About Unilodgers Unilodgers (https://www.unilodgers.com) is the world's first and largest global marketplace for student accommodation. With a customer base spanning 220+ countries, operations in the US, United Kingdom and Australia (the top education destinations of the world), inventory of more than 2 million student rooms and year-on-year growth of 5X+, we're an exciting, young company with tremendous growth prospects in the annual 400+ bn USD global student accommodation market. More than the numbers, we see ourselves as a global student housing hub empowering students all over the world with housing choices that help them kick-start a new phase of life. The Series A startup has been a winner of the TiE-Lumis Entrepreneurial Excellence award (2017 -- http://www.hubilo.com/webpanel/theme/109/index.php?event=e2a39095e13d949457dd27c501cf3136#exhibitor) and the YourStory Tech30 (2018 -- https://yourstory.com/2018/10/unveiling-tech30-2018-yourstorys-list-30-high-potential-tech-startups-india). The leadership team has a combined global professional experience of over 80 years, having built and scaled up companies and brands such as MakeMyTrip, Nido Student, PayU India and Zomato Gold. Job description The Head of Product should work closely with the Head of Engineering and heads of functional departments (marketing, operations, supply/partnerships, legal, finance) to constantly redefine and iterate on the student housing marketplace. S/he would need to understand the mindset of a undergrad/post-grad student from anywhere around the world, as well as the mindset of a student housing provider offering housing services in/around popular education hotbeds. Based upon this understanding of consumer behaviour, s/he would be responsible for delivering to market the most compelling product experience to both sets of participants on the marketplace. This includes, but is not limited to, designing product intended to - - widen geographical availability and categories of housing supply - deepen available housing within localities - form and scale tie-ups with universities and referral partners - reduce friction in the booking flows for students - deliver a rich suite of payment options available for students - reduce friction for housing providers in all aspects of their interactions with the marketplace - equip out-of-town students with an easy transition to their new home - make the legal and contractual terms of letting rooms out and generating long-term tenancy agreements easy to meet for participants To be able to do this, the Head of Product is expected to start off being hands-on initially, while in parallel forming a team of capable individually contributing Product Managers who can go deep into experiences, own them, design experiments, test hypotheses, take decisions and move the product along in an agile manner, without compromising on established benchmarks in important KPIs. Skills and mindset needed - Business strategy, competitive analysis and translation of vision to road map - Creating structure out of ambiguity - Breaking huge problems into tractable smaller ones and solving them methodically - Prioritizing and balancing out short-term vs long-term - Analytical problem-solving - Sound logical thinking - Effective written and spoken communicating ability - Hiring, team-building and mentoring - Empathy and cross-functional collaboration - Mechanics of product management (road map to stories and tasks, with mock-ups and flowcharts, basic UI/UX decision-making abilities to guide devs, comfort with various analytical and A/B-testing tools/frameworks) - Basic technical understanding of how APIs and web requests/responses work - Ability to work hard and stretch if required - Exceptional integrity - Putting company/team above self Experience sought - Product management (individual contributor) in an online marketplace setting (must-have) - Product management leadership experience (must-have) - B2C product management (must-have) - B2B product management (nice-to-have) - Product management of a global product (nice-to-have) - Product management of a multi-lingual product (nice-to-have) - Cross-functional experience in tech/sales/revenue/mktg/ops (nice-to-have) - User experience research and design (nice-to-have)

Gurgaon/Gurugram

Unilodgers - Head - Product 

Unilodgers - Head - Product  ,Job Description for Unilodgers - Head - Product  in Unilodgers in  Gurgaon/Gurugram for (7-12) years of experience. Apply Now!

Job Description for Unilodgers - Head - Product  in Unilodgers in  Gurgaon/Gurugram for (7-12) years of experience. Apply Now!