Jai Kisan - Product Manager (3-5 yrs)

About the job:

About Jai Kisan:

At Jai Kisan, we're not just building a neo-bank - we're reshaping the financial landscape for rural India.

Our vision is to empower farmers, small businesses, and individuals in rural communities with the financial tools they need to grow and succeed.

Founded in 2019, we've created a comprehensive financial ecosystem that provides tailored credit, payments, savings, and insurance solutions.

With a robust supply chain finance business and fast-growing consumer lending products, we're setting the stage for the next phase of growth, focusing on building an accessible and seamless financial experience for rural India.

We're looking for passionate product managers to help us drive this transformation, ensuring that our products deliver impactful results while keeping our users at the center of everything we build.

About The Role:

- As a Product Manager (PM-1) at Jai Kisan, you will play a key role in driving the development and optimization of our core consumer lending products.

- Working closely with the Head of Product and cross-functional teams, you'll contribute to the end-to-end product lifecycle, from discovery to launch, focusing on enhancing user experiences, increasing product engagement, and driving measurable business outcomes.

- This is an exciting opportunity to build innovative products for rural India while growing in your product management career.

What You'll Be Working On:

- Product Roadmap: Support the creation of the product roadmap by gathering user insights, analyzing market trends, and collaborating with stakeholders to prioritize features that drive growth

- Feature Development: Manage the end-to-end development of product features - from ideation, requirements gathering, and user stories to collaborating with design, engineering, and QA teams to ensure successful implementation

- Customer-Centric Focus: Understand and address user pain points by constantly gathering feedback from rural customers and stakeholders, using it to inform product decisions

- Data-Driven: Analyze product usage data and key performance metrics to evaluate the impact of new features and identify areas for improvement

- User Experience: Collaborate with the design team to optimize the user journey, ensuring the product delivers a seamless and intuitive experience to rural and agri-retail users

- Go-to-Market: Assist in planning and executing go-to-market strategies for new product launches, ensuring successful adoption and user engagement

- Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including Engineering, Data, Marketing, and Operations, to deliver high-quality products that meet business objectives

Your Day-to-Day:

Product Discovery: Participate in brainstorming sessions, gathering ideas from various stakeholders to help shape the product vision and roadmap

Product Execution: Write clear and actionable product specifications, manage sprints, and ensure timely delivery of features

Data Analysis: Monitor and analyze product performance using tools like Mixpanel and Google Analytics to track KPIs and inform product iterations

User Research: Engage with rural customers, understand their needs, and ensure that their feedback is integrated into product improvements

Collaboration: Communicate with teams to ensure alignment on project goals, timelines, and deliverables

Requirements:

- You have 3+ years of experience in product management, ideally working on B2C products

- You have a strong understanding of user needs and have a customer-first mindset

- You're data-driven and comfortable using metrics to guide product decisions

- You have some experience with agri-retailers, MSMEs, or building for emerging markets (good to have)

- You possess strong problem-solving skills and can work independently to deliver results

- You're highly collaborative and enjoy working in cross-functional teams

- You're passionate about learning and growing in product management

- What we're building here at Jai Kisan excites you!

Benefits:

A unique opportunity to engage in user research in rural India

Access to a learning budget for personal and professional development

Monthly town halls with founders