience in Product Management or equivalent role

- Previous experience working on a scale of MAU > 5 Mn

- Experience building products with a demonstrated ability to drive product roadmaps, development, and launch

- Excellent communication skills with the ability to interact with and understand technical subjects and emerging technologies

- Ability to lead and align several teams, with a track record for driving complex product planning and development

- Ability to understand deeply technical systems and communicate clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences

- Previous experience with products like Mixpanel, Clevertap, Branch

Benefits :

We promote and celebrate team members contributing at a variety of professional conferences and events. Be a speaker, contribute to open source, publish academic work, publish an online blog showing your expertise. we are here to encourage you!

You join us in your current area of expertise and let us know about your personal professional goals. Looking to start your company? Further studies at the best institutes? Want to change career track? We make sure you reach there!

Generous pool of ESOPS

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