Associate Product Manager

Inshorts; Dadri; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Inshorts Group is seeking an Associate Product Manager in India to manage product strategy, coordinate cross-functional teams, and drive growth. You will lead initiatives, build business cases, and shape the product lifecycle from ideation to launch.

The role emphasizes understanding markets, customers, and applying data-driven decisions to improve the user experience in a mobile-first environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in product management or product analysis with consumer-facing mobile apps.
• Understand smartphone app ecosystems and product funnels, agile methods, and PRDs.
• Ability to transform broad ideas into actionable plans with first principles thinking.
• Strong communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Manage the product, drive growth and strategic planning.
• Build and execute new initiatives and roadmaps.
• Understand market and customers; build business cases for opportunities.
• Lead lifecycle from ideation to launch and beyond; coordinate with stakeholders.
• Use data and experimentation to improve product experience.

Skills

Product management

Stakeholder management

Agile

PRD & Wireframes

Data analysis

Communication

Problem solving

Ownership

User-centric

Education

Bachelor's degree (IITs/NITs/BITS/NSIT/DCE/IIITs)

Job description

About the job:

As an Associate Product Manager, you will be responsible for product management and managing stakeholders. The role needs to provide the best user/customer experience by product enhancement and taking new initiatives. Involved in product strategy.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for the management, growth & strategy planning of the product.

• Responsible for building and executing new initiatives and roadmaps.

• Understand the market, customers and build business cases for new product opportunities.

• Leading the new initiatives for product growth, manage product lifecycle from ideation to launch and beyond.

• Coordinating with all internal stakeholders to deliver product updates.

• Use data, creativity, and experimentation to constantly improve the product experience.

What We’re Looking For

• 1-2 years of experience in product management (preferable) / product analyst role, working on building products or problem-solving in consumer-facing mobile-first companies.

• Understand products and working of smartphone app ecosystem in depth.

• Have a good understanding of funnels, sprint & agile ways of working, PRDs & wireframes.

• Comfortable with ambiguity, believe in first principles and have the skill to transform broad ideas into action plans.

• Have empathy towards users and colleagues and are creative and excited by ideating/building.

• Have the business acumen to appreciate and understand levers for business growth and profitability.

• Seek high ownership, independent environments, and feedback-oriented cultures.

• Have a fine balance of being process-driven, disciplined, frugal as well as nimble.

• Excellent verbal and written communication abilities: must effectively communicate with technical and non-technical people.

• Excellent problem-solving, organisational, and analytical skills, with the ability to evolve product strategy based on research, data, and industry trends.

• Technical background of how products are coded and developed is a plus but not necessary.

• Bachelor's degree from premier institutes (IITs, NITs, BITS, NSIT, DCE, IIITs)

Company profile:

Inshorts Group is a leading tech startup in the short form content space. Our innovative platforms Inshorts and Public have been downloaded by more than 300 million users.

Inshorts, our flagship product,is India's highest-rated and #1 short news app, serving over 12 million active users in India with concise 60 word shorts tailored to smartphone users wanting to get updated of news quickly.

Public, our second platform is the largest platform for hyperlocal content in India, with 70 million active users in India, providing timely updates and information relevant to the users towns and cities.

We also provide cutting-edge and bespoke advertisement solutions for brands. Brands continue to trust us year after year owing to the multiple innovative award-winning campaigns we have delivered for them across sectors and seasons.