SmartConnect Technologies - Product Head - Mobility

Title: Product Head - Mobility

Job Location: Mumbai

Job description:

- Meet Business and Product Objectives: Key owner of business and product objectives, in conjunction with country heads and the engineering head Ensure that all product activities are aligned towards meeting business objectives of user engagement, reach, and monetization Assign and track KPIs against every product initiative

- Drive Market and Consumer Understanding: Insights and Engagement Work with country and marketing teams to define and understand key consumer segments, their behaviors, attitudes and needs Drive consumer understanding through a combination of research and analytics Use this consumer understanding to come up with breakthrough insights, and use them to implement product improvements that will differentiate our value proposition to consumers, and drive greater user engagement

- Own Product Vision and Roadmap: Key owner of product vision, based on deep market and consumer understanding, and inputs from internal stakeholders. Get internal alignment on product vision so as to drive it to reality Identify strategic areas where the product, engineering teams, and the company need to focus and grow our expertise. Be a source of idea generation and knowledge dissemination on leading edge product and technology issues. Turn these strategic thought areas into defined execution plans that will drive our business forward. Driver of product roadmap based on the product vision: identity, priorities and, with the engineering team, drive implementation across mobile apps and website Set success goals for each product improvement, and drive cross-functional teams to achieve these.

- Drive Partnership Productization: Implementation for Acquisition and Monetization Drive the overall plan for partnership on-boarding, launch, and ongoing success Work with country teams to understand and take joint ownership of business objectives related to partnerships Meet with key partners to support business development and integration planning activities Understand various partner types, and develop standardized user acquisition and monetization flows in conjunction with marketing/business development teams Work with partners and internal teams, to drive successful implementations, including coordinating product development with the engineering team, and QA with partner and QA teams Track and ensure success of partnerships, from initial pipeline to launch and post-launch iteration

- Drive Monetization: through Paid Subscriptions and Advertising Understand and optimize the user journey from acquisition to trial and engagement, to monetization Be on top of trends in the payments space, with an eye to reducing friction for key customer segments in multiple geographies Sharpen the value proposition for premium subscribers, to optimize the conversation from free to paid subscribers Monetize non-paying subscribers by working on breakthrough ad propositions in conjunction with the ad-tech PM and engineering team that are consumer-friendly, while also catering to the needs of marketers. Skills and

Experience: 10 years of experience in the consumer internet space, including at least 6 years on mobile. Bachelor's degree in engineering is a strong plus. MBA or equivalent business experience desirable.

Expertise: High degree of expertise and thought leadership in the app space, for both Android and iOS, through hands-on product management or other leadership experience.

Personal Traits: A leader who can inspire, influence and get results in a dynamic, fast-paced, changing environment. Strong instincts for the consumer point of view, including on user experience, while also backing up this POV with hard analysis. Highly analytical and data-driven. Experience with working with external partners at senior levels. Excellent oral and written communication skills are a must. Highly driven, strong performer under pressure, a team player.

Desirable: Accountability, research and analytics, product improvement, hands-on, integration planning

Responsibilities:

- Provide technical architecture and vision for mobile application platforms.

- Elaborate stakeholders requirements to determine the appropriate solution based on these requirements.

- Produce appropriate project artefacts that may include high level architecture designs detail level design work estimates and quality software.

- Mentor other members of the team on mobile application best practices and conduct internal learning sessions to help team members develop the necessary skills around mobile application development.

- Take overall accountability for the outcomes of multiple Mobile Platform design processes design costing risk mitigation proposal sign-off.

- Proven ability to advise and manage large scale complex transactional mobile apps solutions and operations from a technical perspective.

- Understanding of various development methodologies like AGILE Waterfall etc

- Must have experience in Service Oriented Architecture implementations

- Develop skills and capabilities of the solutions design engineers work with operations managers to identify growth opportunities leveraging our core capabilities

- Serve as a technical leader on teams with clients designers project managers and developers

- Proven ability to Architect Build and Maintain high-performance scalable Mobile Apps

- Rapidly iterate on platform features developing elegant solutions API Implementations

- Keep senior management abreast of significant developments identified during design and development activities

- Conducts change impact analysis to assess the potential implications of changes assists in developing an overall change management strategy

- Strong Leadership skills to lead a team of reporting testers effectively and help them achieve all the objectives -listed above

- Project management experience is a must Nice To Have

- Six or more 6 years of hands-on mobile app development Android iOS J2ME Symbian

- Must have experience working on large-scale high-traffic websites

- Solid understanding of the full mobile technology stack with extensive experience on performance and bandwidth optimization

- Proficiency in SQL and database theory and application Familiarity with MySQL

- Able to evaluate technical solutions their commercial impact and risks with respect to Project management Delivery Security Scalability Performance and Reliability

- Able and willing to lead a multi-disciplinary team help grow the knowledge of team members and other colleagues

- Maintain an up-to-date knowledge by researching new technologies and software products participating in educational opportunities and reading professional publications

- Can do mentality and positive attitude

- Excellent written and oral communication skills including the ability to persuade influence negotiate and make formal presentations in meetings and training environments.