Job Code: SIL-23743
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
1 position
Required Experience
4 - 7 Years
Skills
Market Research,
Fintech,
SaaS
Job Description
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Product Manager
Experience: 5+ yrs
Work mode: Onsite - Work from office only
Location: Bangalore
Responsibilities:
Product Management:
Market Research: Must have strong nose to sniff out the direction the market is moving into, so as to make product future protected from the dynamics of the market demand.
Product Definition: As the owner of a product, formulate strategy and roadmap for the product from requirements to release (concept to cradle), and get it implemented with the peer-groups such as Architects and Project Managers and others, so that there is complete agreement from business owners, technology teams and end users; and the product comes out with a world-class user experience.
Vision communication: Align the cross functional teams such as developers, business analysts, test engineers, recruiters, marketing and sales with the goal of the product.
Features’ Prioritization: Using Agile methodology, spell out all the features and prioritize the implementation and release. Review and approve customization requests from various project managers from business point of view.
Pre-Sales: Take ownership of pre-sales activities, rather than being mere participant.
Go-to- Market: Chalk out Go-To- Market strategies, including, positioning and pricing of the product, appointing distribution and sales channels to get competitive advantage. Drive product launches across geographies with the help of marketing team.
Define and drive AI-enabled product features (such as predictive analytics, intelligent automation, or GenAI-based capabilities) aligned with market needs and product strategy.
Customer Management:
Customer Partnership: Understand customer’s requirements from their business perspective, and elicit even unstated needs with zero tolerance for ambiguity; draft suitable Master Services Agreement and Statement of Work under the guidance of the reporting person to negotiate effort, schedule and cost. Enforce change management process so that client expectations in terms of cost and schedule are managed in time.
Customer Leadership: Display out of box thinking in terms of solutions to business challenges; driving the customers’ plans such that the customers’ ROI improves substantially.
Technology Management:
Technology Roadmap: With the help of Architect(s) and Project Managers, evaluate various up-coming technologies from solution’s perspective, and adopt best possible technical solutions. You will not be required to code, however, you must be able to understand technology stack in order to get aligned to the technology teams and take the right decisions.
Process Adherence: Enforce use of project management tool as an end to end tool to manage issues - capturing each and every specification, and allocate issues to team members in consultation with the Project Manager, and track for appropriate closure; implement Requirement Traceability so as to manage the trunk and branches well from present and future point of view.
Quality Checks: Conducting review of project artifacts from functional point of view, and ensure their feasibility from technology perspective with the help of Architect(s); providing approvals on various requirements and requirement changes. Ensure proper deployment and release of the product.
Team Building:
Nurture team members and be enabler in their grooming from domain / technology perspective.
Help the organization identify future domain / technology leaders from the team.
Required Skills:
You must be a thought leader, having good work experience in financial domain, such that you could connect the dots end to end in a seamless way and with a clear visibility of end product in mind.
Excellent usage of AI tools and features.
You must work very well with the peer-group of Project Managers and Architects.
Must be able to provide inputs on the team members for their effective appraisal, and do the appraisal of people reporting to you.
You must display ability to foresee risks in the projects and escalate to the management in case you need help.
Exceptionally good communication skills that enable you to reach inside the mind and heart of a customer.
Experience of ISO or CMMi process frameworks.
Strong understanding of AI/ML and GenAI concepts (including LLMs, prompt design, and AI product lifecycle) with the ability to translate them into scalable product features.
About Company
Lendfoundry is part of Sigma Infosolutions Limited (https://www.sigmainfo.net/), which was launched in 2004 having offices in Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Jodhpur and Indore. Lendfoundry (https://lendfoundry.com/), Founded in Irvine, California in 2015, with a mission to build the systems that will allow marketplace lenders to eliminate tech build out, minimize IT infrastructure and accelerate marketplace lender’s growth strategy. We enable digital lenders to focus on their core lending business, with access to latest acquisition, underwriting technologies, ready-made loan servicing software and portfolio benchmarking.
LendFoundry is built on scalable technology and modular infrastructure as a turnkey solution for fintech startups and existing marketplace ventures and end-to-end loan origination and loan management process, allowing lenders to approve, disburse, and manage loans quickly and easily.
