Product Manager

Product Manager

About Kony:

Kony empowers enterprise mobile app success.

Our belief is that better business is just one app away and that the benefits of productivity, loyalty, and convenience should not be limited by hardware vendors and operating systems.

We refer to it as: Empowering EverywhereTM.

Our customizable apps and award-winning platform give enterprises the efficiency and flexibility of the broadest device and OS compatibility in the industry. Our approach has always been about making the path easier for our enterprise customers, so they can focus on the business opportunities that multi-channel strategies provide, while we focus on keeping up with the constant stream of new devices, deployment modes and OS updates. That’s why we:

- Created pre-built, industry specific apps that leverage industry expertise, speed time to market, and avoid the need to create separate app development teams for each mobile device/OS.

- Designed an easy to use drag-and-drop development studio and a true “write once, deploy everywhere” app platform.

- Provide the unified way for IT administrators to manage mobile chaos.

- Work passionately with partners such as Apple, Google, and Microsoft to ensure that any app you ever need to create and manage will be compatible for all your user

Job profile:

- You will be part of Kony’s R&D team setting technical direction for our KonyOne product suite. Our products include the KonyOne Studio, the KonyOne Server, Mobile Application Management and Sync data services that enable customers to build, deploy, secure and operate mobile apps.

- The job will entail defining core functional use cases, defining user experience, aligning with technical architects on functionality, enabling the sales force on new functionality and being able to manage a product’s lifecycle from conception to final release.

Desired profile:

- 4+ years of technical product management and/or IT Architecture experience with a clear understanding of the enterprise software delivery lifecycle of design, build, and deploy

- Knowledge of the customer perspective for product utilization including user interface and experience concepts

- Knowledge of the market landscape – competitor feature sets, pros and cons of solutions for developing mobile apps.

- Understanding of mobile application development methodologies with project experience with at least one mobile device platform

- Knowledge of advanced widgets, animations etc. available in native SDKs for various mobile device platforms

- Understanding of mobile application management, device management and other important B2E feature sets

- Bachelors in Computer Science and MBA from a top tier institute would be preferred

Responsibilities include:

- Writing product requirements documents for product features and working with a team to develop prototypes

- Explaining feature sets and working with technical teams to establish realistic timelines and scope

- Coordinate and ensure high quality deliverables by working with testing teams

- Align with technical writers to help create quality documentation

- Work with business analysts and mentor them to create quality deliverables throughout the delivery lifecycle

- Research industry analysis and competitor landscape related to new product features and offerings

Contact:- suman.lakkimsetty@kony.com