Vakilsearch - Senior Product Manager - SaaS Product

Senior Product Manager @ E-commerce (Product Based Company)







We prefer candidates from Chennai location and candidates willing to relocate to Chennai.

Vakilsearch is the leading Legal, Tax and Compliance (LTC) company in India. We are here to revolutionize the way businesses work with the Government. We are working on exciting and transformative products to revolutionize the LTC space. At Vakilsearch, we believe the future of legal in India lies in great products.

If you're passionate about real change, love building products, and are curious about marketing and the overall customer experience, this is for you.

The product manager (PM) will manage the direction and market delivery of existing products and identifying new products, product features, product strategy, and relevant services.

The PM will be responsible for delivering successful products to market in support of the company's financial and strategic objectives and advise the features of releases and release timing.

In This Job, You Will:

- Work with Senior Engineers across multiple teams and business stakeholders to design and build highly available and scalable systems

- Use Lean Software Development processes such as Agile, Scrum, and Kanban

- Drive strategic upward product communications internally and externally

- Drive alignment on product features, business metrics, and business strategies

- Work and collaborate effectively with tech teams and launch to production

- Understand business context to decisions made within and across the organization

This Role Might Be for You If:

- You have experience in owning a suite of products and defining long-term product strategy and vision

- You possess strong business acumen with strategic, analytical, and critical thinking

- You understand technical software development life cycle and have knowledge on how to drive teams towards business solutions

- You excel in owning and driving the development of technical products

- You drive strategic product communications across organizations providing clarity in decisions

Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

- Translate business strategy into product strategy.- Understanding user needs, knowing the difference between - wants- and - needs- and converting these into Products.

- Own the product roadmap and execute product strategy.

- Collect, manage and maintain traceability of requirements from all stakeholders across product releases.

- Write requirements - typically as user stories and epics.

- Maintain and prioritize the product backlog.

- Track releases.

- Building lean and agile Products, know how to accurately test hypotheses in the lightest way possible and be comfortable using lean UX techniques.

- Driving new features forward in weekly sprints.

- Balancing internal stakeholders- requests & bugs.

- Monitor, report and improve product performance.

- Participate in scrum meetings, planning, reviews and retrospectives.

- Support the development team with any questions they may have.

I Qualification(s):

- B.Tech/BS required (Masters preferred) in Information Systems, IT, Computer Science

- PMI (or similar) certification

II Experience:

- Nature of Experience:

- Experience in Agile development.

- Proven track record bringing innovation to on-demand SaaS software.

- Should be able to work and remain calm even under pressure situations, and should be able to address and resolve any relevant issues.

- Should be able to work with a diverse range of people and communicate with them effectively.

- High levels of confidence, maturity, and competence are required.

- Length of Experience: 4 - 8 years.

- 4+ years in Software or Saas Industry with 4+ years in Product Management.

- Formal Agile Training

- Programming, UI/UX, or QA experience preferred.

- Experience in Legal Industry or Legal Technologies is an added advantage.

III Skill Set & Personality Traits required:

- Good communication skills.

- Strong interpersonal skills.

- Organizational skills and ability to manage deadlines.