Web Product Manager - Digital/Dot Com - Media

We require a Web Product Manager from Dot.com organizations. ( This role is for the Digital division of the leading Media Organization based in Noida )

We are looking for a senior web Product manager who will collaboratively build, manage, and grow the India Today group's digital online business. You will be responsible for driving features and functionality that creates business advantage and improves customer experience. You- ll work closely with internal stakeholders/partners to understand customer needs, competition, and to drive consensus around priorities. You- ll be accountable for driving projects and initiatives to completion, as well as monitoring and refining them once in the market.

Principal responsibilities:

- The perfect candidate is a strategic thinker who is extremely analytical and detail oriented and great at multitasking and prioritizing, as well.

- As a product manager, you will take end to end ownership of a product line, identify market requirements, define the product vision, create preliminary design concepts and drive the implementation of the product roadmap.

- Communicate product roadmap and features internally to key stakeholders and externally to prospects, customers and analysts.

Responsibilities:

- Work closely with stakeholders across all India Today group's departments: Content, Engineering, Marketing, Marketing Operations, IT Operations, etc.

- Develop product roadmaps through deep understanding of customers, technologies, and competition.

- Design and enhance a manageable, scalable, easy to monitor Digital Web platform - adding new core features, refining existing features, etc.

- Write user stories and detailed tasks

- Collaborate with the team managing other parts of the platform - back end, front-end applications, etc.

- Analyze the effectiveness of the current features and define ways to improve them in order to reduce failure rates, increase usage and improve order conversion rates based on analytics data and good understanding of customer needs.

- Work closely with business stakeholders to help define the product strategy that meets the external & internal customers needs while satisfying scalability, reliability, performance, and resource costs.

- Work closely with the design & development teams to explain requirements of new features and change requests for current features.

- Closely manage rollout of all product requirements with focus on both quality and time to market.

- In charge of competitor analysis, market analysis, product analysis, business cases, product evolution, feature prioritization, high level requirement gathering, and product marketing.

- Leverage research, feedback, and interviews to understand the needs of of our users and carve out new product features and directions.

- Create API definitions

- Create and monitor product performance vs. targets

Qualifications

- BS degree in a technical field or comparable real-world experience.

- 5-7+ years- experience in consumer or digital media web platform product management.

- Strong analytical and technical skills.

- Passionate about building great products and solving customer and technology problems.

- Experience with Agile development methodology, as well as PRD's for larger projects and roadmap development.

- Detail oriented approach to product planning.

- Motivational leadership style.

Other Requirements

- RESTful API and framework constructs - must be able to articulate how to add functionality to the platform integration framework to support desktop web and mobile experiences.

- Preference would be given to candidates having HFI certifications or prior UX knowledge

- Read partner API docs and use them to build stories

- Use tools to test partner APIs to validate requirements

- SQL query skills to examine results of processing and investigate possible issues

- Good knowledge & understanding of Joomla & Drupal CMS.

- Nice-to-haves:

Working knowledge of JIRA, Red mine /Mentis

Working knowledge of Java/PHP

Working knowledge of client-side technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)

Reporting to the Head of Digital Products.