Product Manager - IT

Role Summary :

What is the purpose of this role? Why does it exist?

- Create products and solutions that make users - quantifiably- better at job tasks that have strategic value to their organization.

- Make sure products and solutions can be delivered, marketed. Sold and adopted by businesses in a manner that supports Lumiq's strategic goals and financial targets while creating tremendous business value for our customers

- Consider the broader dynamics of the customer organization from the top down, their strategic goals and priorities, and the impact those goals and priorities have on the users.

Experience & Skills :

OVERALL EXPERIENCE :

- 2+ years of Product Management experience

- Experience in working across levels in the organization

- Experience in enterprise, B2B Products preferable

- Domain experience in FSI 

FUNCTIONAL EXPERIENCE :

- Enterprise, B2B product management

- Experience with conducting competitive analysis and creating product roadmaps aligned with business strategy.

- Experience in solutioning for business use cases, both at strategic and tactical levels

- UX / user-centered design focus and working with UX and design teams

- Stakeholder management

- Techno-commercial knowledge 

LEADERSHIP SKILLS :

- Experience in working and aligning with the Development Team, Product Team and Business Teams.

- Ability to create an impact in the Customer's Organization
 
PERSONAL SKILLS :

- Good written and verbal communication skills

- Open to travel

- Able to perform gracefully in a multitasking project environment with attention to detail

- Willingness to understand cutting edge technology and map it to improve business outcomes

- Results driven

- Strong relationship skills - an extrovert

- Self driven - don- t wait for others to push

- Continuous learner - hungry to learn and experiment

- Solution focussed - hunts for problems and focuses on solving them in timely and effective manner; ability to anticipate and re-align

- Trustworthy - someone to lean & count on

- Committed - figures out how to get something done

- Logical & Street Smart with critical thinking skills;

- Flexible - ready for adjustment for success of assignments

- Empathetic - good listener and being able to put oneself into others shoes

PREFERRED QUALIFICATION :

- BE/BTech plus MBA

Roles and Responsibilities :

Major R&R of this role are :

- Work with Product, Engineering and business teams to determine the product requirements, new features that create user value.

- Define the product strategy and roadmap

- Deliver PRDs with prioritized features and maintain the product backlog

- Create simple and clear high level requirement specs to be handed off to business analysts for detailing and dev teams for implementation.

- Competitor analysis

- Monitor execution of product roadmap

- Manage all aspects of in-life products, including customer feedback, requirements, and issues

- Coordinate and lead product demos to prospective customers - lead product pre-sales activities; conduct webinars & other product campaigns

- Assist implementation teams with process mapping and gap analysis

- Provide insight to stakeholders on the product and market

- Create wireframes for new features/enhancements and hand off to design team

- Analyse and work on enhancing the UX aspect of the products.

- Assist marketing team & own product related collaterals and training programs

- Manage product P&L

Internal / External Interactions :

Who is the natural work team internally? Who in the external world does the role-holder have to influence?

- Internal - Business Leaders, Tech Leads, Product Team, Sales & pre-sales team

- External - Customer teams, CXOs

Time Horizon & Impact to Organisation

What impact can the role make? What is the - legacy- he/she wants to leave behind? Over what timeframe can performance be judged?

- Product evangelism

- Going beyond product, technology and positioning Lumiq as a solution-minded Company that understands the Business context of the customer

- Time frame - 6 months