Goibibo - Vice President - Product Management

Primary Responsibilities:

Product Strategy:

- Understand the product's current and evolving business goals and translate them into a scalable product vision.

- Alignment of product roadmap with market and competitive trends and customer demands

- Lead and develop product strategy and end state planning in partnership with customers

- Competitive product positioning - Market & customer analysis, competitive / benchmarking analysis and feature parity analysis

- PDLC management Product Development Life Cycle

- Establish and deploy robust requirement-gathering processes to define product requirements as well as build continuous feedback Proactively identify issues impacting the product line and recommend next steps/solutions

- Support and lead the common PDLC tools and processes that the Product Management organization will adopt

- Continuously improve the product development process, incorporating lessons learned and best practices

- Create Product and feature collaterals including product layout, user experience, value proposition etc.

- Coordinate closely with internal and external stakeholders to ensure product features meet identified and agreed upon exit criteria

- Internal stakeholder management

- Work closely with Customer Services, Sales and Marketing teams to help identify trends and new business opportunities

- Build industry presence through participation/presence in industry for a, technology/domain panels to enhance goibibo- market-presence,

People responsibilities:

- Lead a team of product management professionals, to ensure successful product launch and positioning

- Evangelize a product management culture within the organization, including establishment of product development gating processes, best practices, and policies

- Mentor and coach the team members and drive internal convergence where necessitated through consultative leadership

Core Competencies:

- Well-versed in the entire life-cycle of a internet / ecommerce product, from concept, to opportunity assessment, to requirement documents and feasibility assessments, prototyping to wireframes and through execution, and be comfortable working across teams of producers, content strategists, designers and business stakeholders.

- A goibibo Brand Head must have dual capability to have a broad, strategic vision for the business and at the same time, be willing and able to roll up their sleeves and set strong system.

- A constant look-out for disruptive innovation and an eye on value creation are must-have qualities

- The individual sets a high bar for performance for self and team and must adopt and perpetuate a non-hierarchical style of management

- Should be obsessed with data

An Idea Candidate should be

- An Engineer, comp science engineer + MBA from a premier Business School

- 6 - 8 years of experience from either Consumer/Tech companies who have had experience in building brands or worked as Tech product managers