Product Manager - EdTech Startup

Product Manager | Leading Global Ed-tech Startup

Here is an opportunity for a fantastic career filled with learning and growth in a vibrant, intellectually challenging environment!

- Our client is one of India's leading ed-tech company that offers high quality, impactful and industry relevant learning programs to working professionals through convenient technology-enabled blended and online modes, enabling them to develop new competencies and achieve career growth without disrupting their career. Apart from providing India's #1 rated analytics course popular executive MBA programs and specialized courses such as the Financial Risk Analytics program.

- The team comprises of passionate individuals having an excellent blend of entrepreneurial and industry experience. Its founding team has been part of multiple successful startups in the US and India. The team members are alumni of leading institutions like Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, Kellog, IIT Mumbai, Duke, MDI, IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Shillong and have previously worked in companies such as Tiger Global, Flipkart, Snapdeal, Boston Consulting Group, Zipdial, SAP, and Stratify.

- The company has seen a 100 times growth in the number of registered learners in three years, and 30 times revenue growth in the last 3 years. The team has grown from five to 60 and now has offices in Bengaluru and Gurgaon. Their programs are offered in Gurgaon, Chennai, Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad and Mumbai.

- As the Product Manager,you will play a pivotal role in strategizing, planning and ensuring the execution of product rollout and other strategies. This includes designing a product, outreach activities, assessment of product benefits, client networking, and overall team coordination.

Your responsibilities include :

- Understanding requirements, helping to define a product vision and strategy, and working with world-class engineers to execute it

- Brainstorming, investigating, designing, and assessing products

- Identifying unmet needs and disruption opportunities which will ultimately shape the product strategy

- Taking ownership of new online products as well as progressive updates for existing ones

- Responsible to visualize and shape how the educational programs will be delivered online

- Ensuring optimized scheduling of programs and building a job network around the programs of the company

- Driving efficiency and streamlining processes by determining future system enhancements and implementing solutions across the product team

- Providing information for management by preparing short-term and long-term product sales forecasts and special reports and analysis, answering questions and requests

- Marketing the new products by developing time-integrated plans with sales, advertising, and production

- Determining product pricing by utilizing market research data, reviewing production and sales costs, anticipating volume, costing, special and customized orders

- Maintaining professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks, participating in professional societies etc.

- Monitoring market competition by assessing gaps in the marketplace and finding niches to market new products

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

- Strategizing the outreach plan to create awareness in the community and ensure execution of all outreach activities to achieve the maximum enrolment

Candidate Profile:

- Demonstrable experience of 2-4 years in product management with any e-commerce company

- B.Tech graduate/MBA from Tier 1/2 preferred

- Good communication skills and a flair for problem-solving

- Should have a passion for solving customer queries in a wide array of situations

- Should be looking forward to own entire product features - the front-end, the backend, the logic and whatever else it takes to build and launch a product successfully

- Should be excited about being part of a sustainable growth story in the Ed-tech space

- Flexible for 6 days a week working structure