Biz2X - Associate Director - Product (13-16 yrs)

Roles and Responsibilities:

- Product Vision - Develop and communicate a compelling product vision that aligns with the company's mission and strategic objectives.

- Product Strategy - Create and execute a comprehensive product strategy to drive growth

- Product Development - Oversee the end-to-end product development lifecycle, ensuring products are delivered on time, within scope, and to the highest quality standards.

- Product Roadmap - Experience in roadmap planning and prioritization

- Leverage Agile development best practices to ensure timely and quality delivery of new software functionality

- Market Research - Continuously monitor industry trends, market dynamics, and user feedback to identify opportunities for product enhancements and new features.

- User-Centric Design - Champion a user-centric approach to product design and development, ensuring that the customer experience is at the forefront of decision-making.

- Cross-Functional Collaboration - Collaborate closely with engineering, design, marketing, and sales teams to deliver seamless and integrated product solutions.

- Acting as a product information SME, support internal teams including sales, implementation, training, and customer support teams through activities such as product knowledge transfer sessions, participating in product demonstrations, and responding to information requests.

- Ability to develop and execute roadmap for Loan Management System product.

- Data-Driven Decision Making - Utilize data analytics and metrics to assess product performance and inform strategic decisions.

- Risk Management - Identify and mitigate potential risks, ensuring that the product roadmap remains aligned with company goals.

- Experience in consumer / business facing internet products, shipping features at scale. Product Thinking, Problem Solving, Business Acumen, Technology Understanding, collaboration, Influencing without authority

- Understanding of loan products journey's like Secured/Unsecured/Line of Credit/Supply chain loans etc. in the LMS product

- Have a flair towards data driven feature enablement and collaborating with data science teams on data visualization and modelling on financial services use cases for delivery.

- Should have a strong understanding on functional and technology aspects on a micro-service driven architecture and implementations

- Strong team player who puts customer first to drive feature development and has an impeccable prioritization acumen for customers and internal stakeholders

- Collaborating with internal team members, support completion of release readiness activities for each project including implementation, training, and customer support readiness, marketing activities, technical documentation, reporting, and client communications.

Desired Candidate Profile-

- Any Degree - B. Tech/ B.E./MBA/M. Tech preferably full time.

- Strategic & Ownership mindset and the ability to develop and execute product strategies that align with overall business objectives.

- Strong analytical skills and the ability to leverage data for decision-making.

- Experience in BFSI, Fintech and Lending is preferred.

- Mandatory prior experience in handling loans product management or similar end-to-end product life cycle

- Problem analysis and problem-solving skills.

- Minimum of 10+ years of Product Management experience

- Financial services experience with a focus on digital banking / lending domain preferred

- Candidates with Agile SCRUM training, related certifications, and prior experience managing a Product Owner team preferred Thorough understanding of standard software development lifecycle for enterprise software applications

- Thorough understanding of scrum framework and agile methodologies and team roles and responsibilities in a SCRUM-based environment