Wadhwani Foundation - Senior Product Manager - IIT/NIT/IIM/ISB

Background: Organization is focused on building mobile first consumer internet products in EdTech, entrepreneurship learning, 21st century skilling, startup and SME ecosystem support space. It offers an exciting opportunity to work with a great team in a startup environment, learn, grow and create long term impact in emerging markets globally.

Roles and Responsibilities:

- Build mobile first consumer internet products for supporting the SME/startup ecosystem

- Understand user needs, study competitive offerings & define a differentiated proposition

- Convert user journeys into detailed user cases & product requirements for internal consumption

- Work with UX/VX designers in mocking wireframes & visuals for web and mobile interfaces

- Work with engineering on clarifying requirements, prioritization, managing product backlog

- Work with engineering on product architecture and design, sprint planning, track build progress

- Define success metrics, plan for user acceptance, product dial up and go live

- Monitor and stabilize product post launch, track key metrics and drive user adoption at scale

- Seek user feedback and identify enhancements for subsequent build cycles on regular basis

Skills and Experience:

- 8+ yrs. of work ex with atleast 3 yrs. in Product Management with consumer internet products

- Past experience supporting SME/startup ecosystem, accelerator, incubator, scalerator a must

- Has worked across the mobile web & app product lifecycle from concept to launch & adoption

- Has detailed user journeys into user roles, user cases and product requirements

- Has worked with UX researchers conducting user surveys & close looping user feedback

- Has worked with UX/VX designers in mocking wireframes & visuals for web and mobile

- Has worked closely with engineering in defining requirements, prioritization, sprint planning

- Comfortable deep diving with engineering in tech architecture, design and scoping discussions

- Past experience in software development, technical program management desirable

- Ability to thrive in fast paced, startup environment with tight deadlines

- Strong communication, interpersonal and presentation skills

- Strong organizational, analytical and problem-solving skills

- Ex-entrepreneur or startup experience desirable

Education Qualification: BTech + MBA (Tier 1 institute)