Assistant Vice President

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