Product Manager

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Job Description:

Job Title: Product Manager

No. of Openings: 02

Total Experience: 5+ Years Plus

Relevant Experience: 3+ Years Plus

Qualification: Bachelors degree in business or computer science

Job Location: Pune

Reporting To: Director Product

Department: Product

Roles and Responsibilities:

This position will work closely with the Lead Product Manager to define and write product features to be implemented by the Scrum Team. The Product Manager is responsible for the product planning and execution throughout the Product Life cycle. Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Improve organizations performance on delivering products by managing the cross functional development scope with Product Owners, Business Analyst and Scrum teams.
• Support the development of product vision, goals, themes, and features. This translates into a product roadmap and long-term product strategy and feature development.
• Creating detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured requirements for developers
• Participate and help lead daily scrum ceremonies, leading refinement sessions, and engaging with your Engineering team, guiding direction and focus.
• Technical coordination with the development team and helping them with R&D
• Translate product directives into backlog items, effectively representing customer needs.
• Serve as the primary source of external information for the scrum teams, offering clear definitions of the targeted capability, the intended value to the customer, and functional/non-functional requirements framing the scope of the capability independent of implementation.
• Work closely with Development on implementation issues.
• Work with the UI/UX designer to develop the user experience and final designs.
• Release management, including testing each build personally to sign off the release.
• Review relevant documentation for technical accuracy.
• Effectively communicate product release contents and expected product capabilities/behavior to stakeholders including external and internal customers.
• Coordinates products between departments for global visibility.
• Act as a product evangelist to build awareness and understanding.
• Collect, process, and analyze data from various sources, including app usage, website traffic, and customer feedback. Prepare detailed reports showcasing findings and trends.
• Communicate the product vision to the technical teams as well as to other teams within the company
• Ensuring the correct features are being development, considering the value being delivered against the cost of delivery
• Monitor and identify impediments to release objective and suggest corrective actions as necessary
• All other duties as assigned

Required Skillset and Pre-requisite:

To be considered for and to perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty and responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Qualifications include:

• 5+ years prior experience in a product owner, product manager, or senior business analyst role.
• Strong AI/ML experience.
• Excellent understanding of Agile and Scrum Methodology
• Excellent ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
• Excellent ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including upper management, clients, and other departments.
• Excellent ability to handle a heavy workload with multiple projects and frequent interruptions.
• Excellent ability to work in a changing, dynamic environment.
• Excellent understanding of the software development life cycle (SDLC)
• Strong attention to accuracy and detail, while still results oriented.
• Strong problem solving, conflict resolution, interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Experience with business analysis, documenting use cases or requirements gathering.

Our Offerings for Employee Benefits:

• Health Insurance for Employee+Spouse+Two Children +Parents
• GPA For Employee
• Hybrid working
• Compliance PF and Gratuity

About Academian:

Academian is a carve out of an existing IT services company Intraedge Inc.

Website: www.academian.com

We are a service, products and learning development company in the education domain with a current headcount of 150+ team members. We are targeting a headcount of 500 in the next 3 years as we are working on a pipeline for additional business expanding our footprint across services, products, and learning.

Future: Will allow multiple publishers to create content on this platform so that school and students can have a variety of courses, topics, and assessments. (Marketplace-digital)

Parent Company:

Intraedge: 20 years product and solutions company.

Website: www.intraedge.com

Intra Edge was founded as a Professional, Staffing, and Global Services firm with the objectives of investing in understanding our clients business and partnering with them to drive greater return on their technology investment, improving their business operating efficiency, and ensuring scalability for future growth.