FlywithVip. Com - Product Manager - Startup

FLYWITHVIP.COM is a startup that has signed up with 300 celebrities in the country and auctions and raffles the inflight seat adjacent to the celebrity whenever they take a flight, with proceeds going to a charity which the celebrity supports. We launched this site in Feb 2015 with a flight with the Bollywood Shahenshah Amitabh Bachchan. Thereafter we've had flights with Anushka Sharma, R Madhavan, AbhishekBachchan, Rishi Kapoor, Asin and others. The celebrities signed up are from various spheres including India Inc (represented by Mr. Birla, Mr. Godrej, Mr. Bajaj, Mr. Narayan Murthy and others), Spiritual gurus (represented by Deepak Chopra and Sri SriRavishankar), Sports (represented by MS Dhoni, Virat, Rohit Sharma, Sania, Saina and others), Fashion Designers, Bank Chairmen's and MD's. Coming soon are newer genres like politicians and bureaucrats.

From end Oct our raffles will be offered to Vodafone, Idea, RCOM, BSNL, Tata Docomo users. Our mobile app will be pre-burnt into a million handsets of domestic handset makers Micromax and Lava in December. We are looking at raising around 200 cr for deserving charities in Year 2.

Principal responsibilities:

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

- Prioritizing ambiguous requirements and then providing clarity to the engineering team on the objectives

- We are looking for someone who can think strategically then own and drive the delivery of multiple omni-channel projects, so someone who like to know the big picture but enjoys the - hands-on- part of delivering.

- 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.

- Actively drive formal and informal research and collate customer feedback and present the customer's point of view to all internal stakeholders. Be the primary voice of the customer in the company.

Key Areas of Responsibility:

- Analyze the effectiveness of the current features and define ways to improve them in order to reduce failure rates, increase usage and improve 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 UX and UI designers & development teams to explain requirements of new features and change requests for current features, to build & deliver top notch online e-commerce experiences.

- 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.

- Improve conversion and experience of the product.

- Create innovative and differentiated product features on the web and mobile

Desired Skills and Experience:

- 2+ years of Product Management experience working in the online industry

- Works well under pressure has the ability to work within stringent timelines and to collaborate across departments to achieve results.

- Deeply engage in the customer experience - platform onboarding, first use, in-product design, marketing, conversations with customers to elicit their feedback & incorporate feedback into the product, to deliver an awesome product experience.

- Engage the right internal and external stakeholders to deliver the end-to-end experience

- Ability to develop and execute a successful product roadmap

- The successful candidate must be a self-starter, be able to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously, own deliverables end to end, prioritize workload effectively, and thrive in a dynamic environment.

- Must be a true problem solver with outstanding skills in discovery techniques and the proven ability to translate the underlying business needs of requests into actionable items.

- A strong focus on detail, with the proven ability to ensure data and related reports are thorough and totally reliable.

- Proven expertise leading cross-functional teams that together launch on-time and on-budget desktop, web or mobile software product offerings

- A demonstrated enthusiasm for learning and working with new tools and technologies is essential. Must have a demonstrated ability to recommend the right tools and learn them as autonomously as possible.

- Must be a strong and enthusiastic team player with excellent verbal and written communications skills.

- Demonstrated ability to effectively establish and maintain working relationships with all levels of the organization.

- Experience with business users and able to translate business requirement into software requirements.

- Solid understanding of web/portal behavior.

- Ability to do deep data analysis and to provide valuable insights which shape the future course of the product

- Qualitative and quantitative analytics and testing to improve the experience of the website and mobile apps.

- Measure and analyze product metrics, customer needs, and business opportunities to shape our products' feature set and improve user experience

Qualifications:

- B.E./B.Tech a must. Degree in CS/IT preferred

- MBA from Premier institutes Preferred