WizIQ - Product Manager - IIM/ISB/IMT

Steven from Washington DC is sitting on a chair holding his iPad and teaching - The science of decisions- online to his students using WizIQ Virtual Classroom. Salma from Dubai is attending Steven's live class on her Android tablet and Ramesh from Bangalore, India, is attending the same class on his laptop.

Over 250,000 teachers from more than 100 countries, teach around 3 million students online through their preferred devices. And it all happens on WizIQ, a leading web-based, award-winning education platform, which provides easy-to-use, and comprehensive online teaching tools to teachers and quality learning resources to students.

We are looking for an extremely entrepreneurial Product Manager with a strong technical background to help innovate and execute product initiatives. Candidate should love to wear multiple hats, and be willing to drive whatever is necessary to take user experience to the next level. He should look beyond limitations in order to meet business objectives. He should have an in-depth understanding of human behavior, programming, UI, marketing, business development, analytics, customer service etc.

Main Job Responsibilities:

- Drive the roadmap & execution of developing next generation education technology tools for web and mobile.

- Work on social features like profiles, network, search & matchmaking algorithms, feed, chat & other communication tools and notifications etc.

- Responsible for the ideation, development, launch and continuous improvement of gamification and other tactics that will drive growth in terms of new user acquisition and engagement.

- Develop analytics that will enable educators to make informed decisions on student engagement.

- Work with multiple teams to develop the internal communication flows and customer analytics to serve customers better.

- Define, analyze and own metrics that inform the success of products.

Desired Skills and Experience:

- Relevant work experience in Product Management to innovate and execute product initiatives.

- Engineering background with hands-on software development experience. An in-depth understanding of algorithms, programming and SQL.

- Ability to focus on the big picture (market, target user segment, positioning, company strategy and goals) and the ground-level details (day-to-day constraints, compromises, content plan, progress against the plan, engineering dependencies etc.).

- Analytical and quantitative skills, and tools to perform analysis. Ability to forecast and measure and use hard data & metrics to back up assumptions and develop project business cases.

- Excellent execution skills: ready to do whatever is necessary to ship. Ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously.

- Ability to do market research and translate user needs into well-documented business and product requirements.

- Ability to build strong relationships with people, inspire them to think big, push boundaries and maximize efficiency in a constantly evolving environment where the process is fluid.

- Ability to drive/follow-up anything that improves the user experience not just the software part.

- Creative, friendly, and organized with great problem-solving skills and the ability to maintain composure in stressful situations.