Product Owner - Startup - IIT/NIT/IIM/BITS/ISB/FMS/MDI/XLRI

Background:

- Entrepreneurial, analytical, with a get things done attitude.

- Innately creative, articulate in solutioning, and have demonstrated ability to build an innovative product ground up that solves real world problems.

- Thrive in a dynamic and high growth startup environment, with a business sense, that allows to prioritise product initiatives to drive results for the company.

- Will roll up your sleeves to do whatever is needed to push the company forward.

Roles & Responsibilities:

- Work with the founding team to develop and maintain the product roadmap

- Ideate features and enhancements, creating personas and user story mapping, creating wireframes & prototypes.

- Track metrics of user engagement, retention and revenue from the product usage

- Ship the right product at the right time. Deeply understand user requirements and advocate for our users. Spearhead all customer development activities including A/B testing, feedback collection, and conversion optimization. Combine those insights with key needs of our business.

- Lead the development cycles with appropriately designed experiments, releasing products that are innovative, impactful, and on time.

- Detail out user stories and work fluently and ably with both designers and engineers.

- Foster tight working relationships and lead the team through disagreements.

- Contribute to Business Development and Marketing team efforts, ranging from sales calls to creating collateral and working with partners.

Skills & Prerequisites :

- 5+ years of product management experience, someone from a fast-growing, early stage startup

- Experience with best practice Agile scrum development and Lean Startup principles.

- Fluent with user mapping, wireframing, prototyping tools

- Data-driven decision making and strong knowledge of using analytics tools

- Excellent communication skills (tech and non-tech)

- Engineering background or proven ability to engage comfortably with engineers

- Past experience with B2C product

- Strategic Thinking with Tactical Prioritization

- Create and curate ideas while making tough day-to-day decisions

- Identify right tradeoffs on a day-to-day basis

- Resonate the Growth Mindset

- Learn constantly and foster learning for the team

Must have Qualification : Tier 1 engineering + MBA