Assistant Vice President - Product Management

Job Description:

Role & Responsibilities:

- Driving high growth in marketplace usage, traffic and user engagement.

- Creating a product vision, maintaining a prioritized feature backlog and roadmap, and creating internal buy-in.

- Partner with cross-functional Business and Technology teams to drive program roadmaps with plans for all phases of planning, implementation, and production readiness and support.

- Working with the self owned development team to ensure requirements are clear and rational, making trade-offs as needed, and delivering a finished product that achieves its goals, on schedule.

- Proactively identifying and resolving strategic issues and risks that may impact the teams ability to meet goals.

- Identify and clarify the critical few issues that need attention and drive appropriate actions.

- Defining and scoping projects by working closely with business customers to understand their needs and priorities along with internal and competitive information into clear, prioritized requirements.

- Management and delivery of projects with the highest levels of performance, reliability, usability and customer delight.

- Identification and prioritization of projects with an understanding of tradeoffs and impact.

- Driving user work flow on user experience, review and clarification sessions with software and quality engineering teams to deliver maximum customer value with available time constraints and resources.

- Cross functional leadership: Will be required to work in a highly dynamic work environment which requires strong skills in terms of cross-functional team coordination, consensus building among various verticals within the organization and across departments to achieve overall business objectives in a timely & efficient manner.

Preferred candidate profile:

- 8 - 12 years of experience in technology and product.

- Strong analytical abilities and proficiency with various web analytics tools.

- Excellent problem-solving skills.

- Proven drive to achieve and bias for action.

- Collaboration, negotiation, and influencing skills.

- Proficiency in efficient Scrum and Sprint management.

- Excellent people management skills.

- Track record of successfully defining and releasing products in the Internet/Mobile space.

- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment