Company: A leading microfinance institution.
Job Summary:
This position will be responsible for the implementation of strategic projects & products and work closely with multiple stakeholders both internal & external and support the product management operations for the function. Would be required to travel on a need basis to rural/ semi-urban locations for projects.
Reporting To: Product Lead
Broad Roles and Responsibilities:
- Having experience in launching new products and having followed product management principles is highly desirable
- Manage and execute the entire product lifecycle for all launches from user need identification, kickoff, KPI definition, design, development
- Develop and maintain a product roadmap for each of the products under his / her scope by constantly understanding customer needs and behaviour through insights from frontline employees and research teams
- Understand emerging trends, changes happening in the ecosystem, and competitive analysis to help build a healthy pipeline
- Create all product requirements, user stories, opportunity assessments, feature prioritization and business justification for initiatives
- Capable of inspiring action with cross-functional team management with technology, business, operations, risk and other cross-functional partners both internal and external to design, build, and deploy product features without formal authority
- Analyze, manage, iterate, and track the continued success of all production features
- Ensuring implementation of project milestones/goals while adhering to approved budget and timelines
- Ensure regular reporting and feedback processes among stakeholders
- Engage with cross-functional teams and drive them to ensure seamless implementation
- Exposure to the implementation of transformational projects and/ or financial products in MFIs/NBFCs/Banks would be an added advantage
Mandatory Skills: Product Management, Product Roadmap, Stakeholder Management, Competitive study, Usability testing, MS Office, and Communication skills.
Personal Attributes:
- Good & clear communication skills in English
- Strong analytical skills and an in-depth understanding of trends happening in the financial ecosystem
- Adaptable to changing work environment, processes & technologies
Preferred Skills: User Experience, Analytics and the ability to communicate fluently in any of the vernaculars – Kannada/ Tamil/ Marathi/ Hindi will be an added advantage.
Background:
- Post graduate from reputed university, preferably MBA
- Min 2-3 years of relevant experience