Position Summary:

The product team sits at the heart of the Company and is responsible for conceptualizing and driving product strategy. This role is a critical position in the function to drive the team to achieve its set objectives. The role requires setting up product vision, fleshing out business requirement into user stories which the development team can digest, being a project manager for our own project to ensure all timelines are met, responsible for presenting project updates to leadership team regularly, signing off any release with full confidence, coordination to other stakeholders for project success after the release and being a role model and mentor for other product managers by setting high standards, being a decision maker by handling complex projects.

Critical Business Activities

- Strong understanding of lending business or tech based online product offerings

- Strong on data interpretation and sound understanding of analytics

- Should be able to understand in detail the working of marketing/risk/customer service/UX functions

- Should have directly worked with engineering/IT teams to get ideas implemented/monitored

- Should have worked on existing B2C products that are out in the markets and worked on enhancing business for such products

- Preferably has worked on areas of Total Quality Management or have some Quality certification (6 Sigma etc.)

- Be the Commercial Owner for all decisions taken in co-operation and coordination with functional groups and subject matter experts

- Create ONE-PAGERS/ PRDs/tickets for any idea (be it a new feature or an enhancement to an existing one) by working with all stake holders including P&L leaders.

- Work with cross-functional teams (product, software, compliance, operations) in various projects to write high quality PRDs/tickets that convey requirements in a form very clearly and unambiguously consumable by engineering.

- Act as a product evangelist building awareness, alignment and understanding across org of the product development philosophy and process and for ideas that you are tasked with developing and delivering against

- Responsible for END-TO-END OWNERSHIP of LARGE size and complex projects around developing new product functionalities or improving existing ones.

- Project Manage all projects under your belt, MANAGING TIMELINES, ESCALATING issues with RIGHT PERSON and at RIGHT TIME along with providing clear and crisp updates in various leadership forums.

- Lead, Drive, Influence CORE TEAM MEETINGS towards rational data driven decisions, effectively balancing availability of information, need for speed in business and other key factors.

- Be a coach/ mentor, decision maker and role model for lower grades to train them on concepts and processes.

- Strong communication skills; written as well as oral.

- Knowledge of UK market is preferable

Competencies, Behaviour traits, Skills and Experience

Skills and Experience

- MBA(Marketing/Finance) + BE/B.Tech with 8 to 10 years- experience working as a Product Owner in a technology environment

- Good to have worked in a team that focuses on TQM or have a Quality certification (like 6 Sigma certification)

- Solid technical background with understanding and/or hands-on experience in software development and web technologies. Good understanding of technology, language and applications

- Proven ability to define a set of requirements that identifies business challenges and technical & business changes required to address them

- Ability to communicate clearly and concisely across technology and the business teams

- Proven track record of managing all aspects of a product throughout its lifecycle

- Ability to develop product strategies; and effectively communicate recommendations to executive management

- Strong sense of numbers and analytically driven personality

- Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to roll up one's sleeves to get the job.

Please send your updated resume to harini@talentsocio.com

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