General Manager/DGM - Products - eLearning

General Manager/DGM - Products ( e-Learning )

Role : General Manager / DGM - Product ( eLearning)

Location : Ahmedabad

Position Overview :

- GM / DGM Product who will play a pivotal role in the future of the company.

- The Individual will be responsible for the technical vision and development of the product.

- You'll be managing other engineers and developers, collaborating with the marketing and support teams, as well as providing the overall vision for the product roadmap.

Roles & Responsibilities :

- The primary responsibility of the Product -eLearning Leader is to research, evaluate and select tools and services to help and build the eLearning strategy of the future.

- Identify Key focus areas, formulation of Business plan & ensure quality delivery process

- Meet regularly with key customer facing teams to collect and analyze user feedback to shape new product ideas and user requirements.

- Have strong solution skills in translating customer needs to product functionalities.

- Work with leadership team in planning the product roadmap.

- Coordinate with engineering team to plan and deliver features on time.

- Represent company in product or domain specific conferences and events.

- Stay on top of the market and competitions.

- Lead, define, represent and communicate product strategy to all stakeholders.

- Develop budgets, forecasts, and metrics.

- Monitor product development sprints and evaluate results.

- Own the product roadmap and communicate with C-level staff, board members, and other stakeholders.

- Monitor and manage strategic marketing plans for each product or product line.

- Define pricing and competitive positioning for each product.

- Drive innovative ideas, solutions and products through leadership and decisive action.

- Build incredible teams and processes to deliver products that satisfy the needs of customers. Become the key evangelist of product and participate in press activities, conferences, discussions with thought leaders and market analysts

Key Competencies :

- Strategy and Planning: Overseeing the execution and planning of driving revenue growth and sales strategy by using analysis to forecast sales performance, set sales targets, determining the effectiveness of current sales initiatives and implement change if necessary.

- Customer Advocate: Driving customer acquisition strategy for company by providing a positive and efficient purchasing experience for buyers from initial engagement through purchase completion. The ultimate goal of the Chief Sales Officer should be to orient the sales process around the buyer's journey rather than forcing a buyer through a complex process with only the sales rep in mind.

- Relationship and Collaboration: Working cross-functionally with other leadership team members, like product and marketing, to foster collaboration, faster revenue growth and higher profitability. The importance of this role was shown in a study by Forrester Research which found that companies that have strong alignment across sales, product and marketing

- Decision making-The ability to make decisions around things such as scope, assessing viability of solutions etc.

Travel : This job will require travel across India as and when needed.

Educational Qualification / Work Experience : MBA / PG in Management & BE/B Tech with at least 7 years of total work experience in IT-Product / E-learning /Ed Tech company.