Ola Play - Director - Product Management - IIT/NIT/IIM/MDI/ISB/BITS

Job Title: Director, Product Management

Department / Group: Ola Play

Work Location: Bangalore

Position Type: Full time

Reporting to Senior Director & Head - Product and Monetization

About Us :

- Founded in Jan 2011 by IIT Bombay alumni Bhavish Aggarwal and Ankit Bhati, Ola (formerly Olacabs),is India's most popular mobile app for personal transportation. Ola integrates city transportation for customers and driver partners onto a mobile technology platform ensuring convenient, transparent and quick service fulfillment.

- OlaPlay, the connected car platform, was launched by Ola more recently in 2016, and aims to solve for vehicle riding or driving experience of people - both those on the front seat and those on the rear seat,whether a personal car owner, a commercial driver, or passenger

Roles and Responsibilities :

- Ola Play is among the world's most advanced connected car platform powered by proprietary in-car and cloud Technologies from Ola. It brings feature sets ranging from advanced car controls,, vehicular telematics, safety & security, driver assistance, personalized content, hyper local monetization constructs and feature sets.

- Ola Play looks to transform owner, driver, and passenger experiences with vehicle diagnostics,improved in-car productivity, advanced navigation, predictive maintenance of vehicles and more. Ola Play has already set the tone for connected vehicles in India and with the feature sets we hope to unlock futuristic experiences for customers worldwide.

- We are looking for talented senior product professionals to define, execute, and deliver world-class experiences to OlaPlay customers. The ideal candidate has experience working in and leading a talented product team and would love to bring fresh ideas to tackle challenges in conceptualizing and designing for the largest connected car consumer product in India, and potentially the world..

About the Role :

- This role offers the unique and rare chance to build an industry-disrupting product suite that is planned for massive scale. The product is being built up from scratch with little or no inspiration to draw from as this is first such product offering anywhere in the world. The role gives exposure to multiple cutting edge technologies such as IoT, machine learning, vehicular telematics, cloud computing, NLP and is thus perfect opportunity for original thinkers who are self-motivated and super fast learners.

- OlaPlay offers a creative, fast paced, entrepreneurial work environment where you- ll be at the center of innovation fuelled by a passion to Make in India.Interested in a high impact role, where you solve real world problems your consumers are facing-

- Product management at OlaPlay is all about leveraging technology to provide the best experiences for our customers and driving partners in the transportation industry.

- The role of the Play product team is to make car ride an experience to look forward to, or add value and provide extension to the destination experience that the customer looks forward to. This, we believe, would require providing for entertainment, productive usage of time, ease of communication, safety,security, and savings. An enhanced ride experience is the biggest unlock, after the core ride sharing industry itself, leveraging the advancement in vehicular telematics, cloud technology, and machine learning.

Here is a sampling of questions that product leaders in OlaPlay ask themselves :

- What's the perfect ride experience for the passenger and driver when they are taking an Ola ride- How do we ensure every ride is closer to a perfect ride experience by leveraging technology and machine learning-

- What is the perfect ride experience for the car owners when they are diring their own personal car. How do we ensure every ride is closer to a perfect ride experience-

- What causes anxiety (personal safety-, cost of fuel-, vehicular security- Wasted time during journey- ) to people when they are in a car- How can we ensure the ride is anxiety free for the people in the car - whether it be in an Ola vehicle or their own personal vehicle.

- What capabilities are possible by leveraging the cutting edge technologies such as vehicular telematics, advanced motion sensors, seamless data connectivity, machine learning vision processing- What consumer problems can they solve.

- How can we give our customers more control of the vehicle while still letting the person in the driving seat to drive with minimal distraction.

- How can we understand the people in the car and the context of the ride and surroundings better to deliver a more relevant, precise, and personalized experience and recommendations.

- How do we enable and allow various stakeholders and entities in the ecosystem to create and participate in the value created (monetize) from this product platform and evolve

understanding of the context.

- What are the various pieces and layers of technologies that would be required to be built so that this platform abstracts ours and makes it very easy for any partner to both - reach the huge OlaPlay customer base, and make a product that solves for these consumers- vehicle experience.

Key traits for a product leaders at Ola are strong customer orientation, in-depth problem solving, data driven decision-making, comfort with ambiguity, business acumen, self motivation, and structured long-term thinking.

Your Part:

- Internalize and deeply understand Ola Play's mission and strategies

- Manage all aspects of the product life cycle, including customer needs, problem definition,product strategy/roadmap, requirement definition, execution and delivery, inference and insights, iteration & improvisation.

Work closely with business, operations, process, design, engineering, project management,marketing, legal, finance and other key stakeholders to prioritize, develop and deliver products, in an agile environment

- Mentor and Manage Product Managers and Senior Product Managers & hire and build a strong team

Qualifications :

- 10+ years of prior experience in a product company

- 6+ years of prior product management experience preferably in an internet based company which preferably is a best-in-class large company or a respected disruptor startup.

- People management experience is necessary (having managed product managers is strongly preferred). This role is not for people currently in an individual contributor role.

- A bachelor's degree or master's degree in a numerically inclined discipline such as Engineering, Economics, Commerce, Physics, Mathematics preferably from a premium institute.

- Prior experience with one or more of - IoT, Hardware, Machine learning, Vision, Automobiles,Media platforms, Advertising is highly valued but not necessary.

- MBA degree from premier institute and prior startup experience is prefered but not necessary

Quick Glances :

- What to look for at Ola

- Ola-Story- A brief on how we have grown and come so far.

- Ola-Mission and Vision- Know us better.

- Ola-Media- Visit our media page.

- Ola Play- Connected car platform

- Ola partners with Microsoft to build a new connected vehicle platform for the future