Experience :
6+ Years
Location :
Bengaluru
Experience
- 6+ years of proven Product Management experience in a software / product development organization (primary requirement)/banks/NBFC/Fin Tech (primary requirement)
- Demonstrated competence in creating complex solutions and products while shouldering end-to-end responsibilities
- Retail/corporate/digital banking domain knowledge is an added advantage.
- Web technologies & software development process understanding is a plus
- Should have previously handled or have deep understanding of product Pn L
- Financial management experience:
Estimating, Budgeting, Pricing, Risk assessment - Proven experience of interfacing with stakeholders and understanding their needs
- Experience of having led a high-performing team
- Familiarity with Tools & techniques for collaboration, communication & documentation (eg:
JIRA, confluence, Trello ) - Working knowledge on agile methodologies will be be an added advantage
Job Responsibilities
Product Strategy
- Set budgets for product realization and drive teams to adhere to the cost plan to maintain profitability
- Assist in the commercial evaluation of ecosystem partners and recommend options
- Drive yourself and team to identify incremental / disruptive improvement for existing products / ideas for new products through in-person customer research
- Create a business case for product pricing and suggest means to guard the profitability of the product
Product Roadmap
- Validate the templates, questionnaires / framework for collating market data and customer / user personas.
- Commission market research, usability studies and focus groups to identify best benchmarks for solving customer problems
- Build out customer / user personas to drive identification of new product ideas / incremental or disruptive product enhancements
- Use customer and market feedback, competitive analysis and business metrics to provide inputs to make informed decisions on the product roadmap and shape the future of the product
- Analyze each enhancement, modification / new product to identify alignment with EV's portfolio of products and their product vision
- Develop and communicate new product / enhancement vision to the product realization team (Program Managers, Engineering Managers, Architects, etc.)
- Create the roadmap for the product with high-level feature specifications to communicate the product vision
- Suggest the most apt operating model (build/buy/partner/ecosystem management) for the product / module
Feature Roadmap Prioritization
- Evaluate and make trade-off decisions on the product roadmap while balancing customer needs and business requirements
- Use deep product expertise to anticipate risks and guide on suitable mitigation and management action
- Validate incremental launch targets and iterations thereof to seek alignment with the overall product vision and targets
Development & Testing
- Interface closely with the product realization teams to ensure product feature launch and implementation of the product roadmap as per the set timelines and budgets.
- Monitor product backlogs to drive on-time product realization as per the agreed roadmap.
Implementation & Support
- Collaborate with multiple stakeholders to drive successful product launches and product adoption
- Establish a standard framework / guidelines for product documentation, version management, etc. for the product
- Drive feature acceptance tests to ensure alignment between the product roadmap and the realized product
- Participate in demos at the end of the PI to evaluate business value achieved versus plan
- Own and drive post-launch reviews and gather customer feedback to assess scope for improvement and drive associated action
- Analyze data to provide valuable insights to the product/portfolio head on product enhancement, realization, adherence to launch targets, etc.
- Drive knowledge management practices and best practices sharing within the product team
- Participate in select win-loss reviews with the sales teams to gather inputs on product enhancements, product sell-ability, etc.;
- Drive internal customer forums to gather inputs for product / feature enhancements
Product Marketing
- Collaborate with the Product Marketing teams to create a robust go-to-market strategy that drives differentiation and high recall for EV's products
- Identify product positioning and go-to-market strategy for the product and drive successful product launches through the product marketing teams.