Principal Product Manager - Tier I

Job Description

DescriptionZycus is a leading global provider of A.I. powered Source-to-Pay suite for procurement, finance, and AP organizations. Our comprehensive product portfolio includes eProcurement, eInvoicing, Spend Analysis, eSourcing, Contract Management, Supplier Management, Financial Savings Management, Project Management, Request Management, Supplier Network, Insight Studio, and Merlin A.I. Suite.The Merlin A.I. Suite is a unique platform of pre-packaged intelligent BOTs to automate run-of-the-mill procurement and A.P. tasks with intelligent and predictive suggestions. It enables teams to improve productivity through optimal efforts, enhance accuracy with minimal human intervention, and focus on strategic activities. Driven by Artificial Intelligence, Zycus Merlin A.I. BOTs introduce cutting edge technologies in procurement operations, making it truly autonomous and cognitive.Our spirit of innovation and passion to help organizations create a more significant business impact is reflected among the hundreds of procurement solution deployments that we have undertaken over the years.Zycus is looking out for a Principal Product Manager with an experience of about 7-10 years & at least 4-5 years post MBA.Candidates with excellent knowledge in technology & consumer products, and with a Masters in Business Administration, from Premium B-Schools are invited to apply for this position.Principal Product Manager will play a critical role in owning the entire product Life Cycle, right from planning to execution. The position is open for Mumbai location.Eager beaver- attitude and an obsession with deadlines, analysis of the product performance and driving a solution set across development teams, will be the drivers for this role.The selected candidate is responsible for creating a world class product, improving customer adoption and satisfaction and has the complete ownership of the product road map and development plans.At Zycus, we strongly believe that only an empowered Product Management team can take a product forward and so we entrust our product managers to take all the product related decisions. We treat the product managers as CEOs for their products, and product managers are evaluated upon the product s success.Also, product managers are our evangelists they are responsible for articulating the products vision to customers, partners, analysts and internal stakeholders like sales, pre-sales and implementation teams.The Role & Responsibilities of the position would include:

• Development and implementation strategies that help in the product growth.
• Interaction with users, perform market research, and develop the products.
• Product Strategy and Vision

• Laying out Web, Mobile (iOS, Android) strategy and roadmap.
• Multi-functional team collaboration to understand and prioritize requirements.
• Defining features & requirements.
• Conceptualization and detailed wire framing/prototyping.
• Writing user stories and grooming those with design and engineering teams.
• Agile Product Implementation.

• Product Marketing: Evangelizing, influencing and collaborating with the product marketing and communications team to ensure proper, informative, impactful engagement with the market through branding, blogs, e-mailers and white papers.
• Go-to Market:
  • Conducting feature training and demo sessions with sales and support teams.
  • Collaborating with product marketing and communication team for branding, blogs and product launches.

, RequirementsTotal experience: 7-10 yrs with relevant experience: 4-5 yrs (relevant Product Management Experience) post full time MBA.Key Responsibilities would include:

• Defining the product road map (short term release plans and long term vision).
• Gathering business requirements and creating the functional spec.
• Prioritization of features and issues.
• Monitoring the development & QA teams.
• Managing the entire release management process.
• Ensuring all deliverables are met on time and with expected quality.
• Certifying the product in terms of quality, performance and design requirements.
• High level oversight of customer implementations and ensuring adoption.
• Ownership of all product deliverables like documentation, marketing collaterals, release trainings, external debriefings.
• Identifying new opportunities, maximize new revenue & meet renewal targets.
• Strong understanding of recent & emerging IT trends and technical architecture.

Skills that we are looking for:

• Ability to handle ambiguity and change
• Very strong logical thinking capabilities and analytical skills
• Visualize and conceptualize new ideas and solutions
• UI designing & prototyping (use of wire framing tools)
• Research and analysis (both primary and secondary research)
• Customer management and excellent communication & presentation skills
• Art of negotiation and prioritization
• Ability to manage teams and build close relationships with different team members.

Desired Experience:

• Background in Product Management / Product Design.
• Visualize and Conceptualize ideas / features.
• Ability to present new ideas in any format of choice (PPT / Wireframe / etc.)
• Ability to adopt process approach to solve a problem
• Strong appreciation of technology.
• Excellent communication and high on aptitude.

Keyskills :
salesfunctionalproduct life cyclelife cycleweb chatmarketingoraclespend analysisuser storiesmarket researchanalyticsproduct marketingbranding identity marketingstatements of work sow