Principal responsibilities -

- The perfect candidate is a strategic thinker who is extremely analytical and detail oriented and great at multitasking and prioritizing, as well.

- Well acquainted with new OS release, trending applications in Google play & iTunes app store.

- As a product leader, you will take end to end ownership of a product line, identify market requirements, define the product vision, create preliminary design concepts and drive the implementation of the product roadmap.

- Communicate product roadmap and features internally to key stakeholders and externally to prospects, customers and analysts.

- Serve as an in-house expert for our products and become the go-to person for all functional issues

- Work closely with COO to meet business goals and ROI on native applications.

Key Areas of Responsibility:

- Responsible for the product planning and execution throughout the Product Lifecycle, including: gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the product vision, and working closely with engineering, sales, marketing and support to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction goals are met. Develop and implement product strategies consistent with company vision

- Work closely with stakeholders across all India Today group's departments: Content, Engineering, Marketing, Marketing Operations, IT Operations, QA etc.

- Develop product roadmaps through deep understanding of customers, technologies, and competition.

- Expand product base and vision

- Design and enhance a manageable, scalable, easy to monitor Digital mobile apps platforms - adding new core features, refining existing features, etc.

- As an ideal candidate, you will have a keen eye for gaps in consumer product offerings and the innovative mindset to fill them

- Analyze potential partner relationships for the product and lead the effort to integrate our applications with other leading industry systems

- Write user stories and detailed tasks

- Collaborate with the team managing other parts of the platform - back end, front-end applications, etc.

- Analyze the effectiveness of the current features and define ways to improve them in order to reduce failure rates, increase usage and improve order conversion rates based on analytics data and good understanding of customer needs.

- Work closely with business stakeholders to help define the product strategy that meets the external & internal customers needs while satisfying scalability, reliability, performance, and resource costs.

- Work closely with the design & development teams to explain requirements of new features and change requests for current features.

- Closely manage rollout of all product requirements with focus on both quality and time to market.

- In charge of competitor analysis, market analysis, product analysis, business cases, product evolution, feature prioritization, high level requirement gathering, and product marketing.

- Leverage research, feedback, and interviews to understand the needs of of our users and carve out new product features and directions.

Desired Skills and Experience

- 8 to 10 years of Product Management experience working in the online industry (Backend & Mobile).

- Software Engineering background required (CS degree and/or deep coding experience)

- Experience in Firebase analytics, Big Query, Google DFP and other app analytics and retention tools.

- Works well under pressure has the ability to work within stringent timelines and to collaborate across departments to achieve results.

- The successful candidate must be a self-starter, be able to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously, own deliverables end to end, prioritize workload effectively, and thrive in a dynamic environment.

- Must be a true problem solver with outstanding skills in discovery techniques and the proven ability to translate the underlying business needs of requests into actionable items.

- A strong focus on detail, with the proven ability to ensure data and related reports are thorough and totally reliable.

- A demonstrated enthusiasm for learning and working with new tools and technologies is essential. Must have a demonstrated ability to recommend the right tools and learn them as autonomously as possible.

- Experience in development of smart TV native applications would be an added advantage.

- Demonstrated ability to effectively establish and maintain working relationships with all levels of the organization.

- Experience with business users and able to translate business requirement into software requirements.

- Customer Focused approach to solutions.

- Solid understanding of Native Mobile applications & web/portal behavior.

Qualifications:

- B.E./B.Tech a must.

- MBA from Premier institutes Preferred

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