Playment - Product Manager

What do we do?

We are on a mission to expedite the AI-age by providing critical tooling infrastructure for engineers to build high accuracy AI models. Our first product is providing high-quality annotations-as-a-service for Autonomous AI (self-driving cars, drones, industrial robots). We're backed by YCombinator, SAIF Partners & Google Launchpad. In the last 18 months, we've established ourselves as a market leader created 200M+ annotations, grown 12X in top line, acquired 50+ enterprise customers across 10+ countries including Didi, Daimler, Ford, Samsung etc.

We are one of the top 10 startups in India as declared by Linkedin.

Why is it important?

High-quality training data is quintessential to improve the precision of ML algorithms. Forbes estimates ML engineers spent 70% of their time in pre/post-processing & data management steps. Companies need to build sophisticated tooling (supporting all forms of sensor data), hire and manage hundreds of skilled people to ensure high quality labeled data. Our autonomous driving customers estimate 1 hour of video data needs 800 man-hours of manual human work. Today, at the wake of the autonomous car industry only few million kms of data has been labeled and 10x more will be collected before the world sees them on road. Like DevOps is critical to tech implementation, AI Ops will be a big challenge as AI development commercializes in the next 5-10 years. We aim to become an AI data platform, a critical part of AI infrastructure stack.

Join us to witness & influence the unfolding of AI, which is the largest technology wave the world will ever see.

Role description:

Playment has the suit of complex technical products that are used by the world's most technically savvy computer vision engineers on the one end and BPO workers at the other end. We also have a platform which allows us to define complex workflows to execute very large scale projects worth millions of dollars with extremely high quality (up to 99% precision and recall)

You will be leading our workflow and project management platform and will be responsible to understand your customers' needs, translate them into a prioritized roadmap, execute the roadmap and drive impact metrics by working closely with the Project fulfillment team. In essence, we expect you to be a self-starter, take complete ownership of the product and deliver results.

Responsibilities:

- Understand the platform logistics and user behavior by working closely with the fulfillment team

- Define and drive the roadmap

- Ensure adoption and success of your product

- The platform is core to the business with multiple types of users right from Fulfilment head to the BPO team leads and annotators. 

You will have to:

- Work closely with multiple teams to understand fulfillment processes and problems

- Define and drive the roadmap of Playment's workflow and project management platform.

- Work closely with Engineering to prioritize your roadmap items, drive sprints and ensure timely releases.

- Work closely with fulfillment teams to drive the adoption and ensure the success of the releases

- Communicate clearly & set expectations in a manner that optimizes the team's time

Requirements:

- 2-6 years of product management experience in building analytics-driven systems. Experience in B2C products is a plus.

- An undergraduate CS degree or equivalent practical technical experience

- Experience working in a high-growth, fast-paced environment

- Experience in working in a collaborative role where you have been highly dependent on others and others have been reliant on you

- Experience in managing a product team is a plus

- Strong analytical & quantitative skills