Bijak - Product Manager - IIM/ISB/MDI/FMS

About the Company: 

Founded in April 2019 in Gurugram, Bijak is a B2B marketplace for suppliers and buyers across India's Agri value chain. Bijak aims to bridge the information asymmetry and lack of accountability in agricultural commodities trading. Since launch in April 2019, Bijak has expanded across 22 states, 400 regions, and 80+ commodities. We currently have a lean team of 30+ folks and are growing on a rocket trajectory

Website - www.bijak.in

Bijak movie - https://youtu.be/jMUPBlQxi68

Bijak product : 

B2B traders, who control 80% of India's USD 300 Bn Agri value chain, have limited access to technology, information, and credit. Bijak helps these customers/MSMEs discover each other along with the counter party's rating so that customers can transact with minimal friction by accessing Bijak's layer of trust & reliability. The suppliers and buyers are not just able to transact or discover each other but are also able to find out meta-data of each other to make a faster & reliable transaction through the application.

Funding : 

Bijak has raised $2.5+ million in Sep 2019 from Sequoia Capital (Surge), Omidyar Network, Omnivore Partners, and Better Capital.

Product Manager - Role Description : 

Bijak is building a first-of-its-kind product with an integrated solution for information, payments, & logistics that can help overcome age-old challenges faced by agriculture traders. Most of these users are not tech savvy and thus require a product with seamless user experience offering great functionality. We are looking to hire an enthusiastic Product Manager to lead every facet of our product's journey. The candidate would be responsible to:

- Own the product strategy. Translate product strategy into detailed requirements and prototypes to build an actional product roadmap.

- Gain a deep understanding of user experience (including understanding of vernacular users), identify and fill product gaps, and generate new ideas that improve customer experience and drive efficiency, and incorporate into product design and functionality.

- Work with cross-functional teams (like Engineering, UX, Operations, Marketing) to create and implement a decisive product plan from product development to actual production. Represent the voice of our users/customers throughout the development process.

- Ensure that high standards of reliability, quality, usability and measurement are adhered to throughout each phase of product development, review and adoption to facilitate and align a successful product /feature rollout.

- Align with management on growth objectives and work towards achieving well defined targets around user acquisition, transactions and revenue across products and services.

- Regularly baseline and track usage and impact of product on business and product metrics to recommend strategies that will improve the key product metrics like reduced cost of execution, reduced time to action, increased conversions and retention.

- Work closely with co-founders to drive thought leadership across the organisation. Constantly question the status quo and bring in fresh insights into the development of products & features.

Qualifications and Requirements : 

- 5+ years of experience in product management role preferably with an MBA from a top tier college

- Exceptional decision-making skills to prioritise across needs to achieve maximum value

- Thrive in a start-up environment: love dealing with pace, changing needs, and limited resources.

- Understand technology and software development, and ability to effectively work with engineers to develop solutions that provide tangible customer value

- Exceptional interpersonal, communication (spoken and written) and influencing skills and an ability to navigate a complex and unstructured cross-functional environment

- Ability to narrate a story for what problem you are solving for and the vision you are going after, combined with the capacity to dive into highly granular details

- Hands-on approach and a willingness to roll-up one's sleeves and get the job done

- Demonstrated ability to think both strategically and tactically including the ability to formulate data-driven and result-oriented decisions