Product Manager - IIT/IIM
About company : Started in 2020, Seed funded startup.
Responsibilities :
A. Identify Problems & Priorities: - Identification of main stakeholders and their use cases
- Continually build hypotheses and test them to determine the roadmap
B. Communicate : - For each use case, identify the main scenario, alternate and error scenarios based on Behaviour Driven -Development (BDD) framework to create a feature document
- Work on BRD, MRD, PRD and assist tech lead in creation of FSD/PSD/SRS
- Provide success & acceptance scenarios for each use case
C. Collaborate : - Collaborate with engineers and designers to arrive at the detailed solutions to problems
- Collaborate with Business development and Customer Success to understand and eliminate obstacles to adoption and usage
- Work with Marketing to bring new features to life on the various communication touchpoint
D. Execute : - Own delivery of roadmap for the product
- Define milestones and coordinate with various internal and external stakeholders to launch the product as per defined timelines
- Pre-empt potential delays, and be the first point of contact to assess issues coming in production. Assess severity and priority to the issue. Provide workaround (wherever available) to the stakeholders
- Run tight project management to meet launch timelines
- Define, gather and analyze usage data and KPIs to refine product design
- Verify tech deliverables before they are rolled out to production
Skills : A. Business :- Must know how to write a PRD
- Must be able to think exhaustively on any use case provided
- Basic business acumen expected
B. Technology :- Must have working knowledge of how tech products work
- Must understand the software development lifecycle
- Working knowledge of MS Office, SQL, JIRA (bonus)
C. Design :- Must understand basics of UI/UX design
- Must be able to define usability tasks of tech products
D. Soft skills :- Good at communication with varied stakeholders
- Convincing power - Meticulous documentation skills
- Must be a people's person
- Problem solving aptitude
- Excellent work ethic
- Ability to talk to customers and drill down to actual user need gaps
Role requirement: - Top IIT/IIM with 3-6 years of experience in product management; preferably building products from scratch at high growth startups
- Excellent communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills
- Prior payments/fintech experience a strong plus