Product Manager - EdTech

If you are looking for an excellent product management opportunity, this is the right job for you! This is a substantial role reporting directly to the founders of the company with a broad scope that influences multiple functional areas.

As the Product Manager, you will be working in a second rung leadership role and will be actively managing various parts of the business independently. You will play a pivotal role in strategizing, planning and ensuring creation of a new, high -quality product, execution of the product rollout and other strategies. This includes designing a product, outreach activities, assessment of product benefits, client networking, and overall team coordination.

Our client is an innovative startup focused on bringing education in Indian schools to the 21st century using technology as a tool for creating innovative and path-breaking products in education. It has been founded by alumnus of the premier B-schools including MDI Gurgaon. The founding team has decades of experience working with companies in education sector and other global companies.

They are a pioneer in using Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality to aid teaching. The co offers e-learning courses for Indian as well as global curriculum. It also offers assessment architectures and skill development courses. The company is a trailblazer in the gamification of education. After establishing themselves in the B2B domain, they are now on the verge of doing an aggressive launch and push for a B2C product that makes use of AR and VR to provide an enhanced learning experience to the K-8 segment.

Key Responsibilities:

- Undertaking market research and coming up with new, high-quality products that drive sales figures for a company

- Brainstorming, investigating, designing, and assessing products

- Coordinating all stages of product development, from initial concept art, to finalization and distribution

- Assessing gaps in the marketplace and finding niches to market new products

- Working with market researchers, identifying the brand's attributes in a new product, ensuring customer value and satisfaction with that product

- Managing customer opinion of a product, testing the product in focus groups and receiving feedback

- Working with developer team to adjust the product's design until perfection

- Closely working with sales team to help pitch the product to potential clients

- Staying on top of what's happening in analytics industry and product area to provide cutting edge solutions and directions to development team

Candidate Profile:

- Proven experience in product management (physical) exp in edutech / school segment companies

- Ability to understand customers and competitive markets, and translate their needs into business strategies and initiatives

- Excellent business and technical judgement

- Strong conceptual and creative problem-solving skills

- Knowledge of best practices in engaging and communicating through education technology (edutech) products

- Knowledge of analytics platforms and ability to pull reports and analyze data

- Excellent communication skills

- Strong team co-ordination and organizational skills

- Flexible for 6 day working structure