EdIndia Foundation - Manager - Technology

Manager - Technology

Key Responsibilities :

- Developing Product Strategy and Roadmap for future versions and user interface improvements.

- Design and develop products and solutions, anchor its lifecycle from prototype/POC to sustainable growth and their adoption across affordable school education systems.

- Perform a Build vs Buy Analysis based on product development requirements. Initiate and manage technology-partner relations, as well as, build and manage a software team to deliver solutions.

- The role sets the vision for user experience. The role takes a lead to transform ideas into future-growth initiatives.

- Managing prioritisation & trade-offs between user experience (Teachers and other stakeholders), social impact, performance, and post-launch support.

- Let users and data lead the way and oversee generating critical insights using analytics. The role requires a focus on listening to students and teachers and provide technical leadership in creating innovative products and solutions addressing needs of the public education system.

- Developing metrics, MIS & visualisation aligned to company & program performance to track success indicators & identify improvement areas.

- Prepare presentations and communicate findings from initiatives to Leadership and External stakeholders.

You could be a good match if you are:

- You possess in-depth and stack - agnostic knowledge of web analytics, android app development, PHP frameworks, UX design tools such as Figma etc.,

- Min 4-5 years post MBA work experience of a Technical Product Manager role, preferably from an internet start-up (experience in failed start-ups will be welcomed as we feel failure is a great learning experience!!)

- Experience managing vendor relations, understanding production cloud infrastructures using microservices & having interest on open source technologies, social chat platforms and bots.

- Edindia works a lot with rendering various forms of content (text, audio, video, image, streaming etc). Thus experience in content delivery tools to end-users will be preferred.

- You will work in a rapidly changing eco-system and demonstrate problem-solving leadership.

- Be an exceptional communicator and an agile/creative problem solver. Build relationships and collaborate across functions; get complex things done and drive impact.

- A self-starter and learning enthusiast: It's a start up project and we want to work with people who enjoy building things from the bottom up. The products and solutions we are carving out are cutting edge and would expose the member to extensive mentoring on combining technology with social impact. Most of the work we do has not been tried before and initiative and a learning bent of mind will thrive in the project environment.

- A Team player: We are attempting to build a lean and flat organization. We are looking to get together with people who are more driven by passion than position or perks. Hence it is critical