RocSearch - Associate Product Manager

Associate Product Manager

About Xaphal:

Xaphal is a platform for college students to explore career paths, get guidance from counsellors/mentors and map their skills to relevant work opportunities.

Students can get an insight into different career paths, such as Finance, Game Development, Actuarial Science, Consulting, and Data Science etc. One can select multiple career paths to have a personalised forum feed. A community forum feed can help students familiarise themselves with the career path before finalising their career goals.

Guidance from career counsellors and industry mentors can further enhance students' understanding of the intricacies of a particular job role. People who have gone through a similar grind in a specific industry can sometimes be the best to answer day-to-day expectations and career progression.

Work opportunities on Xaphal include live projects, internships, freelance opportunities and finally, a student's full-time dream job! We are experimenting with introducing different work models - so feel free to recommend what you have in mind.

Xaphal is a venture incubated by RocSearch. For more information, please visit Xaphal.

Working as an Associate Product Manager:

Xaphal is looking for an associate product manager to be part of a growing team on a mission to solve employability in India through its platform Xaphal. An associate product manager's role will include developing and leading Xaphal's vision by collaborating and strategising to improve the product internally and externally. You would handle multiple product modules and be responsible for defining, planning, and executing product features, which our customers (Students, Counsellors, and Recruiters) will use to make important career decisions. The person will work closely with the team to align the backlog and plan sprints and use cases.

Specifics of the role will include but are not limited to:

- Develop and lead Xaphal's vision and collaborate with the team to build marketing strategies for enhanced product features and user experience

- Benchmark with the competition and the market and groom the product pipeline

- To coordinate with Tech and Business Development Team and accordingly prioritise tasks that need to be done in the future

- Work with cross-functional teams to develop the team roadmaps, balancing long-term goals against near-term KPIs and targets

- Identification and prioritisation of projects with an understanding of tradeoffs and impact

- Collect product feedback before launch (product testing) and after launch and assist the content team with the details to further improve the user experience and provide constructive feedback to the team

- Analyse product performance post-launch and iterate on the same to keep improving the product experience. (We are talking hardcore A/B Testing)

- Examine the success metrics of each feature implementation post-launch

- Define, implement, and regularly monitor KPIs

- Consolidate market feedback received through various sources and share the scope of improvement with the business development, content, and tech team

- Conceptualise new ideas as and when required to upgrade the product

- To suggest features for improving the student, mentor, and recruiter experience and a clear-cut business impact for every suggested feature

- Develop efficient customer communication and feedback channels

- Understand customer problems; constantly be on the lookout to find pain points and prioritise solving the ones that create the most significant business impact.

The ideal candidate should possess:

- 2+ years of relevant experience

- Impeccable Verbal and Written Communication Skills

- Has considerable experience in writing use cases,

- Have a knack for prioritisation, ability to build alignment and drive execution

- Ability to analyse data quickly - comfortable with tools like Google Analytics, Clevertap, Mixpanel

- Must be a self-starter who truly enjoys working in a fast-paced startup environment

- Ability to analyse industry trends and competitor behaviour

- A mindset that will constantly think about ROI, business, and revenue

- Ability to think out of the box

- Highly Enthusiastic and Self Motivated

- An eye for detail, errors, and inconsistencies

Working at Xaphal:

- Hybrid Model (Best of WFH and working closely in the office)

- Amazing work culture

- Paid Leave Policy

- Company holidays

- Learning and Development

- Gratuity

- Rewards and Recognition for outstanding performance every quarter

- Second Saturday off