Product Manager - Startup

Estimated Salary - 6 Lacs + ESOPs Potential

Introduction - Idea

The last mile movement in India lacks organisation and is plagued with inefficiencies. We are an early stage StartUp that has a vision of removing these inefficiencies by using technology and innovation in distribution as disruptors. Moreover we are also starting an On Demand Delivery service in Kolkata. Through this service we are looking to provide a delivery service for any mom and pop store, offices or homes. For this we plan to develop a mobile first platform comprising of consumer facing mobile apps, and last mile delivery tracking app for the on field force. We are looking for a product manager who can work across the platform and launch products for an excellent customer experience.

Responsibilities

As Product Manager, to understand the market and come up with a right product market fit and lead the building of the entire technology platform in alignment with the business goals and user experience requirements for all aspects of the On Demand Delivery service, viz., the user based App, biker facing app, a backed solution to manage both apps, automated analytics, data-driven learning algorithms; among others.

Strategy & Planning

- In partnership with the company's founders, identify opportunities and risks for delivering the company's services as a web-based business, including identification of competitive services, opportunities for innovation, and assessment of marketplace obstacles and technical hurdles to the business success.

- Develop quick prototypes, conduct usability testing, solicitate feedback from the customers and use it to enhance the product further

- Set up mechanisms for the management team to view and make decision basis customer and financial data.

- Evaluate and identify appropriate technology platforms (including web application frameworks and the deployment stack) for delivering the company's services.

- Lead strategic planning to achieve business goals by identifying and prioritizing development initiatives and setting timetables for the evaluation, development, and deployment of all web-based services.

- Participate as a member of the senior management team in establishing governance processes of direction and control to ensure that objectives are achieved, risks are managed appropriately and the organization's resources are used responsibly, particularly in the areas of software development, office networks and computers, and telecommunications.

- Collaborate with the appropriate departments to assess and recommend technologies that support company organizational needs.

- Direct development and execution of an enterprise-wide information security plan that protects the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the company's data and servers.

Implementation & Deployment

- Collaborate with the founders and potential customers to develop use cases (or user stories) and specifications that describe the implementation of the company's services as a web application.

- Collaborate with a User Experience Designer and potential customers to prepare wireframes or mockups of a prototype of the company's web application.

- Select or define the company's software development methodology.

- Establish a specification conformance and testing regimen based on user stories and the User Experience design.

- Review current best practices for the selected web framework and establish the initial architecture for the application.

- Select and manage company staff or outsourced vendors who will implement the application.

- Establish and supervise the software development process, setting short-term objectives and assessing progress as defined by the selected software development methodology.

- Establish and supervise a quality assurance process, including integration and system testing.

- Select, deploy, and monitor performance profiling tools and procedures.

- Establish an application deployment process and supervise deployment to staging and production servers.

- Monitor application performance and review any application failures in staging or production.

- As a member of the senior management team, establish a customer service and support process, with particular responsibility for web-based services that implement the support function. Establish a process to integrate customer service and support with the software engineering process to support resolution of customer issues and improve application usability.

Operational Management

- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of technology standards, industry trends, emerging technologies, and software development best practices by attending relevant conferences and reading widely (including reading your peers- blogs!).

- Ensure that technology standards and best practices are maintained across the organization.

- Share knowledge, mentor, and educate the organization's investors, management, staff, partners, customers, and stakeholders with regard to the company's technological vision, opportunities, and challenges.

- Supervise recruitment, training, retention, and organization of all development staff related to the technology department.

Position Requirement.

Knowledge & Experience

- Prior experience in coming up with top class PRD (product requirement documents) and work with developers on implementation.

- Demonstrated ability to envision APP services that meet consumer needs or solve business problems.

- Hands-on experience coding in more than one currently popular web application framework.

- Familiar with software development methodology, release planning, deployment.

- Has Experience with Product Development and building the architecture of the product.

- With a minimum of 2 years experience in working in a Product management or delivery environment.

Contact

Mridul Singhania