PropTiger.com - Product Manager

Who we are?

The combined entity of PropTiger - Makaan and Housing.com, two of India's leading online real estate service providers, is India's first truly online-to-offline (O2O) real estate services platform. PropTiger is the largest online residential real estate brokerage firm, having completed transactions worth $1.5 billion since its inception in 2011, while Housing.com is India's most popular online platform for home search, receiving over 4 million visits every month.

We are the only player in India offering the full range of services in the real estate space, such as personalized search, virtual viewing, site visits, legal and financial diligence, negotiations, property registration, home loans and post- sales service. Our objective is to bring the best-in-class services to consumers and create a unified technology-driven platform that can serve all needs of consumers, developers and brokers, with respect to buying, selling and renting of homes. We leverage the power of technology and data to make the home buying experience rewarding and easy-to-use and functions on the fundamentals of trust, transparency and expertise. As a digital marketplace with an exhaustive range of property listings, we know it is easy to get lost. We guide home buyers right from the start of their home search to the very end.

We are led by seasoned professionals from the top B-schools like Harvard Business School, Stanford, ISB, IIM-B, IMT, IT-BHU, ICAI and prominent companies where they have made significant contributions in their respective domains. Our team is young, talented, creative, supercharged and is spread across India through a network of offices in 12 cities.

Culture forms the core of our foundation and our effort towards creating an engaging workplace has resulted in Elara Technologies (PropTiger & Makaan) featuring among the coveted list of India's best 100 companies to work for in 2017 by Great Place to work Institute, in partnership with The Economic Times.

Elara Technologies Pte. Ltd., which owns PropTiger, Housing & Makaan, is funded by some of the biggest investors including NewsCorp, SoftBank, REA, SAIF and Accel Partner. NewsCorp is a New-York based global media and information services company and has a substantial presence in online real estate. NewsCorp also has a significant stake in Star TV. REA is the leading digital real estate company in Australia and has a controlling stake in iProperty, which has a significant presence in Malaysia, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Thailand. REA also owns a significant stake in Move, Inc., which was acquired by News Corp in November 2014. Move operates realtor.com, which has since become the second largest digital real estate company in the US. SoftBank Group Corp. is a Japanese multinational telecommunications and Internet corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. SoftBank has significant investments in brands such as SnapDeal and Ola. Prominent investments of SAIF partners are JustDial, Makemytrip and HomeShop18 and Accel Partners owns a stake in Facebook, Flipkart and Myntra.

What does this role hold for you-

- Constantly work with business owners, sales, customer service and operation team to understand Proptiger's mission and then collaborate with technology & design teams to move closer in achieving that mission

- Responsible for steering products throughout the innovation stage & execution cycle, focusing specifically on analyzing, tweaking and promoting your product to our intended customer base

- Create and execute product initiatives focused on driving measurable results in conversions, user engagement and traffic growth on PropTiger website and Apps

- Work with the team to plan and drive execution of consumer facing features

- Taking care of the the entire product line life cycle from understanding customers needs to planning to tactical activitiesFinding and elaborating on the market requirements for current and future products by conducting market research supported and customer interaction

- Driving a solution set across teams (primarily Development and Marketing)

- Developing and implementing a company-wide go-to-market plan, working with all departments to execute

- Develop detailed, crisp requirements that can be used to create product specifications and architecture for each product

- Successful candidates will be detail driven, have a technical background and have excellent problem solving abilities.

- Should be able to mentor and groom high potential product managers

Apply if you have:

- A technical undergraduate degree with some hands on software engineering experience

- Streamlined thinking and Logical depth to break down complex problems in solvable steps

- Bias towards swift action and hunger for results to figure out what's best for your customer - in short "Driver Personality with Product Judgment skills"

- High bar for design and product architecture - something you wish to exemplify in not only your contributions, but also the products you work on

- Love for Data: Ability to make quick decisions based on small or large sets of data and embed this as a habit in every key decision you make

- Monitor and measure launched products and feed learnings back into product development process.

- Customer Centricity - Having an emotional connect with your customer and merging objectivity in your analysis while understanding the actual problems that they face. Their problem should be your problem

- 2+ Years of hands on experience in delivering scalable and effective consumer Internet products. Someone who is ready to roll up his/her sleeves when others have been tired of trying

- Should have a strong exposure to analytics and performance measurement tools like Google Analytics, Mixpanel or similar.

- Experience with launching mobile first products will be a big plus

- 2+ years experience in consumer-facing online/ mobile products is a plus

Know more about us:

Know more about us and our team, visit www.housing.com, www.proptiger.com & www.makaan.com