IndiaMART.com - Vice President - Product Management - IIT/IIM/NIT/BITS/XLRI/FMS/MDI

About us:

IndiaMART is India’s largest online marketplace, connecting buyers with suppliers. The online channel focuses on providing a platform to Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs), large enterprises as well as individuals. Founded in 1996, the company’s mission is ‘to make doing business easy’.

The platform currently has around 5.2 Crore buyers, 42 Lakh suppliers and 5.9 Crore products listed on its platform.

IndiaMART has over 3500 employees located across 80+ offices in the country.

IndiaMART announced its Series C funding in March 2016. Its existing investors include Intel Capital, Amadeus Capital, WestBridge Capital & Quona Capital. 

Summary:

We are looking for a seasoned business professional with core expertise in product management. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker with a track record of execution. You will be responsible for strategically driving the pro-active development of the road map of the product and its offerings. You will be required to use your technical and strategic expertise to improve the usability of the website / app and introduce new features over time.

Responsibilities:

- Build and evangelize short-term and long-term product vision in close partnership with the product engineering and design peers.

- Provide vision to see around corners and inspire innovation across the product organization.

- Use analytics tools to make smarter, more data-informed decisions.

- Stay on top of the competitive landscape to neutralize potential threats.

- Manage the product lifecycle from concept to phasing out of the product(s) across the entire portfolio.

- Inspire, motivate, develop and lead a team of technology and product management professionals to build and deliver world-class products that make a difference for our customers and foster the ecosystem of good.

- Proactively research, evaluate, and stay informed on marketplace, current products, technologies, and available third party solutions to maintain vision and meet our overall product strategy.

- Work closely with product marketing teams in creating product video, customer case studies, product data sheets and content for social media.

- Consistently improve our product offerings through rigorous testing, evaluation, and analysis of key measurements resulting in optimizing user experience.

Skills and Expertise:

Mandatory

- 8+ years managing product development teams

- Experience working closely with UX researchers and designers

- Strong analytical skills working with data to make product decisions

- Demonstrated history of continuous learning and ability to stay current with technology and product trends

- Experience working in Agile or SCRUM process

Desired

- Experience of managing product development team for a high traffic website

- Experience of incubating technology based products/services

Education

- B.Tech / M.Tech from Tier 1 colleges

- MBA from Tier 1 colleges