Product Manager - FinTech Startup - IIT/NIT

About the company

This a Bengaluru based leading fintech start-up. Started as an asset-backed online lending platform, they are aiming to disrupt the traditional brick and mortar lending models. Since their public launch in 2015, they- ve cemented their position as the No.1 fintech startup in consumer lending space.

They are Series-B funded, backed by top-tier investors such as Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners and other marquee investors. They are using the scale of the web and advances in computing, big data, machine learning and mobile to bring transformative financial innovation to the market.

About the Role:

- Customer Understanding: Understand the customer goals and motivations to define product/process strategy for a smooth and hassle-free user experience

- Product Strategy: Define process and product feature roadmap consistent with short/long-term strategy

- Roadmap Planning: Manage a cross-functional process to translate the desired customer experience into a logically sequenced and optimized product/process roadmap and major product releases

- Create buy-in for the product road map with internal and external stakeholders

- Execution: Work closely with the tech and business teams to develop go-live milestones

- Define and monitor key performance metrics to ensure product performance, and continually optimize operational efficiencies including cost reduction efforts

Experience

- 4+ Years of Product Management experience

- User-focus - past demonstration that you put the customer first and you are unwilling to make your problems your users- problems

- Proven experience in defining and measuring the success of product/process initiatives

- Proven ability to think quantitatively/qualitatively about operating processes/outcomes

Qualifications/Desired Attributes

- Education: B.Tech./MBA from a premier B-school or bachelor's degree at a well-regarded institution

- High analytical & problem solving ability

- Hands-on approach for executing experiments and setting processes

- Go-getter attitude with ability to work in dynamic environment with changing goal posts