Stanza Living - Senior Product Manager

Who we are:

Imagine transforming a space the size of Eden Gardens, into full-fledged co-living residences within one month. Or personalizing over 2 lakh meals a day for tens of thousands of choosy students and professionals. At Stanza Living, we don't merely imagine these.

We have built these capabilities as India's leading managed accommodation provider, taking a tech-first approach to deliver a resident-first living experience. With vibrant, amenity-rich rooms, cutting-edge food solutions, dedicated community living programmes, hospitality-led housekeeping and laundry services, industry-grade internet facilities, state of the art security ecosystems and more, we are redefining living experiences for students and young working professionals as a high quality, adaptable and hassle-free solution designed for their evolving daily needs. Disrupting the multi-billion dollar rental accommodation sector in India, we are making managed accommodation an experience product in line with evolved hospitality sectors like hotels.

Today, we are:

- India's largest managed accommodation company with over 75,000+ beds under management across 25+ cities

- Most capitalized player in the managed accommodation space, backed by global marquee investors - Falcon Edge, Equity International, Sequoia Capital, Matrix Partners, Accel Partners

- Recognized asthe Best Real Estate Tech company acrossthe Globe in 2020 by leading analysis agency, Tracxn

- LinkedIn Top Startup to Work for - 2019

The market:

The managed accommodation market across India's top 30 cities is expected to quadruple from its current size of USD 20 billion to about USD 80 billion by 2030. Today, Stanza Living is the leader in the space with more than 75% market share in the student housing space and over 60% in the overall organized managed accommodation industry. The industry is evolving at a rapid pace in India as key players continue to attract large amount of capital from national and international institutional investors.

The job opportunity for Senior Product Manager:

Product Managers at Stanza Living play a pivotal role in leveraging technology for providing an exceptional user experience. With the analytical and problem-solving mindset, they get deeper into the function/problem space, work with stakeholders and partners to develop a wider perspective, take outside-in view of the problems and create a vision, strategy and roadmap of how software can solve immediate needs/wants, setting the stage for the right disruptions/innovations of the future. Once envisioned, they inspire and align stakeholders and transform their vision into reality.

Senior PM Responsibilities :

- Own the strategy and roadmap for a key product/business area

- Manage all aspects of a technology product throughout its lifecycle including product strategy development, customer insights/needs, and requirements definition

- Partner with the other business leaders to define and drive substantial parts of the customer experience for the respective products

- Lead a team of product managers to deliver stellar products for your respective product area

Who we are looking for :

- 5+ years of product management experience along with an academic background in Computer Science or related stream, MBA is a plus

- Past background building stellar high scale tech products

- Entrepreneurial mindset- acumen to guide our goals through roadmaps and define new product features and strategies

- Excellent communication skills to present data in most ambiguous situations - Have a track record of building successful teams alongside being a customer champion.

- Passion for technology and proactive in understanding and developing various applications, must have used technology to solve business problems

- Knowledge in developing elegant and simple feature functionalities which deliver the world-class user experience