Stones2Milestones - Senior Manager - Product Management - Consumer Technology Product

Senior Manager, Product - 4 - 6 Yrs

Position Purpose :

- Working as a product manager at [Stones2Milestones](http://stones2milestones.com/) is the embodiment of our freedom and responsibility culture.

- You will exercise an incredible degree of autonomy and influence to deliver amazing experiences to children and parents across the country.

- You will direct interdisciplinary teams on projects that advance user experience design, learning outcomes, recommendation systems, and more.

- The [fREADom](http://getfreadom.com/app) team is a diverse and unique group of people drawing on a variety of backgrounds to connect cutting edge research on reading to great parent/child experiences and business value. They lead research-centered innovation projects but also partner across the school and parent networks to enable new user engagement formats and experiences.

- The fREADom PMs influence, educate, and advocate on tactical product decisions as well as the strategic directions to enable the next slate of great product innovations.

- This role will focus on fREADom Product Management. Our parents need to engage with the product in such a way that guides them to great content, enables serendipitous discoveries, increases time spent and retention, and helps them to spend less time searching and more time enjoying their next favorite story. You will manage every aspect of the product.

Important challenges include :

- Developing a deep understanding of the target user group i.e parents of children between 3 - 9

- Translating user experience and impact data to actionable product features

- Providing relevant and compelling evidence for every product decision

Responsibilities :

- Help guide our overall strategy through design, prototyping, and market research

- Report directly to our head of product

- Be a passionate advocate for great parent/child experience on the app

- Be an articulate and persuasive communicator, as both a writer and a speaker, who uses data to support your arguments.

- Work parallely with engagement, impact and content team to understand and frame product requirements

- Map business value to tractable engagement metrics and learning outcome objectives to support a variety of diverse applications

- Provide guidance and insights to non-technical audiences and convert their inputs into product actionable

- Balance speed and quality, with a focus on tangible results.

- End to end lisaoning with the technology team basis product roadmap

- Present your roadmap at company-wide checkins

Qualifications :

- 4+ years experience as a problem solver

- Attention to detail

- Excellent communication skills

- Deep understanding of technology

- Proven record of shipping features on time and on budget

- Flexible and focussed on solutions

- Organized and self-sufficient

- Undergraduate education in technology

- 1+ years experience working in the education field with school / parents directly or indirectly

- 1+ years of product management experience, ideally with a consumer technology product

- Record of strong product vision and execution

- Organizational leadership and influence without relying on hierarchy

- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills: great memos and presentations are extremely important

- Data-driven attitude and attention to detail

A couple of things worth knowing :

- Alignment with the vision & mission with an aim to create deep real-world impact and an energetic, flexible, and - do whatever you can to make it work- attitude will be key factors for success in the role

About Stones2Milestones :

[Stones2Milestones](http://www.stones2milestones.com/) is on a mission to 'Create a Nation of Readers', gifting children the will and skill to read in English.

Children going to English-medium schools fall behind academically because they are expected to learn, read and speak in a language that is alien to them and their surroundings - English. In India, an estimated 89% of 260 million children read below their grade levels.

We aim to solve this problem by giving them affordable, research-based, scientifically designed and intuitive in-school reading programs which are systematic, contextual and age-appropriate. We are currently impacting more than 200,000 children in 110 schools across 50+ cities. Today, we are leveraging our technology platforms to grow our mission across three axes- age, geography and stakeholders.

The team believes that by helping children to 'Learn to Read' in elementary years, they enable them to 'Read to Learn' during formal education and eventually 'Read to Lead' in their chosen paths, helping them find their place in the world.